Liz Truss beats Rishi Sunak in Tory leadership race to be new UK PM

United Kingdom foreign secretary Liz Truss on Monday won the hard-fought Conservative Party leadership race, beating Rishi Sunak to go on to replace outgoing Prime Minister Boris Johnson -- loyalty......

Waiting in passport queue for 2 days, Lankan woman gives birth

A pregnant Sri Lankan woman, who had been in a queue for two days to obtain a passport to leave the crisis-hit country for employment overseas, went into labour while waiting for her turn on......

UK lockdown hero Captain Tom dies of COVID at 100

A 100-year-old army veteran, who became a national hero in the United Kingdom for raising over £32 million (Rs 320 crore) for healthcare charities by completing 100 laps around his garden......

Arise Sir Tom! Queen knights 100-yr-old fundraising Captain

Captain Tom Moore, the 100-year-old war veteran who served in India during World War II and became a national hero in the United Kingdom for raising over £32 million (Rs 300 crore) for......

Amrapali CMD may soon be arrested for duping home buyers

The SC bench directed the court-appointed forensic auditors to complete their detailed investigation on divergence of home buyers money by Amrapali group before March 22 and list the matter for......

Our Modiji is the master of illusion

'Our first great challenge is to create 12 million new jobs each year, to make the demographic dividend an economic dividend.''We are nowhere near that,' points out Mohan Guruswamy. IMAGE: Prime......

'I've created 7 million jobs this year'

'If you consider only demonetisation and GST as my government's work, it will be a big injustice to me.'Archis Mohan and Indivjal Dhasmana report. IMAGE: Prime Minister Narendra D Modi believes......

18 things that will shape India's economy this year

As economic policy making moves from pragmatism to populism, the bulls begin to make way for cautious optimists. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com Pre-election years are usually exciting. While......

What Rajeev Khandelwal loves about Amitabh

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Comedy vs Kabaddi this week

This Friday is an exciting time for the Kannada film industry, as two much awaited films Chamakaayisi Chindi Udaayisi and Kabaddi are up for release. Chamakaayisi Chindi Udaayisi is directed by A......

Penn supports immigration rights organisation

He may be best known for the stoner comedy, Harold And Kumar Go To White Castle, but Kal Penn's concern for immigrants' rights and issues involving Asian-Americans is no schtick.On his website, he......

Anand one point away from World title

Viswanathan Anand took yet another step, coming within one game of retaining his world title, as he drew the eighth game and took his tally to 5.5 points as against Vladimir Kramnik's 2.5 in the......

Ronaldinho stars in charity game

World Player of the Year Ronaldinho turned on the style as his side beat Andriy Shevchenko's XI 6-3 on Tuesday in a tsunami relief benefit match expected to raise 8 million euros ($10.38......

Sport-Aid

Here's a list of the donations made by sports organisations and personalities for the victims of the South Asian tsunami.SPORTSFormula One world champion Michael Schumacher topped donations by a......