Prasanna Zore &Amp; Uttam Ghosh In Kandhamal

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Uttam's Take: Happy Birthday Mr Modi

Uttam's Take: Happy Birthday Mr Modi

Rediff.com   16 Sep 2014

Uttam Ghosh offers his unique take on the prime minister's birthday.

Don't miss! 15 images from a rail journey

Don't miss! 15 images from a rail journey

Rediff.com   12 Sep 2014

Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com and A Ganesh Nadar/Rediff.com boarded the Himsagar Express that runs between Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu and Jammu Tawi in Jammu and Kashmir. Check out the scenes they witnessed...

Uttam's Take! Shastri(ya) Sangeet: Secret of Team India's ODI success

Uttam's Take! Shastri(ya) Sangeet: Secret of Team India's ODI success

Rediff.com   10 Sep 2014

Rediff.com's Uttam Ghosh unravels the secret weapon which helped India get the better of hosts England in the ODI series.

Uttam's Take: KCR's Telangana household survey

Uttam's Take: KCR's Telangana household survey

Rediff.com   19 Aug 2014

Uttam's Take: KCR's Telangana household survey

Gang rapes in Mumbai: 10 a year, 59 since 2009

Gang rapes in Mumbai: 10 a year, 59 since 2009

Rediff.com   8 Aug 2014

An RTI query has revealed shocking data on gang rapes in the city considered safe for women!

Modi will rule for 15 years, says Muslim cleric

Modi will rule for 15 years, says Muslim cleric

Rediff.com   16 May 2014

National president of the Jamaat Ulema-e-Hind, Maulana Suhaib Qasmi, has said that the Congress party has got a lesson of its life in this election.

BJP Delhi headquarters breaks out in celebrations

BJP Delhi headquarters breaks out in celebrations

Rediff.com   16 May 2014

As the electronic ticker that updates the Bharatiya Janata Party's ascendancy in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar keeps ticking up the celebrations by party workers are getting wilder and wilder.

Review: Mastram fails to make you feel good

Review: Mastram fails to make you feel good

Rediff.com   9 May 2014

Director Jaiswal, who wrote Gangs of Wasseypur, seems unable to make up his mind as to how to firmly hold the narrative.

Uttam's Take: Jaya's sops for voters

Uttam's Take: Jaya's sops for voters

Rediff.com   26 Feb 2014

Following Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa's promise to extend sops given in her state tp all over India if she becomes prime minister, Rediff.com's Uttam Ghosh offers his perspective.

'Respect Lata, statement on taking back awards not aimed at her'

'Respect Lata, statement on taking back awards not aimed at her'

Rediff.com   13 Nov 2013

"I did not say that," Chandurkar told this correspondent during a brief conversation. "What I said was those supporting communal parties should be stripped of national awards given to them by the government. I respect Lata Mangeshkar."

Uttam's Take: Laptops and violence in UP

Uttam's Take: Laptops and violence in UP

Rediff.com   24 Sep 2013

Uttam's Ghosh's cartoon returns

Review: Satyagraha fails miserably

Review: Satyagraha fails miserably

Rediff.com   30 Aug 2013

Prakash Jha delivers a potion that is but a terrible hodgepodge of his earlier films.

Somali pirates target oil tanker; 5 Indians taken hostage

Somali pirates target oil tanker; 5 Indians taken hostage

Rediff.com   27 Dec 2012

On December 17, heavily-armed pirates stormed a German oil tanker SP Brussels belonging to the Medallion Marine company. They went on to loot the ship and took hostage five Indian sailors.

'I do not know any Anna Hazare, have no comments on him'

'I do not know any Anna Hazare, have no comments on him'

Rediff.com   12 Oct 2011

Dr Ashok Ganguly, former chairman of Hindustan Lever and a Rajya Sabha MP, and one of the signatories to the recent open letter to the government by a group of 14 eminent people, speaks about the issues raised in the letter.

Delhi CM speaks out on Anna Hazare's arrest

Delhi CM speaks out on Anna Hazare's arrest

Rediff.com   20 Aug 2011

Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Saturday admitted that it would have been better if the Delhi police had not arrested social activist Anna Hazare.

Read: Interview with Prashant Bhushan

Read: Interview with Prashant Bhushan

Rediff.com   17 Aug 2011

Rediff.com's Prasanna Zore in a freewheeling chat with Prashant Bhushan, member of the Lokpal bill joint drafting committee.

Rakhi Sawant joins MNS cine wing

Rakhi Sawant joins MNS cine wing

Rediff.com   12 Mar 2011

Bollywood item girl Rakhi Sawant has joined the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena's cine wing -- Chitrapat Karmachari Sena.

PM offers to appear before PAC on 2G scam

PM offers to appear before PAC on 2G scam

Rediff.com   20 Dec 2010

Was the prime minister's offer to appear before the Public Accounts Committee 'precedent' an afterthought? Looks like it, if one were to go carefully through the press handout being distributed at the media centre at the Congress plenary in New Delhi.

Sonia's words seem to fall on deaf years

Sonia's words seem to fall on deaf years

Rediff.com   19 Dec 2010

The Congress president during her address had said that ministers and people in authority didn't take grassroots Congress workers seriously. As if to prove her point, a horde of Congressmen -- 75 according to a lady manning the media enclosure -- followed Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dixit inside the press enclosure "to check the arrangement for the media."

Would you accept this gift from Tembhali, Mr PM?

Would you accept this gift from Tembhali, Mr PM?

Rediff.com   29 Sep 2010

A young Indian from Tembhali, hoping to meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and give him a gift, is sent away by security personnel.