How year's most extravagant wedding was made secure

Entry based on a QR code messaged on personal mobile phones, colour-coded paper wristbands for access to different zones, and a medical response preparedness reserved for heads of state helped......

Can Modi Beat Rajiv Gandhi's 404 MPs Record?

Modi wants the BJP to gets an additional 10% of the vote share from what it won in 2019.Plans are afoot to get new faces to replace MPs with poor chances of winning. Sources say more than 100 MPs......

Pradip Tripathi moves to Cabinet Secretariat as govt effects major bureaucratic rejig

Senior bureaucrat Pradip Kumar Tripathi has been appointed as secretary (coordination) in the Cabinet Secretariat as part of a major bureaucratic reshuffle effected by the Centre on Monday. A......

Bureaucratic reshuffle: Coal secy shunted out; 19 new babus appointed

Coal Secretary Anil Swarup was appointed school education secretary as part of a top-level bureaucratic reshuffle effective from Wednesday. As many as 19 new secretaries have been appointed in......

Now, it's TV and DTH bonanza for cricket fans

Direct-to-home service providers and TV manufacturers gear up for ICC Cricket World cup, set to launch special offers. It's barely a month before the ICC Cricket World Cup dominates our screens,......

2018: Year of reckoning for India Inc

A glance back at some important ups and down India Inc faced in 2018. Year End Specials   Kindly click on the image below to view the relevant story. #1 How PNB scam effected consumer......

What LIC needs to do to turn IDBI Bank profitable

While IDBI Bank’s 140 million customers and 1800-odd branches will come in handy for LIC to hawk insurance, the bank can use LIC’s massive agent network to sell its retail loans. But......

Why mobiles attract the common man

For 58-year-old Ram Babu, who runs a small shop dealing with old newspapers and other scrap from residents in Dwarka, a satellite city on the outskirts of the capital, business has witnessed a......

Go watch Little Terrorist!

The cricket ball is makeshift,as are the wickets, marked roughlywith chalk on the bark of a tree. Commonplace enough, and a plausible setting even at the India-Pakistan border. The countries, for......

The A to Z of Shah Rukh Khan

'Tu toh bilkul hero nahi lagta (you don't look like a hero at all).' In candid interviews over the years, an amused Shah Rukh Khan has often recalled this observation, made by a security guard......

Rahul Bose interview

Pyar Ke Side Effects opposite Bollywood bombshell Mallika Sherawat won him accolades galore. He effortlessly slipped into his character as the 'commitment phobic' Sid. His rugby fixation is......

Chased by the moral brigade

What do Sruti Singh, Ajay Vir Singh, Dilip Dutta, Mahesh Tayade and Narendra Tiwari have in common? They are the self-appointed moral police of the public behaviour of celebrities and guardians of......

PIX: India's Para athletes ready to conquer Paris

Indian athletes accorded grand send-off ahead of Paralympics Games IMAGE: Union Sports Minister Mansukh Mandaviya blesses an athlete during the send-off ceremony of Indian contingent for the Paris......

Ducati Racetrack in Noida Soon?

Ducati would like to develop a motorbike racetrack on the lines of the Buddh International Circuit. IMAGE: Kindly note the image has been posted only for representational purposes.Ducati Lenovo......

Training Woes: Non-protesting wrestlers demand camp restart

IMAGE: The national camp was closed on April 8, a day before the Asian Championship in Astana, Kazakhstan, and has not yet restarted. Photograph: Robertus Pudyanto/Getty Images The national......

CBI arrests six persons including SAI director in bribery case

The Central Bureau of Investigation has taken into custody six officers and private persons, on Thursday, in connection with a case of alleged corruption in the Sports Authority of India,......

'Insaaf Ke Sipahi stands with protesting wrestlers'

IMAGE: Wrestlers Bajrang Punia, Sakshi Malik and Vinesh Phogat at a press conference during their protest at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi. Photograph: Shrikant Singh/ANI Photo Former Union law......