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Indian girl tortured in Malaysia

Indian girl tortured in Malaysia

Rediff.com14 Mar 2005

Sonia Sharma, a part-time worker at a mobile phone shop, said she was stripped, kicked, punched, and threatened with rape by her former employer.

Floating mattress saves baby

Floating mattress saves baby

Rediff.com28 Dec 2004

While thousands of people lost their lives when gigantic tsunami waves hit the region here on Sunday, a 20-day-old baby girl remarkably survived, thanks to a floating mattress.

Altera to expand in India, Malaysia

Altera to expand in India, Malaysia

Rediff.com5 Dec 2002

Globally India is known as a software powerhouse but that's rapidly changing to the point where you have companies like Wipro having hundreds of hardware engineers.\n\n

Sensational Sindhu clinches Grand Prix Gold title in Malaysia

Sensational Sindhu clinches Grand Prix Gold title in Malaysia

Rediff.com24 Jan 2016

Two-time World Championship bronze-medallist, India's P V Sindhu made a rousing start to the new season as she clinched the Malaysia Masters Grand Prix Gold title after defeating Scotland's Kristy Gilmour in straight games in the final, in Penang, on Sunday.

Sindhu storms into Malaysia Masters badminton final

Sindhu storms into Malaysia Masters badminton final

Rediff.com23 Jan 2016

Ace Indian shuttler P V Sindhu scored an upset victory over top seed Ji Hyun Sung in a hard-fought three setter to storm into the women's singles final of the $120,000 Malaysia Masters Grand Prix Gold badminton tournament in Penang on Saturday.

China to Malaysia: Tell the truth about missing plane

China to Malaysia: Tell the truth about missing plane

Rediff.com13 Mar 2014

Annoyed over conflicting reports about the missing plane, China on Wednesday night asked Malaysia to verify rumours and share all information about the flight MH370 after official admission that it may have turned back and disappeared over the Straits of Malacca.

The night Ronaldo stole the show

The night Ronaldo stole the show

Rediff.com10 Jan 2017

The night Ronaldo stole the show

Your holiday Guiddoo

Your holiday Guiddoo

Rediff.com23 Jun 2017

Available on both Android and iOS, the company has partnered with Cleartrip and Yatra. Shameen Alauddin reports.

AirAsia offers 3 million seats at discounted prices

AirAsia offers 3 million seats at discounted prices

Rediff.com23 Mar 2015

AirAsia has rolled out fares as low as Rs 3,399 for a Visakhapatnam-Kuala Lumpur.

Price wars: Now, foreign airlines offer special fares

Price wars: Now, foreign airlines offer special fares

Rediff.com25 Jan 2014

Taking a cue from price war in the domestic sector, two foreign carriers - Emirates and Air Asia - have cut fares for Indian travellers so as to beat the March quarter blues.

Royal Caribbean Cruises to tap Indian travellers

Royal Caribbean Cruises to tap Indian travellers

Rediff.com13 Jun 2014

Royal Caribbean Cruise's The Legend of the Seas will be positioned in Singapore from June 2015 followed by the Mariner of the Seas later in the year.

Top badminton player Lee Chong Wei mulls retirement

Top badminton player Lee Chong Wei mulls retirement

Rediff.com20 Jan 2014

Badminton World No 1 Lee Chong Wei hinted that retirement was on the horizon after the emotional Malaysian sealed his 10th national championship in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday.

Syed Modi badminton: Srikanth, Kashyap enter quarters; Sindhu loses

Syed Modi badminton: Srikanth, Kashyap enter quarters; Sindhu loses

Rediff.com28 Jan 2016

Top seed Kidambi Srikanth entered the quarter-finals but a heartbreak was in store for P V Sindhu, who suffered a shock defeat to Nitchaon Jindapol of Thailand in the second round of the $120,000 Syed Modi Grand Prix Gold badminton tournament, in Lucknow, on Thursday.

MH17 crash: Ethnic Indian crew's son consoles grandfather

MH17 crash: Ethnic Indian crew's son consoles grandfather

Rediff.com21 Jul 2014

Ten-year-old Hans Singh Sandhu seems to have grown up overnight after his father Sanjid Singh Sandhu, a steward on board the ill-fated Flight MH17, was killed along with all 297 others on board when the jetliner was shot down in the eastern Ukraine.

Why ethnic Indians are happy with Malaysian PM

Why ethnic Indians are happy with Malaysian PM

Rediff.com16 May 2013

With two ministers and four deputy ministers, the minority community will have better representation in the government to look into the well-being of Malaysian Indians, the New Straits Times said on Thursday.

Malaysia Masters: Sindhu, Srikanth in quarters

Malaysia Masters: Sindhu, Srikanth in quarters

Rediff.com21 Jan 2016

P V Sindhu and Kidambi Srikanth scored contrasting victories to enter the quarter-finals of the US $120,000 Malaysia Masters Grand Prix Gold badminton tournament, in Penang, on Thursday.

Ronaldo wins FIFA's Player of the Year Award

Ronaldo wins FIFA's Player of the Year Award

Rediff.com10 Jan 2017

'I'm very happy and I can say that 2016 was the best year of my career, the trophy shows that people aren't blind and watch the games.'

Badminton: Srikanth clinches Syed Modi title

Badminton: Srikanth clinches Syed Modi title

Rediff.com31 Jan 2016

Top seed K Srikanth made a rollicking start to the new season as he clinched the Syed Modi Grand Prix Gold with a convincing win over China's Huang Yuxiang in the men's singles final in Lucknow on Sunday.

RJio brings high-speed subsea cable network to India

RJio brings high-speed subsea cable network to India

Rediff.com19 Apr 2016

The network has been built by six telcos to handle high bandwidth demands of emerging technologies and applications.

National Geographic reveals travel photograph of the year

National Geographic reveals travel photograph of the year

Rediff.com18 Jul 2016

Here are the winners of this year's National Geographic Travel Photographer Of The Year.

Missing Malaysian plane flew low to avoid radar detection

Missing Malaysian plane flew low to avoid radar detection

Rediff.com17 Mar 2014

Malaysian authorities are probing new information that the missing plane with 239 people on board dropped to an altitude of 5,000 feet or possibly lower to evade radar detection after it turned back midair.

Could Partition have been less bloody?

Could Partition have been less bloody?

Rediff.com15 Aug 2017

The British administration ignored the mounting evidence of violence between Hindus and Muslims... Military historian Barney White-Spunner traces the countdown to the tragedy in his book, Partition.

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