Young shooting sensation Manu Bhaker became the second Indian after judoka Tababi Devi to win two medals at the Youth Olympic Games (YOG) after winning a silver while the men's hockey team moved to the semi-finals with a 4-2 win over Poland, in Buenos Aires, on Friday.
'Guide will always have a special place in my heart.'
Kangana Ranaut, Hrithik Roshan and Ajay Devgn get ready to live real lives.
Sukanya Verma looks at Bollywood's various terrace moments.
Getting locked into instruments before the new regime kicks in would be a good strategy.
'Their sensibilities are far more mature and complex than men's. I have to be very careful while working with them.'
'Anybody and everybody who opposes this government for whatever reasons will be branded a terrorist and charged in such a manner that all human rights will be taken away.'
Talking to reporters in Kolhapur, Pawar said it was not right on the part of the Centre to hand over the probe into the case, which was with the Pune police, to the NIA as law and order was a state subject. NCP leader and Home Minister Anil Deshmukh said Uddhav Thackeray had overruled him on the probe in the case.
Scholars and students have cautioned that the proposed divisive and discriminatory changes would harm the country.
'She's the best actor in the family,' her dad, arguably the finest actor in all of Bollywood, said later.
Anand Sharma (Congress) charged the BJP of 'committing theft (of mandate) by deceit'.
'Basuda welcomed viewers into a world that was instantly familiar and comfortable,' observes Sukanya Verma.
A look at this week's hits and misses.
Most critics have picked this film as a favourite that should be sent to the Oscar awards
The Brothers promo gives away pretty much the whole film, writes Raja Sen.
One of India's greatest actors -- someone who acted in 14 Satyajit Ray films -- doesn't get good movie roles anymore.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Friday.
If you've lived in this city even for a day, then there's no way you cannot fall in love with the street food that defines Mumbai -- vada pav.
Some of Bollywood's top directors started very young.
Yudh is worse than a show with flaws, rants Raja Sen.
Two Nobel Laureates, four listed writers of this year's Man Booker Prize, Pulitzer Prize winners and finalists, winners of Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Crossword Prize and film stars will be the attraction at the most sought after literary event in India -- the Jaipur Literature Festival.
A look at B-town stars who turned die-hard fans onscreen!
Eyewitnesses claimed that a car crashed into a pillar of the 60-year-old hotel building, following which it collapsed.
Aseem Chhabra watched some great films and some huge disappointments in 2020.
'The new generation voter is hyper-nationalistic, but it isn't essentially illiberal.' 'They will find the rants of Adityanath as laughable as Irfan Habib's. They will also find the BJP's polarising approach to vote-gathering unacceptable if it fails to deliver jobs and growth,' says Shekhar Gupta.
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Monday
Abhishek has been posting fond memories and interesting anecdotes on Instagram, recapping his #RoadTo20.
Raja Sen says What The Fish is an abysmal effort.
The apex court questioning the police about the arrests said that 'dissent is the safety valve of democracy and if you don't allow these safety valves, it will burst.'
The raids were carried out as part of a probe into the violence between Dalits and the upper caste Peshwas at Koregaon-Bhima village near Pune after an event called Elgar Parishad, or conclave, on December 31 last year.
On Hrishikesh Mukherjee's 91st birth anniversary on September 30, we bring back a Rediff Special done on the brilliant filmmaker in December 2002.
The judgment was reserved after a marathon hearing which went on for 38 days spanning four months.
Here's what caught our eye at the movies this year.
A key argument against the Aadhaar scheme was that it was violative of the nine-judge bench verdict that had held that Right to Privacy is a fundamental right under the Constitution.
Days after the Aam Aadmi Party appointed a new Lokpal panel replacing him, former Navy chief Ramdas has questioned the decision, claiming his term was to end in November 2016.
The results for the bypolls in Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Bihar, Telangana, Maharashtra, Punjab and Tripura were announced on Tuesday.
It's all very well to have an ailing hero, but Yudh needs a bit more heroism, rants Raja Sen.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Thursday
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