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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......

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......

Mann ki baat: Modi and Obama speak out from the heart

A special episode of the Prime Minister's radio broadcast Mann ki Baat featuring US President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Narendra Modi was aired on Tuesday night. The 35-minute......

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......

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......

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......

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......

'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......

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......

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......

Malhotra extends Ritwik

Top junior Vikram Malhotra of Maharashtra was the cynosure of all eyes when he extendedtop seed Ritwik Bhattacharya of Delhi in an exciting men's pre-quarter-final, in the 53rd Senior National and......

Readers speak out!

Dipankar:PremWhat was the point in playing Kumble, and not Nehra? With Mongia replacing Ganguly (a good choice), we have four slow bowlers in Kumble, Bhajji, Sachin and Mongia, and only two......

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