2 IAS officers suspended after Punjab U-turn on panchayat dissolution

Hours after taking a 'U-turn' by informing the high court that it is withdrawing its notification dissolving all gram panchayats in the state, the Punjab government suspended two senior Indian......

How Many Children do BJP MLAs in UP have?

Given the controversy over the Uttar Pradesh government's population control policy, Hemant Shivsaran/Rediff.com digs deep to find out how many children BJP legislators in UP have. IMAGE: Uttar......

Parrikar, 9 others elected unopposed to RS

Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar and Samajwadi Party leader Ram Gopal Yadav are and 10 political leaders who were on Thursday elected unopposed to Rajya Sabha from Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand.......

JNU students clash with police en route Rashtrapati Bhavan

Hundreds of Jawaharlala Nehru University students on Thursday marched to the human resource development ministry and were later stopped when they tried to go towards Rashtrapati Bhavan during when......

'Heeramandi Showed India As A Sone Ki Chidiya'

'The primary set took over three months to build with 14,000-15,000 workers employed at a time.' 'We ensured that Mallikajaan's Shahi Mahal lived up to its name.''One zardosi panel cost around Rs 4......

The '90s Bollywood Heroines Are Back!

Back in the 1990s, a deluge of fresh talent hit silver screen. Raw, ravishing and raring to go, they slowly but steadily made a place for themselves beyond the realm of song and dance. For some,......

Review: Bajirao Mastani is Magnificent. Fragile. Flawed.

'Talwar se zyada dhaar chalane wale ki soch mein honi chahiye,' says the strategy-savvy Bajirao in Bajirao Mastani. Only if director Sanjay Leela Bansali had listened, says Sukanya Verma. The......

Bollywood's HOTTEST Kisses of 2014

The steamiest kisses of the year, up close. Gone are the days when Bollywood stars shied away from kissing or planted a blink-and-miss peck on their co-star’s lips. More importantly,......

Sports Shorts: Saina out of top 10, Srikanth at 8th spot in BWF ranking

A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Thursday IMAGE: Saina Nehwal. Photograph: Twitter Following their poor run of form at the badminton World Championship, Saina Nehwal dropped......