TMC MPs walk out of parl panel meet over exclusion of wrestlers' stir

Trinamool Congress MPs on Thursday walked out of a parliamentary standing committee meeting after their demand to discuss safegaurds provided for women sports persons by various sports......

SP Maurya among 10 booked for burning pages of Ramcharitmanas

The Uttar Pradesh police on Monday said it has named 10 people, including Samajwadi Party leader Swami Prasad Maurya, in an FIR after an OBC group burnt copies of extracts from the Ramcharitmanas.......

Republic Day: CRPF officer gets 8th gallantry medal; highest among CAPFs

Central Reserve Police Force officer Prakash Ranjan Mishra has been decorated with a gallantry medal for the 8th time, making him the highest recipient of bravery medals among the Central Armed......

Jeep-tractor trailer collision in Rajasthan leaves 11 dead, 7 hurt

Eleven members of a family were killed and seven others injured after a car rammed into a tractor-trailer parked on the roadside in Rajasthan's Jhunjhunu on Tuesday, the police said. IMAGE: An......

FIIs raise stake in Jet Airways and Kingfisher

Foreign institutional investorsincreased their stake in Jet Airways and Kingfisher Airlines during the second quarter of this financial year, compared to the previous quarter.FIIs' stake in Naresh......

Meet the man behind the Jet pilots' strike

NAG President Girish Kaushik was in the pilot's seat in last week's face-off against the Jet Airways' management, writes Mihir Mishra. Captains Sam Thomas and D Balaram were the focus of all eyes......

Crash-land after the barnstorm

Last Friday Anil Baijal, secretary general of the Federation of Indian Airlines, which represents private airlines and state-owned Air India, surprised everyone by announcing that private airlines......

Solve this case, earn Rs 25,000!

Rediff Business presents the TCS Smart Business Case Study Contest for managers, along with The Smart Manager, the management magazine! We give you a profile and the history of a company. All you......

Gamyam star returns to Bollywood

It's a coup of sorts for Kamalini Mukherjee. The 29-year-old actress who made her acting debut in Phir Milenge, a Hindi film about AIDS starring Salman Khan, Abhishek Bachchan and Shilpa Shetty,......

Dil Dosti: Brainless college flick

Spare us from the C-grade college/hostel-life movies. Especially when the central character has some obscure philosophy on life and love and acting ability of a sleeping pill. And can someone tell......

IPL 8 Auction: No takers for these players!

Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene The Players' Auction for the eighth edition of the Indian Premier League saw cash being splurged. - IPL 8 Auction: The players, their price - IPL......

Harinder upsets Pakistan's Shamsul

Chandigarh boy Harinderpal Singh Sandhu caused a major upset, scalping sixth seeded Pakistani Shamsul Islam Khan en route to the quarter-finals of the Chennai Open Professional Squash championship......

Ghosal, Nandrajog have it easy

Minor upsets notwithstanding, matches went according to seedingsin the 55th ICL National Squash Championship in Chennai on Wednesday. The performances of the topplayers show that Saurav Ghosal and......

National squash: Smooth sailing for men's seeds

The top 16 seeds in the men's section, including Saurav Ghosal and Gaurav Nandrajog of Delhi, sailed into the second round, evens as the women side saw a few upsets in the 55th Senior ICL National......

Lewis survives late scare to upset Nafiizwan

Darren Lewis of England survived a late scare to reach his maiden semi-final in a One Star event following a gruelling 11-5, 11-6, 9-11, 9-11, 11-10 (3-1) win over Mohd. Nafiizwan Adnan of......