Those who have 'sold their souls to outsiders from Gujarat' are insulting the Nandigram movement by playing the communal card, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Tuesday, and rejected the claim that she was an outsider in Nandigram.
Singh said that children who study in missionary schools lack "sanskaar".
Kapil Mishra had been invited because he was an "anti-corruption crusader", one 'IIT B for Bharat' organiser said. But in his half hour-long speech, Mishra didn't mention corruption. His entire focus was on the long "battle" Hindus had fought for their identity.
'I search for characters that have a certain style, be it Ballu from Khal Nayak, Ajju from Kaante, Billa from Musafir or Kancha Cheena from Agneepath.'
It's the most absurd, bizarre and unfunniest movie ever, complains Moumita Bhattacharjee.
'She had shown some signs of improvement, but then she went into multi-organ failure.'
The Haryana government on Tuesday also said it will introduce teaching of Bhagvad Gita shlokas in schools.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee campaigning in tribal Paschim Medinipur district on Thursday for the coming state election asked "Marxist friends" not to vote for either the CPI-M or Congress, who are "cohorts of the communal BJP".
For India's spin great Harbhajan Singh, it was a fan boy moment as he caught up with his heroes -- cricketing legend Sachin Tendulkar and Tamil film superstar Rajinikant Akash during Akash Ambani's wedding in Mumbai last weekend.
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The wedding ceremony witnessed members of Indian Premier League side Mumbai Indians in attendance.
Armaan Jain and Anissa Malhotra's wedding reception saw the who's who of Bollywood in attendance.
From B-town beauties to entrepreneurs, everyone seems to be in awe of Abu Jani and Sandeep Khosla.
B-Town celebs shine at Akash Ambani and Shloka Mehta's wedding reception, which took place in Mumbai on March 10.
Looking dazzling in the colour of love!
Bollywood dazzled on the red carpet of the Hello! Hall of Fame Awards 2019.
People may belong to any caste and religion, they are not safe, the Congress leader alleged.
The guests have started coming in.
'There was so much grace, depth and serenity in him.'
Just a day before Shabana Azmi met with a road accident on January 18, she was celebrating husband Javed Akhtar's 75th birthday bash with the rest of Bollywood. And it was a full house, as *everyone* came forward to pay their salaams to one of Bollywood's leading writers and poets.
Should Bhagavad Gita be the national book?
Priyanka and her ring stole the show, we guess.
'In the whole of my career, some ten-twenty characters might have really satisfied me.'
While the to-be bride looked resplendent in pink, her mother wowed in a vermillion silk lehenga.
The celebrations have begun for the next big fat wedding in town.
The plaintive strains of bugles sounding the last post broke through the hush, men in uniform clicked their heels and a 17-gun salute rang out as Gen Bipin Rawat and his wife were cremated on Friday evening -- the sun setting on a day written into India's military history and on the life of its most senior military officer.
"You have no idea how well versed she is with Indian tradition. The way she covers her head, does aarti, listens to the shlokas... You cannot see Western culture in her." Meet Pandit Radheshyam, the priest who conducts a havan before Sonia Gandhi files her nominations from Rae Bareli. In exclusive conversation with Rediff.com's Swarupa Dutt.
Nearly 100 world leaders including President Pranab Mukherjee and US President Barack Obama came together in an unprecedented act of homage to Nelson Mandela describing him as a "giant of history".
Bollywood puts its best fashion foot forward.
Glimpses from Blender's Pride Bangalore Fashion Week.
The counsel stated that from the pillar bases, artefacts, circular shrine, intersecting brickbat walls found in excavation, an inference can be drawn that the massive structure was a temple and not any Islamic structure.
At the time of religious intolerance in Pakistan, shlokas from Bhagavad Gita reverberated at a school in Karachi during a quiz competition to test the knowledge of Hindu boys and girls about their religion, leaving the minority community having something to cheer about.
During the hearing, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the Centre, said that meaning of Sanskrit 'shlokas' is a universal truth and merely because it is written in Sanskrit, it does not make it communal.
Modi also said that people displayed unprecedented discipline and sense of service during the nationwide coronavirus lockdown
With the foray of private players like Tata Interactive Systems and Birla Shloka Edutech, the market for digital classrooms is expected to grow at 25 per cent in 2012.
Isha is set to tie the knot with Anand Piramal this week.
The DMK's Stalin, TN Minister D Jayakumar, the BJP's Pon Radhakrishnan... A clutch from the political class pay tribute to T N Seshan on his last journey. A Ganesh Nadar reports.
The visit to this temple town is his first since he won the Varanasi Lok Sabha seat with a huge margin of 4.79 lakh votes, nearly 1 lakh votes more since 2014.
The Sundarbans is at the epicentre of both India-Bangaldesh bilateral diplomatic challenges and of the most intense global battles against climate change.
A day after Kedarnath, the portals of famous Himalayan shrine of Badrinath were reopened on Monday for pilgrims after a gap of six months.
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