I learnt that Yogi was deeply unhappy with the BJP's choice of Lok Sabha candidates.He had proposed a list of names, but hardly any of his suggestions were accepted. An interesting excerpt from......
Can ordinary citizens counter this backward march? Can peace activists ensure that the two communities retain their bonds? Do they have a choice, asks Jyoti Punwani. IMAGE: Karsevaks on the......
'There are 7,000 guns which are in the hands of the armed militia of the Kuki and Meitei communities.' IMAGE: The bodies of Kuki militants, who were killed in an encounter with the Central Reserve......
A land-owning class, the Jats are a powerful community and account for 28 per cent of Haryana's population. The time, they believe, has now come for them to take revenge. IMAGE: Congress leader......
Managing senior generals has proven to be quite a headache for General Asim Munir, even as he and his team of loyal henchmen labour hard to dispel the sense of unhappiness among the public about......
The next time you step into a prestigious management institute in India, don't be surprised to find men in uniform. The Indian Army is now going to send the men of action to top B-schools to train......
A BJP leader said the money would be spent on welfare schemes for the poor, modernising of defence forces, and improving schools. Archis Mohan reports.Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com The War......
After army personnel and IPS officers, other government employees have now voiced their grievances against the Sixth Pay Commission report, saying the recommendations do not correspond to the......
The first murmurs of protest over the Sixth Pay Commission recommendations are emanating from the defence services. A senior defence services officer told Business Standard on Tuesday that there......
When the Indian economy tanked in 1991, it did so because it ran out of foreign exchange. Today, it is tanking because it has run out of rupees even as the foreign exchange granary is overflowing,......
'...be it a comedy, thriller or a love story.''The bhindi costs Rs 30 per kilo, but the price of potato remains unchanged.' IMAGE: Om Puri in Ardh Satya. In the final phase of his life, Om Puri......
'I have a desire to go to Mumbai, but it is not possible and not in my hands.''My friends and parents tell me not to think about this, but I have put in lot of effort in this film.' Pakistani......
'I was in China and when they learnt I had made Disco Dancer, they started singing Jimmy Jimmy, Aaja Aaja.' IMAGE: Mithun Chakraborty in the song I Am A Disco Dancer from the film Disco Dancer.......
During his initial days in Mumbai, composer S D Burman's experiments with music were hit-and-miss affairs so he decided to give up his ambition of composing for Hindi films and......
History has not seen a cricketing rivalry as fierce as this this century, every ball bowled every run taken, coming with no quarter given. Ahead of India's five Test tour of Australia, beginning in......
IMAGE: Red Bull's Max Verstappen reacts after qualifying in pole position for the F1 Austrian Grand Prix at Red Bull Ring, Spielberg, Austria, on Saturday. Photograph: Florion Goga/Reuters Red......
'I might have to compete in para category, but all that I will know when my injury report is made after four weeks," the shooter, who hails from Baghpat district in Uttar Pradesh.' IMAGE:......
IMAGE: Thirty years after Imran Khan's Pakistan claimed the 1992 World Cup, Babar Azam's team may feel it is their destiny to deliver trophy. Photograph: ICC/Twitter A confident England will......
Football fans in Goa are shaking off their sussegado and becoming an animated, raucous, even belligerent lot, discovers Aniruddha Sen Gupta. In his everyday avatar, that of a young......