Lankan president asks Mamata in Dubai: Will you lead INDIA?

A smiling Sri Lanka President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Wednesday asked West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee whether she is going to lead the Opposition alliance, INDIA. IMAGE: West Bengal......

IndiGo flight makes emergency landing in Karachi as engine hits snag

IndiGo's Sharjah-Hyderabad flight was diverted to Karachi as a precaution on Sunday after pilots observed defect in one of the engines, officials of aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil......

138 stranded passengers of SpiceJet leave Karachi for Dubai

An alternate aircraft of Indian budget carrier SpiceJet flew to Dubai from Karachi's Jinnah International Airport on Tuesday night, ending a wait of nearly 11 hours for 138 passengers who got......

Chhota Rajan's revenge

Gangster Chhota Rajan, arrested in Bali on Monday and who is likely to be extradited to India, was not one to forgive or forget easily. Mumbai’s foremost crime writer S Hussain Zaidi recalls......

Covid has taken sheen off India's most exclusive clubs

Few of these highly sought-after socialising and networking hubs are seeing much activity as regulars are missing in action. The bars at the Delhi Gymkhana Club are closed. So is the Lady......

Message In A Bottle

Samridhi Bhardwaj analyses the dynamics of duty-free liquor allowance in India.Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com   On January 19, 2020, Press Trust of India reported a recommendation......

Why Mallya's payback offer should be welcomed

'Mallya has offered to pay the original amount.''Let us say he means the principal amount and that stands at Rs 5,000 crores.''The Indian banks have to ask themselves if they would rather have this......

Surat set to get global diamond exchange in 3 years

Contract finally given for Rs 2,400-cr project, with GIFT City-like features The fragmented and largely unorganised diamond polishing and trading industry would shortly organise itself at a single......

Why everyone's going ga-ga about Sacred Games' Kuckoo

'The best response I received was a 'thank you' letter from someone going through a sex change operation -- and I felt wow,' Kubbra Sait tells Rediff.com's Archana Masih. IMAGE: Kubbra Sait at her......

Patralekhaa, Kalki, Katrina: Who is the hottest this week?

We're sure it's difficult to pick one! Bollywood's gorgeous ladies have started 2018 on a *very* hot note! Take a look at the hottest pictures of the week on Instagram, shared by the ladies:  ......

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Theatres are finding innovative new ways to increase footfalls, discovers Vanita Kohli-Khandekar. Is it a multiplex or an experience? As PVR Cinemas, Cinepolis, Inox and Carnival, among other......

'I thought people would not vote for me because I haven't lived in India'

'The feeling has to yet sink in that I have won the title of MasterChef India,' Nikita Gandhi tells Rajul Hegde. Twenty-one-year-old Nikita Gandhi from the UAE, born in Ahmedabad, is the......

ICC official relives last year's Easter bombings in Sri Lanka

'One thing we were concerned about was that the explosion was so big it might bring the building down. You hope the building will stay structurally safe, but my mind went back to 9/11.' IMAGE:......

Spotted: Tiger Pataudi

Reader Justin Prince sent us this picture from Dubai. 'We spotted Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi at the Emirates Lounge at the Dubai International Airport. We were going on a holiday to Sri Lanka while......