SC flips result in 'rigged' Chandigarh mayoral poll; declares AAP winner

The Supreme Court on Tuesday declared defeated Aam Aadmi Party-Congress alliance candidate Kuldeep Kumar the mayor of Chandigarh after overturning the result of the controversial poll where the......

Nitish begged for forgiveness before Lalu, Rabri: Tejashwi

Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Tejashwi Yadav on Friday claimed that Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar had 'begged for forgiveness for past betrayals' before his parents, party supremo Lalu Prasad and......

Ram Temple: Can Congress Surprise Modi?

Modi believes that the Congress leadership does not have the political sagacity to undertake a course correction because of its preoccupation about not losing its current gains in the voter base,......

Was Narasimha Rao India's Best Prime Minister?

'He told senior journalists a few days after the Babri Masjid demolition, 'Jo hua theek hua. Maine isliye hone diya ki BJP ki rajniti hamesha ke liye khatam ho jaye.' IMAGE: Then prime minister P......

RBI awaits the power of one

That's all it takes to protect an institution -- just one person with no past and no greed for the future, says Shekhar Gupta. The eyes of the devoted plagiarism hunters would light up if......

Investors get tax relief on investment gains

Once the income has been classified as either business income or capital gains, be consistent. In a move that is likely to reduce litigations between investors and the income-tax department, the......

Why Delhi does not need another airport

Experts are divided on whether or not to build a new international airport at Jewar in Greater Noida. Image: Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi. Photograph: Courtesy,......

No double standards by Cong on Insurance Bill: Rahul Gandhi

The Insurance Bill was deferred for consideration for the time being after a meeting Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday rejected Bharatiya Janata Party's charge that the party is doing......

Tubelight Review: Salman tries to be cute, too hard

If Tubelight had a real story and wasn't just flip-flopping between monotonous episodes of fluky coincidences treated like divine intervention and cursory battle scenes devoid of danger, urgency or......

Why Meghna Gulzar made Talvar

'Taking a side could be a fallacy to do. Because you don't have all the answers. So how do you take one particular side?' Meghna Gulzar asks Vaihayasi Pande Daniel/Rediff.com IMAGE: Konkona......

The worst onscreen accents in Hollywood

A new poll by a US ticket agency has revealed the top three actors with the worst onscreen accents of all time. At third position is Tom Cruise, who put on an Irish lilt for his......