Vaihayasi Pande Daniel, Rajesh Karkera

Stories by Vaihayasi Pande Daniel, Rajesh Karkera

Sheena Bora Trial: Will the real Mekhail Bora please stand up?

Sheena Bora Trial: Will the real Mekhail Bora please stand up?

Rediff.com   30 Aug 2018

'Who is the right Mekhail? Mekhail I or Mekhail II?'

Sheena Bora Trial: Mekhail sees his mum for the last time

Sheena Bora Trial: Mekhail sees his mum for the last time

Rediff.com   30 Aug 2018

Mekhail hopped off the bench in a hurry and turning his back to Indrani, stood at the window. Indrani ignored him too. Mekhail is getting married later this year. His mother will, of course, not be in attendance. Nor, of course, would he want her to be there, if she could.

Kerala Floods: 'Thank you, everyone who has helped'

Kerala Floods: 'Thank you, everyone who has helped'

Rediff.com   29 Aug 2018

Models Sonalika Sahay, Nicole Padival and Aishwarya Singh share their feelings about the floods that have devastated Kerala.

'Mallya is a phenomenal character'

'Mallya is a phenomenal character'

Rediff.com   27 Aug 2018

'The three tycoons I deal with in the first chapter -- Ambani, Mallya and Adani -- in their own way represent the change that has come over India.' 'Of the three of them, Mallya is the most fun. He was terrific.' 'And I don't say that because I tell the story in the book of his golden toilet.'

Rakhi@LFW: 'My Raksha Bandhan used to be fistfights'

Rakhi@LFW: 'My Raksha Bandhan used to be fistfights'

Rediff.com   26 Aug 2018

The models at the Lakme Fashion Week are missing their brothers, they tell Rajesh Karkera/Rediff.com.

There's a story behind this sari

There's a story behind this sari

Rediff.com   26 Aug 2018

Delhi-based designer Gaurika Sharma talks about it.

Sheena Bora Trial: Mekhail and the murder

Sheena Bora Trial: Mekhail and the murder

Rediff.com   25 Aug 2018

Pasbola wound up his cross examination, tabling a new narrative in the murder case. That Sheena Bora had been murdered not by her mother. But by her brother.

Sheena Bora Trial: Sanjeev's lawyer has Mekhail in a tangle

Sheena Bora Trial: Sanjeev's lawyer has Mekhail in a tangle

Rediff.com   25 Aug 2018

And then came the chief moment of Friday. If the courtroom had a soundtrack, Beethoven's 9th would be playing, providing a triumphant, dramatic prologue to the production of this last clip. A woman reporter was asking Mekhail about Sanjeev Khanna. He says clearly, without mincing words, emphatically: 'Never seen him. First time I am hearing his name.'

Do models have catfights? Find out

Do models have catfights? Find out

Rediff.com   24 Aug 2018

Italian model Mariana Falasachi gets candid.

Rakhi@LFW: 'My brother is a bully but I love him'

Rakhi@LFW: 'My brother is a bully but I love him'

Rediff.com   24 Aug 2018

Though models Vishakha Bharadwaj and Tina Pahuja may not meet their brothers for Raksha Bandhan this year, they have fun memories to share with Rajesh Karkera/Rediff.com.

Why are these hotties not on the ramp?

Why are these hotties not on the ramp?

Rediff.com   23 Aug 2018

Rediff.com's Rajesh Karkera spotted these fashionistas.

Pix: Shveta, Ahana look glam

Pix: Shveta, Ahana look glam

Rediff.com   23 Aug 2018

Celebs in attendance at Lakme Fashion Week.

Rakhi@LFW: How Hasleen Kaur got her brother in trouble

Rakhi@LFW: How Hasleen Kaur got her brother in trouble

Rediff.com   23 Aug 2018

We feel for you, Harsimrit!

'India is the swing superpower of the 21st century'

'India is the swing superpower of the 21st century'

Rediff.com   23 Aug 2018

'If India maintains the Constitutional set-up that its founders envisaged -- which is that it is a parliamentary democracy, with a broadly speaking market economy, in which all people are equal as everyone votes, in which the rights of minorities are respected -- that will be a great thing.' 'Not just for India. But for humanity.'

LFW: Model Aditi Mishra shares her Rakhi memories

LFW: Model Aditi Mishra shares her Rakhi memories

Rediff.com   22 Aug 2018

'My brother was a brat,' she tells Rajesh Karkera with a laugh.

Sheena Bora Trial: Why Indrani Smiled

Sheena Bora Trial: Why Indrani Smiled

Rediff.com   22 Aug 2018

Mekhail delivered the most deliberate heart-tugging line of the day: "If a son asks his mother for money is wrong, then tell me." At the back Indrani gave one of her most beaming smiles that was meant to convey the exact opposite. This was no mother happy that her son had said he turned to her when he needed money because she was his mother.
Vaihayasi Pande Daniel reports from the Sheena Bora murder trial.

What's similar between LFW and Bigg Boss?

What's similar between LFW and Bigg Boss?

Rediff.com   22 Aug 2018

When hundreds of designers and models are put at task, the madness is unbelievable.

Ready for India's biggest fashion week?

Ready for India's biggest fashion week?

Rediff.com   22 Aug 2018

A sneak peek into the glitziest event that begins today.

'Very, very hard for Modi to return with a comparably large majority'

'Very, very hard for Modi to return with a comparably large majority'

Rediff.com   21 Aug 2018

'Most likely scenario is Modi comes back with either a much smaller majority and no majority at all and a coalition.' 'Very hard to imagine him doing better than he did last time.' 'He will then be a weaker prime minister,' the author of The Billionaire Raj tells Rediff.com's Vaihayasi Pande Daniel.

Sheena Bora Trial: Arnab Goswami doesn't turn up...

Sheena Bora Trial: Arnab Goswami doesn't turn up...

Rediff.com   21 Aug 2018

It is not often that Goswami's Nation-Wants-to-Know shows become material evidence in a murder trial no less. Nor was it something CBI Special Judge J C Jagdale was wildly enthused about. It had to be done because as he put it to CBI Special Public Prosecutor Kavita Patil caustically: "Your witnesses gave interviews to channels about a serious crime."