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Is Rahul or Priyanka the future of Congress?

Will she? Will she not? And on Saturday, she did. After years of frenzied speculation, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra is finally entering the Lok Sabha after a resounding win from Wayanad......

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......

Assam girl student in shorts made to wrap curtain around legs in exam

A 19-year-old girl appearing for an examination in Assam was made to wrap a curtain around her legs by an invigilator who chafed at her wearing shorts, provoking outrage and allegations of gender......

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......

'Can We In Our Businesses Set An Example?'

'I think some of us, like Mukesh Ambani, myself and those of us who head industrial units, ought to really focus on what we can really do to make the world a safer place, maybe 50 or 100 years from......

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......

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......

'Budget has no great initiative'

T N Srinivasan, Samuel C Park, Jr. Professor of Economics, Yale University, giving his opinion on the Indian Union Budget 2009 at Asia Society in New York....

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......

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:......

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......

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......

Saha RETIRES! Signs off after 28 glorious years

'Everything I am today, every achievement, every lesson learned— I owe it all to this wonderful game' IMAGE: The 40-year-old Wriddhiman Saha, who made his international debut in February......

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......

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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