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Delhi SHOCKER: Man caught on CCTV stabbing puppy

Delhi SHOCKER: Man caught on CCTV stabbing puppy

Rediff.com21 Mar 2016

The video shows a man, now dubbed as 'serial dog killer' dressed in shorts and a jacket luring the dogs with food and then stabbing them repeatedly with a knife at the Metro station.

10 shockers that shook the sports world

10 shockers that shook the sports world

Rediff.com10 Jul 2014

Following the latest 'disaster', Rediff.com takes a look at various sporting shockers, which shook the world.

'BJP thinks NCP can tilt the balance in 2024'

'BJP thinks NCP can tilt the balance in 2024'

Rediff.com5 Jul 2023

'They want to win 45 out of 48 seats in Maharashtra in the 2024 general elections and joining hands with Ajit Pawar is in that direction.'

Ajit Pawar jolts Maharashtra politics, takes oath as deputy CM

Ajit Pawar jolts Maharashtra politics, takes oath as deputy CM

Rediff.com2 Jul 2023

Marking a vertical split in the Nationalist Congress Party, its senior leader Ajit Pawar joined the Eknath Shinde-led Maharashtra government as deputy chief minister on Sunday.

SHOCKER! Office space vacancy hits 5-year low

SHOCKER! Office space vacancy hits 5-year low

Rediff.com19 Jan 2016

According to property consultant JLL, the vacancy in office spaces is expected to be around 13%.

Archery WC: Compound men assure of silver, women bag bronze

Archery WC: Compound men assure of silver, women bag bronze

Rediff.com18 May 2022

The biggest shocker came earlier in the day in the men's compound team event when the Indian trio of Abhishek, Aman and Rajat defeated USA in a one-sided quarter-final.

Saurashtra shocker: BJP wiped out in Amreli and Gir Somnath

Saurashtra shocker: BJP wiped out in Amreli and Gir Somnath

Rediff.com18 Dec 2017

Out of these nine constituencies in the two districts, seven had been held by the ruling party while the Congress represented Amreli and Una seats.

Botched deliveries take toll on Amazon and Flipkart festival sales

Botched deliveries take toll on Amazon and Flipkart festival sales

Rediff.com3 Oct 2022

Flipkart claims that over one billion customers visited its platform during the eight-day-long The Big Billion Festival. Amazon's Great Indian Festival 2022, which will go on for a month, is throwing discounts at customers that can hardly be ignored. But some of the stories that are coming out from these sales are not so great.

Buldhana shocker: 11 school staffers arrested for raping minor

Buldhana shocker: 11 school staffers arrested for raping minor

Rediff.com4 Nov 2016

Police arrested 11 people, including the main accused who is a 23-year-old school employee, the headmaster, staff and members of the school management, on Thursday night.

UP shocker: Gang rape survivor attacked for 5th time

UP shocker: Gang rape survivor attacked for 5th time

Rediff.com2 Jul 2017

The latest incident took place on Saturday night near a hostel where she resides.

Shocker! Pay tax on perks, now

Shocker! Pay tax on perks, now

Rediff.com1 Feb 2010

Your tax burden has just gone up, with the government issuing the new guidelines for taxation of perquisites. Valuation of cars goes through a revision.

When Mulayam dashed Sonia's prime ministerial hopes

When Mulayam dashed Sonia's prime ministerial hopes

Rediff.com11 Oct 2022

Gandhi, then a newly appointed Congress chief, had staked claim to form the government at the Centre after the then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee had lost the vote of confidence in the Lok Sabha on April 17, 1999.

Shocker! Pay tax on perks, now

Shocker! Pay tax on perks, now

Rediff.com21 Dec 2009

Your tax burden has just gone up, with the government issuing the new guidelines for taxation of perquisites. Valuation of cars goes through a revision.

Digvijaya shocker: Telangana cops encouraging Muslim youths to join IS

Digvijaya shocker: Telangana cops encouraging Muslim youths to join IS

Rediff.com1 May 2017

Singh claimed that the state police set up the website to trap Muslims youths and it is "radicalising and encouraging them to become ISIS modules".

Karnad's shocker: 'Tagore a second-rate playwright'

Karnad's shocker: 'Tagore a second-rate playwright'

Rediff.com9 Nov 2012

After his public criticism of V S Naipaul, writer-actor Girish Karnad has kicked up a fresh storm by calling Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore a "second-rate playwright".

SHOCKER: 16 persons commit suicide after Jaya verdict

SHOCKER: 16 persons commit suicide after Jaya verdict

Rediff.com29 Sep 2014

At least 16 persons are believed to have committed suicide either by setting themselves ablaze or by hanging since Saturday when All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam chief Jayalalithaa was sentenced to a four-year jail term in the disproportionate assets case by a special court in Bangalore.

'Stop asking women about their bodies'

'Stop asking women about their bodies'

Rediff.com23 Feb 2023

'Everyone struggles with it (body image issues) as a human condition.' 'There are days when it really gets to you, but we move on.'

Urine shocker: Shantinekatan girl joins another school

Urine shocker: Shantinekatan girl joins another school

Rediff.com18 Jul 2012

Despite repeated requests from the Visva-Bharati University Shantinekatan to resume classes, the parents of the traumatised girl who was made to drink her own urine on Wednesday got her admitted to another school.

Shivpal shocker: We will float new party, back SP 'rebels'

Shivpal shocker: We will float new party, back SP 'rebels'

Rediff.com31 Jan 2017

Throwing a fresh challenge to Akhilesh Yadav, his sidelined uncle Shivpal on Tuesday announced that he will float a party after election results are out on March 11 and threatened to back "rebel" candidates.

SHOCKER! UP Journalist's mother 'set ablaze' by 2 cops

SHOCKER! UP Journalist's mother 'set ablaze' by 2 cops

Rediff.com6 Jul 2015

The mother of a journalist was set ablaze on Monday at Kothi police station in Baranbaki allegedly by two policemen after she refused to "bribe" them to free her husband.

Another shocker! Rupee hits new bottom against Pound

Another shocker! Rupee hits new bottom against Pound

Rediff.com20 Aug 2013

The rupee has depreciated by about 25 per cent in the past three months, from close to Rs 83 in mid-May, while it was even higher at about Rs 80 against the British Pound in March.

Maharashtra and Haryana elections: THE VERDICT

Maharashtra and Haryana elections: THE VERDICT

Rediff.com25 Oct 2019

The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party appears to win with a bigger mandate this time in Maharashtra and Haryana, exit polls have predicted. Both Maharashtra and Haryana assembly elections were held on Monday. So will the exit polls be right or will the states witness a surprise? Catch all the leads and results HERE

Raj shocker: Women's commission member clicks selfie with rape victim

Raj shocker: Women's commission member clicks selfie with rape victim

Rediff.com30 Jun 2016

A selfie clicked by the member of Rajasthan State Commission for Women with a rape victim courted controversy prompting the chairperson of the commission to seek a written explanation.

Narrow escape for Kerala medic as K'taka batch mate killed just 50m away

Narrow escape for Kerala medic as K'taka batch mate killed just 50m away

Rediff.com2 Mar 2022

A day later, Hussain's family in Kerala are thankful he escaped but also know that many perils lie ahead.

Medical shocker! Delhi hospital operates youth's wrong leg, family fumes

Medical shocker! Delhi hospital operates youth's wrong leg, family fumes

Rediff.com23 Jun 2016

In an alleged case of medical negligence, doctors at a private hospital New Delhi have wrongly operated upon the left leg of a 24-year-old youth instead of the injured right leg.

First major shocker for Modi Sarkar: Exports are down

First major shocker for Modi Sarkar: Exports are down

Rediff.com1 Apr 2015

The question is whether the Indian economy has the advantage of other vibrant sectors that can step up their performance on the exports front, says A K Bhattacharya.

Shocker! Govt may cut income tax relief

Shocker! Govt may cut income tax relief

Rediff.com14 May 2010

People with more than Rs 10 lakh (Rs 1 million) annual income may not get the tax relief originally proposed in the Direct Taxes Code, as the finance ministry is for tweaking slabs across the board to offset concessions elsewhere.

Flashback 2022: Zero Returns

Flashback 2022: Zero Returns

Rediff.com31 Dec 2022

As the curtain comes down on 2022, Roshmila Bhattacharya flashbacks to some of the year's news-makers and events.

Trinamool MP's shocker: 'I think PM has ties with terrorists'

Trinamool MP's shocker: 'I think PM has ties with terrorists'

Rediff.com6 Jan 2016

Courting controversy Triamool Congress MP Idris Ali on Wednesday made a shocking allegation that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had 'links to terrorism' which is why the attack on the Pathankot Air Force Base was executed resulting in the death of seven defence personnel.

Demonetisation shocker: 50% of BSE 200 stocks erase 2016's gains

Demonetisation shocker: 50% of BSE 200 stocks erase 2016's gains

Rediff.com28 Dec 2016

'Unless India Inc's earnings offer promise in March 2017 quarter, sentiment may not reverse in a hurry.'

Nitish's shocker: Bihar to be dry state from April 2016

Nitish's shocker: Bihar to be dry state from April 2016

Rediff.com26 Nov 2015

The Bihar CM also said that those villages which will help in the campaign against liquor will be awarded.

After Wednesday's shocker, Mamata unlikely to meet PM

After Wednesday's shocker, Mamata unlikely to meet PM

Rediff.com14 Jun 2012

Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee, who has teamed up with Samajawadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav to come up with their own names for the Presidential poll, is unlikely to meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and has deferred plans to go back to Kolkata.

Pune shocker: Man walks on road with wife's severed head

Pune shocker: Man walks on road with wife's severed head

Rediff.com9 Oct 2015

In a ghastly incident, a 60-year-old man was on Friday seen walking on the road in Pune with his wife's head after he beheaded her with an axe suspecting infidelity, police said.

SHOCKER! Fuel price may rise again in June

SHOCKER! Fuel price may rise again in June

Rediff.com9 May 2012

Price hikes of controlled petroleum products such as diesel, cooking gas and kerosene have been happening annually in the month of June, irrespective of the companies' losses.

Gunathilaka's controversial dismissal mars Windies win

Gunathilaka's controversial dismissal mars Windies win

Rediff.com11 Mar 2021

Gunathilaka dismissal was followed by a couple of run-outs as Sri Lanka lost their rhythm and were all out for 232. Hosts West Indies completed the chase with three overs to spare.

Goa minister's shocker! 'Small' rape incidents occur where tourism flourishes

Goa minister's shocker! 'Small' rape incidents occur where tourism flourishes

Rediff.com7 Jun 2015

Unfazed by the controversy over his comments on the gangrape of two Delhi-based women in Goa, Tourism Minister Dilip Parulekar on Saturday maintained it was a "small incident" and that it occurs where tourism flourishes.

Sindhu's 'I retire' post sends Twitter into a tizzy

Sindhu's 'I retire' post sends Twitter into a tizzy

Rediff.com2 Nov 2020

The note, posted on her Twitter handle, took her fans by surprise but that was only one part of the whole message she was trying to make.

Delhi shocker: 15-year-old girl gets ex-boyfriend killed

Delhi shocker: 15-year-old girl gets ex-boyfriend killed

Rediff.com9 Mar 2015

After inviting the victim for playing holi and patching up in north Delhi's Burari area.

Oz media behind India on umpiring shockers

Oz media behind India on umpiring shockers

Rediff.com3 Jan 2008

The Australian media could not help commiserating with the Indian cricketers, who bore the brunt of shocking umpiring blunders in the on Day 1 of the second cricket Test against Australia.

SHOCKER! BJP, Digvijaya have common queries in Ishrat case

SHOCKER! BJP, Digvijaya have common queries in Ishrat case

Rediff.com5 Jul 2013

The political slugfest on Ishrat Jahan alleged fake encounter case on Friday saw the Bharatiya Janata Party supporting Congress leader Digvijaya Singh's demand that the home ministry come clean on the issue of her alleged terror links as agencies such as the Intelligence Bureau, the Central Bureau of investigation and the National Investigation Agency have differences over it.