A senior Indian official at Amnesty International, Gita Sahgal, who was suspended after she complained that the human rights organisation was closely linked to a 'pro-jihadi group,' has left her job.
Here's a recap of the events from the past 24 hours.
About 18 months after its entry in India, a Spotify listener spent an average of 97 minutes on the app, almost ten times more than any other streaming music brand.
A young school boy is enraptured by tales of Brazilian soccer magic and falls in love with the joga bonito -- the beautiful game and the men in yellow. M P Anil Kumar travels back in time.
'The government wants foreign companies to capture the insurance market.'
God makes us suffer when we sin, Assam Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said.
'Back then, being religious and devout was not a compulsion.' 'It was a voluntary and totally instinctive impulse.' 'So the impact of the Ramayan and the reverence it generated came from a place of complete sincerity.'
A 10-year-old girl, who saved several lives during a grenade attack in Imphal, and a 13-year-old boy, who rescued over 50 people during a stampede in Himachal Pradesh are among the 21 children conferred with the National Bravery Awards for 2009.
The singer and actress' debut as music composer for her father's Tamil production, Unnai Pol Oruvan is promising.
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A first information report has been registered against Khetan under Section 295 A (hurting religious sentiments).
US giants are rushing to partner with Indian and Chinese companiestapping their brainpower and saving millions of dollars in the search for breakthrough treatments
As the year 2014 draws to an end, we at Rediff.com take to look at some of the ridiculous remarks made by some blundering politicos.
Which chief minister sat bare-footed, his feet on his chappals, at the Make In India jamboree as he pitched his state as an attractive investment destination to domestic and global investors?
Gitanjali Gems is foraying into the business of providing gold loans and safe deposits vaults. The company has also acquired Trinity Watch Co and Renaissance Retail Ventures for undisclosed sums. It has also formed a subsidiary, Mohar Jewels. It will soon launch the fashion retail format through its retail subsidiary Gitanjali Lifestyle. The company has tied-up with three fashion designers to introduce fashion apparels and private labels and will also open exclusive stores.
Kejriwal runs his party with the proverbial iron fist and has learnt to temper his aggression, say people close to him.
Tushar Kulkarni, 40 from Dombivali, Mumbai tells us what he learned from his father.
The Delhi high court on Thursday refrained from stopping the spectrum allocation exercise initiated by the government, but said the distribution of frequency depends on the final outcome of the petition filed by GSM operators grouping COAI.
Janata Dal-United president Sharad Yadav on Wednesday visited the native village of jailed criminal-turned-politician Anand Mohan Singh, a former MP serving life sentence in a murder case, to seek blessings of his mother for the Lok Sabha polls.
The issue related to the petition filed by the National Human Rights Commission, which sought transfer of the trial of the riots' cases outside Gujarat and re-investigation by an independent agency. The NHRC had filed the petition after several witnesses turned hostile amidst allegations of threat, coercion and inducement to derail the investigation.AA three-member bench said it would pass necessary orders on Wednesday for constituting the SIT.
Squash player Dipika Pallikal, who was not selected for the upcoming Asian Championship, failed to get a reprieve from the Delhi high court, which she had moved to quash the selection of the Indian team.
Over 14,000 policemen were deployed across the city for the security of Adityanath.
US First Lady Michelle Obama, known for her impeccable fashion sense, got a Pashmina shawl from Kashmir with intricate embroidery as gift from President Pranab Mukherjee's wife Suvra Mukherjee.
Focus on your work without anticipating the result or outcome.
Justice Gita Mittal asked AIIMS director P Venugopal and Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss to file their replies by October 31 on the contempt petition of one Dr Manoj Kumar.
The chaplain Rajan Zed, after reciting the original lines in Sanskrit, then read the English translation of the verses.
Lobbying on the Hill is time consuming and cumbersome, but very effective to influence US government policies, asserts Ambassador T P Sreenivasan, deputy chief of mission at the Indian embassy in Washington, DC after the 1998 nuclear tests and during the Kargil War.
'The Gita was propounded on a battlefield and regards the use of force to establish Dharma or righteousness, as not only legitimate but one's highest duty,' says Colonel Anil Athale (retd).
A bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice Anu Malhotra said the government was best placed to take a decision and safeguard the life and liberty of its citizens.
The matter was mentioned before a bench of Delhi high court's acting chief justice Gita Mittal and kustice C Hari Shankar by Additional Solicitor General Tushar Mehta. The court allowed it to be listed for hearing on Wednesday.
'We are going to have plane crashes left, right and centre.'
"Have you (counsel for the petitioner) seen the film? Have the people, who are burning cinema halls seen the film? By this kind of petitions you are encouraging the people who are agitating," the bench observed.
The Delhi high court has asked a local company to refrain from selling packaged noodles on a plea by Nestle India Ltd, which contended that the product had striking similarities to its own popular brand Maggie.
With his swearing-in, the five-decade-long practice of retired bureaucrats being appointed to the post has ended.
A quiz on women who have made it big in the corporate world.
BJD managed to retain 112 seats securing another term for Patnaik in the CM chair.
With this subdued forecast, India is likely to record its worst growth performance since the 1991 liberalisation. However, it is among the only two major economies, which will register a positive growth rate in 2020. The other being China, for which the IMF has projected a growth rate of 1.2 per cent.
'Both Modi and Shah know the importance attached by Lord Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita to self-introspection (swadhyay) as one of the virtues of wise leaders.' 'From the way both leaders are painting the BJP's performance in the Karnataka election, one can only conclude that they have flunked Lord Krishna's test,' says B S Raghavan, the distinguished civil servant.
The Indian ace and partner Katarina Kachlikova of Solvakia lost in the second round of the doubles event.
The Indian government is open to making changes in 5,000-hectare land ceiling for Special Economic Zones which was decided at the meeting of Empowered Group of Ministers about two weeks back.
The Speaker of Lok Sabha in a two-page letter said that people had great expectations from MPs and had reposed their faith in them.
