Mark Webber caught his Red Bull team on the hop on Thursday with the announcement that he was leaving Formula One at the end of the season to race Le Mans with Porsche.
Modi said he really enjoyed the Metro ride.
Both men were the dominant sprinters of their time, although their paths diverged sharply after their respective triumphs.
The big beasts of Olympic swimming have rolled into Rio, with Michael Phelps and the mighty US team following their Australian rivals, and the buzz of expectation is building.
"India is hopping mad. Please get out of the places you have occupied," was the American message to Pakistan in the wake of the Kargil War in 1999, Pakistan's then envoy to the US, Riaz Khokhar said in Islamabad on Sunday.
Breakdancing, considered one of the pillars of hip-hop culture, will also make its Asian Games bow in 2022, two years before it features in the Olympics for the first time in Paris.
Mumbai's break dancers pin their hopes on their passion to dance to get out of city's ghettos.
Age is just a number for this designer, who completes 50 years in the fashion industry in 2018.
"Absolutely stunned. This is a very safe neighbourhood, very decent area of Tracy," neighbor Dave Roychowdhury said.
Asserting that it has nothing to hide, the government on Thursday said it was prepared to discuss threadbare the CAG report on coal block allocation in Parliament and reply to the issues raised by the opposition.
As Katy Perry began her first concert in Mumbai, all thoughts of the heat and the need for water quite literally evaporated, says 17-year-old Maya Dominic.
The Bharatiya Janata Party is looking upto Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi to turn the tide in its favour in Karnataka. But Modi's job won't be easy. Vicky Nanjappa reports
A look at some of the Popemobiles over the years
Rediff.com's A Ganesh Nadar hopped on to a fishing boat at Kudankulam amid the anti-nuclear power protests at sea.
Sukanya Verma feels The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is a visually mesmerising.
American skier Lindsey Vonn is enjoying her good life after splitting from golf legend Tiger Woods.
We may be witnessing a slow erosion of the democratic republic and the emergence of the police State, warns Sunanda K Datta-Ray.
Australia captain Steven Smith rubbed salt into India's wounds saying that the hosts dug their own grave by preparing a rank turner which backfired badly in the first Test.
With just a day to go for the United States presidential elections, both contestants -- incumbent Barack Obama and his Republican rival Mitt Romney -- are leaving no stone unturned to woo the voters and were engaged in a heated exchange of words in their final leg of campaigning.
'If the school of bluffers includes those who get to the top not from deep knowledge but from delivering 'a clever quip or a leftfield surprise argument', then Modi is the undisputed Bluffocrat Emeritus,' says Sunil Sethi.
Rediff readers tell us how they spent their first salaries.
A look at the few bright spots, the many worries, and moments that made for a distinctly indelible 2020.
The filmmaker launches new menswear line, new look.
Excerpts from Irani's 'one of the weirdest interviews ever', where she speaks about Narendra Modi's achievements, Keshubhai Patel's estrangement, absence of any Muslim name in BJP's list of candidates and her role models in the party.
'My heart skipped a beat as I saw myself on the giant screen. I have watched the film a few times since then. And I can still see my face in that brief shot, immortalised like the rest of the film.'
Nirdesh K Singh who has been fort-hopping visited the Bada Imambara of Lucknow and returned with this story!
There are, however, several netizens who came out in support of the two actors.
The compact segment where Sonet will be launched is crowded with the Maruti Vitara and Brezza, which top the sales' list, and a bevy of models from Mahindra & Mahindra apart from Hyundai's offering. But volumes in this are slightly higher than those in the mid-segment, making it attractive, says Surajeet Das Gupta.
A look at the arrivals.
Sooni Taraporewala makes us root for her young characters even if we aren't entirely sure about the depth of their feelings, feels Sukanya Verma.
They are a photographer's ultimate fantasty, a filmmaker's wet dream come true and a dream-come-true for weary trekkers. Check out India's best waterfall destinations.
Medals eluded them but not the spotlight as the Indian men's boxing team shared the dais with London Olympics bronze-winning woman pugilist M C Mary Kom at a felicitation function organised by sponsors Monnet Group in New Delhi on Thursday.
Indigo (April 30, 1999 - April 30, 2018) was much more than a restaurant, says its regular patron, Neeta Kolhatkar.
Tourism Australia lists out some of the best places to travel to Down Under!
A friend of slain Indian student Anuj Bidve has told a UK court that the Briton who shot him dead was 'hip-hopping' and 'trying to be all cool' when he approached them.
The film is essentially Freaky Friday pretending to be Mulan: and both those Disney productions were decidedly more entertaining.
Here's what your favourtie celebrities are tweeting.
Chief Minister of Haryana Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Thursday announced a cash award of Rs 2.5 crore for the state athletes who will manage to bag the coveted gold medal in any discipline at the London Games.
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