Biz tycoons LN Mittal, Kiran Mazumdar Shaw among electoral bond buyers

Corporate donations worth thousands of crores to political parties through now-scrapped electoral bonds may have hit the headlines, but there were also 132 such bonds of just Rs 1,000 each bought......

Hindu-Canadians asked to go back to India: Trudeau's party leader

Amid a diplomatic row between India and Canada, an Indo-Canadian lawmaker from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's party has expressed dismay at the “glorification of terrorism” and hate......

Canada's allies were reluctant over its accusations against India: Report

A day after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau alleged India's involvement in the killing of a prominent Sikh separatist leader, the Canadian media reported that Ottawa's Five Eye allies were......

Singapore's Shanmugaratnam joins club of PIO leaders dominating world politics

With Tharman Shanmugaratnam winning Singapore's presidential election, he joins a long list of Indian-origin leaders who are dominating politics at important world capitals. IMAGE: Singapore's......

'Grounding of Jet Airways seems a scam'

"The central government had rescued other businesses by re-structuring debts to the tune of Rs 30,000-40,000 crore. Compared to this, the amount (debt) of Jet Airways was much smaller. Moreover......

COLUMN: Utterly butterly Indian ads

A recently published book, Ad Katha, is not just a trip through the golden age of Indian advertising, but also an enquiry into how many of the cultural symbols that we now see as "Indian" came......

Market crash: Bargain hunters make hay

After the market re-opened at 10.55 am on Tuesday, Anil Anand (name changed), a retail investor working in a bank in Churchgate, called his broker to ask him to buy 100 shares of Reliance......

Sensex @ 20k: Listen to the expert

BSE Sensexhit 20,000-point mark on Monday for the first time ever with a massive gain of more than 750 points on frantic buying by foreign and local investors in blue-chip stocks.The major drivers......

30 RD Burman Gems You May Not Have Heard

Rahul Dev Burman made enough music to last a million lifetimes. As it happens in the case of every prolific artist, some of his work received more love than others. When one thinks of RD classics,......

Bhumi Wants To Thank You For...

Film and telly folk came to a special screening of the week's release, Thank You for Coming. Directed by first-timer Karan Boolani and produced by his wife Rhea Kapoor and Ekta R Kapoor, the sex......

The Satish Kaushik You Never Knew

'I did a small role in Masoom.''Do you remember the scene where an old man brings Jugal Hansraj to Naseer's house?''I put on the full make-up of an old man and stood in front of Shekhar.''He had no......

Watched These Vikram Gokhale Movies?

An actor of remarkable presence and gravitas, Vikram Gokhale's dramatic eloquence and cocksure authority sparkled every time he had to call on someone's bluff or leave them too tongue-tied to beat......

Sports Shorts: Dipa qualifies for final round of Artistic Gymnastics World Cup

Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Thursday IMAGE: Dipa Karmakar performed a higher difficulty Handfront 540 vault for the first time in the competition. Photograph:......

Chess Olympiad: Indian men beat Czech Republic, Hungarian eves shock Indian women

IMAGE: In the women's section, India suffered a major setback. Photograph: Batumi Chess/Twitter Krishnan Sasikiran guided Indian men to a 2.5-1.5 win over Czech Republic but the women's team......

Tendulkar, Anand support campaign against child labour

Indian cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar, chess champion Viswanathan Anand and Bollywood stars took to Twitter this week to support a campaign against child labour, using their fame to draw greater......

National Games: Jitu shoots golden double, more records in pool

Jitu Rai struck gold twice with his pistol while Kerala's swimming sensation Sajan Prakash continued to shatter records and accumulate gold medals, adding a fifth to his tally,......

Kashyap, Arvind advance to India Open quarters

Second seed Indian Chetan Anand suffered a shock defeat but P Kashyap and Arvind Bhat notched up contrasting wins to reach the quarterfinals of the Indian Open Grand Prix in Hyderabad on Thursday.......