News and the common man

The concern is low-budget coverage, not in-depth. Hype replaces substance, breathlessness providing it the requisite gravamen, writes Mahesh Vijapurkar Take the power outages across northern and......

Grab these movies this weekend

Here are five movies to spice up your weekend.Film: Teesri Manzil (Hindi)Cast: Shammi Kapoor, Asha Parekh, Helen and Prem Chopra Director: Vijay AnandPlot: Sunita (Parekh) blames Rocky, the drummer......

India's first legal music downloads, on Rediff

Sanjay Maroo stares at me. His image leaps up from the confines of his web site. He looks broody. When I look away for a minute, all I remember is that stare.If you think about it for a minute, the......

Sports Shorts: Sania-Cara make it through to WTA Finals semis

  Cara Black of Zimbabwe and Sania Mirza of India celebrate defeating Raquel USA's Kops-Jones and Abigail Spears in the doubles quarter-finals at the WTA Finals on Thursday. Photograph: Julian......

Els applauds Shevchenko's pressure-cooker debut

Former European Footballer of the Year Andriy Shevchenko struggled on his professional golf debut in Ukraine but Ernie Els gave him 10 out of 10 for effort in what was always going to be a tough......

Sparkling 66 earns Mickelson first British Open win

After huffing and puffing at the British Open so often in the past, Phil Mickelson finally blew the house down by romping to a three-shot victory over Swede Henrik Stenson in golf's oldest major on......

Tiger tames Pebble to challenge leader Johnson

Tiger Woods stormed into contention at the U.S. Open with a sizzling back nine on Saturday that put him five shots behind fellow-American Dustin Johnson with one round to go at Pebble Beach.......

Kapur chases second Volvo Masters of Asia win

India's rising star Shiv Kapur will have one last throw of the dice at the season-ending Volvo Masters of Asia next week as he bids to end his year with a victory. The talented Kapur, winner of the......