Image: Major fire at Thane hotel

Ten-year-old Sonika Poojary is in tears. She is not used to seeing so many policemen around her house. The class five student of a local school is the daughter of a mason working on an under......

'Humans have never learned from history'

'We need to retell this history from many different perspectives.' Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com   Writer Amitav Ghosh spent many of those strange, mind-numbing COVID-19 days of......

Trump accepts Republican nomination for second term

United States President Donald Trump has officially accepted the re-nomination of the Republican Party as its presidential candidate for the November elections, telling his fellow Americans that at......

Delhi: 4 children, 2 women killed in building collapse

A five-storey 'weak' building collapsed in northwest Delhi on Wednesday, killing four children and two women, three weeks after the 20-year-old structure was inspected by a municipal team following......

A daily wage labourer who turned multimillionaire

The 39-year-old, the fifth child of an illiterate labourer couple and only the second of their eight to be educated, now helms various ventures that bring in a turnover of between Rs 75 crore and......

'It's very important to make a happy film that entertains'

On Hrishikesh Mukherjee's 91st birth anniversary on September 30, we bring back excerpts from a Rediff interview with the brilliant filmmaker, just after the release of his last film, Jhoot Bole......

Serbians shell-shocked; Cameroonians refused to be tamed

'In these competitions you have to show desire for victory' IMAGE: Cameroon’s Vincent Aboubakar, left, celebrates after scoring their team's second goal. Photograph: Clive Mason/Getty......