'Good friends are those who advise whether something is palatable for you or not.' 'Good friends are those who are not afraid of telling the truth.'
Kiren Rijiju said he would fail as a Sports Minister if India cannot finish inside the top 10 in the medals tally by 2028 Olympics.
'To keep laughing is the most important thing in life.'
In her weekly column, mental health guru Anu Krishna offers advice on how to take charge of your life.
As part of this self help initiative with Rediff.com, Mental Health Coach Anu Krishna helps readers talk about their problems and offers advice.
'I have always believed that life doesn't get easier or more forgiving; we only get stronger and more resilient.'
'The prime minister bought spectacles from Germany to see the eclipse, but he cannot see that an eclipse has fallen on the country.'
In this weekly self-help series, mental health and life coach Anu Krishna tells you how to take control of your life.
Remembering an incomparable actor by re-visiting his finest films.
'Once Mohanlal's ever-swelling entourage grasped his enormous worth, once it realized that the innate Mohanlal appeal could be profited from, it set about to exploit, to make uproars, to create the Mohanlal brand.' 'And he wasn't meant to be a brand. He was meant to be an artist, a tireless explorer of the unique seas inside him,' asserts Sreehari Nair.
Ahead of farmers' tractor parade in Delhi on Tuesday, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Monday appealed to farmers to ensure their rally remains peaceful as their stir against agri laws has been so far.
The revived factionalism in the AIADMK, if not curbed now, has the potential to split the party vertically, warns N Sathiya Moorthy.
If Irrfan could have been our finest professor of empirical philosophy, and Nawaz is our foremost poet of that space halfway between the gutter and the stars, then Jaideep Ahlawat has to be our greatest artist-scientist, asserts Sreehari Nair.
Is anyone in the BJP listening -- to what Nitin Gadkari had to say, but possibly left unsaid? asks N Sathiya Moorthy.
According to the Australian media, the latest report has been based on over 400 interviews with soldiers and officers from the SAS, a special forces unit, and Commandos, Afghan villagers, special forces interpreters and support staff.
Since a Supreme Court-appointed panel on farm laws is likely to hold its first meeting on January 19, the meeting on Friday between with the government and the unions may be the last one.
'Here is a woman who has got widespread appreciation for her work.' 'Social media was full of posts wanting her as the chief ministerial candidate.' 'This kind of popularity did not go well within the party.' 'See, today the party is Pinarayi Vijayan!'
'Cultural nationalism or the victim card that you play is okay when people are well fed.' 'But if you are not well fed, then it puts a question mark (on your leadership).'
There are quite a few lesson that upcoming entrepreneurs must learn from housing.com controversy.
'After my illness, I encountered another unfortunate situation that caused me not to be able to come back to Bollywood.' 'I do not want to talk about that, maybe one day I will.'
Gaurav Gupta returns to the LFW ramp after four years to give a new meaning to centuries old crafts.
The outcome in UP is far more significant than in the other states going to the polls next year. An unlikely setback in UP can cramp the Modi government, virtually making it a lame-duck two years ahead of the 2024 parliamentary poll, observes Virendra Kapoor.
Jugal Hansraj on his children's novel The Coward and the Sword.
India captain and batting mainstay Virat Kohli says he is not immune to being affected by failure, the most recent instance being India's semi-final exit from the ODI World Cup in July.
You are neither entertained nor enticed in Rasbhari, complains Joginder Tuteja.
The cheapest version, the Tulip Ego, is making it to the US for Rs 2.25 lakh (Rs 225,000), but the other versions aren't destined for US shores, and is presumably being reserved for Russian oil barons.
'If questioning and dethroning hierarchies is your primary motive, why not put an end to the practice of announcing your shining star, your box office draw, in big flaming letters and mentioning everyone else's name in small font at the bottom of the screen?' asks Sreehari Nair.
A look at Roger Federer's worst five Grand Slam losses.
After taking charge at the state Congress headquarters, the cricketer-turned-politician said there was no difference between an ordinary worker of the party and its state unit chief.
Union leaders, who came out of the meeting venue shouting slogans, said the talks remained deadlocked and some of them threatened to boycott any further meetings if no solution was found at Thursday's meeting.
In this weekly self-help series, mental health and life coach Anu Krishna tells you how to take control of your life.
Government will offload 9.5 per cent of its ownership.
Following is the gist of the controversy over sudden transfer of West Bengal Chief Secretary Alapan Bandyopadhyay, who retired on Monday, to Delhi and related rules.
The second round of spectrum auction will begin in March after the Cabinet decides on reducing reserve price of 800 MHz band, used for offering CDMA-based mobile services.
If pandemic (mis)management threatened to dominate Goa's electoral discourse, the BJP is up against a deeper structural issue in its organisation, created by the fact that a majority of the legislature party and the ministerial council is made up of Congress defectors, disparagingly referred to by the Opposition as "imports". Radhika Ramaseshan reports.
Feeling the heat and tension of the crisis? Fikar not!
'He wrote a letter to his parents every night, and read the Gita every morning before going about his work.'
Heckling, confrontation and strong-arm tactics don't come to him easily, reveals Aditi Phadnis.
© 2026 Rediff.com - Advertise with us - Disclaimer - Privacy Policy - Sitemap - Feedback - About us - Terms of use - Grievances