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2002 Ghatkopar blast: Main conspirator held in Hyderabad

2002 Ghatkopar blast: Main conspirator held in Hyderabad

Rediff.com24 Nov 2012

The alleged main conspirator of the 2002 Ghatkopar blast, who was working as a software engineer, has been arrested from Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh, police said.

'Who will remember my films when I'm gone?'

'Who will remember my films when I'm gone?'

Rediff.com1 May 2020

'All my hard work will be forgotten.'

Rekha, Varun watch Padmaavat with Ranveer, Deepika

Rekha, Varun watch Padmaavat with Ranveer, Deepika

Rediff.com27 Jan 2018

It's screenings galore for Padmaavat!

Mumbai Indians look to make amends against Yorkshire

Mumbai Indians look to make amends against Yorkshire

Rediff.com17 Oct 2012

The massive eight-wicket loss in their tournament opener has not been an ideal start for defending champions Mumbai Indians and they would look to make amends when they take on Yorkshire in their crucial Champions League Twenty20 match in Cape Town on Thursday.

ENGLISH QUIZ: Can YOU complete these sentences?

ENGLISH QUIZ: Can YOU complete these sentences?

Rediff.com23 May 2012

Complete the similes in the following pages and test your English simile strength!

NIA thwarts major attacks, recovers 16 live bombs near Ranchi

NIA thwarts major attacks, recovers 16 live bombs near Ranchi

Rediff.com7 Jun 2014

Continuing their investigation into the blasts ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's rally in Patna last October, the National Investigating Agency on Saturday recovered 16 live bombs from the Sithio village near Ranchi, Jharkhand.

Farooq, Shatru, Hema together: What's cooking?

Farooq, Shatru, Hema together: What's cooking?

Rediff.com30 Oct 2018

Sanjay Khan's autobiography The Best Mistakes Of My Life out.

Here's why young Indian couples want to stay in joint families

Here's why young Indian couples want to stay in joint families

Rediff.com12 Dec 2011

According to a Shaadi.com survey, more young Indians are looking to get married into joint families. We find out why young couples would give up their personal space to live with the in-laws.

IM on back foot, terror suspect tells Gujarat cops

IM on back foot, terror suspect tells Gujarat cops

Rediff.com28 Jun 2011

Danish Riyaz has told interrogators that the arrests have severely dented IM's operations and badly affected its recruitment and fund-raising drives. That in turn has reduced the Indian Mujahideen's capabilities to execute serial bombings. Toral Varia reports

Bollywood biggies join hands, sue to restrain TV channels

Bollywood biggies join hands, sue to restrain TV channels

Rediff.com12 Oct 2020

The lawsuit, by four industry associations and 34 producers, seeks the court's direction to Republic TV, its editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami and reporter Pradeep Bhandari, Times Now, its editor-in-chief Rahul Shivshankar and group editor Navika Kumar and unknown defendants as well as social media platforms to refrain from making or publishing allegedly irresponsible, derogatory and defamatory remarks against Bollywood.

10 Reasons Why We Love Rekha

10 Reasons Why We Love Rekha

Rediff.com10 Oct 2018

Happy 64th, Rekha!

'I was cheated into marrying a psychopath'

'I was cheated into marrying a psychopath'

Rediff.com13 May 2011

Is your love life under pressure? Are you troubled by your relationship? Get Ahead's Love Guru hosted a chat with readers on May 12 to help them deal with love problems. For those of you who missed it, here's the transcript.

Kerala: Police probing PFI's links with Al Qaeda

Kerala: Police probing PFI's links with Al Qaeda

Rediff.com6 Sep 2010

The Kerala police is probing alleged links of radical PFI, blamed for the attack on a college lecturer, with terror outfits Hizbul Mujahideen, Lashkar-e-Taiba and Al Qaeda, but not found any evidence so far, the state government informed the High Court on Monday.

How ISI uses underworld to regroup terror in India

How ISI uses underworld to regroup terror in India

Rediff.com12 Dec 2010

Madoor Isubu, an aide of underworld don Chota Shakeel, who was arrested recently by the Bengaluru police, has revealed during his interrogation about how groups such as the banned Students Islamic Movement of India are trying to re-group in India.

Radhika murder: Passers-by watched like spectators

Radhika murder: Passers-by watched like spectators

Rediff.com10 Mar 2011

Rediff.com's Sahim Salim tracks the Radhika Tanwar muder case that has shocked the student community in New Delhi. The manner in which the Delhi University student was shot dead in broad daylight by a stalker rips apart claims by Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit that the national capital is now safer for women.

Review: Tamiluku En Ondrai Aluthavum is not exciting

Review: Tamiluku En Ondrai Aluthavum is not exciting

Rediff.com20 Feb 2015

Despite the intriguing plot, Tamiluku En Ondrai Aluthavum has none of the edge-of-your-seat moments that would have made it exciting, writes S Saraswathi.

Review: The Anupam Kher Show is quite revealing

Review: The Anupam Kher Show is quite revealing

Rediff.com7 Jul 2014

The Anupam Kher Show was everything it promised to be, notes Nishi Tiwari.

Chennai train blasts probe still in the dark

Chennai train blasts probe still in the dark

Rediff.com6 Jun 2014

More than a month on, investigators are yet to make a breakthrough in the Chennai train blasts case. The latest probe angle surrounding SIMI's Haider Ali isn't very definitive as well, reports Vicky Nanjappa.

PIX: Bachchans, Shah Rukh attend Aishwarya's father's funeral

PIX: Bachchans, Shah Rukh attend Aishwarya's father's funeral

Rediff.com20 Mar 2017

The funeral took place in the evening at the Vile Parle Seva Sansthan Shamshan Bhoomi in suburban Mumbai, many friends of the Bachchan family attended it to pay their last respects.

New Pak group a ploy to confuse investigators: IB

New Pak group a ploy to confuse investigators: IB

Rediff.com17 Feb 2010

Intelligence Bureau officials pointed out that this pattern was followed by terror outfits to confuse the investigators and divert the attention of the agencies. A similar call was made purportedly by the IM after the UP serial blasts and by the Deccan Mujahideen after the terror attack on Mumbai.There are absolutely no records to show the existence of such an outfit and it is clear that it was a hoax call, said IB officials.

Soccer PIX: Leverkusen thump Schalke; Milan win

Soccer PIX: Leverkusen thump Schalke; Milan win

Rediff.com7 Dec 2020

Napoli brush aside lowly Crotone to go third in Serie A.

Smaller terror outfits pose danger: IB

Smaller terror outfits pose danger: IB

Rediff.com23 Apr 2010

Miniscule outfits will strike the country with new names, indicate security sources.

Are you ready for this rollicking threesome?

Are you ready for this rollicking threesome?

Rediff.com17 Nov 2009

Ajay Devgn, Konkona Sen Sharma and Paresh Rawal will be seen together in a light-hearted comedy titled Atithi Tum Kab Jaoge?

Lawyer for 26/11 accused shot dead in Mumbai

Lawyer for 26/11 accused shot dead in Mumbai

Rediff.com11 Feb 2010

Azmi (31), a former member of Student Islamic Movement of India, spent six years in Tihar when he was in his teens. He hailed from a very lower middle class background and had often attributed his success in life to SIMI.

Modi rally serial blasts: NIA frames charges against 11 accused

Modi rally serial blasts: NIA frames charges against 11 accused

Rediff.com6 Jan 2015

The National Investigation Agency special court on Tuesday framed charges against 11 accused, all suspected to be members of banned Indian Mujahideen and Students Islamic Movement of India, for the serial blasts at Prime Minister (then Gujarat chief minister) Narendra Modi's 'Hunkar Rally' at Gandhi Maidan in Patna on October 27, 2013.

We support Jarnail Singh: Sikh groups

We support Jarnail Singh: Sikh groups

Rediff.com7 Apr 2009

Sikh groups on Tuesday said the incident of shoe-throwing at Home Minister P Chidambaram reflected the long pent-up anger of the community which had suffered in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.

Death was to come on bikes, cars: Cops

Death was to come on bikes, cars: Cops

Rediff.com24 Sep 2008

However, according to investigation officers, the plan had to be aborted following the crackdown on SIMI activists in Karnataka. The task of stealing cars and motorcycles was entrusted with Riazuddin Nasir, son of Moulana Nasiruddin who is an accused in the Haren Pandya murder case.

Details of Ahmedabad blasts accused released

Details of Ahmedabad blasts accused released

Rediff.com16 Sep 2008

The Ahmedabad Crime Branch on Monday released the photographs and details of five accused, who are still absconding, in connection with the Ahmedabad serial blasts.In a statement, the crime branch gave background of the five Students Islamic Movement of India activists -- Abdul Subhan alias Tauqeer, Qayamuddin Kapadia, Abdul Razzak, Mujib Sheikh and Alamzeb Aafridi, who are accused in the serial blasts.

Delhi blasts: Another e-mail, an open challenge

Delhi blasts: Another e-mail, an open challenge

Rediff.com13 Sep 2008

Openly challenging investigators and security agencies in their mail, the Indian Mujahideen has stated that next on their target would be the metropolitan cities of Chennai and Mumbai. The mail is more or less on the lines of the one sent in the aftermath of the Ahmedabad blasts.

Lata Mangeshkar gets Yash Chopra memorial award

Lata Mangeshkar gets Yash Chopra memorial award

Rediff.com20 Oct 2013

Legendary singer Lata Mangeshkar has been honoured with the first Yash Chopra Memorial Award for her contribution to Hindi cinema.

PIX: Katrina, Taapsee party with the Bachchans

PIX: Katrina, Taapsee party with the Bachchans

Rediff.com31 Oct 2016

Take a look at the arrivals.

How Bollywood's Best Costumes Were Made

How Bollywood's Best Costumes Were Made

Rediff.com16 Oct 2020

We pay homage to Bhanu Athaiya by celebrating her best creations.

Islamic State in India: The Jihadist Reboot

Islamic State in India: The Jihadist Reboot

Rediff.com25 Aug 2020

'The undiminished threat, therefore, has the potency of sustaining itself in multiple ways in the near and medium term.' 'The state agencies need to utilize innovative methods in countering radicalization and violent extremism to address this growing threat'.

NIA files charge sheet in Modi's Patna rally blasts case

NIA files charge sheet in Modi's Patna rally blasts case

Rediff.com23 Aug 2014

The National Investigation Agency on Friday filed a charge sheet against 10 people, including alleged activist of banned Students Islamic Movement of India group Hyder Ali, in a court in Patna in the case relating to the serial blasts at the then BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi's rally in Patna last year.

REWIND: Stunning PHOTOS of the week that was

REWIND: Stunning PHOTOS of the week that was

Rediff.com15 Mar 2016

Here's a glimpse of all that happened around the world last week, in 9 images.

Perceptions differ on VHP, Bajrang Dal, says BJP

Perceptions differ on VHP, Bajrang Dal, says BJP

Rediff.com16 Oct 2008

When his attention was drawn to the statements of Biju Patnaik, Sharad Yadav and other prominent leaders who have described Bajrang Dal as a violent organization, Prasad said that there was ideological difference but BJP does not agree with that perception.

My state is a terrorist hide-out: K'taka CM

My state is a terrorist hide-out: K'taka CM

Rediff.com5 Oct 2008

Yeddyurappa's comments come in the wake of the arrest of four terror suspects, allegedly belonging to Indian Mujahideen, at Mangalore. The four were arrested by Mumbai and Karnataka police in a joint operation on Friday for their alleged involvement in serial blasts in Delhi.

Blasts are our revenge, say terrorists

Blasts are our revenge, say terrorists

Rediff.com29 Sep 2008

The latest confession comes from Abdul Sami, the final year BE student from Bijapur, Karnataka, who was arrested in connection with the Bangalore serial blasts. Cops consider this boy to be prized catch since he had moved up the hierarchy extremely soon and was seen as a very close aide of Abdus Subhan, the alleged mastermind of the Delhi serial blasts.

Cabinet approves measures to tackle terrorism

Cabinet approves measures to tackle terrorism

Rediff.com18 Sep 2008

The Union Cabinet held a special meeting on Wednesday night to discuss terrorism and approved certain measures like strengthening of intelligence gathering by the states to effectively combat the menace.After a nearly three hour meeting convened by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee came out with a brief statement, but there was no word whether a minister for internal security is being appointed as widely speculated.

Terrorists have accomplished Operation BAD

Terrorists have accomplished Operation BAD

Rediff.com13 Sep 2008

Soon after the Ahmedabad blasts, a call was made allegedly from Sabarmati jail in Gujarat to Pakistan. The conversation was intercepted by the IB. The person who made the call (not named as it may hamper probe) told a person in Pakistan, Operation BAD had been successful. Based on this intercept, the IB and the Gujarat police decoded the message and came to the conclusion that BAD stood for Bangalore, Ahmedabad and Delhi.