With the CBI ruling out bus conductor Ashok Kumar's involvement in Ryan International School student Pradhyumn Thakur's murder, his wife Mamata is hopeful of him getting bail on November 16. 'I just want my man to come home, I don't want anything else,' she tells Rediff.com's Swarupa Dutt.
P C Padhi became headlines in Odisha after a media expose on funds received by the BJD became known.
On his 90th birthday, Sukanya Verma highlights a fraction of the legend's marvelous versatility in this curated list of his 25 unique moods.
'Amethi people will not leave the Gandhi parivar even if they do not meet them.'
Most incidents of triple talaq are eloquent examples of the failure of Muslim society to instil in its men the teachings of the Quran; instead, they end up relying on the Quran's interpretation by local maulanas, says Ziya US Salam.
What is Change really like in Bihar? Once seen as India's basket-case, what is its turnaround story like?
Three more persons, including the main accused in the Bulandshahr gangrape case, have been arrested
'Stree's allegorical approach doesn't interfere with its need to endear and entertain.' 'Important ideas of empowerment and item songs as well as chills and chuckle coexist to fulfil its objective of thoda hasao, thoda darao,' says Sukanya Verma.
Over the past 25 years the MF industry has come a long way. Geographic reach has increased, many more customers have been added, more channels have been opened up and the product basket is full.
'When I met him, I was a behaving like a 16 year old!' 'He is incredible, very casual and chilled out.' 'He told me he would watch Gully Boy and then he said a dialogue from Gully Boy, 'Bahut hard!'.'
Did your favourite Bollywood star start out as a calendar model too? Find out!
'I was aware about the ongoing tussle between Shilpa Shinde and the producer but that doesn't concern me.' Shubhangi Atre gets ready to play the hugely popular character Angoori bhabhi.
Manjhi The Mountain Man carries much promise but it is flimsily executed, feels Sukanya Verma.
On his maiden visit to Bihar after assuming power, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said politics had hampered the development of the state and promised to give more than Rs 50,000 crore special package to the poll-bound state at the right time.
'Police officers have to meet Dalits and other communities, find out about issues that could lead to law and order problems.'
Utkarsh Mishra imagines what is it that Baba Gandhi would say if he got the chance.
The top posts on social media from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
Yudh is worse than a show with flaws, rants Raja Sen.
As economic policy making moves from pragmatism to populism, the bulls begin to make way for cautious optimists.
'My recent films didn't do well but that's a part of the game. I don't have any complaints. I feel sad and dejected, but you have to get moving,' Sharman Joshi tells Sonil Dedhia.
Comedy may be challenging but that wasn't what stressed Taapsee Pannu during the making of Judwaa 2.
Pandey is living in New Delhi along with his family.
Yadav was named in an FIR registered on Tuesday by Special Task Force probing the multi-crore Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board or Vyapam scam under various sections of IPC, including 420 for cheating.
The guidelines have been issued after the intervention of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath amidst reports of harassment by anti-Romeo squads.
Trepidation made its home firmly on his face on Thursday, announcing its presence with lines of anxiety and the repeated jumpy widening of his eyes.
What is Change really like in Bihar? Once seen as India's basket-case, what is its turnaround story like? Archana Masih reports from India's other most talked about state.
Hitting out at Rahul Gandhi's critics, Priyanka Gandhi said that her brother's style of politics was 'liberal' and 'not opaque' and that the Congress vice-president worked for the development of every section and looked upon all as equals.
Happy Birthday AR Rahman
'Freedom of expression is not a freedom to abuse those who do not agree with you.' 'It is also about being liberated from prejudices and intolerance.' 'To me, freedom is the right to be who I am and what I am without hurting the same rights of others.'
From SRK to Big B, many actors have played a double role in the movies.
'Despite the BJP's successes at the state-level, replicating their 282-seat majority in 2019 is going to be an uphill climb.'
On the actor's 54th birthday on November 2, we write another tome about the boy with big dreams and a regrettable haircut, who defied incredible odds to become one of the most loved actors on the planet.
'They must take the bull of conservatism within their own ranks by its horns as much as they need to speak out against the fallacies of the non-Hindutva (or 'Muslim-friendly') political forces as well,' argues Mohammad Sajjad.
When it came to his cross examination by Sanjeev Khanna's lawyer Niranjan Mundargi, Imtiaz Shaikh appeared to be afflicted by that peculiar gap-in-one's-memory or Choosy Memory Syndrome with his recall of other dates in his life, except those directly related with the murder, shaky or non-existent.
'Who is a superstar? What is a superstar?' 'It's all bullsh*t, there's nothing to it.' 'If you start taking all the sh*t seriously, it's going to go to your head and you will go cuckoo there.'
Single mother Gauri Sawant hopes to change the way people view transgenders in India.
'I had some disagreements with the channel. The differences were such that we had to part but it was nothing controversial. Krushna is an artist, what issues will I have with him?' Kapil Sharma tells us his side of the story.
The best analysis of politics does not come out of air conditioned newsrooms, but from the voices on India's streets. Rakesh Kumar Singhal -- once an army jawan, then an ONGC employee, then a tea shopwallah -- reveals why he left the Congress for Modi.
Rediff.com's Prasanna D Zore spoke with vegetable vendors, fruit sellers, those selling clothes in shops and streets, and a retired school teacher.
'In two years there will be consolidation. Look at the Indian brands now. Only three of us are surviving, many others have died. What will differentiate us are two things -- timing of our launches in the market and the communication to the consumer," Narendra Bansal, CMD of Intex, tells Arnab Dutta.
