Former Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu, megastar Konidela Chiranjeevi, famous actor of yesteryears Vyjayantimala Bali are among personalities who have been honoured with Padma Vibhushan in the......
Former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav, former external affairs minister in the UPA government S M Krishna and tabla maestro Ustad Zakir Hussain were among six luminaries selected......
The Yogi Adityanath Cabinet 2.0 made space for fresh faces by dropping as many as 24 ministers from the first term of the Bharatiya Janata Party government in Uttar Pradesh. IMAGE: Prime Minister......
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......
'The BJP's constitution promises allegiance to India's secularism and socialism.''This is the oath that it makes all its members sign,' observes Aakar Patel. IMAGE: Bharatiya Janata Party National......
What do we need more of? Leaders who dominate global institutions or local leaders with a 'Make-in-India' mindset? Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com A couple of weeks ago, the news about......
The board will now be headed by Vinod Kumar Yadav as chairman and CEO, and it will have four other members. The Railway Board got its first CEO after the government approved its restructuring and......
The participants shared their views and suggestions regarding Big Data, incentives for encouraging setting up of data centres, fiscal incentives for data localisation, incentives for pushing......
Five of the 10 best-paid independent directors belonged to the Tata group, followed by four from Reliance Industries and one from Wipro.Shally Seth Mohile and Dev Chatterjee report.Illustration:......
Most successful and ambitious business leaders feel persuaded that they have no competent successor, says R G Vilakudi. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com There is considerable literature on how......
Just before Christmas, film and television stars -- of all ages! -- partied with the Mumbai police at their annual show, Umang. Deepika Padukone arrived with husband Ranveer Singh. Watch......
The guest list was quite a L - O - N - G one at Ekta R Kapoor's Diwali party. Here's a look at the beautiful couples who made a date night out of it. Sunny Leone's Plus One is husband Daniel......
Film and telly folk came to a special screening of the week's release, Thank You for Coming. Directed by first-timer Karan Boolani and produced by his wife Rhea Kapoor and Ekta R Kapoor, the sex......
The first ever Bollywood Hungama Style Icons awards were held in Mumbai on March 24, and our favourite glamour stars looked gorgeous as they walked down the purple carpet. Kriti Sanon holds her......
The Dadasaheb Phalke International Film Festival Awards 2023, held at Mumbai's Taj Land's End hotel, saw Bollywood and television stars in attendance. S S Rajamouli's RRR was a big winner of the......
India grabbed another 18 silver and 4 bronze to take the total tally to 165 medals IMAGE: Tejinder Pal Singh Toor broke the South Asian Games record. Photograph: SAI Media/Twitter Shuttlers......
'To win a medal at the Olympics you need 12 to 15 Virdhawals and Sejwals.''We lack a swimming culture.''Countries like the US, Australia, France and China are powerhouses, with access to the best......
Reader Saurabh Tandon sent us this photograph. 'We spotted Prakash Padukone (All England Badminton Champion 1980) at Crosswords, Residency Road, Bangalore. In the picture, my mother Kusum and my......
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......
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......