'Atal ji picked my call but Sonia kept me waiting'

After being elected president of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) in 1999, Najma Heptulla rang up the then Congress chief Sonia Gandhi from Berlin to convey the news but had to hold the phone......

The man who guarded Indira Gandhi set to be Mizoram CM

From earning the dubious distinction of the first MP to be disqualified under the anti-defection law to being all set to becoming the chief minister of Mizoram, 73-year-old Lalduhoma's political......

When Dr Singh Took On Congress Bosses

Many were hoping that with Vajpayee's NDA gone, there would be a return to the Congress normal.Nobody was prepared for the opposite.Sonia Gandhi was sceptical.This became the only issue over which......

Liberalization: How Dr Singh Convinced Narasimha Rao

'I had to persuade him. I think he was a sceptic to begin with, but later on he was convinced that what we were doing was the right thing to do, that there was no other way out.' A revealing......

3 eminent economists in RBI's monetary committee

The government on Monday appointed three eminent economists -- Ashima Goyal, Jayanth R Varma and Shashanka Bhide -- as members of the rate-setting Monetary Policy Committee of the RBI, sources......

REVEALED: Rajiv Gandhi's role in Boeing deal

The recent Kissinger Cables released by Wikileaks might have suggested that former prime minister, Rajiv Gandhi, could have been an "entrepreneur" for Swedish aircraft manufacturer Saab-Scania for......

PM assures nation of enough food grain stock

Addressing the Conference of State Ministers of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj in New Delhi over shooting commodity prices and a deficient monsoon, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh......

Bollywood's Biggest Patch-ups

Bollywood is as much about friends as it is about feuding. Which is why several starry battles so frequently turn back to friendship. In the end, everybody ends up working together anyway. Here,......

PIX! U20 wrestlers accorded warm welcome

IMAGE: Gold medalist Mohit Kumar poses for the shutterbugs at the IGI airport in New Delhi on Friday. Photograph: Amit Sharma/ANI It was a memorable day for Indian wrestling as Mohit Kumar was......

The CHAMPIONS have arrived!

IMAGE: Commonwealth Games medal winners Avinash Sable, left, Abdullah Aboobacker, centre, and Eldhose Paul, right -- India's athletic stars at the 2022 Commonwealth Games -- get a rousing......

When Lata Mangeshkar rescued BCCI post 1983 WC win

IMAGE: Lata Mangeshkar was very close to all Mumbai cricketers like Sunil Gavaskar, Dilip Vengsarkar and Sachin Tendulkar, who spoke about her with unmatchable humility and mother like respect.......

Images from Day 5 at Wimbledon

Novak Djokovic made serene progress into the fourth round at Wimbledon with a 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 win over American Mardy Fish Friday. The Serbian fourth seed, who made a shock exit in round two 12......