Debates on changing the name of India to Bharat continue to spark a crisis of identity without answering moot questions that stare us in the face.Ramesh Menon asks a few of those questions that do......
The BJP leadership knows it can't boast of governance in the state as the Bommai government has little to show.So, the game plan is to project Modi, who will reiterate how important it is for a......
Should we not be creating roles in India for the talented, asks Ajit Balakrishnan. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com How many of us Indians wished some days ago we caught a glimpse of......
Today, the two countries, ruthlessly divided by the Radcliffe Line that pierced their very heart, grapple with the political challenges of the present.Yet, when friendships develop there are no......
President Ram Nath Kovind presented Padma awards to 73 individuals, some posthumously, at a ceremony held in the Rashtrapati Bhavan here on Monday. IMAGE: President Ram Nath Kovind, Vice......
The number of cyberfraud cases has skyrocketed from 2,677 in 1999-2000 to 29,082 in FY24 -- more than a 10-fold increase. The RBI pegs digital payment frauds at Rs 1,457 crore in FY24, up more than......
Stories are legion about the Karatmeter's use at that time.Hundreds of people standing in queue for testing, customers breaking down after discovering the actual purity of their jewellery and then......
United Television Motion Pictures, the film distribution division of the Rs 150-crore (Rs 1.5 billion) TV software company UTV, is entering feature film production in a big way. The company has......
'Virat is the captain of the Indian side and Anushka is an A-list Bollywood actor.''Something like this has not happened before.'Viveat Susan Pinto reports. It was four years ago that cricketer......
'Unfortunately, we live in a 'Mainstream Bollywood' bubble, where we cannot look beyond films that we ourselves find entertaining.' IMAGE: Nitanshi Goel in Laapataa Ladies. Hansal Mehta and......
The nominations for the 97th Annual Academy Awards were announced by Bowen Yang and Rachel Sennott. India has reason to celebrate as Anuja, backed by Priyanka Chopra and Guneet Monga, gets......
IMAGE: A scene from Laapataa Ladies. Laapataa Ladies, India's official entry in the Best International Feature category at the 97th Academy Awards, is out of the Oscars race. The Hindi......
A scene from All We Imagine As Light. Payal Kapadia may have missed her chance at the Oscars, but her acclaimed film All We Imagine As Light has been acknowledged by the Golden Globes. It has......
Kiran Rao's Laapataa Ladies has been picked as India's official entry for Oscars 2025, the Film Federation of India announced on Monday. The Hindi film, a light-hearted satire on patriarchy, was......
When brands look at cricket, India's male cricketers are an obvious choice.Urvi Malvania reports. IMAGE: The Indian women's team and won all their group matches and entered the Women's World T20......