Two persons were killed in Uttar Pradesh's Ballia district as strong winds and thunder showers hit several parts of the state. While one died in a tree fall incident the other was hit by lightning, the police said.
At a time when the world is reeling under the impact of an economic crisis, Indra Nooyi, PepsiCo chairman and CEO and one of the most influential women in the world, believes that the corporate sector needs to rethink its role and adapt itself with the changing times.
The Tamil Nadu chief minister may have opened a Pandora's Box on the religion front with the appointment of qualified non-Brahmin temple priests, observes N Sathiya Moorthy.
England's Ben Foakes made a memorable debut to help the tourists recover from a terrible start and reach 321 for eight wickets on the opening day of the first Test against Sri Lanka in Galle on Tuesday.
'You come out of the theatre feeling happy, inspired, with moist eyes and in awe.'
Verstappen made a clean getaway from pole position and it took Hamilton all but the last four of the 70 laps to catch and pass the 21-year-old Dutchman. Mercedes got the strategy spot on, despite the Briton's reservations.
Globalisation and capitalisation cannot be avoided but they should be planned and executed in such a way that natural habitat of these tribal people is not devastated.
Sukanya Verma offers some amazing opening scenes in Hindi films that fuels an excitement for what happens next.
The road ahead will be long and winding and much resistance can be expected from the high-flying 'hawks' in our skies. But that should not deter the policymakers from planning a road map with the 'big picture' in mind, observes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
It was legendary producer-director V Shantaram, who conceived the plot, based on a short story The Police Constable, which revolved around the theme of a good-hearted uniformed man attempting to free a prostitute from a life of indignity.
The 2020 assembly polls marked the coming of age of a politician who valiantly went down fighting an army of battle-hardened veterans.
Rediff reader Heera Nawaz talks about her trip to Tiruvannamalai in Tamil Nadu.
'The killings are a worrisome escalation of tensions, but little is known about the immediate causes or results of the fight in Galwan and it is not possible, at this point, to assign blame'
Composer Bhardwaj makes a decent soundtrack, with a couple of absorbing tracks.
A patient century from Thilan Samaraweera helped Sri Lanka recover to 268 all out at the close of play on the third day of the second Test on Saturday, setting West Indies a victory target of 253. The tourists were reeling at 99 for six but a seventh-wicket stand of 138 between Samaraweera (125) and Chaminda Vaas (45) hauled Sri Lanka back into the game
When a case was filed in the Uttar Pradesh court, Bachchan decided to donate his land at Barabanki as well as Lonavala to the villagers of the respective areas. But when the Lucknow High Court absolved Bachchan of all charges against him, the superstar decided take his land back!
'I was attracted to her both as a fine co-star and as a person who had some of the attributes I hoped to find in a woman at that age and time,' says Dilip Kumar in his autobiography, Dilip Kumar: The Substance And The Shadow.
Images from Day 2 of the 2nd Ashes Test played at Lord's Cricket Ground, London, on Thursday.
Images from Day 3 of the second Test between Australia and India, at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, on Monday.
Intense cold wave coupled with dense fog led to the death of 12 persons -- nine in Uttar Pradesh and three in Punjab.
The Sarbjit team pays homage to Sarabjit Singh on his third death anniversary.
'We are going to be overwhelmed by the need for hospital beds. There are simply not enough beds in government hospitals.' 'We will need a large number of medical professionals and without the private sector's involvement, the government won't be able to expand capacity.'
Images from Monday's IPL match between Punjab Kings and Rajasthan Royals, in Mumbai.
Former FIFA Vice President Jack Warner, who has been accused of soliciting bribes as part of a vast corruption case against senior soccer officials, left jail in Trinidad and Tobago via ambulance on Thursday after he was granted bail, according to local media.
At a special screening of Aamir's directorial debut Taare Zameen Par in New Delhi, the senior BJP leader could not hold his tears as he watched the story of a dyslexic child recovering from his illness.
SuSu Sudhi Vathmeekam handles the subject of physical limitations judiciously without trying to manipulate a viewer's emotions, writes Paresh C Palicha.
Director Shonali Basu and her actors on the making of what appears to be a memorable movie.
Pasanga 2 is fun-filled emotional film about children reeling under the burden of their parents's dreams and aspirations.
"The era of 'lalten' is gone. In the last six years consumption of electricity has increased 3 fold in Bihar," PM Modi said. "Voters of Bihar have taken a resolve that they won't let those who have a history of making the state 'Bimaru' come near them," he added.
'How long do you dumb down, how long do you stay silent,' the actor asks at TEDx.
'We felt why not have the hope that is intrinsic in every child's life, embodied in our happy protagonist and let viewers see the world full of double standards and confused adults around her through her innocent and questioning eyes?'
The Swiss withstood a fast start from an inspired Blake in the first set, coming back from two breaks down to take charge.
In a zone-wise classification of districts in the country, the Union health ministry has designated all 11 districts of Delhi as red zone. The city has 272 wards.
Fifteen persons have succumbed to the piercing cold wave in the region so far as another person fell prey to it in Ambala Monday.
