Professor T J Joseph, whose hand was chopped off on July 4, allegedly by activists of an Islamic organisation, says his dismissal from Newman College, Thodupuzha, Kerala, was more painful than the attack.
Two months and a week later, the New South Wales police is clueless about Prabha Arun Kumar's killer.
'My turnover is in crores. I am not going to sit down with IT officials, explaining where I got the notes from.' 'I would rather wait a few days for business to come back to normal.'
Tukaram Omble was the biggest hero of 26/11. He was responsible for the capture of Ajmal Kasab, that helped confirm Pakistan's role in the attacks.
Warning that the terrorists are educated and sophisticated, Mumbai Police Commissioner D Sivanandan said the city police have many quick-response teams ready to thwart another 26/11-style terror attack.
A Ganesh Nadar finds out if the 2G scam will play an important role during the assembly poll among the rural voters of Tamil Nadu.
Senthil Kumar on why he has filed a plea in the Supreme Court against V K Sasikala becoming Tamil Nadu chief minister.
The AIADMK MP from Thoothukudi explains why he is backing O Panneerselvam as Tamil Nadu chief minister.
'The trust vote would have been closer had the DMK not been expelled,' O Panneerselvam tells A Ganesh Nadar at the launch of an e-learning portal in Jayalalithaa's name.
We need collectors to become brand ambassadors for more than just the Progressive artists.
'It is so invigorating, nobody gets tired of it,' says Minister of State for Chemical and Fertilisers Srikant Jena.
There is only word to describe Ashok Munne's journey -- 'incredible', says A Ganesh Nadar.
We recently carried A Ganesh Nadar's account of having a cellphone connection go from bad to worse and asked readers to share similar experiences with us. Here, Deepesh Krishnan tells his story.
They call their band The Second Shift. Quite fitting as all seven members hold down day jobs.
Kanyakumari has the highest per capita income in Tamil Nadu and the second highest literacy rate. There are 23 candidates the fray.
'Don't try to impose anything on us.'
'They are going to be clubbed with the Lok Sabha elections which are six months away.' 'These people who are ruling Tamil Nadu know very well that they cannot win another election.'
62 candidates vye for Amma's mantle in the Radhakrishnan Nagar assembly by-poll in Tamil Nadu, but who will fortune favour?
'He never used the party's cars and always was chauffeured in a private car.' On May 17, a day after his historic victory, Narendra Modi returned triumphantly to his old home at Ashoka Road where he lived as the party general secretary in the late 1990s. A Ganesh Nadar/Rediff.com meets folks who worked with him in the capital at that time. A rare glimpse of our next prime minister.
The story line of Baywatch is like a Hindi movie!
Thousands throng the narrow mohallas around the Mohideen Aandavar mosque in Rameswaram for A P J Abdul Kalam's Alvida Namaaz. Saisuresh Sivaswamy/Rediff.com reports from Rameswaram.
Sajid Khan drove a burning petrol tanker for 5 km, averting a major disaster.
A Ganesh Nadar finds out how private water distributors help Chennai's water-starved citizens.
'Loss of property can be compensated but loss of lives cannot be,' says the well known restaurateur.
A Ganesh Nadar/Rediff.com attends Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's presser in Chennai to tom-tom the government's achievements in its first 100 days in office.
In a year that will be remembered for the scams that exposed the deep rot in the government and the system of governance, A Ganesh Nadar looks at the big scams unearthed in 2010.
Government gives 60 institutes freedom to fix courses, collaborate with foreign peers.
Indian billionaires do not believe in sitting on their wealth.
A Ganesh Nadar/Rediff.com meets Chennai's all-girl street children football team who competed in the Street Child World Cup in Moscow.
'The media hype that the Gir lion species is in danger is totally wrong.'
We asked readers to share experiences they've had with their cellphone service providers. Here are some more accounts.
We asked readers to share experiences they've had with their cellphone service providers. Here are some more accounts.
Banks Board Bureau chief Vinod Rai has proposed performance-linked incentives for bank employees, but the staff unions are dead against the idea.
We asked readers to share experiences they've had with their cellphone service providers. Here are two accounts.
Everyone loves to hate their mobile service providers. Here, A. Ganesh Nadar shares his recent experience of having a cellphone connection go from bad to worse while travelling.
Kudos to Director Karthik Subbaraj for bringing back the Rajini of the 1990s, says A Ganesh Nadar.
'For the outside world, Jayalalithaa is portrayed as the leader. In fact, the party operations are controlled by another person,' says Mylapore MLA S Ve Shekher who was recently expelled from the AIADMK.
In an interview, G Nagamal Reddy, who took charge of TMB in June as managing director and chief executive officer, tells TE Narasimhan that the bank, which was largely seen as a Nadar community bank, is trying to shed that tag.
'How can you have massages on trains in the presence of other lady passengers?'
'All we are asking is that the Forest Rights Act be fully implemented. It is there in the Constitution of India. For this we have been regularly called anti-national,' says Greenpeace activist Priya Pillai, who was debarred from flying overseas on Sunday.
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