The events that unfolded after Advani's arrest not only benefited the BJP, whose political clout grew exponentially, but also catapulted Lalu to the forefront of the anti-saffron camp.
The comfort quotient of the Plush New XUV5OO has really skyrocketed, while its driving dynamics remain top-notch, says P Tharyan.
Forecasts of a frosty, rough patch in India-China relations, observers in New Delhi and Beijing told rediff.com, may be inaccurate, at least for now.
In a move that may take some sheen off derivative deals, the Reserve Bank of India on Friday proposed to increase the provisioning requirements for banks for off-balance sheet items such as forex and interest-rate derivatives and gold trading. Higher provisioning will make bankers cautious while hawking derivatives, which have been the source of growing controversy between some banks and companies, since they will now be required to set aside more capital and raise costs.
LeBron James and the Miami Heat will open the 2013-14 National Basketball Association season at home against the Chicago Bulls, the NBA announced on Tuesday.
India's ace squash player Joshna Chinappa lost to top-seed Vanessa Atkinson of the Netherlands in the final of the US $11,100 Liberty Bell Open Championship in Philadelphia, US, on Monday. Fourth-seed Chinappa (world rank 37), who scalped second-seed Jaclyn Hawkes of New Zealand in the semi-finals, was outplayed by Atkinson (ranked 11) 7-11, 7-11, 5-11.
Mahindra has unveiled a new design study concept at the Auto Expo 2016.
Rajpath will be under hawk-eyed vigil with the security ring including Chinese commandos, for the event to avoid protests by Tibetans. The Chinese personnel, drawn from the Olympic Holy Flame Protection Group, will form the inner circle of the ring while the commandos of the elite National Security Guards will provide close proximity security for the torch relay.
If one goes by IATA's prediction, the pain should be halved in this year.
The Indian Air Force on Thursday put up a scintillating display as part of its 83rd anniversary celebrations.
Kulkarni said that he has accepted Kasuri's invitation to join the launch of his book 'Neither a Hawk nor a Dove' in Karachi on November 2.
Palpreet Singh, winner of the ACG-NBA Jump National Finals, India's first national basketball talent search program, was selected 11th in the fourth Round of the NBA D-League Draft held in New York.
Vajpayee, who died on Thursday at the age of 93 after a prolonged illness, had made a significant diplomatic breakthrough and travelled on a bus from Amritsar to Lahore with a delegation that included the likes of Bollywood legend Dev Anand, writer Javed Akhtar and cricket icon Kapil Dev.
Rediff.com brings you some pictures that summarise the happenings in the sporting world in the week that was.
'A close look at the time-lines tells you that exactly as the back-channel negotiations were in their most crucial stage, "somebody" was planning the 26/11 attacks in Mumbai,' says Shekhar Gupta questioning Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri's account of a peace deal with India.
ICC Cricket Committee recommended a referral system in Tests and introduction of the hawk eye technology for deciding leg before wicket appeals at its two-day meeting in Dubai.
With alertness very high post the surgical strikes on terrorist camps in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and the Uri attack, Indian Air Force is aggressively upgrading infrastructure in the eastern sector specially in Arunachal Pradesh.
On the last date of hearing, the Maharashtra police had produced additional letters to establish Moist links of the arrested accused even as the petitioners described it as cooked-up evidence.
A group of 12 elite sports stars including Muhammad Ali, Andre Agassi and Lance Armstrong on Wednesday launched a charitable organization aimed at helping athletes do philanthropic work.
During the 10-week programme, the pilots underwent ground school training and simulator sorties at Royal Air Force Valley, avionics training at BAE Systems in Brough, and sea survival training, prior to flying training.
The income earned from such activities is crucial for the domestic airline industry, which had accumulated losses of over Rs 2,200 crore in 2007. These losses are expected to rise to Rs 2,800 crore in 2008.
'The bloodthirsty rhetoric of chicken-hawk TV anchors are the worst contributors to Kashmiri alienation.' 'If this implacable hatred is the authentic voice of India, Kashmiris argue, who can hope for peace?' asks Mihir S Sharma.
UB Group Chairman Vijay Mallya, who inherited an empire of diverse businesses at age 27, is now trying hard to show that he can be a pragmatic king of bad times, too.That explains Mallya's move to hawk a part of his family silver at a time when the combined debt of his six listed companies has touched a whopping Rs 14,231 crore, as on December 2008. The debt is now more than the group's market cap.
A round-up of Ranji Trophy matches played on Saturday.
When compared to the 1960 original, The Magnificent Seven thrills only sporadically, says Dhruv Munjal.
Even as these intra party skirmishes go on, at a wider level, Rajnath Singh and L K Advani are moving in a parallel fashion, towards the attainment of the same goal, like Vajpayee and Advani, for all their rivalries, did in the past. Both played to different galleries, one to the moderate opinion, and the other to the Hindutva spectrum.
Geelani should be given travel documents on top priority for going to the West for treatment, the Hurriyat said.
This is the first time that the Indian Navy is conducting a major joint exercise with foreign navies along the country's eastern coast.
Sukanya Verma celebrates its grandeur and grandiloquence in 25 glorious frames on its diamond anniversary.
The Indian public is not naive and indeed demonstrates a streak of hard realism in its judgments about the US.
Joshna Chinappa's agonising wait for her maiden WISPA title continued as the Indian number one went down in straight games to top seed Jaclyn Hawkes of New Zealand in the final of the NSC Star Series squash tournament in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday.
'The fiscal situation is stressed (when is it not?!), economic growth has slowed, tax revenue has fallen short and the deficit is high if it is properly accounted,' points out T N Ninan.
A MiG-21 Bison of the IAF, piloted by Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman was downed during a dogfight between India and Pakistan sides on February 27 after the Balakot airstrike
With the tax-planning season in progress, you should brace yourself for a lot of 'noise' that you will soon be subjected to. The noise will come from various quarters. Mutual funds will hawk tax-saving funds (also referred to as equity linked saving schemes), while insurance companies will pitch in for ULIPs (unit linked insurance plans) and endowment plans.
Fans of the Before trilogy have grown up with Celine and Jesse... The films, says Aseem Chhabra, are charming, funny, romantic and very talky, but also close to real life.
The defence ministry has started fresh cost negotiations with the US firm Sikorsky for purchase of 16 multi-role naval helicopters, Lok Sabha was told on Friday.
'Having spent four years in that country and been able to assess the thought process of their military up close, I am of the opinion that a reprisal is inevitable.' 'The Pak military lives in a high ego make believe world (even believing a nuclear war is fightable!) and I know they WILL respond soon enough,' says Group Captain Murli Menon (retd).
World number 19 Moya battled past Argentine Juan Martin Del Potro 7-5 3-6 7-5 in their third-round match, while Hewitt, ranked 20, eased to a 6-3 6-3 win over Austrian Juergen Melzer.
