Karnataka: 6 children of Cong ministers in fray

With six children of Karnataka ministers in the Lok Sabha poll arena, the campaign scene is getting spiced up in the high-stakes elections for the ruling Congress in the state. IMAGE: Karnataka......

BJP's second candidate list for Telangana after Dassehra: Kishan Reddy

The Bharatiya Janata Party which has announced its first list of 52 candidates for the November 30 assembly polls in Telangana, will release the "second list" after the Dussehra festival, state BJP......

Sidda launches free bus ride for women, scheme to cost govt Rs 4K cr per year

Women in Karnataka can travel for free on government-run buses in the state from Sunday, with the administration rolling out the first of the five poll guarantees of the ruling Congress -- "Shakti"......

Sidda says Rs 60,000 cr needed a year to implement 5 poll guarantees

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Monday said a total of Rs 59,000 crore to Rs 60,000 crore is required annually, for the implementation of Congress' five poll 'guarantees'. IMAGE:......

Why ICICI Bank chose Girish Chaturvedi as its chairman

The ICICI board is looking to the retired petroleum secretary to provide 'maturity and sagacity'.Jyoti Mukul reports.Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com His former colleagues in the powerful......

Markets extend gains for the fourth straight day

The S&P BSE Sensex ended 80 points up at 23,789 while the Nifty50 closed at 7,235, up 24 points.   Extending their gains for the fourth consecutive session, benchmark indices ended the......

KG Basin issue: Court's notice to RIL, others

Andhra Pradesh High Court on Monday issued notices to Reliance Industries Ltd, the Central Bureau of Investigation, Andhra Pradesh government, Centre and the Directorate General of Hydrocarbons on......

Land for US-built nuclear plant: Left in trouble

After the Centre's announcement that Maharashtra will get a French-built nuclear power plant, West Bengal could be the next in line for this central gift. But there is a problem: The plant is......

'Thank You For Choosing Me'

Bollywood celebrated Daughter's Day with beautiful pictures. Photograph: Kind courtesy Bhavana Pandey/Instagram Bhavana Pandey shares a picture of daughters Ananya and Rysa and wishes them, 'Keep......

Ajay Devgn, Akshay On OTT In June

Though April didn't see successful films at the box office, one just hopes that the situation is different when they arrive on OTT in June. Not many original Web series or movies have been......

PIX: Nia Sharma, Tina Dutta, Surbhi Jyoti get calendar-friendly

A host of television celebrities made their presence felt at the launch of Telly Calendar's fifth edition, which was shot at Taiwan this year. The starry event was held on December 22 at Villa 69......

PIX: Mouni, Karishma, Abhishek party with Ekta Kapoor

Jeetendra is a grandfather once more! Ekta Kapoor became a mom on January 27 through IVF and she shared this joyous moment with the world through her social media accounts.  She has named her......

When Indian skippers and selectors crossed swords...

IMAGE: The team management comprising skipper Virat Kohli are peeved with the national selectors, led by chairman Chetan Sharma, over Bengal opener Abhimanyu Easwaran's contentious selection.......

Sports Shorts: Six-member team for Gymnastics Worlds

Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Monday IMAGE: Image used for representational purposes. Photograph: Marc Lebryk-USA TODAY Sports/Reuters A six-member Indian team, including......

Sports Shorts: India's juniors continue gold rush at Shooting World Cup

Vijayveer Sidhu, 16, shot a gold in the 25m standard pistol event for junior men after combining with Rajkanwar Singh Sandhu and Adarsh Singh to claim the team gold at the ISSF World Championships.......

India@ Asiad: Gymnastics campaign ends without medal; boxer Manoj advances

Dipa finishes 5th in beam final IMAGE: India’s Dipa Karmakar. Photograph: Andrew Winning/Reuters India's campaign in the Asian Games gymnastics ended, on Friday, without a medal after......

UP complete crushing victory

Uttar Pradesh crushed Hyderabad by 10 wickets in the Ranji Trophy Elite Group 'B'match to complete to register their firstvictory in the tournament at the K D Singh Babu Stadium inLucknow on......