Woolf

Rediff.com » News » Woolf

News for Woolf

News
Business
Movies
Sports

Britain's Nigel Farage quits as leader of pro-Brexit party

Nigel Farage, who campaigned for Britain to leave the European Union, on Monday quit as the leader of the anti-immigrant UK Independence Party, saying he wanted his "life back" as he has fulfilled......

What the fiddich! Why are books so fat?

Just as scotch bottles have become bigger, novels have also become fatter. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com. A few days ago, a friend said he doesn’t read fiction. This reminded me of......

Ruchira Gupta: The icon we called 'Kiddy'

When Subir Roy met Ruchira Gupta at The Telegraph 35 years ago, she was not quite 20 and not a graduate.Today she is the indomitable founder of Apne Aap, which has touched the lives of over 21,000......

LSE head resigns over financial links with Gaddafi

London School of Economics (LSE) head Sir Howard Davies has resigned from his post over his institution's controversial financial links with Libya.The university has also revealed that it had......

The Left, the Right and us

Now, the world over, policymakers are dusting off their copies of Keynes' classic, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, and figuring out whether there are any answers there to our......

Manorathangal Review: Anatomy of A Visionary Mindscape

Through Manorathangal, M T Vasudevan Nair makes himself available to a whole new generation of uninitiated viewers, who can familiarise themselves with his rich body of work and hope to learn a......

Isn't Tabu GORGEOUS?

Adah does yoga in bed... Taapsee goes on holiday... Hrithik clicks a selfie... Please click on the images for a look at the stars. IMAGE: We don't see Tabu on social media too often,......

The Birdcage director Mike Nichols passes away

Oscar-winning director Mike Nichols succumbed to cardiac arrest on November 19. He was 83. The director has given us such films like Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf, The Graduate, The Remains of the......

The Hours Review

Stephen Daldry's The Hours makes a shocking premise-- that suicide is an acceptable response to a faulty world. The three main characters in the movie are the writer Virginia Woolf (Nicole Kidman),......

Secret Superstar removes the veil from Bollywood

'The Muslim identity of the family appears incidental to the subject of the film...''The self-sacrificing, suffering mother film could have belonged to any religion.''The abusive father, who......

Woolf report needs study: ICC CEC

The ICC Chief Executives' Committee has decided that the Woolf report, which proposed changes in the governance structure of the world body, and rejected by the BCCI, requires detailed study by......

Lord Woolf to head ICC's Governance Review

Lord Harry Woolf, a former Chief Justice of England and Wales, has been named chairman of the ICC's Independent Governance Review Committee that will draw up a new strategic plan for 2011-2015,......

PCB says no to Woolf report recommendations

The Pakistan Cricket Board has told the ICC that it cannot accept the recommendations of the Woolf report, which calls for ending government interference in the game, due to the "unique......

ICC Executive Board to meet in Dubai

The Woolf Report, nomination of the ICC vice-president, managing the volume of Twenty20 cricket, schedule of events from 2015 to 2023, are some of the issues that the ICC Executive Board will......

'ICC revamp is entirely motivated by money'

Lord Harry Woolf, the former judge whose review of the ICC's governance structure was rejected, has lambasted the proposed revamp of the body which would cede executive decision-making to India,......