An emotional Ovessa Iqbal, the first Muslim girl from Jammu and Kashmir to ace the UPSC exam, talks about the inspiration behind her success and how she coped with failure having passed the exam in her third attempt.
'Love, be it between a boy and a girl or your passion for your craft, carries with it no complaints.'
Women like men who are confident, chivalrous, well-mannered, says Love Guru.
A confident, assertive single woman is finding her way into popular advertising narratives.
This comes as a rare miss for RRR, which bagged a Golden Globe for Best Original Song for the song Naatu Naatu and Critics Choice Awards for Best Foreign Language film and Best Song.
'A dream does not become a reality by accident, it is the result of sweat, commitment and hard effort.'
Former Miss Meerut Priyanka and her friend Anju arrested for allegedly murdering her aged parents, were sent to 14-day judicial custody by a Meerut court on Tuesday.
Beauty queen Shreya Shanker has been serving summer vibes.
Neetu Yadav and Kirti Jangra teamed up to create an app that is possibly the platinum standard for apps targeted at Bharat.
Images from Day 8 of the 2023 French Open at Roland Garros in Paris on Sunday.
''Even today, after 63 years, I'm still looking forward to a new release.'
Bollywood stars celebrate Teacher's Day by sharing anecdotes and childhood memories with their teachers.
'When one was with Mother, one realised you were with somebody who was the nearest person to God.' 'She must have been God incarnate.'
'I was always told that one day your beauty will fade.' 'Hence, what's important is how you make people feel and how you treat them.' 'Are you kind? Do you have good intentions?' 'If that quality is there in you, no matter what you do or where you are in your life, people will always remember you.'
He said he failed to understand the "process of judgement" of the crowning of the Miss World contest in 1997, in which Diana Hayden had got the award.
Tokyo Olympics silver medallist Saikhom Mirabai Chanu is focussing on an Asian Games gold medal, the only accolade missing from her showcase.
The Anti Terrorism Squad has detained a person in Pune suspecting that he was one of the three missing Mumbai youths suspected to have joined terror outfit Islamic State.
Yeh Meri Family is rescued by the actors. All of them have delivered on the warmth and crankiness of a close-knit family without putting on any hum saath saath hain fakery, observes Deepa Gahlot.
rediffGURU Shalini Singh, dating coach and founder of andwemet, an online matchmaking service, offers advice on issues relating to love and compatibility in marriage, dating and more.
Is your love life under pressure? Are you troubled by your relationship? Get Ahead's Love Guru hosted a chat with readers on August 12 to help them deal with love problems. For those of you who missed it, here's the transcript.
Abdu Roziq arrived in the house with a lot of confidence and quickly charmed the audience with his cute quirks.
'I did get a couple of offers (in Hindi cinema) but the roles required a doll-like heroine, a glamorous role. I was getting challenging roles in the South and so I stayed here.'
Who wore what this week from Soha Ali Khan to Alia Bhatt and Aditi Rao Hydari.
The stage is set for the inaugural edition of the Women's Premier League, which will get underway in Mumbai on Saturday.
The police have taken at least 50 suspects into custody in the brutal rape case of a five-year-old girl in Lahore.
Jiya's style and dimpled smile can charm the birds out of the trees.
An under secretary serving in the home ministry has filed the FIR at the Parliament Street Police station in New Delhi under Section 409 (criminal breach of trust by public servants) of the Indian Penal Code asking police to probe "why, how and under what circumstances" five documents related to the case went missing.
Parents of a British Sikh girl who died suddenly while on holiday in India have moved a step closer to getting answers about her mysterious death.
It's hard to believe Calendar Girls has been made by someone who makes films, fumes Raja Sen.
Do you know who rules Cheteshwar Pujara's heart?
The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to constitute a three-judge bench to consider the Delhi police's plea for a review of its verdict acquitting three death row convicts in the gangrape and murder of a 19-year-old girl in Delhi's Chhawla area in 2012.
The former beauty queen looked stunning as the showstopper.
Kohrra is a terrific ensemble piece but the two fine leads keep show glued together, applauds Aseem Chhabra.
6 times Kurup actress Anupama Parameswaran aced the traditional look.
'My parents were there to see me enrol as a lawyer. From afar itself, I could see tears in their eyes.' 'Three days after, I appeared in court for my first case, and my father was there to see me. He had tears in his eyes.' 'And even before I completed two months as an advocate, I won a case!'
The baby shower was held in London where Sonam lives with her husband Anand Ahuja.
Has the television actress' sense of style been influenced by her stint on Khatron Ke Khiladi 12?
Preity in mommy gear... Mohanlal celebrates Iruvar... Dia shares a memory...
At the Leo fete, Vijay had this also to tell his fans: 'I know you all are in my heart. But today, I also know that I am also in the hearts of all of you...' A typical politician's line, did you say, asks N Sathiya Moorthy.
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