An aspiring medical student, a belly dancer and a social worker are among the 21 young girls vying for the fbb Femina Miss India 2015 crown.
See how Manushi Chillar is making the most of her last few days in China.
'There were many experts around me,' A Ganesh Nadar discovers at the India-Pakistan hockey game. 'One of them was explaining to his neighbour, that fellow is a good dragger and flicker, that fellow is a penalty corner specialist, that fellow is a penalty specialist, that fellow is a very good defender, etc, freely dispensing with his expert knowledge.'
'I went to a school in Baroda, where if the boys harassed us, the teachers pulled the girls aside and said, "Oh, your skirts are too short".' 'They made us feel ashamed of having any sexual feelings or having bodies that were growing up to be a young women.'
The women's body has asked the top cop to render an explanation within three days about reasons for the use of force on protesting students.
A students' march against the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh-affiliated Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad on Saturday featured issues beyond free speech, with "simmering discontent" against the Narendra Modi government finding expression through colours, posters and poetry.
Education ads are among the worst offenders when it comes to misleading claims. After keeping tabs on factual discrepancies, the Advertising Standards Council of India (Asci) is now updating its guidelines for the sector to curb the tendency of such ads to perpetrate negative habits and stereotypes. The industry watchdog has invited public consultation starting on Monday until April 15, following which its updated guidelines will take effect. Inputs and feedback can be sent to contact@ascionline.in.
Pop stars, lawyers, cops, hoteliers -- care to hear their story on OTT this week?
While Salman Khan, leading lady Pooja Hegde and, of course, Venkatesh remain the reason audiences will get attracted to theatres, there is a large supporting cast, waiting for their moment to shine.
A GLOF occurred in parts of Lhonak Lake, leading to a rapid rise in water levels with very high velocities downstream along the Teesta River Basin in the early hours of October 4. This resulted in severe damage in Mangan, Gangtok, Pakyong and Namchi districts.
For lakhs of 10th class students in Maharashtra, Arunachal Pradesh is not a part of the country, as the north-eastern state is reportedly "missing" from the map in their geography textbooks.
Greek Transport Minister Kostas Karamanlis resigned as a 'basic indication of respect for the memory of the people who died so unfairly.'
Violence erupted in Srinagar again on Wednesday morning, following the recovery of the body of a student, who had been missing since last week.The undergraduate student, Asrar Ahmad Dar, went missing after he left his home on a motorcycle last Wednesday. His body was recovered by the police today morning.As the news of Dar's death reached Maisuma, where his family resides, hundreds of angry youths took to the streets.They shouted anti-government slogans, ransacked shops.
Deepa Gahlot lists some 2023 movies that you need to watch if you haven't already.
The longest-serving Bharatiya Janata Party chief minister and popularly known as mama (maternal uncle) and 'paon-paon wale bhaiya' (foot soldier), Shivraj Singh Chouhan has emerged as the hero of his party's stunning victory in the state assembly elections.
Even by standards of fluff, Girls Hostel 3 floats away without any anchor to entertainment, observes Deepa Gahlot.
Philippines beauty Megan Young was crowned Miss World 2013 after beating 130 contestants across the globe on Saturday.
'If I get opportunities (to act in Bollywood films), then why not?'
To help readers make an informed decision, Rediff.com had organised a chat on November November 22, between 3 pm and 4 pm IST.
With no signs of improvement in the situation in Kashmir, community schools are the only hope for students in the valley.
The 25-year-old from the District of Columbia is 'the most intelligent contestant in recent memory'!
There is going to be no defence of freedom of thought from this government.
Bollettieri founded the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy in 1978. It was bought by the International Management Group in 1987.
The AISA, SFI, DSF and AISF have come together to form the 'United Left' alliance.
The Miss World 2017, former medical student, actor and model blindsides her admirers.
Akhil Tripathi, father of the missing student who was wrongly identified as a suspect, tells Rediff.com's George Joseph
A police officer said a "missing person" FIR has been registered and search was on to find the girl.
Miss India Nikita Anand did not make it to the top ten.
'Companies are coming to the campuses, and we have companies booking their slots for the placement season, but the overall number of companies signing is low, and the hiring numbers are also lower.'
At a function held in Mumbai, three beauties were crowned Miss India.
At a public hearing in New Delhi on Monday, civil society and community members shared accounts of the evictions and anti-encroachment drives.
Sushmita Singh is the first Indian to win Miss Teen World 2019.
According to Albany police, 37-year-old Randhir Kaur died of single gunshot wound.
Ranjan Kumar, a student of Diamond Public School, was suspected to have been kidnapped on January 28.
Hundreds of netizens have logged onto Minal Panchal's profile in the social networking site Orkut to express their condolences.
References to freedom fighter and India's first education minister Maulana Abul Kalam Azad have been removed from the new class 11 political science textbook by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT).
On all key issues, Congress is MIA, sighs Shekhar Gupta.
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