Day after fire tragedy, MP temple bans outside colours during Rangpanchami

Stringent safety measures including banning colours from outside have been announced by the Ujjain administration for the March 30 'Rangpanchami' celebrations at the revered Mahakaleshwar temple......

PHOTOS: India revels in riot of colours

India was drenched in hues of the rainbow on Monday as people celebrated Holi, the festival colours, on Monday and smeared 'gulal' on each other. Here are some of the glimpses.   People play......

14 priests injured in 'gulal-triggered' fire in Mahakal temple

At least 14 priests including 'sevaks' were injured in a fire that broke out in the sanctum sanctorum of the Mahakal temple in Ujjain early Monday during the famous 'bhasma aarti' ritual, an......

CAA comes as relief for 35,000 Hindu migrants from Sindh

'A large number of people from Sindh province will now opt to migrate to India as they would be granted citizenship through an easy process.' IMAGE: BJP supporter displays a placard during the......

All about the Ambani gas war

Rediff Business Desk There seems to be no end to the internecine Ambani war. Even four years after splitting the Reliance empire, the Ambani brothers still seem to be washing dirty linen in......

Remembering Bansi Dhar (1930-2004)

What is the measure of a man? Every person is the centre of a web of relationships and these change over time. A relationship with a friend, for instance, is different in school days than it is......

Holi overwhelms Pakistani businessmen

Over 100 visiting Pakistani businessmen on Saturday had a taste of the intimacy sparkled by the festival of colours as they played Holi in New Delhi, promising to take the growing relationship......

The Lady Behind Alia's Mesmerising Dholida

'The pressure was very high because I am not a Saroj Khan or a Vaibhavi Merchant.''I am someone from a reality show.''I was a nobody who was given an opportunity to express myself in the best way I......

'My memories of Holi in Delhi are quite scary'

'As a kid, we would dig a hole in the garden of our building, fill it with water and mud and throw everyone in that dirty water! It used to be fun then, but when I think of it now, it was quite......

Hrithik, Varun, Alia reveal their favourite Ki and Ka

The top posts on social media from your favourite Bollywood celebrities: Bollywood stars took to Twitter to promote Arjun Kapoor and Kareena Kapoor Khan-starrer Ki and Ka on social......

Anurag Kashyap: I loved No Smoking the most

Anurag Kashyap's professional life has been well recorded in the press -- struggles to get his early films released, followed by the critical success of works like Black Friday, Dev D and Gulal. He......

SEE: Villagers celebrate Bhavina's silver with 'garba'

IMAGE: Bhavinaben Patel's family broke into the traditional 'garba' dance, burst firecrackers and smeared each other with 'gulal' at her native Sundhiya village in Gujarat's Mehsana district to......

Knights, Royals celebrate Holi

IMAGE: Kolkata Knight Riders celebrate Holi after a practice session at the D Y Patil stadium in Navi Mumbai on Monday, March 29, 2021. Photographs: Kind courtesy Kolkata Knight Riders   With......

PHOTOS: Team India, Australia's Maxwell celebrate Holi

IMAGE: India's Virat Kohli celebrates Holi with Harbhajan Singh and Rohit Sharma. Photograph: Twitter. Team India took to social networking site to wish their fans a Happy Holi, the festival......

Ganguly happy to be back

After his sinking career received a shot in the arm with his inclusion in the squad for Pakistan Tests, a relieved Sourav Ganguly said he was happy to be back in the Indian team.''I hope the team......

Maiden bowled over by Zaheer

Holi saw the M. Chinnaswamy stadium attract the biggest crowd of the ongoing Test. The spectators, some smelling of and covered in gulal, were brought to a frenzy by India's essential playmaker,......