Eminent Supreme Court lawyer PP Rao says it's worrying when the apex court's instructions are defied by state governments.
The NIA detained 31-year-old H Subuhani from Kadayanallur in Tamil Nadu's Tirunelveli district for plotting terror activities.
'The Cauvery is not dependable as Karnataka will never consider our needs.'
'A false promise of marriage cannot be called rape.' 'The police register it as rape. But you are acquitted finally.' 'In the meantime the man's name is spoilt.'
Mentally-challenged children find themselves ignored by India's education system.
Coffee is a very small part of the magic that envelopes this beautiful land.
Fishermen staged a unique protest on Friday at the Rameswaram jetty demanding that their boats be returned by the Sri Lankan authorities.
'My worst experiences in the film world concern money. After signing contracts, they don't pay. You always have to forget your last installment. It is very difficult for an outsider to enter Bollywood. You must either have luck or a Godfather. I have neither.' Bidita Bag discusses her big break.
Disputes over a temple has torn a Tamil Nadu village apart.
A pandal, just outside the local church, that once had thousands of protesters flocking there and shouting slogans, is strangely silent.
'Not a single person I spoke to there believes that the Kundalkulam plant is safe.'
Mahatma Gandhi said that an eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind. A Ganesh Nadar/Rediff.com travelled to Idinthakarai, the epicentre of protests against the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant, where two factions of people chose to settle scores by hurling country bombs at each other.
At President Kalam's Rameswaram home, his family hold a prayer ceremony of the eve of his first death anniversary.
Satyarup Siddhanta has just one mountain to go before he completes the Seven Summits, the tallest mountains in each of the seven continents.
Rediff.com's A Ganesh Nadar visits the site for former President Kalam's memorial.
Muthukrishnan was one of the passengers on the IAF flight that has gone missing in the Bay of Bengal.
Watching a Rajnikanth film in Mumbai's Aurora Theatre can only be compared to watching a Salman Khan film in Bandra's Gaiety-Galaxy, but multiplied 100 times over, feels Saisuresh Sivaswamy.
Saisuresh Sivaswamy is watching the noon show at Mumbai's Arora theatre, known for catering to Rajini fans, and making a mega celebration of all his releases.
Former supercop Rakesh Maria on the challenges of fighting crime.
Police in southern Tamil Nadu are facing grave charges of falsely implicating members of a nomadic tribe and torturing them into admitting to crimes they did not commit. A Ganesh Nadar reports from Kanyakumari.
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