The government has "suffocated" the institutions where argument, debate and dissent were nurtured, the letter stated.
The stars turned up in support of Asha Bhosle, who makes her acting debut with Mai.
Ranjith Sankar's Punyalan Agarbathis, Jis Joy's Bicycle Thieves and Rajesh Nair's Escape from Uganda are releasing of the week.
It has lined up formidable product line.
The Kerala High Court, had on Friday, directed the central government to ensure participation of Chitra in the World Athletics Championships in London next month.
Jain was the chairman and president of Luxor Group, the company which has brought internationally-renowned brands like Waterman, Parker and Pilot to India.
The film will release next month.
Mirchi Music Awards Bangla 2015 was held in Kolkata, on February 18.
Of the 73 names, 41 have been approved by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet for secretary-level posts, while 32 names have been cleared for holding additional secretary or equivalent-level posts, reports R Rajagopalan.
This Women's Day Rediff.com salutes India's champion athletes who have out-lived obstacles to reach the pinnacle of success.
The chargesheet, filed in a special court in Mumbai, also names several other top officials of the bank.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Thursday.
Sukanya Verma presents a playlist of 100 Lata Mangeshkar songs from different decades of Hindi films -- songs that make me sing, smile, sob and sigh.
After a disappointing year in which she failed to win a single title, suffered injuries and saw her world ranking taking a dip, star shuttler Saina Nehwal has decided to skip a few tournaments in the New Year and, instead, focus on fitness.
Sunak announced that the Immigration Health Surcharge (IHS) would be hiked from 400 pounds to 624 pounds.
The Malayalam film has has some exciting moments.
Consolidating its position in the Hutchison-Essar telecom venture, Ruias' Essar Teleholding have increased their stake to 30.42 per cent in the JV by buying out 3.43 per cent stake held by a Hutch's subsidiary Usha Martin Telemetics for Rs 267 crore
'We can't underestimate future threats.'
Sunil Gavaskar, P T Usha, Geet Sethi, Dhanraj Pillay and Irfan Pathan have joined hands to spread the message of 'Sports for Development and Peace'.
Here's what your favourite Bollywood celebrities are tweeting.
CM Devendra Fadnavis will attend the last rites of cartoonist RK Laxman.
Milkha Singh, 92, best known as the 'Flying Sikh' and most remembered for finishing fourth in the 400m final in the 1960 Rome Olympic Games, was bestowed with the lifetime achievement award.
Durga Puja celebrations are on in the city and Bollywood has joined in with great gusto!
Former middle distance ace Shiny Wilson discusses long jumper Anju Bobby George's chances at the Olympics as she goes down memory lane with Shobha Warrier.
Duvvuri Subbarao recounts how his tensions with P Chidambaram and Pranab Mukherjee, then finance ministers, over monetary policy spilled over into other issues in the central bank in this excerpt from Who Moved My Interest Rate?, his memoir of his term as Reserve Bank of India governor.
The transcript of the Milkha Singh Rediff Chat.
Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) on Friday got its first female managing director and another new MD.
A controversy has erupted over the recording of the statement of the 23-year-old gangrape victim with Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit complaining to Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde that senior police officials "interfered" in the process even as she sought a high-level inquiry into it.
Mammootty and Nyla Usha play the lead roles in the film.
India allows me to grow, allows me to think, allows me to blossom. We can open our arms and our hearts to the whole world and adapt what is good from other cultures and allow the bad to sift through, says India's very own pop diva Usha Uthup.
Leaders, including the President and Vice President, react to the bhoomi pujan of the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya.
Justice Usha Mehra Commission has rapped the Delhi Police and the city transport department, saying lack of coordination between them allowed the bus used in December 16 gang rape case to ply uninterrupted despite being fined many times.
The singer passed away at her Mumbai residence.
Here's a look at the winners of the 60th National Awards.
At least 115 child rape cases have been registered in 59 days, in January and February this year, in Odisha, the state assembly was informed on Thursday.
As per the latest information available with the Securities and Exchange Board of India, the regulator has slapped a total monetary penalty of Rs 26.53 lakh (Rs 2.65 million) in April-May 2013.
