Samsung Galaxy Alpha is a very capable phone, and sales should pick up pace if the company decides to move quickly and brings the price to a more realistic level of about Rs 35,000, says Himanshu Juneja.
With the Centre blinking on the issue of formation of Telangana, Rashtriya Lok Dal chief Ajit Singh on Thursday decided to revive his demand for Harit Pradesh to be carved out of Uttar Pradesh after the Parliament session.
Uthamaputhiran is fluffy, frothy, impossibly light and has no business with logic or reason.
A Dutch designer has come up with a bizarre fashion accessory -- eye jewellery that hangs from wire attached to a contact lens.
It may be long overdue, but consolidation in the media sector will happen very slowly and painfully.
The unprecedented global recession had forced the central banks into a fire-fighting mode, cutting interest rates and infusing liquidity into the economic system. The global markets began to find their feet. And the Indian markets were among the leaders.
Tower by Mumbai-based author Avan Jesia is a "haunting saga of love and loss, spanning three generations of a Parsi family". We bring you an excerpt.
While most feel the world is a safer place now that the financial crisis has been tackled, Sunil Kewalramani lists ten future bubbles in the making.
Nandini speaks about her directing her debut Tamil film Thiru Thiru Thuru Thuru.
Believe it when women say their partners are bigger liars than them, for a new survey has revealed that males tell twice as many lies as females.
Unless the citizens demand and secure in each sector a citizens' charter setting out the minimum standards of provisioning and performance, things will not improve, says Mahesh Vijapurkar.
Read the story of Reshmi, the winner of a Tamil singing contest.
The Tamil film which is a romantic story laced with humour, fails to live up to expectations.
Thillalangadi goes through its fair share of ups and downs and differing musical treatment, due to the fact that it features work by two composers.
Tom Cruise's Knight and Day fail to impress.
American Serena Williams won her fourth Wimbledon singles title on Saturday when she crushed Russian 21st seed Vera Zvonareva 6-3, 6-2 in the final at the All England Club.
The ISI and the LeT will be determined to demonstrate that the action of Saudi Arabia, in deporting Abu Jundal, will not weaken their anti-India motivation by orchestrating a fresh terrorist strike against India, says B Raman.
In a decision that will come as a breath of fresh air to a large number of embattled Congressmen, the party leadership in a change of strategy has decided to play aggressive and defend party leaders charged with graft rather than sacrifice them one after the other as was happening till now.
Read on to learn more about the causes, symptoms and how to prevent it.
The change of format and infusion of young blood failed to bring about a turnaround for India as Australia thrashed the lacklustre visitors by 31 runs in the first T20 International in Sydney on Wednesday.
Tata's comments come a little over two weeks after JLR management and its workers agreed to a two-year pay freeze, subject to no compulsory layoffs for the next two years. This is also the first time the Tata chairman has made a direct public appeal to the UK government for credit support.
Go too fast in reverse and the fuel injection will be cut off! High engine temperature, misfire of the engine, injector failure and over speeding will also enable the chime of a buzzer and will flash a warning light on the dashboard. Before you dismiss this, please do know that the EMS controller is the best in the business. The electronic control unit, sensors and actuators are imported from Bosch, Germany.
Rafa Nadal kept alive his chances of ending his 11 month title drought by taming tenacious Argentine David Nalbandian 6-7, 6-2, 6-2 in the third round of the Sony Ericsson Open on Sunday.
Chelsea blinked first in the race for the Premier League title on Sunday, letting slip two points in a 1-1 draw at Blackburn as champions Manchester United enjoyed a two-point cushion at the top of the table.
India's disastrous hockey World Cup campaign ended with a 2-4 defeat to Argentina, consigning them to eighth place in the mega-event, in Delhi, on Friday.
Watch Sun Pictures' Thee, starring Sundar C, only if you want to do serious damage to your brain.
The series in pocket, India will field reserve players in the next two ODIs against Sri Lanka even if that compromises the team's prospects of registering their record ninth victory on the trot, victorious captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni said on Tuesday.
Having allowed Mumbai to amass 402 runs in their first innings, Uttar Pradesh lost early wickets to be left struggling at 91 for three at close on the second day of the Ranji Trophy final in Hyderabad on Tuesday.
Inscrutable have been the ways of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa. She is a political strategist and tactician rolled into one that her unpredictable ways have won the day for her - mostly, says N Sathiya Moorthy
Ratan Tata plans to move the Supreme Court against publication of conversations he had with Niira Radia, the corporate lobbyist. Vicky Nanjappa reveals how you can know if your phone is being tapped.
The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry carried out a review of municipal solid waste management in Indian cities in 2009, and found that only six of the 22 surveyed cities in the study had sanitary landfills, while 10 cities -- including major waste generators like New Delhi, Greater Mumbai (greatest generator of waste) and Kanpur -- did not have sanitary landfills.
Inspired or not, this Tamil film makes a mark.
Twenty: 20, the mother of all multi-starrers comprising all the leading artists of Malayalam cinema, spreads an interesting smorgasbord.
Directed by Venkat Prabhu Mankatha has a meandering screenplay. Only Ajith is its saving grace.
German Rainer Schuettler grabbed the last Wimbledon men's semi-final spot on Thursday with a dogged 6-3 5-7 7-6 6-7 8-6 win over France's Arnaud Clement in a match lasting more than five hours.
Bejoy Nambiar may have directed the film but it has Anurag Kashyap's pawprints all over its treatment.
Avni Cinemax's Tamil movie is a masala mixture which requires you to leaves your brains behind -- but Simran turns up with a great performance.
All of a sudden, in the space of some weeks, the nation seems to be running up a deficit on its cultural capital.
The 21-year-old, Frenchman playing in his first grand slam semi-final, had promised to give it his all when he faced world number one Roger Federer but soon discovered he had blurred vision. "This morning I already had a pain in my eye and I think I broke my contact lens," said Monfils following his 6-2, 5-7, 6-3, 7-5 defeat by the Swiss.
"Clearly there is a slowdown in the number of deals. . . interest rates have gone up from eight per cent in the past to now 12 per cent and prices too have gone up but an asset bubble is not there," ICICI Bank Joint Managing Director Chanda Kochhar told PTI. She said that a correction was expected as the present slowdown was in number of deals and not so much in prices.
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