Leading conglomerate ITC will soon increase prices of cigarette brands like Classic and Gold Flake Kings by up to 15 per cent per pack.
Shifting of India's only ATP event from Chennai to Pune after 21 years has disappointed the Amritraj brothers.
If you like your tofu in a rich spicy curry, try this recipe.
These lip-smacking recipes will make your mouth water.
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How can anyone say No to this fancy potato roast dish?
Your guests will end up licking their fingers eating this dish!
This Valentine's Day, celebrate love with an exotic meal at home, says celebrity chef Rakhee Vaswani.
The lip-smacking dessert isn't very difficult to make says Rediff reader Swayampurna Mishra.
Food blogger Vishaka Rautela shares recipes to spice up your chai time.
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A winter storm on America's north-east coast has brought near-whiteout conditions to Boston.
Quit smoking, cut down your caffeine intake and spend more time with your family.
The iconic Taj Mahal, which finds its place among the seven wonders of the world, is set to receive a 'mud-pack treatment' to restore the natural sheen of the white marble which is yellowing due to high pollution level.
By the time the police force could move any closer to the five-feet-high wall fencing the land, the encroachers had started firing. Within seconds it was raining bullets and the encroachers had positioned themselves at the trees in the enclosed area.
Celebrity chef Saransh Goila tells you how to treat your sweetheart.
According to Mitra, items such as foodgrain, vegetables, leather goods, footwear, cottage cheese, puffed and flattened rice, books and entertainment tax, among several others, should be in the zero-tax bracket.
With the five-member Joint Investigation Team from Pakistan having reached Pathankot to begin probe into the terror attack on the Indian Air Force Base, the Shiv Sena on Tuesday slammed the centre for 'welcoming' the team which also has a member from the Inter-Services Intelligence, saying that Lashkar-e-Tayiba chief Hafiz Saeed could also be a part of the team and no one would know.
In the hands of skilled photographers, smartphones are capable of producing works of art - as these stunning images show. Now in its twelfth year, the iPhone Photography Awards competition aims to find the best photographs taken using just an iPhone. Every year since it was founded in 2007, the IPPAWARDS has selected the very best shots among thousands submitted by iPhone photographers from more than 140 countries around the world. This year's grand prize went to Gabriella Cigliano for a mesmerising image shot on an iPhone X of two young girls in Tanzania. Scroll down to take a look at the stunning photos that made the cut.
Gaurav Laha shares his weightloss journey.
Find out by answering (honestly) if you are eating more salt than you should
'I'm an unbalanced human,' the founding partner of AZB, India's top law firm, tells Pavan Lall.
Sujatha Baliga won America's most prestigious fellowship for her work on the journey to forgiveness and restorative justice.
Never reheat fats and oils. Add less salt while cooking.
You might be unintentionally harming yourself.
News of all that's transpired on and off the football field
'How will one day's crackers change pollution levels?' 'And why limit such genius solutions to just the capital when air pollution and pollution affects all of India?' asks Aakar Patel.
Are you touching your skin too often? Ignoring sweat?
Dr G Padma Vijay's latest book has recipes for all.
Wow your guests with these delicious modak preparations.
All companies that have 50% or more employees from outside the US to pay a higher visa fee of $10,000 for each such staffer, against $4,500 at present.
Chitra R shares this special Christmas recipe from her hometown Kanyakumari.
In the last of a six-part series Sanjay Jog discovers that if the government and beedi employers don't act now, there could be social unrest soon.
It's time to impress your guests with some Christmas delicacies.
Reshma Aslam tells you how to make Chicken Yakhni, Chicken Corn Soup and Paya Soup.
A pick-up in low-cost cigarette consumption helped India's largest cigarette maker boost margins
Binu Alex, co-founder and editorial director of www.commodityonline.com, in an interview to Syed Firdaus Ashraf/Rediff.com, says demand-supply imbalance arising out of the government's inability to preserve the crop for non-harvesting season is the root cause behind the price rise.
'The Indian strategy is to rope in the powerful Pakistan army in the negotiating spectrum. This can be done at the level of General Janjua, a former army commander,' reveals Rajeev Sharma.
Delhi and Leh were among some of the places in northern India which recorded their lowest minimum temperatures so far this winter as the cold gained in intensity in the region.
'Four years into his tenure and Modi still has no idea what is wrong with the agriculture sector!'