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......

Mulayam, Ustad Zakir Hussain, SM Krishna get Padma Vibhushan

Former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav, former external affairs minister in the UPA government S M Krishna and tabla maestro Ustad Zakir Hussain were among six luminaries selected......

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......

India reports 2nd coronavirus death, several states in shutdown mode

A 68-year-old woman in Delhi became the country's second victim of coronavirus on Friday as several states went into battle mode to contain the spread of COVID-19, shutting down schools, theatres......

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......

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,......

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......

CAS pricing: Zee to move TDSAT

Zee Turner Ltd, ESPN Star Sports and Star Group are expected to move the Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal against the capping of pay channel prices at Rs 5 per month by the......

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......

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......

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......

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......

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......

'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......

First batch of athletes departs from Delhi for Tokyo Olympics

IMAGE: India table tennis player Manika Batra before departing to Tokyo for the Olympics on Saturday. Photograph: Manika Batra/Twitter "How's the josh? It should be high." Sports Minister Anurag......

Sehwag, Malik in selection panel for National Sports Awards

IMAGE: Virender Sehwag, in picture, along with Paralympic silver-medallist Deepa Malik and hockey stalwart Sardar Singh are part of the 12-member committee constituted by the sports ministry to......

Narang, Gopichand in committee to review National Sports Code

IMAGE: Olympic medallist Gagan Narang has been named in Sports Ministry's 13-member expert committee to review Draft National Sports Code 2017. Photograph: Lars Baron/Getty Images Olympic......