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Hai Junoon Review: Mindless Fluff

Hai Junoon Review: Mindless Fluff

Rediff.com16 May 2025

The plot goes pretty much as expected but the Hai Junoon team seem to have sat with a check list of issues that affect today's teenagers, and ticked the ones used in the show, observes Deepa Gahlot.

Interview with TCS CEO S Ramadorai

Interview with TCS CEO S Ramadorai

Rediff.com22 Jun 2005

TCS CEO S Ramadorai discusses issues like increasing salaries, price pressures and how the industry needs to tackle the future.

Cope with India's needs, Kalam to scientists

Cope with India's needs, Kalam to scientists

Rediff.com21 Feb 2007

For this, the President delivering a 'special address', said the country's sole Defence Research and Development Organisation had to be completely "reorganised" into a competitive environment.

Yechury's body handed over to AIIMS amid 'Lal Salaam' chants

Yechury's body handed over to AIIMS amid 'Lal Salaam' chants

Rediff.com15 Sep 2024

Earlier in the day, rich tributes were paid to Yechury at the Communist Party of India (Marxist) headquarters at the AKG Bhavan here, where his mortal remains were brought from his residence in the morning.

Prime minister reveals secret of blue turban

Prime minister reveals secret of blue turban

Rediff.com12 Oct 2006

The 74-year-old, soft-spoken economist-turned-prime minister recalled his friends at Cambridge had nicknamed him "blue turban".

Sehwag gets his BA degree

Sehwag gets his BA degree

Rediff.com5 Jun 2004

Sehwag gets his BA degree

Indian philanthropist is top donor for US univ

Indian philanthropist is top donor for US univ

Rediff.com13 Jun 2008

When John P Kapoor graduated from Bombay University in the 1960s, he had hoped to continue his studies in the United States but could not afford to pay for it. The State University of New York at Buffalo offered him a graduate fellowship.He never forgot his alma mater. In 2000, he gave it $5 million, and, recently, he increased that sum to $10.8 million.

What I learned in my B-School

What I learned in my B-School

Rediff.com20 Jan 2011

While some claim the classes did the trick, a few swear by the canteens and the hang-outs. But even the biggest cynic of the campus turns nostalgic when speaking about the alma mater.

'India always has enough brains'

'India always has enough brains'

Rediff.com15 Jun 2005

'India is looking up as the future of the world in many ways,' says IIT-M Director Dr M S Ananth.

The Teen Who Built A Tax Education Game

The Teen Who Built A Tax Education Game

Rediff.com5 Aug 2025

Manas Sood, a Class 12 student from the Delhi Public School, has distributed 2,650 boxes of Tax City Education and empowered over 12,000 students from 52 schools across India. His aim? To help young Indians understand taxes and become financially literate.

Word cloud: RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan's address to IIT Delhi

Word cloud: RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan's address to IIT Delhi

Rediff.com1 Nov 2015

Rediff.com did a word cloud analysis of the governor's speech.

Hard to imagine UN without Shashi Tharoor

Hard to imagine UN without Shashi Tharoor

Rediff.com30 Mar 2007

What distinguished Shashi from the other senior Indians in the UN Secretariat even in the early years of his career was that he was not paranoid about asserting his international personality to the point of erasing his Indian identity

Meet Sub-Lt Anamika, Navy's first woman helicopter pilot

Meet Sub-Lt Anamika, Navy's first woman helicopter pilot

Rediff.com8 Jun 2024

In another feat, Lt Jamyang Tsewang, the first commissioned naval officer from Ladakh, also successfully graduated as a qualified helicopter pilot, according to the Indian Navy.

Phir Milenge: Sensitive attempt

Phir Milenge: Sensitive attempt

Rediff.com27 Aug 2004

The IITian Way of Giving

The IITian Way of Giving

Rediff.com20 Dec 2005

Global IIT meet set for take off

Global IIT meet set for take off

Rediff.com2 May 2005

The man behind Indiabulls' success

The man behind Indiabulls' success

Rediff.com23 Apr 2008

Gagan Banga talks about how one of India's largest NBFCs still retains the financial discipline of a start-up.

India has arrived, says Sabeer Bhatia

India has arrived, says Sabeer Bhatia

Rediff.com17 Dec 2003

India has arrived on the global scene and there is tremendous respect for Indian talent in the United States now, the computer industry whizkid Sabeer Bhatia said.

Going gaga about Bobby Jindal

Going gaga about Bobby Jindal

Rediff.com17 Nov 2003

HISTORIC: Shuks heads to ISS, 1st Indian in space in 41 years

HISTORIC: Shuks heads to ISS, 1st Indian in space in 41 years

Rediff.com26 Jun 2025

The Lucknow-born Shukla, former NASA astronaut Mission Commander Peggy Whitson, Slawosz Uznanski-Wisniewski of Poland, and Tibor Kapu of Hungary are part of the Axiom-4 mission that marks the return to space for the three nations.

Are you Ready For Sunny Leone?

Are you Ready For Sunny Leone?

Rediff.com13 Sep 2022

Just where do Bollywood's glam stars holiday? Let's take a look.

PIX: Amitabh, Kabir Khan raise funds for college

PIX: Amitabh, Kabir Khan raise funds for college

Rediff.com9 Feb 2017

Take a look at the arrivals.

Ex-student opens fire from air pistol in Kerala school, arrested

Ex-student opens fire from air pistol in Kerala school, arrested

Rediff.com21 Nov 2023

A former student, Jagan, went to the Vivekodayam school at Thrissur and took out a gun from his bag after entering the staff room and later went to various classrooms, terrorising students and staff.

'Workplace safety key to get more women in labour force'

'Workplace safety key to get more women in labour force'

Rediff.com27 Aug 2024

International Monetary Fund (IMF) Deputy Managing Director (MD) Gita Gopinath has condemned the "terrible and disturbing" incident of rape and murder of a trainee doctor in Kolkata. "Personally, it is terrible to have any event of this kind. It is disturbing," she told Business Standard in New Delhi.

Citizenship isn't just about rights, but also about duties:CJI

Citizenship isn't just about rights, but also about duties:CJI

Rediff.com18 Jan 2020

Universities are not about brick and mortar certainly. Universities aren't supposed to function like assembly line of a production unit," the CJI said.

10 killed as fire sweeps through Flamengo soccer training centre in Rio

10 killed as fire sweeps through Flamengo soccer training centre in Rio

Rediff.com8 Feb 2019

The fire broke out at Ninho do Urubu, a state-of-the-art training centre that was expanded and opened only two months ago.

Pentagon chief asks Indian professor if he is 'Taliban', apologises

Pentagon chief asks Indian professor if he is 'Taliban', apologises

Rediff.com21 Jun 2013

US Secretary of Defence Chuck Hagel has apologised after he was caught on cameras asking an Indian member of an audience if he was a member of the Taliban.

Vir Das to become Dr Vir Das in June

Vir Das to become Dr Vir Das in June

Rediff.com6 Feb 2018

His alma mater in the US will honour him with a doctorate.

OTT Goodies This Week!

OTT Goodies This Week!

Rediff.com28 Mar 2024

From fantasy to football, OTT is beaming with all kinds of goodies this week.

'Don't call me Uncle. Call me Sam'

'Don't call me Uncle. Call me Sam'

Rediff.com3 Dec 2023

Besides his strategic and tactical acumen, it was his amazing personality, quick wit and ability to remain unflustered under any circumstances that stood him apart from almost any leader one has read about or known, recalls Lieutenant General Syed Ata Hasnain (retd).

Indian-American appointed interim president of US university

Indian-American appointed interim president of US university

Rediff.com10 Jul 2014

Indian-American Nagi Naganathan, an alumnus of the National Institute of Technology at Tiruchirappalli, has been appointed interim president of the University of Toledo.

Milind Rege, The Last of the Mohicans

Milind Rege, The Last of the Mohicans

Rediff.com20 Feb 2025

'He devoted his entire life for the betterment of Mumbai cricket and cricketers.' 'Even when he left for the Elysian Fields, he was in harness as mentor/advisor to the MCA.' Hemant Kenkre mourns the passing of Mumbai cricket icon Milind Rege.

Dr Singh speaks up: Reject divisive policies, politics

Dr Singh speaks up: Reject divisive policies, politics

Rediff.com11 Apr 2018

Delivering the first S B Rangnekar Memorial lecture at the Panjab University, his alma mater, in Chandigarh, Dr Singh also said a "dangerous and false binary" of choosing between freedom and development was surfacing in the country's political discourse and that it must be rejected.

Won't go back to them till I am alive: Nitish lashes out at BJP

Won't go back to them till I am alive: Nitish lashes out at BJP

Rediff.com14 Oct 2022

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Friday declared that he will not realign with the Bharatiya Janata Party till he is alive, accusing the former ally of using investigating agencies for targeting political opponents like Rashtriya Janata Dal president Lalu Prasad.

IT professionals are well paid, they should give more to charity: Premji

IT professionals are well paid, they should give more to charity: Premji

Rediff.com14 Dec 2015

'Wealthy Indians don't give as much as Americans because they believe they must leave their wealth to their children.'