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Why Calcutta Remains A City Of Bhoy

A year after the RG Kar rape-murder Swarupa Dutt looks at the city where it happened, Kolkata -- a study in dichotomy, at once the self-proclaimed cultural capital of India as also a petri dish for......

The Day I Was Reborn

'We had been deceived by the clouds, taken to the brink of death, but saved by the Almighty.' Illustrations: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com 4 Horn blaring, my car got to a screeching halt behind......

Veteran yanked off R-Day commentators list

When the Republic Day parade gets underway this year, the audience of All India Radio and television viewers will miss the voice of eminent Hindi commentator Jasdev Singh who has been taken off the......

Chairs broken, mics yanked, shirts torn: TN assembly turned into a virtual war zone

Torn shirts of Speaker P Dhanapal and Leader of Opposition M K Stalin, toppled chairs, strewn paper pieces and displacement of mikes bore testimony to a virtual war-like situation in the Tamil Nadu......

The End Of NDTV As We Know It

We got the same Diwali bonuses. We ate together. We carried equipment together on shoots.And when the odd reporter tried to throw her weight around and leave the camera person to carry bags of......

FPI selling tops $10 bn in Oct amid China shift

Foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) have net sold domestic shares worth over $10 billion so far this month amid a shift to China, which not only offers attractive valuations compared to India but......

Foreign portfolio investors: The back-seat driver in market dashboard

After pumping in close to $20 billion in the preceding five months, foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) have yanked out $220 million from domestic stocks this month. Illustration: Dominic......

DII-FPI shareholding gap narrows to all-time low in September quarter

Domestic investors are tightening their grip on the ownership of listed companies. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com The gap between the shareholding of domestic institutional investors (DIIs)......

Diesel sales fall 3% in Sep, petrol up 5.4%

Diesel sales in India fell 3 per cent in September as a receding monsoon continued to dampen demand and slowed industrial activity in some parts of the country, preliminary data of state-owned......

Big mutual fund buys in June see turbulence

Equity mutual funds (MFs) deployed maximum in shares of Reliance Industries (RIL) in June at Rs 2,177 crore, followed by Maruti Suzuki (Rs 2,045 crore) and Bharti Airtel (Rs 1,310 crore).......

Choona Review: Not Much Fun!

Choona is too slow, has redundant characters and needless complications, observes Deepa Gahlot. In Mumbai slang, 'choona lagana' is to fool or con someone. Which is what six men do to a politician......

Lara Dutta completes a decade in Bollywood

Here's what your favourite Bollywood celebrities are tweeting.Bollywood actress and former beauty queen Lara Dutta, who debuted in Bollywood with 2003 film Andaaz, completed a decade in......

Raja Sen reviews Aamir Khan's Talaash

Raja Sen feels Talaash is well made and strongly acted but is not as enjoyable to watch as it deserved to be.Make no mistake, Talaash is a Vikram Bhatt film. Which isn't to say Bhatt actually made......

Pooja Missra thrown out of Bigg Boss

'Spare me!' said Bigg Boss to Pooja Missra on Saturday morning.The volatile housemate was asked to leave the reality television show because of violence.According to sources, housemate Sidharth......

Review: Eastern Promises

The setting is unspeakably macabre. Two Russian mobsters stand over a barber's attic in London, helping him dispose of a razor-guillotined corpse. Nikolai, played by Viggo Mortensen, set to 'treat'......

Mahipal Lomror aces 'weird' role of Impact Player

IMAGE: Mahipal Lomror donned the finisher’s role along side Dinesh Karthik in RCB’s first home game of the IPL 2024 season. Photograph: BCCI On a balmy Monday night, Mahipal Lomror......

GT Vs RR: Who Played The Best Knock?

IMAGE: While Shubman Gill top scored for the Gujarat Titans, Rashid Khan produced a match-winning cameo. Photographs: BCCI Rain, dropped catches, some stellar bowling, and, of course, big knocks......

GT vs PBKS: Who Played The Best Knock?

A stunning late counter-attack from the unheralded duo of Shashank Singh and Ashutosh Sharma powered the Punjab Kings to an unbelievable three wicket victory against the Gujarat Titans in the IPL......

EPL PIX: Everton, Newcastle play out dramatic draws

IMAGES from the Premier League matches played on Saturday. IMAGE: Everton's Jarrad Branthwaite scores their second goal and the equaliser against Tottenham Hotspur at Goodison Park, Liverpool,......

Kohli's Twin Blows Flattened Pakistan

IMAGE: Virat Kohli's brilliance powered India to victory off the last ball in a thrilling run chase against Pakistan at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Sunday, October 22, 2022. Photograph: Quinn......