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Sheena Bora Trial: Where did Sheena's brain vanish?

Sheena Bora Trial: Where did Sheena's brain vanish?

Rediff.com27 Jun 2019

Shivade: "You didn't find any brain inside the brain cavity?" Dr Thakur nodded. The judge shocked: "Huh?!"

Amazing facts about the world's first solar aircraft

Amazing facts about the world's first solar aircraft

Rediff.com16 Mar 2015

The aircraft has to fly through five consecutive days.

Emotionally taxed, error-prone, Murray unable to break Djokovic jinx

Emotionally taxed, error-prone, Murray unable to break Djokovic jinx

Rediff.com31 Jan 2016

With another Australian Open title having slipped through his fingers after a tournament plagued by off-court dramas, Andy Murray could not wait to see the back of Melbourne Park after losing his fifth final on Sunday.

Rewind 2014: Odd PHOTOS from a mad, mad world

Rewind 2014: Odd PHOTOS from a mad, mad world

Rediff.com31 Dec 2014

Shot in 2014, these images from across the globe will tell that it is a crazy world out there!

Wenger goes back 10 years, remembers end of famous 49-match winning streak

Wenger goes back 10 years, remembers end of famous 49-match winning streak

Rediff.com25 Oct 2014

Arsene Wenger often says he has no time to look back because he is so focused on the future but he spent a minute reminiscing on Friday on the 10th anniversary of the defeat to Manchester United that ended Arsenal's famous 49-match unbeaten run.

Pope Francis gets rock-star welcome on maiden US visit

Pope Francis gets rock-star welcome on maiden US visit

Rediff.com23 Sep 2015

In a rare gesture accorded to few foreign dignitaries, United States President Barack Obama and his family received the Pope at the Andrews Air Force base outside Washington

After De Villiers ton, South Africa leads against Windies

After De Villiers ton, South Africa leads against Windies

Rediff.com4 Jan 2015

South Africa removed the West Indian openers in Sunday's last session at Newlands to build on AB de Villiers' superb century and take the initiative in the final Test.

The Incomparable Ved Mehta

The Incomparable Ved Mehta

Rediff.com11 Jan 2021

On a visit to India in 2013, writer Ved Mehta -- who passed into the ages on Sunday January 10, 2021 - gave Rediff.com's Vaihayasi Pande Daniel a rare glimpse into his state of mind and what he thinks of the changes he encounters in his motherland.

Federer ready to put 'one stupid move' behind him

Federer ready to put 'one stupid move' behind him

Rediff.com25 Jun 2016

All it took was "one stupid move" for Roger Federer's season to fall into an abyss.

The burn victims who run a cafe

The burn victims who run a cafe

Rediff.com17 Mar 2017

They needed a helping hand. And when they got it, these women worked wonders.

Congress decision on Telangana: Blame it on an idiom!

Congress decision on Telangana: Blame it on an idiom!

Rediff.com3 Aug 2013

I believe this is what really happened at the Congress Working Committee on Wednesday.

Modi impresses kids but will they become teachers?

Modi impresses kids but will they become teachers?

Rediff.com6 Sep 2014

Despite the prime minister's speech extolling teaching as a profession, very few would take it up.

Oscars 2017: The 10 Most Memorable Moments

Oscars 2017: The 10 Most Memorable Moments

Rediff.com27 Feb 2017

Raja Sen lists the highlights from the 89th annual Academy Awards.

Meet Karan Sidhu, the first Indian to get his eyeballs tattooed

Meet Karan Sidhu, the first Indian to get his eyeballs tattooed

Rediff.com2 Nov 2017

There was a 50% chance that Karan Sidhu would lose his vision!

Food trucks: It's a hot and happening business in Bengaluru!

Food trucks: It's a hot and happening business in Bengaluru!

Rediff.com5 Feb 2015

Bengaluru has seven eye-catching trucks.

Review: Why The Lego Batman Movie is the best Batman movie

Review: Why The Lego Batman Movie is the best Batman movie

Rediff.com17 Feb 2017

It's been a while since we've had a Batman film we can love.

Review: Captain America: Civil War is the stuff of comic-book dreams

Review: Captain America: Civil War is the stuff of comic-book dreams

Rediff.com6 May 2016

A Marvel film so good it makes all the others feel like a prologue, gushes Raja Sen. (Also, stay for the two end-credit scenes.)

Sheena Bora case: Why did her lawyers give Indrani a drubbing?

Sheena Bora case: Why did her lawyers give Indrani a drubbing?

Rediff.com28 Feb 2020

Indrani dressed in a short purple kurta and leggings, with a bandhini green-purple chunni, sindhoor glowing in her mang, was receiving a drubbing from her lawyers for the facts she had revealed before the court on Tuesday while arguing the rejoinder to her bail application. She was insisting: "But he asked me for a motive!"

Dhadak Review: Many scenes brought tears to my eyes

Dhadak Review: Many scenes brought tears to my eyes

Rediff.com23 Jul 2018

To those who feel that Dhadak doesn't measure up to Sairat, Kshamaya Daniel, 19, has one piece of advice: We're talking about wine here, not scotch.

'The lady told me her name is Sheena Bora'

'The lady told me her name is Sheena Bora'

Rediff.com7 Jul 2018

That answer, the strangest of all till date in this courtroom, set off a ripple of excitement, surprise and muted amusement among those present, including Accused No 1 Indrani Mukerjea.

Of clashing superheroes and crying Khans!

Of clashing superheroes and crying Khans!

Rediff.com28 Mar 2016

Superheroes, Holi, apples and other happenings from Sukanya Verma's super filmi week!

Dancing the Munna Michael way!

Dancing the Munna Michael way!

Rediff.com13 Jun 2017

A 1990s Bollywood album. Ranbir Kapoor as Balraj Sahni. Dimple Kapadia's Crowning Glory days. Agha-Mukri-Kesto's fun, fabulous, forgotten friendship. Sukanya Verma's super-filmi week was a complete blast from the past.

The dark side of processed food

The dark side of processed food

Rediff.com23 Feb 2015

World over, consumers are moving away from processed food -- meat in particular. Want to know why?

Delhi gang rape verdict: Will it make a difference?

Delhi gang rape verdict: Will it make a difference?

Rediff.com10 Sep 2013

I cannot agree with the sentiment that hanging rapists will make sexual harassment and assault, and other forms of violence against women, magically disappear. Misogyny has stained our culture for far too long for merely judicial recourse to be able to wash it away, says Paloma Sharma.

Sheena Bora Case: The Panchatantra continues

Sheena Bora Case: The Panchatantra continues

Rediff.com18 Jun 2019

More noticeable than the hue of his shirt was his mast style in the witness box. He seemed to be reinventing the truth every few minutes. He yarned on and on, navigating his testimony further and further away from the facts, but he never lost his aplomb.

10 wonderful ideas for a romantic 'first' date

10 wonderful ideas for a romantic 'first' date

Rediff.com22 Dec 2014

Whether the relationship lasts beyond one date or not, memories from these 10 unique dates will stay with you.

Review: The Avengers: Age Of Ultron is rock and roll revelry

Review: The Avengers: Age Of Ultron is rock and roll revelry

Rediff.com23 Apr 2015

The Avengers: Age Of Ultron is one madly indulgent film says Raja Sen.

Sheena Bora Trial: Indrani, Peter discuss their divorce

Sheena Bora Trial: Indrani, Peter discuss their divorce

Rediff.com23 Oct 2018

Indrani's words were quick, her hand gestures quicker. She kept pointing to certain paragraphs in their consent terms.

I felt a little fear: Indrani's driver

I felt a little fear: Indrani's driver

Rediff.com22 Aug 2017

Lawyer: 'Did YOU not ever feel scared?' Shyamvar Rai: 'I am a driver, I said okay. Madam said it is your job...'

How India wants to promote football after PM Modi's complaint

How India wants to promote football after PM Modi's complaint

Rediff.com21 Jun 2016

An ambitious project to awaken a sleeping giant of Asian soccer looks like confirming Nobel laureate Amartya Sen's famous remark that India pricks up its ears only when comparisons with China are made. With China embarked on a multi-billion dollar mission to become a soccer superpower by 2050, India looks set to follow suit with its own plan to raise its status in the game to match its burgeoning economic power. Come October, India, most famously described as soccer's sleeping giant by former FIFA president Sepp Blatter, will launch a programme to engage more than 11 million children in soccer-related activities.

Review: Gurgaon is supremely entertaining

Review: Gurgaon is supremely entertaining

Rediff.com4 Aug 2017

Director Shanker Raman, with an appetite for noir and a natural temperament for fast-cutting, takes you so swiftly and so deeply inside Gurgaon's anomie that you may mistake his vision of the city for some dystopian view of the future, feels Sreehari Nair.

Elphinstone Road: One week after the stampede

Elphinstone Road: One week after the stampede

Rediff.com6 Oct 2017

Rediff.com captures the mood among the people at Elphinstine Road railway station, a week after 23 people died in a stampede at a footover bridge.

Dynamatic and the long road to 'Make in India'

Dynamatic and the long road to 'Make in India'

Rediff.com2 Feb 2016

Starting as a maker of hydraulic pumps, the Bengaluru-based company graduated to components for automakers like BMW and Audi, and then Airbus and Boeing

2016: A year at the movies when India thumped Hindi

2016: A year at the movies when India thumped Hindi

Rediff.com29 Dec 2016

'2016 was the age of convenience for Hindi movies; of down pat effrontery and planned feeling triumphing over attempts to discern something complexly beautiful,' says Sreehari Nair.

Sheena Bora Trial: Where will Indrani wear her new shoes?

Sheena Bora Trial: Where will Indrani wear her new shoes?

Rediff.com5 Jan 2018

A mere pair of shoes sets off the kind of harsh condemnation Indrani draws in these corridors of justice. That she being a woman who killed her daughter -- never mind that she is an undertrial and the crime has not yet been proven -- apart from making her an object of curiosity, also makes her, by perception, more evil than the men that flood these corridors, facing trial for similar or worse crimes.

Exclusive! 'Aamir was too shy to think of girls'

Exclusive! 'Aamir was too shy to think of girls'

Rediff.com11 Mar 2015

'Lagaan and Talaash are among his best films.' 'He did some really bad films after QSQT. He was doing those films without thinking. He realised that, stopped and changed his approach.'

Seasons change, but nothing really moves in the Sheena Bora trial

Seasons change, but nothing really moves in the Sheena Bora trial

Rediff.com13 Jun 2017

'At the back of the courtroom the three accused sat trying to catch the drift and fathom the new, inexplicable turn the case could be taking.' 'And the consequences it might have on their lives.'

Pirates hijack the Sheena Bora murder trial

Pirates hijack the Sheena Bora murder trial

Rediff.com14 Aug 2017

In walked the scruffy band of pirates, without any swagger. Mostly tall or burly men, with weather beaten, resigned faces, the majority were dressed in track pants and tees; a few had skull caps. Some of their T-shirts had messages like 'I'm not in danger, I'm danger' or 'Long Beach California Surfer'.

Sheena Bora Trial: The Elusive Mr Rai

Sheena Bora Trial: The Elusive Mr Rai

Rediff.com12 Dec 2017

In the 25 odd days that he has appeared before CBI Special Judge Jayendra Chandrasen Jagdale, you have experienced the entire range of emotions just observing him. Everything from pity to irritation. To bafflement. And shock. You have scoured his face, gazed into his eyes, watched his expressions and body language, searching vigilantly for motives. And come away no wiser. Who is Shyamvar Rai? Does anybody know?

'Aamir Khan fights like a child when he plays board games'

'Aamir Khan fights like a child when he plays board games'

Rediff.com18 Oct 2017

Advait Chandan decodes Aamir Khan.