The nature of modern celebrity is particularly explosive when Bollywood romances cricket.
'It smells like a case to silence my voice at this important time in the #metoo movement but in the larger context it could be a ploy to muddy the waters and sabotage the entire movement altogether.'
Rediff.com rewinds the clock as it struck Noon to unravel how things went awfully wrong in Parliament on Thursday
As the JNU row escalates, a look at student unrest on the big screen.
All India Congress Committee general secretary Janardhan Dwivedi has created a flutter by saying that the "party leadership should not only speak, but also have the courage to listen".
'It was fun trying to regulate ourselves and keep it in the family zone and yet, be tongue-in-cheek.'
"I would also like to tell judges that do not be afraid and keep going on the path of justice," Modi said.
'Mumbai is very different from the rest of India. It can be ruthless if you don't have work or friends. The struggle time and times of disappointment are horrific and can break you.'
A Congress MP reveals to Sheela Bhatt the Congress plan to protect the Speaker and home minister and muscle through the tabling of the Telangana bill in Parliament.
At All India Institute of Medical Sciences, critically ill dengue patients are being treated on stretchers in corridors due to absence of beds.
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will campaign only in Raebareli and Amethi, Congress said on Monday putting at rest speculation about her larger role in electioneering across the country for the Lok Sabha polls.
Modi talks of development but he is harming them," the Congress vice president adding that projects that could have changed the lives of people.
'Mulk questions the very principle, of good-Muslim exceptionalism.' 'That, of course, we adore Abdul Hamid, A P J Abdul Kalam and Bismillah Khan and if only more Muslims were like them.' 'Anubhav Sinha sticks his neck out to say that these are no exceptions.' 'Most Muslims are like them. It is the terrorists who are exceptions,' says Shekhar Gupta.
'I hope to reduce the stress in the house with my songs and funniness,' Ali Quli Mirza tells Rajul Hegde.
Why do the biggest, most talented and successful film-makers of India suck up to the establishment so breathlessly, asks Shekhar Gupta.
'You bust one module and another one comes up.'
The situation is worse in the Gandhi family pocket borough -- Amethi and Raebareli.
A look at the top tweets from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
'I was in awe of how committed Kareena was, even at this stage of her career.' 'She is so motivated, giving it her all. 'It was very inspiring and motivating, not just for me, but for everyone else to pull up their socks and give it their all.'
There's little to cheer about Sonakshi's solitary expression and lifeless chemistry with Arjun that makes for nearly three hours of the movie, says Sukanya Verma.
Mulayam's cousimn and senior Samajwadi Party leader Ram Gopal Yadav's son Akshay is all set to take the electoral plunge in Ferozabad. However, he faces really tough competition from BJP's S P Singh Baghel. Renu Mittal reports.
Here are other controversial 'babas' who were given the Z-category security, though later, it was withdrawn from some.
Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore said the government was open to discussions with the agitating students but was against politicising the issue.
'Maybe they expected more drama, but nothing like that happened,' Renee Dhyani tells Rajul Hegde/ Rediff.com
"Because I was a strong contender, I got nominated," Deepshika Nagpal tells Rajul Hegde.
'I connected with Upen but there was nothing brewing between us. When two good looking people get close, people are bound to draw such conclusions,' Sukirti Kandpal tells Rajul Hegde.
'Intolerance is in our blood. Every person has some level of intolerance. One can't get rid of it, but one has to check and control it for the sake of a peaceful society and country,' says actor Tam Alter.
The Congress president inaugurated a photo exhibition commemorating the birth centenary of Indira Gandhi, with more than 200 pictures depicting various events from her life at the historic Swaraj Bhavan where the former prime minister was born.
Union Minister P Chidambaram has opted out of the Lok Sabha election with the party on Thursday night nominating his son Karti from his constituency Sivaganga in Tamil Nadu while another Union Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad was brought as a candidate from Udhampur in Jammu and Kashmir.
'The BJP should know that simple caste arithmetic may have ceased to follow the basic law of addition.' 'Adding up seemingly distinct vote banks can even cause overall reduction in numbers,' says Sudhir Bisht.
The top posts on social media from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
'The biggest success of Andhadhun is that viewers are thinking and debating about it. I didn't expect it,' Sriram Raghavan tells Ronjita Kulkarni/Rediff.com.
'Mulk gets a lot of things right, including its vision of the country as a place where underneath the punctilious, forced-secular surface there are volatilities waiting to go off,' says Sreehari Nair.
A look at the top tweets from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
Raising the communal temperature in riot-affected western Uttar Pradesh going to polls on Monday, Narendra Modi's close aide Amit Shah has spoken of the current election being an opportunity to take "revenge for the insult" during the violence in Muzaffarnagar last year.
From the beautiful to the bizarre, Bigg Boss fashion has it all.
As many as 313 fidayeens, out and about in Pakistan, plan to strike in India during the Lok Sabha elections.
It is time to pack up, sir! Please resign and save some honour of the Lok Sabha, an anguished Sheela Bhatt reports from the Lok Sabha press gallery after watching the shameful goings on over the tabling of the Telangana Bill.
Top Lashkar-e-Tayiba bomb expert Abdul Karim Tunda told interrogators that he had come in contact with Pakistan's spy agency Inter Services Intelligence after meeting former ISI Chief Hamid Gul in 1995 and was in constant touch with him thereafter.
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