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Messi arrives in Delhi, meet with PM Modi cancelled

Messi arrives in Delhi, meet with PM Modi cancelled

Rediff.com15 Dec 2025

Messi is currently at the Mumbai airport and is expected to leave shortly for the final set of engagements, which includes an appearance at the Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium for a ticketed event.

Happy Republic Day, says India as travel peaks for weekend

Happy Republic Day, says India as travel peaks for weekend

Rediff.com24 Jan 2026

The Republic Day long weekend beginning Saturday is driving a surge in travel with hotels and resorts witnessing an increase in bookings led by high demand, reflecting a decisive shift in traveller behaviour and the rise of micro-getaways, industry players said. The increasing preference for short, experience-led holidays is emerging as a strong trend shaping the country's leisure travel market.

Delhi gives Messi's India Tour the perfect ending

Delhi gives Messi's India Tour the perfect ending

Rediff.com15 Dec 2025

The Lionel Messi G.O.A.T. India Tour that began in shambolic fashion ended in a blaze of glory as devotional fans joyously gathered to catch a glimpse of a man that does things on the field that are often beyond human comprehension.

Four IPOs worth Rs 6600 to hit D-Street next week

Four IPOs worth Rs 6600 to hit D-Street next week

Rediff.com25 May 2025

The initial public offering (IPO) lane will be busy next week, with four main-line companies, including Leela Palaces Hotels & Resorts operator Schloss Bangalore Ltd and Aegis Vopak Terminals tapping the primary market to raise over Rs 6,600 crore collectively.

From Private Chefs to Jungle Bubbles

From Private Chefs to Jungle Bubbles

Rediff.com14 Apr 2025

From high-end villas with private sommeliers to exclusive showcases at cultural centres to private sessions with Michelin-starred chefs and celebrities, hotel chains are pulling out all the stops

Recipe: Sagar's Seafood Futomaki Rolls

Recipe: Sagar's Seafood Futomaki Rolls

Rediff.com30 Dec 2024

Homemade suhi can be as tasty as anything you can order at a restaurant.

Recipe: Sagar's Bok Choy-Wrapped Chicken Dim Sums

Recipe: Sagar's Bok Choy-Wrapped Chicken Dim Sums

Rediff.com18 Dec 2024

Chicken mince, arbi, mushrooms and bok choy in one neat package. Delicious!

Man, who duped Delhi hotel posing as UAE official, sent to police custody

Man, who duped Delhi hotel posing as UAE official, sent to police custody

Rediff.com22 Jan 2023

Duty magistrate Shivangi Vyas sent Mahamed Sharif for custodial interrogation, noting that police had to recover certain articles from his residence in Delhi, which were allegedly stolen by him.

How Virat is spending time in quarantine

How Virat is spending time in quarantine

Rediff.com29 Jan 2021

'PropheC music and gym equipment is all you need during quarantine days. Work can be put in anywhere if you really want to.'

Telugu actor Allari Naresh engaged

Telugu actor Allari Naresh engaged

Rediff.com2 May 2015

The wedding will take place on May 29 at N Convention Centre Hyderabad.

Team India clear first round of COVID-19 tests

Team India clear first round of COVID-19 tests

Rediff.com28 Jan 2021

The Indian cricketers on Thursday cleared their first round of RT-PCR COVID-19 tests and will be undergoing two more rounds before they can start training from February 2 for the upcoming Test series against England.

Captain Nair: A successful hotelier who began his career at 65

Captain Nair: A successful hotelier who began his career at 65

Rediff.com18 May 2014

Mourning Nair's demise will not only be his family members and thousands of well-wishers and employees of Leela Palace Hotels and Resorts, which he founded at the ripe age of 67.

Sarkozy, Bruni kick off 4-day India visit

Sarkozy, Bruni kick off 4-day India visit

Rediff.com4 Dec 2010

French President Nicolas Sarkozy, accompanied by wife Carla Bruni and other officials, on Saturday arrived on a four-day visit to India. Sarkozy will focus on bilateral space cooperation when he visits the ISRO at Bengaluru.The French president and his wife, who arrived by a special aircraft, will head to the Leela Palace hotel on Old Airport Road. He will then address scientists and other dignitaries at ISRO, following which he will have a brief interaction with them.

Sarkozy to visit ISRO in Bengaluru

Sarkozy to visit ISRO in Bengaluru

Rediff.com4 Dec 2010

French President Nicolas Sarkozy will focus on bilateral space cooperation when he visits the Indian Space Research Organisation at Bengaluru on Saturday.

An example of branding wizardry

An example of branding wizardry

Rediff.com27 Jun 2007

Shining Emotional Surplus' founder and strategist on how he created a system which keeps the client satisfied both in the short run and the long run.

Leela Group founder Krishnan Nair is no more

Leela Group founder Krishnan Nair is no more

Rediff.com17 May 2014

The grand old man of Indian hospitality, Captain C P Krishnan Nair passed away at a private hospital in Mumbai on Saturday.

Sunanda Pushkar cremated

Sunanda Pushkar cremated

Rediff.com18 Jan 2014

The mortal remains of Sunanda Pushkar, who was found dead in mysterious circumstances at a luxury hotel in New Delhi on Friday night, were consigned to flames on Saturday in presence of her family members.

Sunanda Pushkar died of poisoning: SDM report

Sunanda Pushkar died of poisoning: SDM report

Rediff.com21 Jan 2014

Sub-Divisional Magistrate Alok Sharma has asked police to find out the cause of poisoning and also to specifically probe murder or suicide angle.

What the hell. Sunanda. Oh my God: Mehr Tarar

What the hell. Sunanda. Oh my God: Mehr Tarar

Rediff.com17 Jan 2014

Pakistani journalist Mehr Tarar, at the centre of a raging controversy involving Union Minister Shashi Tharoor, on Friday said she was "absolutely shocked" to learn of his wife Sunanda Pushkar's death.

Sunanda case: Cops find broken glass, marks on bed and carpet

Sunanda case: Cops find broken glass, marks on bed and carpet

Rediff.com9 Nov 2014

The hotel room, where former minister Shashi Tharoor's wife Sunanda Pushkar was found dead under mysterious circumstances on January 17, has been re-examined by police and forensic experts who claimed to have found some fresh evidence.

Sunanda death: Hotel staff quizzed, CCTV video, call details under scanner

Sunanda death: Hotel staff quizzed, CCTV video, call details under scanner

Rediff.com18 Jan 2014

Police investigating Sunanda Pushkar's death mysterious death on Friday night questioned a number of hotel staff and checked the CCTV footage of the lobby of the third floor of the luxury hotel where she was staying.

Sunanda's laptop, phones sent for forensic analysis

Sunanda's laptop, phones sent for forensic analysis

Rediff.com21 Jan 2015

Delhi Police has handed over the laptop and mobile phones of Congress MP Shashi Tharoor's deceased wife Sunanda Pushkar to Gandhinagar-based Directorate of Forensic Science, to retrieve crucial data, which could help the ongoing probe into her death.

Delhi Police may quiz Pak journo in Sunanda case

Delhi Police may quiz Pak journo in Sunanda case

Rediff.com9 Jan 2015

Delhi Police, which has registered a case of murder in the death of Sunanda Pushkar, is planning to question Mehr Tarar, the Pakistani journalist over whom she fought with her husband Shashi Tharoor before her mysterious death last year.

Sunanda case: Laptop, 3 mobile phones sent for forensic probe

Sunanda case: Laptop, 3 mobile phones sent for forensic probe

Rediff.com12 Nov 2014

Delhi Police has questioned some key witnesses besides sending three mobile phones and a laptop for advance forensic investigations in the mysterious death of Sunanda Pushkar.

Sunanda death: Foreign angle probe 'work of fiction', say cops

Sunanda death: Foreign angle probe 'work of fiction', say cops

Rediff.com18 Nov 2014

The Delhi police on Tuesday dubbed as 'work of fiction' speculation about their probing any foreign angle in the mysterious death of former Union Minister Shashi Tharoor's wife Sunanda.

Delhi, Gurugram drown yet again; waterlogging gives commuters a hard time

Delhi, Gurugram drown yet again; waterlogging gives commuters a hard time

Rediff.com31 Aug 2016

Traffic in national capital Delhi and adjoining Gurugram went haywire on Wednesday after heavy rains resulted in waterlogging in many parts of the city.

AIIMS doctors carry out postmortem on Sunanda Tharoor

AIIMS doctors carry out postmortem on Sunanda Tharoor

Rediff.com18 Jan 2014

A three-member team of senior doctors at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences IN Mumbai on Saturday began post-mortem on the body of Sunanda Pushkar, wife of Union Minister Shashi Tharoor, even as the police continued to probe various angles including suicide in the case.

Shashi Tharoor suffers 'cardiac condition', admitted to AIIMS

Shashi Tharoor suffers 'cardiac condition', admitted to AIIMS

Rediff.com18 Jan 2014

Union Minister Shashi Tharoor, whose wife Sunanda Pushkar was found dead on Friday night, was admitted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences after he suffered a "cardiac condition" in the wee hours on Saturday.

Sunanda Pushkar's body shifted to AIIMS for post-mortem

Sunanda Pushkar's body shifted to AIIMS for post-mortem

Rediff.com18 Jan 2014

The body of Sunanda Pushkar, wife of Union Minister Shashi Tharoor, was on Saturday shifted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences for post-mortem as police continued to probe various angles including suicide in the case.

Sunanda's death unnatural, some injuries found: Doctors

Sunanda's death unnatural, some injuries found: Doctors

Rediff.com18 Jan 2014

The doctors at AIIMS have said that Union Minister Shashi Tharoor's wife Sunanda Pushkar's death is a case of unnatural sudden death and no poisoning have been found, after her autopsy was completed.

Sunanda case: Will not question Tharoor for now, Police

Sunanda case: Will not question Tharoor for now, Police

Rediff.com10 Jan 2015

Delhi Police on Saturday said it is not going to question Congress MP Shashi Tharoor for now in connection with the mysterious death of his wife Sunanda Pushkar as it would first want to examine all other people related to the case and look into available evidence.

Sunanda case: Tharoor's domestic help quizzed by SIT

Sunanda case: Tharoor's domestic help quizzed by SIT

Rediff.com8 Jan 2015

The Special Investigating Team probing death of Sunanda Pushkar on Thursday interrogated her husband Shashi Tharoor's domestic help on specific details such as people who met her during the 48 hours prior to her death and the injury marks on her body.

Unhappy with Sunanda case probe's pace: Tharoor

Unhappy with Sunanda case probe's pace: Tharoor

Rediff.com23 Feb 2014

Five weeks after his wife Sunanda Pushkar was found dead under mysterious circumstances, Union Minister Shashi Tharoor on Sunday said he was "not happy" with the pace of the probe by the Delhi Police.

Shashi Tharoor's wife Sunanda Pushkar found dead in Delhi hotel

Shashi Tharoor's wife Sunanda Pushkar found dead in Delhi hotel

Rediff.com17 Jan 2014

The body of 52-year-old Pushkar, a woman entrepreneur who married Tharoor in August 2010, was found in mysterious circumstances in luxury Leela Palace hotel in South Delhi

Tharoor grilled for 4 hours in Sunanda case

Tharoor grilled for 4 hours in Sunanda case

Rediff.com20 Jan 2015

Shashi Tharoor was intensely questioned on Monday night over two hours by a special team of the Delhi police on the circumstances leading to the mysterious death of his wife Sunanda Pushkar a year back and her spat with Pakistani journalist Mehr Tarar over her links with the Congress member of Parliament.

Court summons Tharoor as accused in Sunanda Pushkar death case

Court summons Tharoor as accused in Sunanda Pushkar death case

Rediff.com5 Jun 2018

The police has named Tharoor as the only accused while also alleging that he had subjected his wife to cruelty.

Boxer Amir Khan rolls with the punches

Boxer Amir Khan rolls with the punches

Rediff.com14 Nov 2015

Besides fighting Manny Pacquiao, British boxer Amir Khan wants to channel boxing talent in India and Pakistan.

This Salman Khan is changing the way kids learn

This Salman Khan is changing the way kids learn

Rediff.com31 Dec 2015

Salman Khan of Khan Academy explains how he is pioneering the cause of free online education.