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Aaftab and Shraddha fought over cost of shifting to Delhi, says police

Aaftab Poonawala, the accused in the case of brutal murder of his live-in partner Shraddha Walkar in May this year, shifted the belongings from his flat in Maharashtra's Palghar district to Delhi......

Himachal Rain Havoc Devastates Business

Tourism is badly affected. Entire apple orchards have been washed away. 2 million people are threatened with loss of livelihood. IMAGE: National Disaster Response Force personnel conduct a rescue......

10 dead as bus collides with truck in Maharashtra's Nashik

Ten persons were killed and at least 22 others injured after a speeding bus collided with a truck in Maharashtra's Nashik district on Friday morning, police officials said. IMAGE: Wreckage of a......

UP polls: Campaigning for Phase IV ends, 624 in fray for 59 seats

It was curtains down on the high-decibel campaigning for the fourth phase of the Uttar Pradesh assembly polls as sparring among political rivals intensified during the last-minute canvassing on......

The employer who flew his staff home

Sandeep Jain hopes his actions will inspire others to do the same. IMAGE: Sandeep Jain, centre, with the workers he flew home. Seven workers from Chennai flew home to Varanasi on June 1, after......

How the Budget will make you poorer

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has introduced a number of taxes to boost rural welfare programmes. While the Budget proposes to help the poor and the farmers, it has given a raw deal to the salaried......

Coca-Cola bottling plant in troubled waters again

Beverages major Coca-Cola is again in troubled waters. While it has for quite a while faced questions on over-usage of groundwater in its bottling plants, there is now a First Information Report......

Budget: What's costlier, what's cheaper?

Cigarettes, phone calls, eating out, branded garments and accessories, air travel are going to be more expensive post Budget. Image: A man clad in branded clothes, wearing a branded watch, poses......

Gorkha agitation threatens Darjeeling's tea business

Darjeeling is on the boil over the demand for a separate Gorkhaland state. June and July are bad months to have a strike.Tea picking during its most valuable season has been affected.Those......

'Packer was a revolutionary'

Kerry Packer was a revolutionary. Ideas constitute a powerful force in this world. Good ideas need wings and as well as landing gear and Packer had both. It is not very easy to get the......

Media Mogul Kerry Packer dead

Kerry Packer, Australia's richest man whose fierce business reputation dominated corporate Australia and whose companies control one of the nation's major media groups, died in his sleep overnight,......

When It Was Bradman Versus India

History has not seen a cricketing rivalry as fierce as this this century, every ball bowled every run taken, coming with no quarter given. Ahead of India's five Test tour of Australia, beginning in......

'Performance in IPL will be important for T20 World Cup selection'

IMAGE: Tom Moody believes performance in IPL and T20 leagues will play a significant role in selection for the T20 World Cup. Photograph: BCCI Veteran coach Tom Moody on Thursday said the players'......

There Will Surely Never Be Another Bishan Singh Bedi

One of cricket's greatest players passed into the ages on Monday.Rediff.com salutes the legend. IMAGE: Bedi in action, August 2, 1971. Photograph: Dennis Oulds/Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty......