All of India gets ready for the mid-winter harvest festival, turning out laddoos, Pongal, Puran Poli and other endless delights.
Meet Zeenath PA, the Kochi social worker whose handmade wigs are helping Cancer survivors reclaim their identity.
'Dilipsaab was an interesting mix of spontaneity and stylised acting.'
Hridayapoorvam does not break any new ground or tell a story as old as time with any novelty but its sincerity keeps it alive, notes Arjun Menon.
As per the practises and tradition at the temples, any offerings made into the hundial directly goes into the account of the deity of that temple. Rules do not permit the administration to return the offerings back to the devotees, Babu told reporters in Chennai.
India could only win five gold medals from the ten athletics events on Monday at the SAF Games.
Deepanshu Sharma secured the gold medal in men's javelin as Indian athletes produced a good show on the opening day of the 21st Asian Under-20 Athletics Championships.
As Thalapathy Vijay embarks on a career in politics, Arjun Menon looks closer at his glorious filmography.
Researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology-Palakkad (IIT-Palakkad) have introduced a pioneering method of generating renewable energy from human urine.
They all seem to forget that the Music Academy is as much an independent institution as T M Krishna is an individual musician. In drawing those red lines for the Academy management, they do not even seem to recognise that they too have crossed a red line themselves, points out N Sathiya Moorthy.
While the major fronts, the CPI-M led LDF and Congress-led UDF have given three and one seat respectively to women, the BJP-led NDA has set aside five seats for their female politicians in the upcoming LS polls.
The company also shared that a single user from Hyderabad spent a whopping Rs 6 lakh on Idlis in the last 12 months. The analysis by Swiggy covers the period from March 30, 2022, to March 25, 2023, and provides interesting insights into the popularity of this South Indian delicacy.
At least 10 persons were 'reported dead' in a fire that broke out inside a stationary train compartment in Madurai railway station in the wee hours of Saturday, the Southern Railway said, adding a 'gas cylinder illegally' taken in led to the blaze.
'Farewell to the unique artist who loved like a mother and taught many things like a teacher.'
Sanjib Jha, CEO, Coverfox Insurance Broking, answers your health insurance related queries.
The hit pair will be seen together in Shibu Balan's Nagaravaridhi Naduvil Njan.
14-year-old Vinisha Umashankar has been creating a buzz with her solar-powered ironing cart. The youngest finalist of the Duke of Cambridge's The Earthshot Prize 2021, she is a shining example of why one is never too young to help the environment.
Mahabalipuram is an attempt to shed some light on the plight of young innocent girls who are drugged, raped and filmed to cater to the thriving porn industry.
Rediff readers sent us these photographs of India from their travels.
Sangeetha, who was nabbed in connection with the case, reportedly confessed to having killed Selva, an upcoming film director.
Anil Rego, CEO, Right Horizons, answers your personal income tax queries.
Just a day before Shabana Azmi met with a road accident on January 18, she was celebrating husband Javed Akhtar's 75th birthday bash with the rest of Bollywood. And it was a full house, as *everyone* came forward to pay their salaams to one of Bollywood's leading writers and poets.
Festive season is the mainstay of most brick and mortar retail chains.
Tributes poured in for violin maestro T N Krishnan, who died in Chennai at the age of 92, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah and the world of Carnatic music mourning the doyen's demise and recalling his rich contributions.
Reader Sangeetha shares with us a blooper that she spotted in the movie Koi... Mil Gaya.
Pellissery's women continue to express the beauty in our common humanity. And often, these women go so far into expressing our hopes, desires, absurdities and follies that they end up acting at variance with the ethical prescriptions of our age. And this, I believe, is precisely why they remain "invisible" to a whole bunch of viewers, says Sreehari Nair.
Read the story of Reshmi, the winner of a Tamil singing contest.
Dhanam, with its off-beat theme, has demanded a similarly off-beat offering from Ilaiyaraja, and much will depend on how these songs are picturised. Though some of the tunes are meant to titillate the front-benchers, you can't deny that the maestro has turned in a rather good album.
Two Indian dance teachers, who were abused by their Malaysian employers for three years, have decided to return home without taking any action against the couple, who admitted to treating them cruelly.
SNS Movies' Dhanam, starring Sangeetha, shows itself as a serious movie -- but ends up being a tired old flick that takes its viewers for a disappointing ride.
Nokia launches Nokia 7 Plus, 8 Sirocco series in India; relaunches Nokia 6 with new features.
Nagaravaridhi Naduvil Njan does not bring any festive cheer.
In October, OnePlus said, it recorded Rs 500 crore of revenue in only the first two days of the festive sale on Amazon.in. The firm is looking at going beyond the metro cities by scaling up its offline stores to over 5,000 and setting up more than 100 'experience centres' in the top 50 cities by next year.
The veteran IM won the National women's 'B' chess title on better progressive scores.
Snapdeal and Flipkart to battle it out over Express Delivery
The team, comprising Madhurika Patkar, Sushmita Roy, Mousumi Paul and Sangeetha Seshadri beat the United States 3-2 to finish in the top 10.
The ace high jumper has now won back-to-back gold medals after winning in Bangalore earlier this week.
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