The crowd support for the Mumbai Indians is intriguingly much more vocal at the Maharashtra Cricket Association stadium in Pune than it is at the Brabourne or Wankhede stadiums in Mumbai city.
The Travel Photographer of The Year Awards winners have been chosen and they're a stunning selection celebrating the beauty of our planet and all its inhabitants. Photographers from 142 countries submitted over 20,000 jaw-dropping pictures that were shot on everything from high-end professional cameras to mobile phones, in categories including 'faces, people, cultures'; the natural world and the beauty of light. The winning images can be seen at the TPOTY exhibition, which is free, and will be on show at LondonBridgeCity next Spring. Rediff.com was kindly granted permission to publish 25 of the 150 winning and shortlisted images. Scroll down to see our picks of the bunch.
From moments that felt long time in the coming to swashbuckling statements that could be interpreted in more ways than one, there are some that fanned our nostalgia, some made our jaws drop (or stomachs churn), some hit too close home, still others left us with a lingering sense of guilt. Sukanya Verma picks cinematic imagery that stood out in 2023.
The love continues to overflow from our readers even after Mother's Day.
Hayden believes that the team's performance would improve by the time they travel to India for the 50-over World Cup.
Among the better painted buildings in rural Bihar are hospitals run by the state government. Archana Masih travels to a village in north Bihar to find out what lies within. As Bihar goes to the polls, Rediff.com looks at the state through the lives of its people.
Aseem Chhabra rates the movies he's watched in 2023, and tells you where you can watch them!
Jhulan inspired many women to take up sport, says Virat Kohli
As a parent, there can be nothing worse than hearing your child diagnosed with cancer. When Emraan Hashmi's four-year-old bundle of joy, Ayaan, was diagnosed with cancer in early 2014, it shattered his universe and that of his wife, Parveen.
'I can't wait for the day when the market value of an actress is not judged by the heroes or the superstars she's acted with.'
Triptii Dimri wants to add 'some colour to this black and white world'.
Koopmeiners leads Atalanta past Milan into Coppa semis
Jemimah Rodrigues, who hit a match-winning 38-ball unbeaten 53 in a seven-wicket win in India's Women's T20 World Cup opener in Cape Town on Sunday, said at one point of time she even contemplated quitting the game.
Usually, taking two wickets against a strong North Zone would leave any 17-year-old bowler with a wide smile. But Jotin Singh's smile had a tinge of nervousness.
Mitchell Starc keeps away from T20 leagues around the world, including the IPL, despite the handsome money on offer as he wants to be at his best playing for Australia.
'A simple boy from Gurdaspur, whom I caught glimpses of when he was sitting alone in his penthouse, reflecting on life and how far he had come.'
'My mother (Yogita Bali) tells me you were camera ready as soon as you came out of my womb.'
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'Umran Malik is bowling at 150 km per hour. I mean when you have the best car in the world, and you leave it in the garage, then what's the point of having that car?'
'The jester's job, the joker's job, the fool's job is to make fun of people to make them seem beautiful.'
After Parineeti Chopra and Aam Aadmi Party leader Raghav Chadha were spotted together on several occasions, rumours linking them have been doing the rounds.
Liverpool snatched three points with a wild 1-0 victory over relegation-threatened Nottingham Forest.
In 2022, he raced past Usain Bolt, 'the world's fastest man', to become the world's most written-about athlete. The attention has followed a stream of medals: Asian Games gold twice, an Olympic gold, and silver and gold at the World Athletics Championships.
Track all the action that took place on the GQ red carpet.
'Being a chocolate lover boy, I wouldn't last long. So I decided to get rid of the tag as soon as possible.' 'That's why I started doing films like Haasil and Munnabhai MBBS.' With films like Yahaan, A Wednesday and Tanu Weds Manu, I was trying to break an image.'
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Mohnish Singh brings you some surprising revelations from an entertaining episode.
Fifty years ago today, December 25, 1972, Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, one of the titans of India's freedom struggle, passed into the ages. Kalki Krishnamurthy, who penned the Tamil classic Ponniyin Selvan among numerous other novels, describes his first glimpse of the man who would become an august national leader and his cherished role model.
Aseem Chhabra lists his favorite 2023 films -- a healthy blend of Bollywood, Hindi indies and some of the best work that is being done in Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Bengali cinema.
Auditors seem to have developed a heightened sense of risk and are not content to tick the boxes and sign the papers.
Many films and shows go back in time to bring alive so many fading and forgotten memories.
Sari tips to nick from Esha Gupta's wardrobe.
Sukanya Verma looks at all the wonderful, wacky and woeful ways Bollywood has portrayed blindness on screen.
Leander Paes feels India will find it tough in singles but the country can hope to win a medal in the Asian Games
'I hope this win inspires boys and girls who watch thousands of dreams and want to make them come true.'
It's quite a heated mood. Sukanya Verma gives us her OTT recommendations.
'How do you stay so energised? So young?' 'Dev Anand flashed that familiar crooked grin and told me, "The mind never grows old. It urges you to surge ahead".'
Kangana Ranaut plays an Air Force pilot in Tejas, joining an increasing list of films and shows centered around women playing significant roles in their careers.
