'PM has gone for good administrators'

'Whether it will create an impact or not, only time will tell.' IMAGE: President Ram Nath Kovind, Vice President Muppavarapu Venkaiah Naidu, Prime Minister Narendra Damodardas Modi with members of......

How Many Children do BJP MLAs in UP have?

Given the controversy over the Uttar Pradesh government's population control policy, Hemant Shivsaran/Rediff.com digs deep to find out how many children BJP legislators in UP have. IMAGE: Uttar......

Kader Khan, Gambhir among 112 conferred with Padma awards

President of Djibouti Ismail Omar Guelleh, L&T chairman A M Naik, late journalist Kuldip Nayar, late actor Kader Khan and cricketer Gautam Gambhir were among the 112 prominent personalities who......

CBSE Class 12 results: Girls outperform boys, topper gets 499 out of 500

Meghna Srivastava got 99.8 per cent marks, with 99 in English (Core) and 100/100 in other subjects -- Psychology, History, Geography and Economics. IMAGE: Students celebrate their success after......

Catch your favourite flick on the mobile

Can you imagine Ram Prasad Sharma and Laxman Prasad Sharma from Hrishikesh Mukherjee's 1979 classic Golmaal entertaining you by enacting the entire film in 15 minutes? Perhaps not. But this is soon......

You are being watched!

From CCTV cameras to mobile jammers and perimeter protection equipment, the Indian electronic security market is worth over Rs 1,000 crore (Rs 10 billion). Last week, when Ram Swarup -- owner of a......

Corporate tax mop-up spurts in small towns

The growth in corporate tax collection in 2002-03 was the highest in Patna, Kanpur and Allahabad, even as Kolkata topped the list in terms of the number of direct tax assessees.With 2.3 million......

Ram Gopal Varma takes on Aliens!

After scaring us with his last horror movie Phoonk, Ram Gopal Varma hopes to send more chills down our spine with Agyaat, a thriller set in a jungle. The film stars Priyanka Kothari and is set......

Q & A makes it to bestseller list

In its original version, Vikas Swarup's novel Q & A, did not create a stir in America. The reviews for the book, which this week jumped into the top 15 paperback bestsellers list in The New York......

Slumdog: Exploiting India

Slumdog Millionaire? I hate that film!" said a much decorated, liberal and well-travelled former submariner. "It is poverty porn at its worst. The Mumbai marauders are supposed to have done their......

When Slumdog got a makeover

Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire is fast becoming a rage. After winning four Golden Globe awards recently, the Mumbai-based rags-to-riches story staring Irrfan Khan, Dev Patel and Freida Pinto has......

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