The jinx associated with number '13' seems to hold true for the country with four bomb blasts taking place on this date during the last three years.
About half-a-dozen pacts are likely to be signed during Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's visit to India during which he will also hold talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on key security and strategic issues and address a public function.
An Indian television news station has recruited the country's first transgender news anchor, five months after a court ruled that transgender people be recognised as a legal third gender.
Actresses Shenaz Treasury and Poorna Jagannathan share their experience on working in Delhi Belly.
'We don't need to hinge India-UK relations on shared hostility toward China,' observes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
"Star Wars films are the very fabric of film-making. Lucas film-tested our creative sensibilities and our pipeline before choosing us," said Namit Malhotra, founder and global CEO, Prime Focus.
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The prime mission behind the new Sri Lankan Foreign Minister, Professor Gamini Lakshman Peiris' meeting with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, is to repair the strained relations between the US and Sri Lanka, which took a beating last year when the Sri Lankan forces were crushing the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. The US had alleged that there were large scale human rights violations during the military offensive against the tigers.
We invited you to send in unique rain-themed photographs -- odd scenes that are captured on a lens for posterity -- to share with other readers. Here are some more responses!
Pakistani troops on Sunday killed 17 militants and recovered 22 bodies of suspected Taliban fighters in the country's restive northwest and tribal areas, while an anti-Taliban mayor survived a fifth assassination bid in a town near Peshawar.
Opposition parties, including the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Communist Party of India, on Wednesday slammed the Rail Budget terming it a mockery while the Congress said the budget is futuristic and reflects the concerns of the 'aam admi'.
It was aperitif time at Les Terrasses de Maubeuge on Sunday and the customers were not merry, they were sadly and angrily digesting the latest episode of the soap opera featuring Les Bleus in South Africa.
Rediff.com brings you an exclusive preview of the Bigg Boss 4's contestants.
No one will outshine the Oscars stage this year.
The BJP may be ready and waiting to pounce on another key state of the Hindi heartland, but it is the Congress's holy trinity that issued them an invitation to the beheading, notes Sunil Sethi.
The new programme could bring in longer lead times and paperwork
The company is seeking consultants for mergers and acquisitions, strategic partnerships, acquiring telecom licences outside India, a senior BSNL official said. BSNL, with a view to establishing itself as a global player in the telecom sector and to achieve inorganic growth, is aiming at expanding its area of operations, the official said.
'One can't allow oneself to be bullied into abandoning one's dream.'
This January, Lars Boilesen took over the reigns of Opera Software after its co-founder and leader of 15 years, Jon S von Tetzchner, stepped down.
If young couples watch the assorted mindless programming on telly till well past midnight, Health Minister Azad believes they will drop off to sleep instead of indulging in sexual hank-panky.
'Unlike India and Sri Lanka, there was no internal air travel needed.' 'For all 8 teams, different hotels are available, a separate one for the broadcasting team too.'
Shekhar Kapur's segment in New York, I Love You -- 12 short films celebrating the energy of the city, stands out above all the other works.
With the Beijing Olympics 2008 starting from Friday, three of the major Indian telecom service providers Reliance Communications, BPL Mobile and Tata Communications are launching services aimed at tapping the communication potential of the event.
Europeans believe that what is under attack is their way of life, their secular faith, the long-fought right to keep religion out of the public sphere, observes Virendra Kapoor.
US-based Web portal Yahoo! Said its personalised Web service for mobile devices called "Yahoo! Mobile", present only in eight countries globally, has been made available to users in India.
Aseem Chhabra lists his 10 favourite non-Indian shows streaming in India -- classics as well as recent shows.
With this deal, Jaipuria's RJ Corp will own over 10 bottling plants, controlling 25 per cent of PepsiCo's bottling capacity in the country (earlier he was PepsiCo's largest bottler together with his family). Confirming the development, Jaipuria said the deal would be complete in a day or two. "The West Bengal operations will contribute 10 to 15 per cent to our turnover," he said.
Leading advocates say there is no way in which Ajmal Kasab can retract from the statement he made under Section 164 of the Criminal Procedure Code.
Rediff.com caught up with hot Brazilian model Marianna Dias after she walked in the Shyamal & Bhumika show on Day One of Lakme Fashion Week.
Pakistan's cricket authorities will brief the International Cricket Council about its security plan for the 2011 World Cup at the ICC Executive Board meeting in Dubai this weekend to retain its hosting rights for the mega event.
Fifteen rooms, seven bathrooms, a home office and even a makeshift ramp! Kolkata-based designer Kiran Uttam Ghosh tells us why her grand home is in fact an opera of opposites.
BK Modi group firm Spice Mobiles on Monday launched a Windows-enabled dual-SIM handset 'Spice D-1111' priced at Rs 18,499.
Indian serials are very popular in Afghanistan and no ban has been imposed on their telecast despite "suggestions" on imposing certain restrictions, the country's Minister for Communications and Information Technology Amrzai Sangin said on Wednesday.
The Afghanistan government has ordered private TV stations in the war-ravaged country to stop broadcasting popular Indian soap operas by April 15, a move that apparently reflected the growing influence of hardliners who criticised the serials as being 'un-Islamic'. Several private Afghan TV channels, including Tolo, Ariana and Shamshad, broadcast the Indian soap operas dubbed in Pashto and Persian. Action will be taken against TV channels that do not stop airing the serails.
Believe it or not, it is viewers like you who influence these snap decisions taken by broadcasters and programme developers. This has been made possible by new software introduced by Mumbai-based overnight ratings agency Audience Measurement and Analytics (aMap) called Dashboard.
The shift in consumer buying power towards emerging markets is not only giving Chinese brands a much better chance of breaking out of their domestic market but is also subtly altering how western companies develop and market global brands.
Brooke Satchwell,an Australian TV actress, who was trapped inside Mumbai's Taj Hotel when terrorists went on a shooting spree, hid herself in a two-by-three metre cupboard for an hour to escape death.
An upcoming production for a new opera by Jeet Thayil (Libretto) and Edward Rushton (Music), opening in India in Autumn 2009 and subsequently in Switzerland is looking for singers who enjoy acting, or actors who enjoy singing.
