Called an apple, an apple: Mahua Moitra on remarks in Parliament

Amid a row over her using an expletive inside Parliament, Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra remained defiant on Wednesday citing past instances of Bharatiya Janata Party leaders using......

'I didn't want to be shot by my friends'

'I was bundled into a blanket and shoved into a small hut for the night.'I heard the Pakistani Rangers telling the snoopy villagers that I was a senior officer in custody and wasn't to be......

'Pimps did not like us talking to sex workers'

'Everyone was talking about migrants, frontline workers and cops...''Nobody was talking about sex workers during the pandemic.' Kindly note the image has only been published for representational......

Somewhere along the way we lost humanity

'Are you so scared for your own skin that you will not help a lady or a weak man from attack?' asks an anguished A Ganesh Nadar.Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com. In broad daylight, inside......

Escort services: Sex on the Internet, a Rs 600 cr business

Despite the government crackdown on Web sites advertising escort services, the Internet leaves enough wiggle room for debauchery to thrive, reports Dhruv Munjal.Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com......

IT has transformed India: Ganesh Natarajan

Finance Minister P Chidambaram presented the Budget in Parliament on February 28.What impact will it have on the information technology sector?Will the Budget help India's business process......

The best iPhone applications

We had just turned off the video cameras after my interview with Mike Cannon-Brookes, CEO of the enterprise-wiki company Atlassian, when Mike pulled out his iPhone. He couldn't wait to start......

The world's next tax haven?

When Slobodan Milosevic died in his jail cell in March, he left behind an $800 million mystery. Between 1992 and 2000 the Serbian strongman spirited at least that amount, much of it in cash, out of......

Why Meera Chopra won't work in the South anymore

'I could not adjust to the way they treat you.''They expect certain things from you, which I was not comfortable with.''Like, they expect you to wear a certain kind of clothes, even if you don't......

Watch Out for these 5 TALENTED ACTORS!

They are young and raring to go. But in spite of proving their talent, they are yet to find success in Hindi cinema. That may change soon. Subhash K Jha looks at the five super-talented actors......

Why Mira Nair's Films Speak To Me

Mira's films are alive, rocking and so true to the reality I know.They are gifts that I keep revisiting, and I cannot wait for what more she will share with us, notes Aseem Chhabra. IMAGE:......

Raghuvir Yadav: Masterful Actor For All Seasons

When Raghuvir Yadav plays a character, he jumps out of the pages and acquires flesh and blood. But the actor's journey to films wasn't an easy one. His family of farmers, in the small village of......

Ribery and Benzema's underage prostitute trial adjourned to 2014

The trial of French football stars Franck Ribery and Karim Benzema over claims they paid for sex with an underage call girl was adjourned for procedural reasons on Tuesday until 2014.......

Lawrence Taylor pleads guilty to sexual assault

Pro Football Hall of Famer Lawrence Taylor pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges he paid an underage girl for sex and must register as a sex offender, prosecutors said on Thursday. The former......

Ex NFL star Taylor charged for sex with minor

Former NFL great Lawrence Taylor was charged on Thursday with third-degree rape of a 16-year-old girl brought to him in a New York suburb by a pimp, and could face up to four years in prison.......

Sri Lanka breeze into WT20 final

Electing to field, the West Indies must have been quietly pleased watching the Sri Lankan openers struggle for the first three overs. But Tillakaratne Dilshan decided he had enough of playing with......

Carl Lewis: poetry in motion at Showbiz Games

The 1984 Los Angeles Olympics were pure showbusiness and Carl Lewis made the perfect matinee idol.Watching him in the Coliseum was an unforgettable experience. Poetry in motion, he seemed to glide......