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The votes counting in the three north-east states- Tripura, Meghalaya, and Nagaland has begun. The BJP is giving a tough competition to the Left Front and Congress. The BJP has aimed to take all the three north-east states, and are confident of its ...

‘Where is the board’s accountability in this whole transaction? The members of the earlier board who participated in approving and defending these acquisition are still in the current board,’ the whistleblower said in a mail sent to US SEC and Sebi.  Infosys CEO Salil Parekh (right), COO Pravin Rao (centre) and CFO M D Ranganath during the announcement of the annual financial results of the company at its headquarters in Bengaluru on Friday. Photograph: PTI Photo. A ...

IMAGE: BJP president Amit Shah with party leaders B S Yeddyurappa, Jagadish Shettar and others during a day-long fast to protest against the disruption of parliament proceedings by the Opposition, in Dharwad, Karnataka on Thursday. Photograph: PTI Photo Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who observed a fast along with fellow Bharatiya Janata Party MPs to protest the washout of the second leg of the budget session of Parliament, on Thursday travelled to Tamil Nadu to participate in several events.

Bollywood's tryst with blackmail... IMAGE: Irrfan Khan in Blackmail. In Blackmail, Irrfan Khan learns about his wife's infidelity and decides to profit from it by anonymously pressurising her boyfriend for money. Needless to say, things don't go as planned. Sukanya Verma looks at some other instances of blackmail by Bollywood.   Gumrah (1963) IMAGE: Shashikala and Mala Sinha in Gumrah. Gumrah centres on a married woman, played by Mala Sinha, rekindling ties with an old flame.

Central Crime Branch (CCB) sleuths of the Mangaluru police arrested a gang of six persons, including three women, on the charge of luring a man into a honey trap. They tempted the victim by offering him a body massage and robbed him at a rented house in ...

The final of the Nidahas Trophy 2018 between India and Bangladesh was always going to be an exciting affair. Although Sri Lanka, the home team in the tri-series, wasn't contesting, the local fans were deeply interested in the outcome of the match. The Indian ...

'Sirisena will keep both Rajapaksa and Wickremesinghe on tenterhooks till the next general election due in 2020,' says Aditi Phadnis. IMAGE: Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena, right, with Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe. Photograph: Dinuka Liyanawatte/Reuters Opposition leader and former Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa must be laughing his head off. Despite all the cases of corruption against him and his family, despite the harassment and the jail terms that members of his ...

Actor Narendra Jha -- who was last seen in Raees, Kaabil, Mohenjo Daro -- passed away on Wednesday, March 14, morning after a heart attack. He was 55.This fine actor spoke to Rediff.com last year.   There is a common factor between Raees and Kaabil, which released on the same day: Narendra Jha. The actor plays a small but pivotal role in both movies. In Raees, he plays the man who gives shelter to the gangster played by Shah Rukh Khan. In Kaabil, he plays a policeman investigating the ...

With a BJP-backed government taking charge in Kohima, the prospects of the Naga Accord becoming a swift reality are considered bright.Long before the Government of India appointed interlocutors to mediate with rebel Naga leaders, Sanjoy Hazarika had interceded with National Socialist Council of Nagaland chieftains Isak Chisi Swu and Thuingalang Muivah in Bangkok on then prime minister P V Narasimha Rao's behalf.In this exclusive extract from his fascinating new book, Strangers No More: New ...