Brisk polling began on Thursday morning in 91 constituencies spread across 18 states and two union territories in the first phase of Lok Sabha elections. As people queued up across the nation to cast their vote, there were some famous faces in the lines at different polling stations. Take a look.
'A class antagonism of rich versus poor took the colouring of a communal confrontation,' says Sunil Sethi.
Two women and three non-engineers are among the 20 candidates who have scored 100 percentile in the Common Admission Test (CAT), 2017.
'I try to say to myself, 'Don't cry in front of people'. But sometimes I can't help it.'
Kapil was tired of travelling extra kilometeres due to protests at Shaheen Bagh, said his uncle. He said Kapil usually had to travel 10 km to reach home but due to protests, he had to travel 35 km.
'70 years after Independence,' says Kishore Singh, 'we're having to arm ourselves against a new enemy out on the roads to molest, burgle, attack and threaten.'
Addressing a rally in Karkardooma in east Delhi, Modi alleged that the AAP and the Congress were provoking people and misinforming them. They were keeping the Constitution and tricolour in the forefront, but the aim was to 'divert attention from the real conspiracy', Modi said ahead of the Delhi elections on February 8.
Although we all have tastebuds that are dying to sample all the yummy food around us, we must remember that anything in excess is bad.
Akash Banerjee is posing tough questions to the establishment -- and getting away with them.
Anant Gupta, HCL Technologies' chief has an amazing success formula to get things done.
The current government must first improve condition in existing citis then take a plunge into making newer cities smart.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Tuesday.
Rediff.com's Love Guru has answers to all your relationship problems.
The German becomes the fourth quadruple champion and only the third driver to land four titles in a row after Germany's seven-times winner Michael Schumacher and the late Argentine Juan Manuel Fangio.
Is it just the glamour?
After being turned down by 113 investors, Nidhi Agarwal, founder of Kaaryah received an aye from Ratan Tata. This is her story.
'It is the journey of my father -- how he made it in this industry in no time, from a nobody to a music mogul.'
'Last year, someone told us you must remove 's' otherwise you won't perform well and we didn't perform well.' 'Obviously, that's not the reason for not performing well, but it didn't hurt us to remove the 's'.'
From AK47s in Kashmir to becoming an entrepreneur in Germany, Upasna Kakroo has seen it all
Network18 founder Raghav Bahl is all set to launch his new venture.
"Everyone knows me because of that terrible tragedy. My memories of Mosul only bring me sadness. How can I be proud about my fame? I lost everything there," Harjit Masih told Rediff.com's Swarupa Dutt over the phone.
Model Daljeet Sean Singh wants to give people a meaningful farewell.
On his first visit to India, former three-time NBA champion Brian Shaw talks of potential that Indian youngsters possess to make the cut in the NBA and shares his views on the sensational Stephen Curry and his partnership with Shaqueille O'Neal.Norma Godinho/Rediff.com listens in.
Young, city-bred, successful, enthusiastic Indians are ditching their cars and cycling to work.
Will the political heat amid this election season draw a wedge between two dear friends?
Upstaged by the swanky malls in town, both M G Road and Brigade Road have lost their "happening" status
Prince William and Princess Catherine, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, collected quite a few Mumbai hearts on a hot two days in April.
Transcript of the Ganesh Natarajan chat on rediff on Friday.
'If the State does want to come after you, in India, it can do pretty much anything. And often it isn't as though the orders are coming from the President or prime minister, no, the systems have been built in a way -- or we have allowed them to be built in a way -- that almost encourages crushing of liberties.'
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