Businessman Raj Kundra on Tuesday walked out of a Mumbai jail, a day after a magistrate court granted bail to the key accused in a pornographic films case in which he was arrested two months ago.
The sender of the SMS also said in his Hindi message that he was "sorry" for deciding to eliminate Tiwari under "extreme compulsion".
Credit card spends jumped 57 per cent year-on-year (YoY) in September, aided by the festive season. According to the latest Reserve Bank of India (RBI) data, in September, credit card spends totalled Rs 80,477.18 crore compared to Rs 77,981 crore in August, thereby registering a 3.2 per cent growth sequentially, despite the high base. In the corresponding period last year, credit card spend was to the tune of Rs 51,356.68 crore.
The agency had summoned him in January too but he sought time, citing the ongoing Winter Session of Parliament, they said.
Private equity player Everstone Capital has sold Modern Foods, which it had taken over in early 2016 from Hindustan Unilever, to Mexican baking major Grupo Bimbo for an undisclosed sum.
For all those auto enthusiasts who thought Mahindra have only been manufacturing Jeeps and trucks in the '90s, Timeless Mahindra offers plenty of interesting surprises, discovers Rajesh Kareka/Rediff.com.
Sukanya Verma lists 25 unforgettable Dilip Kumar melodies to love and listen to.
Neeraj Pandey's Aiyaary is the sort of spy fantasy story that drunks narrate in bars, says Sreehari Nair.
Rediff reader Tejaswini tells us how her son Ojas kept himself engaged during the lockdown.
McDonald's problems couldn't have surfaced at a worse time. Cut-throat competition, rapid expansion and a slowdown in consumer spending in the wake of demonetisation have seriously dented the overall quick-service restaurant business.
Admitted with intestine jutting out of the abdomen and pellets embedded all over the body, 34-year-old Mridul Bakshi, a victim of the Delhi high court blast, on Thursday succumbed to his injuries at a hospital, taking the toll in the September 7 terror attack to 14.
Sukanya Verma lists Chintu's memorable songs.
'This man changed the mindset of a generation.'
According to the chargesheet, Shetty told the police that she did not know anything about the HotShots and Bollywood Fame apps, allegedly used by the accused for uploading and streaming obscene content.
The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards are back for 2021 to show that all animals have a funny bone. Now in its seventh year, the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards has already received thousands of entries from around the world, catching some of wildlife's funniest moments on camera. This year, the competition organisers are releasing some of the shots that have already had them howling like hyenas, to inspire both professional and amateur photographers to enter their own images before June 30, 2021. We bring you some of our favourites.
Subhash K Jha picks his favourite five Sushant performances.
Colonel P Bakshi, father of 22-year-old woman who has been booked for allegedly posting abusive comments on Chandigarh traffic police's Facebook page, hoped the matter will be resolved, maintaining that his daughter was anguished over police not taking concrete action following theft of her vehicle.
Taruna Bakshi shares her recipes for Diwali.
A fascinating excerpt from Arghya Sengupta, Jinaly Dani, Kevin James, and Pranay Modi's Hamn Ast: A Biography of Article 370.Instead came a recommendation from Parliament, acting under the imposition of President's Rule, purporting to convey the views of the people of Jammu and Kashmir. This clever act achieved Parliament's purpose optimally. But was it legitimate in law?
Taruna Bakshi shares healthy and easy recipes for the festive season.
Reuters reported last week that several Russian national team boxers returning from London had posted online pictures or videos that appeared to show them flouting self-isolation rules imposed to slow the spread of the virus.
'We are not organising any large celebrations on New Year's Eve to avoid last-minute changes in guidelines.'
Etiquette classes today cater to a wide audience of job seekers, front-desk execs, business heirs, romantics, students and even those with low self-esteem
'If you are mature and haven't done terrible things to each other, love doesn't have to go away.'
At the moment, there appears to be no alternative political narrative to the one lying buried under the debris of havoc caused on this front by the fallout of 'August 5, 2019', asserts Mohammad Sayeed Malik, the distinguished commentator on Kashmir affairs.
It's a political gambit aimed at the BJP's Suvendu Adhikari who won the seat in 2016 as a TMC candidate, while also retroceding to the land movement that catapulted her to power.
A quintessential military commander, Gen Bipin Rawat possessed an uncanny understanding of geopolitical upheavals, calibrated a tri-services military doctrine to make India face myriad security challenges, and is largely credited with bringing down militancy in the Northeast and Jammu and Kashmir.
The Mumbai police has sent a letter to Yash Raj Films, seeking details of the contracts it had signed with him.
The decision was announced at a press meet by Additional Chief Secretary (Home) K P Bakshi.
'Everywhere, people would ask me why I had left films. They wanted to see more of me.' 'Their words were music to my ears.'
Akhilesh Yadav confirmed in a television interview that the press conference is on the alliance in Uttar Pradesh, while parrying questions on the Congress.
In these pandemic stricken, music bereft times, what can be more joyous than a playlist of golden melodies?
The class 7 student was encouraged by his parents to pursue his passion.
The people of West Bengal have lost faith in the state police and therefore their demand for deployment of central forces, Nayak said.
Sushant finished off his innings in style by scoring high on his last theatrical release, Chichhore, a film that was ironically about suicide not being a solution.
For the first time in a decade, mobile phone and mobile Internet services were not disrupted in Kashmir Valley as part of the security drill for Republic Day celebrations.
Joginder Tuteja looks at 10 film-makers who returned to direction after a long time.
In his petition to the Company Law Board filed on September 9, Bakshi said McDonald's began 'arm-twisting' him to sell his entire shareholding in Connaught Plaza Restaurants, the equal joint venture between him and McDonald's since 2008, at an 'undervalued' price of $5 million, later raised to $7 million.
With ambitious generals knowing that political patronage might be rewarded, a worrying era of politicisation of the military looms ahead, observes retired Colonel Ajai Shukla who has known Generals Rawat, Bakshi and Hariz for a long time.
Taruna Bakshi shares healthy winter recipes.
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