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Shivraj's rule ends, Mohan Yadav is picked as MP CM

Ending days of suspense, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday picked Mohan Yadav, a three-time MLA from temple town Ujjain as the new chief minister of Madhya Pradesh, once again reposing its faith......

Terror recruitment module busted in J-K with arrest of PhD scholar

With the arrest of a PhD scholar of Central University of Kashmir, the police on Wednesday said to have busted a terrorist recruitment module in Kulgam district of Jammu and Kashmir. IMAGE: PhD......

Why Is Prof Saibaba Denied A Water Bottle in Jail?

It took a five-day hunger strike by the former Delhi University professor, in jail without a break for five years after being convicted of links with Maoists, for the jail administration to agree......

'The terrorists were lobbing grenades, firing indiscriminately'

'I could see the silhouettes of three men on the sixth floor.''I pointed them out to the NSG personnel standing beside me and suggested they take them out.''They did not have the clearance to......

Colonel Raja Chari Is Ready for Space

On Sunday morning Eastern US time, four astronauts will zoom into space on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida.Commanding the spaceflight is Raja Chari, a United......

How Apple CEO plans to counter iPhone worries

Apple has more to show for its efforts in artificial intelligence, where it was an early pioneer with its Siri digital assistant. As iPhone sales declined for the second straight quarter,......

Ta-ta Tata, another Indian tycoon steps in to rescue British steel industry

Gupta has expressed an intent to buy Port Talbot, Britain’s biggest steelworks At 44, Liberty House owner Sanjeev Gupta is making headlines for going against the trend of bringing the......

India, the new supply giant for global retailers

Vipul Gupta, 25, leans back in his large, towel-covered chair, inside a predictable wood-panelled office, and begins a story. It's about how his grandfather, Narayan Kumar Lohia, a purveyor of......

Understanding climate change and India

A handbook is generally understood to be a ready reckoner, a quick reference, a flick-through pocketbook, something you pull out when the machinery has failed and so has your memory, or equally, in......

Why it's curtains at SKS for Suresh Gurumani

So-called 'silent' periods of listed companies usually end without even a whimper. But in the case of SKS Microfinance, the country's largest micro-finance institution (MFI), it ended with a......

Review: Gullak 4: Pleasant Watch

The new season coasts along on the simple anecdotes that make up the piggy bank of family lore; the performances are as wonderful as before, but the sharpness of humour is starting to dull a bit,......

What Makes Malayalam Cinema So Distinctive?

The reasons are too private to be discussed at a round table, listed out during a seminar, or uncovered in an academic course.A proud but insomniac connoisseur murmuring in his sleep may do a......

When A Country Erases Its Film-makers

'The Iranians are very resilient people. So even when they are throttled, they try their best to survive.' IMAGE: Sreemoyee Singh and Iranian Director Jafar Panahi. Photograph: Kind courtesy......

2022 Flashback...Alia, Lata, Deepika...

As the curtain come down on 2022, Roshmila Bhattacharya flashbacks to some of the year's newsmakers and events... A: ALIA ALL OVER IMAGE: Alia Bhatt at the Berlin film festival. Photograph:......

Why Designing Clothes For This Film Was SO TOUGH!

'Kangana is such a stylo, she knows what will look good on her.''If you can explain to her why you are using a certain print on her or why you are putting a hairband on her head, if you have a......

WOW Moments From Paris Olympics!

The Paris Olympics had it all -- glamour (cuing for Snoop Dogg here), humour (the inventive Internet producing memes after memes) and some controversy too -- Vinesh Phogat's disqualification and......

Beijing closes curtain on 'closed loop' Games

IMAGE: Fireworks explode above the stadium as national flags, a snowflake and the Olympic rings are seen during the closing ceremony. Photograph: Phil Noble/Reuters Beijing doused its Olympic......

Is Gayle the greatest in T20 cricket history?

IMAGE: A two-time T20 World Cup-winning superstar, Chris Gayle has 1899 runs in 79 T20Is, with a strike rate of 137.31. Photograph: Francois Nel/Getty Images Wearing a beaming smile and sunglasses......

Sports Shorts: Boxer Amit Panghal shines; Delhi stun Bengaluru FC

IMAGE: Amit Panghal celebrates. Photograph: Shahbaz Khan/PTI Asian Games gold medallist Amit Panghal started the season on a strong note as Indian boxers packed enough power into their punches to......

Turning Point: Bumrah's magic keeps MI in the hunt

IMAGE: Jasprit Bumrah was magnificent at the death. Without his pin-point accuracy, Mumbai Indians would be out of the play-offs reckoning. Photograph: BCCI Just when it looked like curtains for......

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