Both the Rajasthan chief minister and the man who would like to be CM couldn't help grinning at Congress General Secretary K C Venugopal's Hindi, responding to a journalist's question about whether party President Mallikarjun Kharge had gotten Ashok Gehlot and Sachin Pilot to smoke the peace pipe.
In a significant milestone for the Indian Navy, its MH60R helicopter conducted maiden landings on the indigenously designed and constructed destroyer, INS Kolkata.
Joseph Francis A Pereira, a citizen of Pakistan who currently resides in Cansaulim, south Goa, is the first in the state to be given an Indian citizenship certificate.
Glimpses from the Indian Air Force air show in Udhampur.
India successfully test fired a surface to surface BrahMos supersonic cruise missile off the Andaman and Nicobar islands on Wednesday, March 23, 2022.
Locals inspect the house where two Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists were hiding and killed during an encounter in Soura Srinagar on Friday, May 27, 2022.
Scenes from Haryana after two days of communal violence cost human lives, damaged property and the loss of many vehicles.
Rediff readers shared these pictures of Ganesha celebrations at their home.
Uttam Ghosh offers his take on Vikas Dubey's arrest and mysterious death in a police encounter.
22 images that captures glimpses of a most unusual Indian who led the nation for 10 years.
Farmers leaders on Wednesday, February 21, 2024, put the 'Delhi Chalo' march on hold for two days after a protester was killed and about 12 police personnel injured in clashes at Khanauri, one of the two protest sites on the Punjab-Haryana border.
Happy Bharatvasis are creating living portraits as tributes to India reaching the moon.
Scenes from polling stations in Mumbai which voted in the Lok Sabha election on Monday, May 20, 2024.
Pappu Sardar, clearly a huge fan of Bollywood star Madhuri Dixit, celebrates her 55th birthday.
There's nothing that Bharatiya Janata Party Supremo Narendra Damodardas Modi appears to like better than hitting the campaign trail, addressing countless meetings on the same day with a verve that is unprecedented in India's electoral history.
Retired Deputy Inspector General of Police Ghulam Hassain Bhat, supported by former colleagues in his hour of grief, at the funeral of his slain son, Jammu and Kashmir Deputy Superintendent of Police Humayun Bhat.
BCCI Boss Sourav Ganguly appears to have decided to skip the IPL 2021 final in the UAE, choosing to -- like what every Bengali would do -- spend time in his native Kolkata during Durga Puja.
General Manoj C Pande, India's chief of army staff, visited military establishments in South Korea and interacted with the republic's senior military leadership.
As the Lucknow SuperGiants and RCB players filed out on the ground at the Eden Gardens to congratulate and commiserate, Kohli was spotted in animated prayer.
Soon after he was sworn in by Vice President J D Vance, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio hosted External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, Penny Wong from Australia and Japan's Iwaya Takeshi for his first multilateral meeting as the top American diplomat.
Glimpses from the Great Election Carnival on Sunday, April 21, 2024
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese became the first foreign leader to visit the pride of the Indian Navy, the INS Vikrant, India's first indigenously built aircraft carrier.
Widows in Vrindavan enjoy Holi under the auspices of Sulabh International, an NGO trying to improve the living condition of widows having no one to support them and living in government shelter homes.
Muslims across the country celebrated Eid-ul-Fitr with religious fervour and festivities.
Children, women and men lined up the streets of Bengaluru as Captain M V Pranjal's cortege made its way on the final 23 km journey from his home to the crematorium.
Glimpses of the Indian Army's men and machines getting ready for Army Day, January 15, 2022.
Ganderbal's Senior Superintendent of Police Nikhil Borkar accompanied by a team of senior officers inspected the Amarnath Yatra route from Baltal to the Shri Amarnath Cave temple in Ganderbal on Sunday.
There have been bandhs, rasta rokos, rail rokos demanding his resignation as a Union minister... his son Ashish Mishra has been arrested for alleged involvement in the violence in Lakhimpur Kheri, Uttar Pradesh, on October 3, 2021, in which several people were killed, but Ajay Kumar Mishra continues to be India's minister of state for home.
A cloudburst occurred near the holy cave shrine of Amarnath in south Kashmir Himalayas on Wednesday, but there was no loss of life in the incident, officials said.
Seventeen months to the day after Chinese soldiers brutally killed 20 Indian soldiers in the Galwan Valley in Ladakh, Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Xi Jinping, general secretary of China's Communist party, at the G20 summit at the Garuda Wisnu Kencana cultural park in Badung, Bali, Indonesia.
Before the IPL 2021 qualifier 2 game between the Kolkata Knight Riders and the Delhi Capitals at the Sharjah cricket stadium on Wednesday, October 13, 2021, DC's Australian star Steve Smith and KKR's Kiwi Head Coach Brendon McCullum were spotted in this strange pose.
Already the first Irish woman to win medals in two Olympics, pride was running high. And then she went for the gold and Diamond Park erupted in thunderous whoops of joy.
Even though it was billed as a 'surprise visit', the cameras were around to record Prime Minister Narendra D Modi's tour of the the new Parliament building on Thursday, March 30, 2023, evening.
'This is the Bengal story, where businesses are nurtured, dreams are realised, and legacies are built.'
Abhishek Chinnappa/Getty Images captures glimpses from Jallikattu this year
Srinivas Bhogle and Purnendu Maji present Rediff's first Most Valuable Player Index for IPL 2025.
'Till 10 pm last night, we rescued 70 people, after which we had to stop because of bad weather and rain.'
How the island's grave economic and power crisis affects ordinary Sri Lankans.