The call centre works round the clock attending to calls ranging from domestic violence to suicide attempts to seeking medical help.
Salman Khan's youngest sister Arpita tied teh knot with her Delhi-based beau Ayush Sharma in Hyderabad on November 18.
'...by combining religious and political missions -- to destroy the Babri Masjid and establish Ram Rajya.' 'Hindutva was successful in creating synergy with the aspirations of devotees,' Dhirendra K Jha, author of Ayodhya: The Dark Night, tells Kanika Datta.
Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar wants the Modi government and BJP to reap the profit of the surgical strikes. But electoral history suggests a political party's ability to exploit military successes for poll gains has a mixed record.
'The majority of the spread is by people coughing, or sneezing or talking loudly, in a very short distance, two metres from one another, and a mask will prevent that sort of transmission.'
'Some men and women did seek shelter in our dhaba but not one of them disclosed that they had been raped. They were in our dhaba for over two hours till such time as the cops arrived. If they had been stripped and raped, or had been lying the fields for a long period of time, they or the male members of their families should have spoken about it.'
'Theirs is not a campaign for diffused issues like social justice and equity. They have three clearly articulated demands.'
Cops investigating the case suggest the deceased might have been into some sort of religious practices.
Warner, Parthiv, Amla, Bhuvi, Jasprit... Rediff.com's Harish Kotian picks his Dream Team after IPL 10.
'My friends always say I'm perpetually happy, and now I realise it was because of you.'
Here's a look inside the venue where the two lovebirds will say 'I do' and other details about the wedding, which is being dubbed as the 'event of the year'.
Boomer, River Rocket, Ode Mountain -- what were these celeb parents thinking?
'He took Simmba to a different level.' 'Sara has the energy of a commercial heroine.' 'She has a very bright future.'
The announcement came a day after royal bride-to-be Markle on Thursday confirmed that her ailing father will not attend her wedding with Prince Harry in Windsor Castle.
Kannada movie Sakkare is a sugar coated movie with a message that says life is not so complicated
This time however, the poll panel did not share the overall polling percentage at its briefing.
Residents and families of the building collapse in Mumbai tell of their grief.
Will Maruti Suzuki Grand Vitara see a second innings in India?
Photographer HariPrasad captures the quaint village through his lens.
While working with Air India, she has also earned a degree in BSc Aviation, done a course in classical key-board, learnt various forms of modern dance and become a lawyer. Anjuli Bhargava profiles the super-achiever.
'The film released when I was in Class 8. Most of the characters in it inspired me' says Sarvesh Mehtani.
'... And I don't think it really is that despite a lot going wrong.' 'Naiveté or stupidity or trusting the wrong person, the outcome is the same, which is that the group has gone to trash.' 'I'm not OK with people saying I had a role to play in crooking the system, which is not what I did.'
'It's an honour and privilege to be amongst the greats of the game. It wasn't something in the back of my mind to go out and score a 100 in a session. It was about going out there with intent and batting positive'
A pregnant woman is murdered in cold blood in the heart of suburban Mumbai. By her father who didn't want her to marry the man she did.
True Indian scenes most often lie on less travelled routes, along roads that have fallen off the map, after modern highways have come up. On the fourth leg of their 2,148 km journey, Rediff.com's Archana Masih and photographer Rajesh Karkera discover one such forgotten place in the Thar Desert.
At least 22 people have been killed in Tunisia after two gunmen stormed the Bardo national museum.
Here's our weekly round-up that brings you the latest news on models, designers and celebs from the world of glamour and entertainment.
Border dwellers in Bobiya and adjoining hamlets in Hiranagar sector in Kathua district have been experiencing sleepless nights due to the intensified shelling and firing by Pakistan.
Kamla Advani, the wife of Bharatiya Janata Party veteran L K Advani, died on Wednesday at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences due to heart failure.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni and several Indian cricketers are expected to fly to Rajkot to attend the reception.
Prashant Lingam and Aruna Kappagantula are changing the way houses are being built in India.
Advertisers take to pitching family values and social causes, giving celebrity endorsers and flamboyance a miss. Nikhat Hetavkar reports.
'...that it takes fantasy seriously as a part of real life'... A fascinating excerpt from Jonathan Gil Harris's book, Masala Shakespeare: How A Firangi Writer Became Indian.
Less than a week into the Olympics and people are looking tired around Rio de Janeiro.
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Tuesday told the special court hearing the Aarushi case that the scene of crime was "completely dressed up" and the teenage girl's body was tampered with by dentist couple Rajesh and Nupur Talwar on the night of crime.
'A lot of unauthorised encroachments have taken place in our forest area.' 'The landslides are partly because of such encroachments.' 'The other factor is deforestation.' 'Protection of forest resources is not on the agenda of any government.' 'The damage caused by the rain in Kerala is a man-made factor.'
'Rishi Kapoor and I come from two different schools of filmmaking. I like to approach scenes in a certain way, and take multiple takes. Rishi sir comes from a school where things were much simpler. I think that's where the friction comes in.' But in the end, Kapoor & Sons director Shakun Batra is still smiling!
Aseem Chhabra looks at the year's best Non-Hindi Indian movies.
