Vikas Dubey, who met with a gory end in an encounter with the UP Special Task Force near Kanpur on Friday, conjured the image of a typical don who dabbled in real-estate, won a district-level election and rubbed shoulders with political figures.
The Asian Olympic boxing qualifiers in Astana, Kazakhstan, did wonders to Vikas Krishan. He did not participate in it, but with three other Indian pugilists -- Shiva Thapa, Sumit Sangwan and Vijender Singh -- booking berths to the London Olympics from the tournament, he got off the media radar.
Behind the movement are shock-workers functioning quietly to ensure that a seemingly spontaneous, apolitical, grassroots mobilisation sustains itself without dribbling into chaos or violence. Sai Manish lists some of them.
The singing legend has spent a better part of this year flashing the flesh on her several tours.
Mundane status updates, posting photos of food and writing about your boring habits are among the top Facebook gripes, a new study has found.
It has also initiated complaints in Canada against the research firm.
Here's a collection of stories that are weird, yet true!
Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday refused to add any fodder to the talk of him being the front-runner for the President's post, saying he was himself "in the dark" over the issue that has hogged headlines back home. The past week has witnessed intense speculation in India over who would occupy the Rashtrapati Bhavan next, with Mukherjee and the current Vice President Hamid Ansari being touted as the main contenders.
Historically, Uttar Pradesh has played a key role in India's political landscape. It is no wonder that eight of India's 14 prime ministers have Uttar Pradesh connections.
It has not only ended the four year victory drought for who I call the 'fairway hurricane' but it has also lifted India's place in golf.
Their confidence boosted by a dominating win in the lung-opener, Delhi Daredevils face a tough test when they take on last year's runners-up Royal Challengers Bangalore in their second IPL match in Bangalore on Saturday.
In less than two weeks, the 11th Auto Expo will start in New Delhi.
Last week, GQ Magazine released its annual list of the 50 best-dressed men across the country for this year. We present the more prominent celebs who made the cut.
He feels that the reserve price set by the government for the 2G spectrum auction was very high.
Since the introduction of Apple's iPad in 2010, tablet PCs have been dominating retail space.
The severity of the impact is also likely to be increased due to habitat fragmentations and heavy biotic pressure on natural resources.
Instead of regular tea or coffee with milk and sugar, how about a steaming hot cup of green tea.
Automakers are caught in a chicken-and-egg situation: Prices have to come down if volumes are to increase, and volumes won't increase unless prices come down, notes Pavan Lall.
Siblings Sourabh and Sameer Verma hogged the limelight at the Syed Modi Memorial India Open Grand Prix Gold by reaching the quarter-finals of the prestigious badminton tournament with contrasting victories in the pre-quarterfinals, in Lucknow, on Thursday.
Sandeep Lamichchane -- Nepal's first player to have signed up for the Indian Premier League -- was presented with his team jersey on Friday.
Big burly Australian all-rounder Shane Watson was the top run getter in T20s in 2011 with 195 runs in five matches, while Pakistan's Mohammad Hafeez scalped the most number of wickets (10 in five matches) in the year.
It will interesting to see how the pitch behaves on Sunday.
While cities from Canada and Australia hogged the limelight, there was not a single city from either the US or Asia among the top 10.
After elder brother Sarfaraz Khan hogged the limelight about two years ago by surpassing Sachin Tendulkar's score of 326 not out in the Harris Shield tournament at the age of 12, it was the turn of his younger brother Musheer Khan to get his share of attention.
Baaghi 3 is a senseless beast of a movie that solely exists to rupture the screen in images of broken, blasting, blaring men or machines flying mid-air and slow motion, feels Sukanya Verma.
The West Indies were 81 for 2 in their second essay, a 189-run lead, after dismissing India for 482 in the first innings, at the end of Day 4 in the third Test.
An eclectic mix of Radias, Ambanis and Akulas hogged the headlines this year, with many an unfolding plot promising eventful corporate tales in 2011.
Here are special recipes for you to enjoy during the nine days of Navratri revelry.
A few days after raking up a controversy over the pitch at the Sawain Man Singh stadium in Jaipur, former Indian Premier League chairman Lalit Modi hogged the limelight again by backing an investigation by Sports Illustrated into rampant spot-fixing in the subcontinent.
Rediff.com brings you a wrap of big stories in pictures with the Best Sports Photos of the Week.
He may have lost his opening slot to little-known Mumbai lad Paul Valthaty in this edition of the Indian Premier League, but big-hitting Australian Shaun Marsh isn't complaining. 'Paul is a fantastic player,' he says.
While the Radias, Kalmadis and Rajas were hogging the limelight this year for all the wrong reasons, these celebrities were busy creating ripples in their own ways.
Here are four most popular bikes from the stables of the iconic bike maker Harley Davidson.
Even as the cricketing world goes bonkers over Yusuf Pathan and Shane Watson's all-round abilities, former Pakistan captain Wasim Akram tips Abdul Razzaq to hog the limelight in the forthcoming World Cup.
Welcome to the weekly fashion round-up, where we bring you the latest on supermodels, style, designers and everything in-between!
The 24-year-old has been the 12th man for most of the West Indies' World Cup campaign, but made his bow against India last week and got the nod again against Sri Lanka on Monday.
'Real estate loans are given in the garb of retail loans, sourcing money cheap from the NHB refinance window.' 'This loophole is being plugged,' notes Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
'Now call it off!', 'Games in crisis' screamed British tabloids about the forthcoming Commonwealth Games to be held in the Indian capital saying the shoddy preparations for the mega event were a blow to India's pride.
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