'What is worrying other parties is those 10-11 year olds who come for his meetings will cross 18 in the next election. And they will vote for him, and then his vote bank will double.' 'In that case, he will be a very serious player! This is the real scare for other political parties.'
'The current Election Commission functions more like a government department than an autonomous body.'
'He was able to push the AIADMK to the background.'
'It was from him I learnt that if you gave the student the freedom to find his own path, he would be more courageous to experiment.'
'...are young Indians with aspiration to go to the US.' 'The dream has to be more about working in India...'
'New announcements are made every day which brings tremendous amount of instability and uncertainty.' 'Relying on America has become a big problem.'
The cheeky young man who once gave me one-word answers grew into a philosophical, detached star yet remained simple and humble, never letting stardom steal his heart, notes Rediff's Shobha Warrier who first interviewed the Dadasaheb Phalke Award winner in 1987.
The government announced the decision apprehending spread of rumours through social media by anti-social elements ahead or during the rally called to be held on Monday.
'After tobacco, the next most common cause for oral cancer is alcohol.'
Sinimol Poulose and J J Shobha finished second in the women's 800 metres and heptathlon respectively at the Asian Athletics Championships.
'The fiscal situation is extremely vulnerable. It has never been so bad in Kerala's history.'
'They have to prove the credibility of their talk; whether they want to focus on the secular face of India, whether they want to focus on democracy and above all freedom of an individual to practice his or her religion.'
'We can't afford to fight each other.' 'We have to win the 2026 election.'
'What India has done will surely embolden more countries to stand up to Trump.'
'They should be given a strong message that they are not the ones who decide the rule of the land, and they are not the ones who decide what justice is.'
'There will be not less than 31 lakh people working in the census process.'
'Look at the number of flights the aircraft has done. Look at the number of airlines which are using it.'
'India did not surrender. That was why he wanted to pressurise India by this 25% tariffs.'
'What we need is the cultural encouragement to take risks, to fail occasionally, and to keep questioning.'
A native of Mandangad in coastal Ratnagiri district, the Songhare family had moved to Mumbai for work and shifted to Dombivli two years ago.
'After playing strong women like Kavita and Tulsi on television, it would be very difficult for audiences to accept me as a routine running-around-trees heroine.'
Shobha Kapoor and Ekta Kapoor, managing director (MD) and joint MD of media firm Balaji Telefilms have failed to obtain requisite votes on resolutions pertaining to their remuneration. According to stock exchange disclosure made by the company, the two separate special resolutions on setting their salaries for the next years got 56.77 per cent and 55.45 per cent 'against' vote.
'They will cover up the failures of all the others.'
'Other than blaming the pilot, there is zero accountability.'
'It is an indication that they had forgotten to retract the landing gear. That causes heavy drag, and you cannot accelerate or gain height too fast with a hanging gear.'
'JP opened up about all the betrayals, the betrayal of the Jan Sangh and the RSS, how they ganged up with Sanjay Gandhi and pulled down the Morarji Desai government, how they destroyed the Janata Party.'
'It is for the first time in Independent India that collection of information on caste is being done.'
Punjab Police emerged overall champions in the 10th Federation Cup athletics championships, which concluded on Thursday.
'All governments are scared of a negative image.' 'Somehow, this government has a tendency to create a narrative that things are improving.' 'When the real data gives a different picture, they are upset.'
'Today, the State looks at everyone with suspicion.'
Karnataka Law Minister might just have the edge over KJP's Shobha Karandlage, who is on a revenge path, at Rajajinagar. Vicky Nanjappa reports.
'At Keeladi, we have not come across any evidence for organised religion.'
'When there are glaring errors in the report, how can you trust anything in it?'
'The protection of secrecy and anonymity gets lost with this linking.'
'The Railways is today running train services with 30% less number of loco pilots.'
'Archaeological sites like Keeladi, having remained buried for 2,500 years, have come out and speak now.'
'You know the situation in Yemen now. There is no government there.' 'The rebels are in control. So, there is no diplomatic channel through which we can negotiate.'
'What is going on is the under counting of the migration population in urban areas.' 'It has been going on in the last few censuses.'
'The nuns were subjected to abusive language and all types of mental torture.'