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Exodus shatters 'Big-city school' dreams of migrants' kids

'A rickshaw puller can work anywhere, but we chose to do it in a big city so that our kids get to study there. It is a very sought after thing there if your kids study in bade sheher ka school'......

Top 10 winning candidates and highest margins

All top ten candidates belong to the BJP. IMAGE: Bharatiya Janata Party President Amit Anilchandra Shah defeated the Congress candidate by 557,014 votes in the Gandhinagar Lok Sabha......

Ramdev supporter Raj Bala very critical

The condition of 51-year-old Raj Bala, who suffered spine injuries during the police action against yoga guru Ramdev and his supporters at Ramlila Maidan, has deteriorated and is stated to be "very......

Uttarakhand: Winners list

List of winners in Uttarakhand Purola: Rajesh Juwantha (Congress) Gangotri Gopal Singh Rawat (Bharatiya Janata Party) Yamunotri: Kedar Singh (Congress) Pratapnagar: Vijay Singh (BJP) Tehri: Kishor......

Jet-setting Modi: 26 nations in 12 months

In 2015, Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited 26 countries. Here's a list of all the foreign visits taken up by the PM this year and their outcomes. Seychelles Modi's visit to Seychelles was part......

It's the best time for Railways to bring a historic turnaround

Union Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu aligns priorities, funding and organisation to shape a transformation agenda, notes Vinayak Chatterjee. It is not easy being railway minister. Ask Union Railway......

How Keki Gharda stunned the MNC giants

Once upon a time he used to bite pens. Now he fidgets with a knife in a cramped office lined up to the ceiling with books that range from Game Theory to the history of the Roman Empire to polymer......

Babita, the Hit-Maker of the Sixties

Babita's success ratio is higher than that of any other leading lady in the 1960s, says Subhash K Jha. IMAGE: Babita Kapoor with her daughters, Kareena and Karisma. Photograph: Kind courtesy......

The DDLJ Quiz

On October 20, 1995, a love story called Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge hit the screens and every single thing about it -- from Raj and Simran to palat and phurr became a part of Bollywood lexicon. In......

Meet Yash Raj's sexy new actors

Yash Raj Films has stared a new venture called Y-Films to target the young audience. Y-Films will release three films this year, starring fresh faces, and directed by newcomers: Luv Ka The End......

Tere Sur Aur Mere Geet: When Music was King

Film music flourished in the 1970s. Some old masters did some great work, but it was also the decade of new composers.A fascinating excerpt from Amit Khanna's Words. Sounds. Images: A History Of......

Classic revisited: Three generations of Kapoors in Kal Aaj Aur Kal

In our special series revisiting great Hindi film classics, we look back at Prithviraj Kapoor, Raj Kapoor, Randhir Kapoor and Babita's 1971 film, Kal Aaj Aur Kal. There's something intimate about......

'It hurts that 1975 hockey World Cup gold has been forgotten'

IMAGE: The Indian hockey team lifted its only World Cup crown on March 15, 1975 in Kuala Lumpur beating arch rival Pakistan by 2-1 in a thrilling final. Photograph: Kind courtesy, Hockey......

Jadeja in Delhi Ranji team

Former India all-rounder Ajay Jadeja, who is fighting a court case with the Board of Control for Cricket in India against being banned from the game following his alleged involvement in the......

Field day for top seeds

Top seed Saurav Ghosal of Chennai and second seed Gaurav Nandrajog of Delhi sailed into the last eight stage (boys' under-19) with straight games victoriesin the Rs 300,000 Oil-Servo All India Open......

Shivangi shocks Anwesha Reddy

Unseeded Shivangi Paranjpe of Maharashtra fashioned the biggest win of her career when she rallied to shock third seed Anwesha Reddy of Tamil Nadu 3-1 to make a surprise entry into the women's......

Ranji Trophy: Agarkar, Salvi rattle Hyderabad

Ajit Agarkar and Aavishkar Salvi claimedfive wickets between themselves as defending champions Mumbai reduced Hyderabad to 223 for 7 on the first day of their Ranji Trophy Super League Group A......

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