The BJP and Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena alliance secured a majority in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) elections, winning 118 out of 227 seats and ending the Thackeray family's long-standing control.
Suspended BRS MLC K Kavitha criticized her party after its defeat in the Jubilee Hills Assembly bypoll, attributing it to 'karma.' She was suspended in September after accusing party leaders of tarnishing her father's image. Congress candidate V Naveen Yadav won the by-election.
Even those with no knowledge of the inner workings of the media and police, would find Scoop absorbing as a human drama and the story of the resilience of a woman, her family and true friends, applauds Deepa Gahlot.
Hansal Mehta's Scoop won in two categories at the 2023 Busan Film Festival's Asia Contents Awards and Global OTT Awards.
Sukanya Verma quizzes you to find out just how much you know about the movies.
While some of them, like Sushmita Sen (Aarya 3) and Kajol (Lust Stories 2) disappointed Subhash K Jha, he picks his favourite performances from the world of OTT.
Rediff reader Jagruti Joshi who travelled to Kashmir in June 2019 sent us these photographs.
Deepa Gahlot picks 10 Web series that was worth the viewer's while.
Kangana Ranaut plays an Air Force pilot in Tejas, joining an increasing list of films and shows centered around women playing significant roles in their careers.
Jagruti Pandya, wife of slain former Bharatiya Janata Party minister Haren Pandya, has decided not to go to the venue of Chief Minister Narendra Modi's fast -- to hand over a memorandum seeking justice for her husband -- after speaking to senior party leader L K Advani over phone on Saturday.
This is the fourth death this year caused by vehicles skidding on potholes on the Jawhar-Dahanu road.
Businessman Yogesh Lakhani celebrated his birthday on September 25.
Radhe: Your Most Wanted Bhai is the kind of bad movie that already knows it stands on shaky grounds and doesn't do anything to mask its insecurities, observes Sukanya Verma.
Sukanya Verma lists the memorable use of trees in Hindi movies.
As the widow of slain BJP leader Haren Pandya fights a 'revenge' battle seeking "justice" for her husband for whose murder she blames Chief Minister Narendra Modi, Elliis Bridge seat is witnessing a poll contest where Jagruti Pandya expects her emotional appeal to triumph over the cold logic that favours her saffron rival.
The wife of slain former Bharatiya Janata Party minister Haren Pandya, Jagruti, on Thursday announced that she will contest polls from Ellisbridge constituency of the city on Gujarat Parivartan Party ticket to get "justice for her husband from people's court."
As the widow of slain BJP leader Haren Pandya fights a 'revenge' battle seeking "justice" for her husband for whose murder she blames Chief Minister Narendra Modi, Elliis Bridge seat is witnessing a poll contest where Jagruti Pandya expects her emotional appeal to triumph over the cold logic that favours her saffron rival.
Several pro-Telangana leaders, including elected representatives of the Telangana Rashtra Samiti and the ruling Congress, were taken into custody on Saturday as the three-day 'rail roko' agitation began in the region to press for their demand for a separate state. Among those taken into preventive custody were Telangana Rashtra Samiti president K Chandrasekhar Rao's son and Member of Legislative Assembly K T Rama Rao and his daughter K Kavitha.
The Gujarat high court on Monday disposed of a petition seeking re-investigation in the murder of former Gujarat minister Haren Pandya on the ground that an appeal in this regard was pending with the Supreme Court.
Gujarat government on Tuesday informed the high court that it would move the Supreme Court against its order of dropping murder charges against the accused in the Haren Pandya murder case.
Gujarat High Court on Monday dropped murder charges against the 12 accused of killing former minister Haren Pandya in 2003 by upholding a trial court's verdict convicting them of criminal conspiracy and terrorism under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA).
While the popular star NTR Junior himself has come out with a public appeal to allow his film to be release as he did not belong to any particular region and does not believe in regionalism, Kavita told a media conference in Hyderabad on Tuesday that she and her workers will definitely stop the release of the film as it was produced and directed by anti-Telangana people.
The killing was a grim reminder of the murder of a seven-year-old student in Gurgaon last year.
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Haren Pandya's wife said the CBI neither recorded her side of the story nor asked her to appear before the POTA court.
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The footage, however, does not give a clear picture of whether the aircraft burst into flames mid-air or whether it blew up on impact of the crash, an official said.
Though Sena is part of the ruling BJP-led coalition in Maharashtra and at th centre, it has been critical of its ally on a number of issues.
'At 23, he has experienced what very few of his age have: Poverty at home, a stint in jail for his student activism.' 'His experience told him that if you want your rights, you have to fight for them.'
'As soon as the BJP feels they are going to lose power, they will publish the caste census data of 2011 and conduct the caste census of 2021.'
The plane, which crashed in the Jagruti Nagar locality of the crowded Ghatkopar shortly after 1 pm, was a King Air C90 12-seater aircraft. It had taken off from the Juhu airstrip on a test flight.
The official said the organisation, composed of people drawn from Hindu right groups, had around 60 members spread across at least five states but had no name.
Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries.
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