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Virat Kohli, India's No.1 Celebrity Brand

Virat Kohli, India's No.1 Celebrity Brand

Rediff.com25 Sep 2025

Virat Kohli retained his crown as India's most valued celebrity brand, extending his unmatched dominance across sports and business, followed by Ranveer Singh and Shah Rukh Khan.

15 Years Ago This Day: When Maoists Sabotaged A Train

15 Years Ago This Day: When Maoists Sabotaged A Train

Rediff.com28 May 2025

On May 28, 2010, Maoists derailed the Jnaneshwari Express, killing 148 passengers.

U-17 WC Digest: From Manipur to New Delhi to cheer their boys

U-17 WC Digest: From Manipur to New Delhi to cheer their boys

Rediff.com1 Oct 2017

India U-17 football team captain Amarjit Singh's confidence is set to get a boost during the World Cup as his full family will be in New Delhi to cheer him.

Video: PCPA leader wanted in train mishap killed

Video: PCPA leader wanted in train mishap killed

Rediff.com27 Aug 2010

Maoist-backed People's Committee against Police Atrocities leader Uma Kanta Mahto was killed in an encounter with joint security forces in West Midnapore district of West Bengal on Friday, said the police.Mahto was wanted in connection with the Gyaneshwari train disaster case that had claimed 148 lives on May 29 this year. The government had suspected that Maoists had planned the derailment of the passenger train.

NLFT abducts 6 persons in Tripura

NLFT abducts 6 persons in Tripura

Rediff.com28 Nov 2003

Employed with a private construction company, they were engaged in laying a railway track in Dhalai district.

Assam: ASP killed, 5 cops injured in ambush with militants

Assam: ASP killed, 5 cops injured in ambush with militants

Rediff.com28 Jan 2014

An Additional Superintendent of Police was killed and five other policemen were injured, three of them seriously, in an ambush by militants belonging to National Democratic Front of Bodoland-Sangbijit at Batachipur near Dhekiajuli town in Sonitpur district of north Assam at around 8.00 am on Tuesday morning.

Naveen Patnaik sweeps Orissa for 4th time, wins absolute majority

Naveen Patnaik sweeps Orissa for 4th time, wins absolute majority

Rediff.com16 May 2014

Candidates of the Naveen Patnaik-led party have won in 105 assembly seats, while the Congress has won 16 seats (11 in the previous assembly), and the Bharatiya Janata party 10 seats.