BJP wins big in UP local body polls, blow to Akhilesh

The Uttar Pradesh Bharatiya Janata Party has claimed that the party-backed candidates won 67 of 75 seats of the district panchayat chief, the voting for which was held on Saturday. State BJP chief......

UP panchayat polls: Huge participation despite COVID surge

Voting for the first of the four-phase Uttar Pradesh panchayat elections, seen as a semi-final to the 2022 assembly election, began on Thursday morning on a peaceful note in 18 districts with......

Bandh: Oppn fuels public angst over price hike

The combined Opposition's call for a Bharat Bandh on Monday has brought most of the country to a near standstill. Rediff.com correspondents report from across the country: Mumbai: Senior BJP leader......

PIX: Geeta Basra's beautiful baby shower!

Bollywood actress Geeta Basra (The Train, Zila Ghaziabad), who tied the knot with cricketer Harbhajan Singh in October 2015 after the couple had dated for over five years, is expecting......

Sukanya Verma picks Bollywood's 10 WORST Films, 2013

Sukanya Verma looks back at the year 2013, and lists the worst Hindi films that came out. Butchered classics.Repulsive humour. Bollywood’s best actors reduced to duds in moronic fare. Films......

Arjun-Ranveer, Saif, Shah Rukh: Bollywood's COOLEST Gunday? VOTE!

With the surge of comedy and romance films, the action genre had taken a backseat in Bollywood for a while. While Salman Khan and Akshay Kumar have managed to bring it back with consecutive hits......

Attacks of 26/11, I Me Aur Main do poorly at box office

Last week's releases -- The Attacks of 26/11 and I Me Aur Main -- opened poorly at the box office. Kai Po Che, on the other hand, is doing much better. Trade analyst Vinod Mirani gives box office......

At Geeta Basra's virtual baby shower

Photograph: Kind courtesy Geeta Basra/Instagram   Actor Geeta Basra, who is expecting her second child with cricketer Harbhajan Singh in July, shared some lovely photos from her virtual baby......