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How Many Lok Sabha Seats Will South India Lose In 2029?

'Kerala will lose 6 seats, Tamil Nadu 9 seats, Telangana and Karnataka 2 seats each, Andhra Pradesh 5 seats.' IMAGE: A voter shows his ink marked finger at a polling booth at Tambaram in Chennai,......

History In Minutes: Javed Akhtar's Freedom Fighter Family

Syed Firdaus Ashraf offers a ready reckoner on Javed Akhtar's great great grandfather Fazl e Haq Khairabadi who fought the British empire during the 1857 Mutiny and was imprisoned in the Cellular......

'Prabhakaran's Biggest Blunder Was Rajiv Gandhi's Murder'

'This was a decision taken and executed by Prabhakaran and his intelligence chief Pottu Amman. Both were convinced that the assassination would not be linked to them.' IMAGE: Velupillai......

'Goa Beach Shacks Can't Sell Idli-Sambar'

'Idli-sambar is available to eat on the main roads but the shacks on Goa beaches, which were started to give employment to local Goans, cannot sell idli-sambar.' IMAGE: A Goa beachside.......

Ranveer Allahbadia's Rise, Journalism's Demise

Ranveer Allahbadia found an easy way of asking questions which made sense to him and his team.No counter-questions or finding out the 'Why?' from the celebrity he was speaking to.The 'Why?' was......

'History Will Remember Him With Gratitude'

'During his stint as prime minister, he got 270 million people out of poverty.''This, according to the World Bank, is the fastest compression of poverty anywhere in the world.' Arvind Mayaram, the......

'Middle Class Won't Be Affected By Indexation'

'For me, if I want to buy a house to stay, I don't care about indexation because I don't want to sell that house.''The only thing that matters to me as a buyer is that the home price should be......

Why Builders Won't Drop Home Prices

'What happens in the real estate market is that once the prices go up it goes on to stay at that level.' 'It might not increase and at the same time the prices will not come down too.' IMAGE: A......

'Nothing alarming about fall in financial savings yet'

'As long as economic growth remains steady, creating jobs and generating stable incomes, the rise in home loans should not create problems.''If the growth trajectory changes course over the medium......

Saif Moved To New Home 4 Years Ago

Saif and Kareena moved to Satguru Sharan after Jeh was born. IMAGE: The building in Bandra, north west Mumbai, where Saif Ali Khan and his family lives. Photograph: Syed Firdaus Ashraf/Rediff.com......

Political uncertainty casts shadow on PCB leadership

IMAGE: The newly formed Board of Governors of the PCB, in accordance with its constitution, elected Mohsin Naqvi, the caretaker chief minister of Punjab, as its chairman for the next three years......

Naqvi appointed Pakistan Cricket Board chairman

IMAGE: A Pakistani media baron, Syed Mohsin Raza Naqvi is the 37th full-time chairman of the PCB. Photograph: PCB Media/X The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Tuesday unanimously elected veteran......

'Pakistan stars prioritise T20 leagues over country'

Pakistan's on-field performances not affected by frequent changes in PCB, says acting chairman IMAGE: Image used for representational purpose only. The newly-appointed acting chairman of the......

PCB to take up Rizwan's controversial dismissal with ICC

IMAGE: Pakistan's Mohammad Rizwan was controversially dismissed via DRS on Day 4 of the 2nd Test against Australia at the MCG. Photograph: Kind courtesy cricket.com.au/X Following the......

Arthur, Bradburn and Puttick resign from PCB

Photograph: PCB/X The Pakistan Cricket Board has confirmed that foreign coaches Mickey Arthur, Grant Bradburn and Andrew Puttick have resigned from their respective roles with the national team as......

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