Shivpal, Maurya among 14 general secys in SP's new national executive

The Samajwadi Party declared its 62-member national executive on Sunday with Akhilesh Yadav as its national president and his uncle Shivpal Yadav as a general secretary. IMAGE: SP chief Akhilesh......

Chhattisgarh CM's son Abhishek Singh Raman files nomination

nominations on Monday for the Lok Sabha elections. Accompanied by his father and mother Veena Singh, Abhishek Singh Raman, a Bharatiya Janata Party nominee, filed his nomination papers from......

Did Raman Singh take Rahul Gandhi too lightly?

The results, while bringing the Congress back to power in this state, also end the rule of the 66-year-old BJP stalwart, who has earned several monikers during his 15-year-long tenure --......

Aarogya Setu tops charts with 75 million downloads

The exponential number of downloads can be attributed to a call by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, asking people to have the app on their mobiles, combined with the government's push for downloading......

Hope recedes for GST rollout in 2016

Congress members repeatedly disrupted both the Houses ensuring that at least the Rajya Sabha, where Congress members outnumber that of the ruling alliance, couldn’t transact any business. The......

Flashback 2022: Pushpa Blooms

As the curtain comes down on 2022, Roshmila Bhattacharya flashbacks to some of the year's news-makers and events. Part 1: A for Alia Bhatt Part 2: Jacqueline's Con Call Part 3: Malaika-Arjun's 'M'......

Beware of SERIAL KILLERS!

Photograph: Kind courtesy Abhishek Bachchan/Instagram Serial killer movies can be thrilling. That's perhaps why we have seen quite a few of them. The genre became popular with Rajesh Khanna's......

Bhuj: The Pride of India Review

Bhuj: The Pride of India: Pearl Harbour on a dollar store budget, notes Sukanya Verma.   Paper planes fly with more conviction than the fleet of VFX generated aircrafts gliding, bombing and......

Which book-to-screen is YOUR fave? VOTE!

In Parineeti Chopra's upcoming Netflix release The Girl On The Train, the actress goes against type to play an alcoholic, whose obsession around a happily married couple lands her in the middle of......

Should Sachin Help India In Australia?

  IMAGE: Sachin Tendulkar's presence in the dressing room will give Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma an opportunity to pick the great man's brains. Photograph: Amit Dave/Reuters   With the......

Laxman likely to lead young India to Zimbabwe

Photograph: Kind courtesy BCCI/X VVS Laxman and his support staff at the National Cricket Academy might accompany the Indian team to Zimbabwe for the five-match T20I series beginning July 6 while......

Events That Changed Indian Cricket Forever

Would there have been an incomparable batsman named Sachin Tendulkar had Doordarshan not telecast Guide one summer afternoon?A fascinating excerpt from Abhishek Mukherjee and Joy Bhattacharjya's......

Ranji Trophy: Bengal's batters break 129-year-old record!

IMAGE: Bengal's Abhishek Raman, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Sudip Gharami, Anustup Mujumdar, Manoj Tiwary, Abishek Porel, Shahbaz Ahmed, Sayan Mandal and Akash Deep -- all hit half-centuries against......

Saha back for Bengal's Ranji QF, Shami's participation unclear

IMAGE: 37-year-old Wriddhiman Saha whose comeback headlined the Bengal squad after he had refused to play red ball cricket citing "personal reasons". Photograph: BCCI Three months after refusing......