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Flash floods triggered by incessant rains have claimed 26 lives in Gujarat in the past 48 hours while four lives have been lost in Rajasthan, authorities said on Wednesday.
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'If you go up to an average American or British citizen, and tell them you are a Muslim, they look at you suspiciously. It's not a good feeling,' Saif Ali Khan tells Sonil Dedhia.
Rahul Gandhi's absence has shocked political circles who say it is unthinkable for a political party to not have its vice-president present in Parliament to stand up and raise his voice against the government's more than a dozen controversial policies in its less than nine-month rule.
The most awaited car and bike biennial event turned out to be a grand success.
As the countdown to 2018 starts, it's time to rewind those moments in sport that stood out this year.
Rediff.com looks at other sensational murder mysteries that left India shell-shocked.
We bet you can't take your eyes off these model mothers!
Dolly, who is leading from the front in Amritsar, wakes up early, plans things for her husband's campaign, oversees resources, does nukkad meetings and keeps busy -- all without getting into the limelight. Sheela Bhatt/Rediff.com's fascinating insights into the battle for Amritsar!
A look at few gurus who have attracted controversy in recent times.
Atheela Abdullah, who grew up in a small village in the Malabar region of Kerala shares her inspiring success story.
'People don't like me wearing saris. But I am an Indian drag queen. I will wear a sari.'
On the occasion of her breaking the world's longest hunger strike, Rediff.com reproduces this 2011 feature on the activist and her life.
The bar's been raised again, says Sukanya Verma.
'Nobody is killing you in Kerala because you are Hindu unlike in North India where Muslims have been killed only because they are Muslims and were carrying some meat.'
The Delhi high court on Tuesday dismissed Aam Aadmi Party MLA and former law minister Somnath Bharti's anticipatory bail plea.
How a bus conductor named Shivaji Gaekwad became the mega-phenomenon called Rajinikanth.
Five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand started his campaign at the Bilbao Final Masters with a crushing win over former FIDE world champion Ruslan Ponomariov of Ukraine in Bilbao, Spain.
Australian model Ilana Davies gets candid with Rediff.com's Tista Sengupta.
While higher income, educated Indians are financially literate, they aren't really much better off when it comes to planning their financial futures
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'There has never been a problem between Hindu and Muslims in Kairana.' 'We are a people that smoke from the same hookah.' Once the seat of an influential tradition of Indian classical music, Kairana has become a metaphor for the exodus of Hindus.
Dr Pinakin Shah visited the Land of the Thunder Dragon and returned mesmerized.
Rohini Bhajibhakare won't waste a moment on this statistic because she has far more important things to do.
Two hostages who have been killed in the 17-hour-long hostage drama at a cafeteria in Sydney were identified as the manager of the Lindt Chocolate cafe and a lawyer. The 38-year-old lawyer, Katrina Dawson, was a mother of three young children who became the victim of the siege. She was a barrister at Selbourne Chambers and was married to Paul Smith, a partner at Mallesons.
Besides a great idea, it takes pluck, and some luck, to get going.
'People didn't know of my presence until they saw my saris at the Lakme Fashion Week.'
'I am a daughter of the mountains and my heart is free of care.'
'For years, a whispering campaign against the non-Nagas -- and occasional violence -- has dominated the local discourse, but Farid Khan's lynching was unprecedented in its ferocity.'
Reports suggest that the police were unable to find any contact of the company's office and had to take a Uber cab to reach the company's training centre in Gurgaon, giving credence to the perception that Uber has grown too much too soon.
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Kangana Ranaut, the fiery movie star, continues to be in the news for all the wrong reasons.
'Thirty years ago, if you walked into a chawl, there would be three TV sets in 30 houses. Today, you'll see TV sets in all 30 houses. So the viewers have increased, but of a certain strata. Sadly, the educated and upper classes have stopped watching TV shows because of the availability of the Internet.' Balika Vadhu writer Gajra Kottary tries to explain to Ronjita Kulkarni/ Rediff.com where Indian television is going wrong.
Rakhi Sawant is as uncensored as they come.
If we value India, we must not only 'Make in India', but defend the idea of India, too.
'I kept telling myself I'd quit after every film. I saw myself in my first Hindi film Kashmir Ki Kali and I didn't like myself. I said, one more film and I'm done. But it continued.' Sharmila Tagore gets candid on her 70th birthday.
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