'The government is plucking leaves and not destroying the plant.'
Acclaimed Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement on Monday, said that Lord Ganesh was meant to be worshipped in temples and home shrines and not to be made a laughing stock on theater stages.
India has already termed as untenable the 'artificial enlargement' of the territorial claims by Nepal after its Parliament unanimously approved the new political map of the country featuring Lipulekh, Kalapani and Limpiyadhura areas which India maintains belongs to it.
A sneak peek into how residents of the Keshavji Naik Chawl in Girgaum, Mumbai, welcome Lord Ganesha.
'The BJP's solo aim in Mumbai and Maharashtra is to finish off the Shiv Sena and Sharad Pawar's NCP.'
Ganesh Venkatraman talks about his latest bi-lingual Theeya Velai Seiyyanum Kumaru.
Modi also rolled out the first of the 500 metro coaches manufactured by Bharat Earth Movers in flat 75 days at it Bengaluru facility.
Some of the exiting entries for Lord Ganesha's visit straight from our readers' homes.
No Ganpati celebration is complete without Humse Badhkar Kaun's hugely popular song, Deva O Deva Ganpati Deva Tumse Badhkar Kaun blaring out of the pandal speakers.
A bench headed by Chief Justice N V Ramana ordered status quo in the present situation, and said the petition would be listed before an appropriate bench.
Transcript of the Ganesh Natarajan chat on rediff on Friday.
In a year when the country produced record coal, rains hit movement of the fuel from mines to power generation units, impacting power generation in many states, including Gujarat, Punjab, Rajasthan, Delhi and Tamil Nadu.
Political parties were bracing for the assembly election results on Thursday in the crucial state of Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and politically volatile Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur, sending out feelers for possible post-poll tie-ups.
The ministry has also made Udayen Sen of Deloitte, and Kalpesh Mehta and Sampath Ganesh of BSR as respondents as they were the signatories of the audit reports of the company.
'The blasts in Lanka are against our ideology.'
'We will ensure that every child is protected,' says Priyank Kanoongo, chairperson, NCPCR.
''He had given tools to fight all forms of homogenisation.'
'Sukh Pal Singh is not very rich where money is concerned, but his heart is rich.'
The increase in the number of lady students is the result of the hard work by a team of ITI teachers who went from village to village, visiting every school and encouraging students to join the institute.
'They have been imposing Hindi on Tamil Nadu,' says DMK spokesperson Saravanan Annadurai.
'In 1983, my father T Rama Rao made Andha Kanoon with Rajinikanth.' 'Amitabh Bachchan was reluctant to come on board as a guest star, as Rajinikanth was a southern star.' 'But when my father pitched it to him, he came on board.' 'The movie ran for 200 days.'
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Tax experts said historically in July and August indirect tax collections remain subdued and pick up with the onset of the festive season post Ganesh Chaturthi.
'They attack standing crops and vegetables.' 'They don't attack people.' 'People are just panicking.'
Sona College of Technology's integrated Japanese course has helped seven engineering graduates find jobs with six-figure salaries in Japan.
'That it is happening in the second half of the year, during the festive season, will only encourage many to step up advertising.'
From PhonePe to Jio, everyone wants to be a Super App but it is still unclear if they will actually work in India.
Pawar, who founded the NCP in 1999 after walking out of the Congress, said he worked in opposition for 27 years.
Indian automobile units are employing more and more robots to improve your car's efficiency. India is catching up well as world over, the latest technologies is redefining outdated manufacturing processes.
The infants had died allegedly because of disruption in oxygen supply due to pending payments to the supplier, a charge stoutly refuted by the state government.
'I don't trust these days. Like now, everyone likes Mimi and my phone is constantly ringing. But tomorrow if I make a flop, the opposite will happen.'
'When you plot the growth, -- 7.5 per cent for Q2, 0.4 per cent for Q3, 1.6 per cent for Q4 and 20.1 per cent for Q1 now -- all you see is a 'V'.' 'You don't see any other alphabet in the shape there.'
After spending 10 days with his devotees, Lord Ganesha returns to his abode on Thursday marking the last day of Ganesha visarjan. Rediff.com captures the joy and processions on the last day of the Ganesha festival.
'The Galwan crisis involves the security of the nation, can't we spend eight hours on that?' 'Why are you scared? Why are you running away from that?
N Kalyanasundaram started saving up last year so that he could feed the hungry during the second COVID lockdown.
'Why should we disclose how and from where we will get these numbers?'
With Ganesh Chaturthi, Maharashtra's biggest festival, set to begin in mid-September, many companies are providing value-added services to cash in on the occasion and for brand promotion.
'I do spew poison against Modi and his communalism. I am deeply depressed that India is on the edge of reaching where Germany was in January 1937 when Hitler came to power through a democratic election,' Mani Shankar Aiyar tells Rediff.com's A Ganesh Nadar.
Enter the fireworks city of Sivakasi in Tamil Nadu and you can smell a familiar mix of sulphur, potassium nitrate, aluminium and carbon - familiar because if you've ever burst crackers, say on Diwali or Onam, chances are they were made here. Almost every household used to contribute to India's festive joy by contributing almost 90 per cent of the fireworks made in the country. Before the pandemic, around 300,000 people worked in the industry directly and another 500,000 indirectly. Located 540 kilometres from Chennai, Sivakasi is famous for its fireworks and crackers, along with printing and matches, but is almost a ghost town these days.
Javed Khan has been operating an auto ambulance in Madhya Pradesh's capital city since a month.
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