The welfare schemes of the government, particularly Lakshmir Bhandar, have had a major impact on the electoral outcome. IMAGE: Trinanool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee shows a victory sign after......
'Women are likely to have voted because of the numerous welfare schemes. The CAA consolidated minority votes and the BJP's booth-level organisation in Bengal is weak.' IMAGE: Trinamool Congress......
The marathon polling process to elect the 18th Lok Sabha ended on Saturday with the seventh phase of elections witnessing an approximate voter turnout of 62.36 per cent, amid clashes between......
In the seventh and final phase of the general election on Saturday, polling is being held for 57 constituencies spread across seven states and the Union Territory of Chandigarh, including Varanasi......
IMAGE: Bharatiya Janata Party leaders Narendra D Modi and Yogi Adityanath during a roadshow in Ayodhya, May 6, 2024. Photograph: ANI Photo Polling for the third phase of the Lok Sabha......
How is it that tomatoes recorded a price fall in official statistics when it remained unaffordable for the common person in June? IMAGE: A vendor loads tomatoes for a customer in Mumbai: A......
Nandan Nilekani, co-founder and chairman of Infosys and the founding chairman of UIDAI, has donated Rs 315 crore to the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay. IMAGE: Nandan Nilekani.......
The mutual fund (MF) industry has seen a fair number of new entrants in the last 10 years but none of them have proved to be much of a challenge for the larger players. Illustration: Dominic......
Barring stray references such as the 'dual control' of banks and shifting the goalposts during demonetisation, he is not in a fault-finding mode with the government, notes Tamal Bandyopadhyay.......
Nothing has ever been done to make bank officers accountable, except for the rare actions when there is a public controversy, argues Debashis Basu. IMAGE: Former SBI chairman Pratip Chaudhuri was......
'Since God was being shown in live action on such a large scale, Prasanth was initially sceptical about going with an animated character.' IMAGE: Teja Sajja in HanuMan. Prasanth Varma's Telugu......
'Where Pratidwandi is concerned, there are very few men standing.' IMAGE: Dhritiman Chatterjee in Satyajit Ray's Pratidwandi. Dhritiman Chatterjee, a post-graduate in economics, came from a world......
'I am greedy to have my eggs in different baskets.' IMAGE: Nimrat Kaur in Dasvi. Photograph: Kind courtesy Nimrat Kaur/ nstagram As Nimrat Kaur returns to the Indian screen in the role of a......
Sukanya Verma quizzes you to find out just how much you know about the movies. All pandemic and no play life a drag. So here's our fun and film quiz to the rescue. Simply identify the movie from......
Kapil Dev's historic World Cup win wasn't the only highlight of 1983. Sukanya Verma looks back how the year treated Bollywood. It was a year of excitement and extremes. If parallel cinema in India......
Photograph: Kind Courtesy Bajrang Punia/Instagram Olympic medallist Bajrang Punia is set to leave for Issyk-kul in Kyrgyzstan to train for the upcoming Asian Games after skipping the trials for......
IMAGE: Bajrang Punia was named in India’s contingent for the Asian Games. Photograph: Hannah McKay/Reuters A record number of 634 sportspersons were on Friday cleared by the Sports Ministry......
IMAGE: Ahead of the Asian Games, Bajrang Punia said he would honour the decision taken by the panchayats. Photograph: Anushree Fadnavis/Reuters Olympic bronze medallist Bajrang Punia on Thursday......
'It's not just the wins and losses, but the competition is something they live for.''That will be missing whatever Sania takes up.' IMAGE: Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis with the Wimbledon women's......