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......

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......

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......

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......

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......

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......

IPL: Of serious money and awesome valuations

Indian Premier League's commissioner Lalit Modi is right to be exultant after the results of the auctions for the two additional teams for the 2011 season. At Rs 3,235 crore (Rs 32.35 billion) for......

'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......

1996 World Cup propelled ODI revolution: Tendulkar

'Now, we have very different setting including changes in  rules with two new balls and the fielding restrictions are very different. But ODI fever started in the 1990s. On-field noticeable......

Milkha Singh on the Race of his Life

'Somehow the Flying Sikh has endured in people's memory.' IMAGE: The Legendary Milkha Singh, who passed into the ages on June 18, 2021. Photograph: PTI Photo This feature was first published on......

Australia's 'Golden Girl' Betty Cuthbert dies

IMAGE: Betty Cuthbert of Australia is taken around the ground in a golf cart as she carries the olympic torch in the round eleven AFL match between the Hawthorn Hawks and the Essendon Bombers at......