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A year after blasts, Mahabodhi Temple awaits CISF security

A year after serial bomb blasts hit the Mahabodhi Temple in Bodh Gaya, Bihar still awaits a security beef up. Central Industrial Security Force personnel are yet to be deployed at the shire, a......

US: Indian priest faces molestation charges

A Hindu priest has been charged with 20 counts of indecency with a child and released on a whopping $1 million bail bond by a US court. Prakashanand Saraswati, 79, founder of the Barsana Dham......

Headless kangaroos spark probe

More than a dozen kangaroos have been found beheaded in the outer suburbs of the southern city of Melbourne over the past three weeks, sparking a call by wildlife officials Tuesday for more......

The Lord of the Rings rooted in racism: Academic

An American academic, who teaches at the Warwick University in the United Kingdom, has described J R R Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings trilogy as an 'epic rooted in racism'.Dr Stephen Shapiro, an......

For the Oswals, a 6-year, multi-billion-dollar legal drama ends

After reaching a deal with ANZ in a six-year tussle, Pankaj and Radhika Oswal have left Australia and plan to start a new venture in New York Indian industrialist couple, Pankaj and Radhika Oswal,......

New York hotelier Chatwal has big plans for India

New York-based Chatwal Hotels and Resorts is planning to invest Rs 2,000 crore (Rs 20 billion) to open 52 hotels in India in the next five years. The company has tied up with international......

Aussie council criticised for outsourcing jobs

A central Australian shire council has received severe criticism after reports of outsourcing jobs to India with the Northern Territory government ordering a probe into the matter.According to a......

The man who invented ATMs is dead

India-born Scot John Shepherd-Barron, the man who invented the ATM, has died after a short illness, aged 84. He is survived by his wife, three sons and six grandchildren. Barron, who had been......

Some golden investment tips

The much anticipated Budget announcements are over. The entire Opposition walked out from the Lok Sabha in protest terming the Budget as 'inflationary'. The FM changed the slabs cutting the rate to......

The Godfather: A Hell to Make

Despite the Oscars, the box office glory, and the universal acclaim, Francis Ford Coppola, I am sure, remembers The Godfather with as much frustration as pride.Like Michael Corleone, he got into it......

Why The Godfather is the Bible of cinema

In March 1972, The Godfather was first screened in a New York theatre.The movies were never the same again.46 years later, longtime Rediff movie critic Raja Sen reveals why that film means that......

FBI, Apple investigate Jennifer Lawrence's nude photo hack

The FBI and Apple are investigating the hacking into the phones of Hollywood actress Jennifer Lawrence and several other celebrities after nude photographs of the Oscar-winner......

Iron Man's success story continues

Paramount Pictures which had a strong summer season -- with Iron Man, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom ofthe Crystal Skull, and Kung Fu Panda -- is enjoying an extraordinary success with the multiple......

Rocky Balboa will make you whistle

Hey yo, champ, aren't you a little scared?" Mason 'The Line' Dixon, heavyweight champion of the world, does not waste a shot sizing up his 60-year-old opponent. "I don't get scared," he exhales......

Vijender to return Khel Ratna if farms laws not withdrawn

IMAGE: Olympic medallist boxer Vijender Singh joined the farmers' agitation at the Haryana-Delhi border on Sunday. Photograph: Shaun Botterill/Getty Images Olympic medallist boxer Vijender Singh,......

Pujara signs up with English county Gloucestershire

IMAGE: Cheteshwar Pujara is the first Indian player to play for Gloucestershire since Javagal Srinath in 1995. Photograph: Cheteshwar Pujara/Twitter India Test specialist Cheteshwar Pujara......

Hottest Sporting Buzz: 'Immature' Brady 'throws fits' for wife's attention

Rediff.com brings you the buzz around celebrity sportspersons and their glamorous lives! Gisele Bundchen. Photograph: Courtesy: Facebook American football player Tom Brady gets really......

Stop overreacting, Dennis

August 11, 2003 | 19:50 ISTStop overreacting, Dennis If anybody asked me which state has the best young cricketing talent in the country, they'd probably be surprised by my answer -- Uttar Pradesh.......

Lessons from Dhaka

Within a month of the World Cup final in South Africa, the Indian team traveled to Bangladesh for the limited-overs triangular tournament invol-ving hosts Bangladesh and South Africa. The final was......

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