It's Raining Bharat Ratnas!

In the 76 years since India gained independence, 53 recipients of the Bharat Ratna have been there. That's less than one every year, which is a healthy ratio given there is the sanctity of this gem......

J-K outfit banned for 'inciting people to establish Islamic rule'

A faction of Muslim League Jammu Kashmir, led by separatist leader Masarat Alam Bhat, was on Wednesday declared a banned organisation by the government under the stringent anti-terror law. The ban......

Art 370 verdict upheld sovereignty and integrity of India: Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that the last four years in Jammu and Kashmir have been marked with a renewed faith in grassroots democracy, with development, democracy and dignity replacing......

Is Biden Using Trudeau To Get Back At Modi?

Once the Canadian investigation runs its course, Ottawa may put on the public domain further accusations passing for 'evidence' -- and that could happen at some point closer to our general......

Flight duty norms revised; pilots to get weekly rest time of 48 hours

In a major relief for pilots in dealing with fatigue, aviation watchdog DGCA on Monday came out with revised norms that increase their weekly rest time to 48 hours and limit the number of landings......

Industry lauds PM's vision of 'techade'

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's call to make this decade a "techade" for India and the push for 5G, semiconductors and transformation through digital services is going to boost the technology sector......

Rupee @ 80: Imports, foreign education, travel to be hit

The Indian rupee nearing 80 to a US dollar will make imports of items from crude oil to electronic goods, overseas education and foreign travel costlier while raising fears that the inflation......

Real estate: Godrej, Prestige vie for Rs 10K-cr sales booking club

Godrej and Prestige posted sales bookings of Rs 6,725 crore and Rs 5,461 crore, respectively, in 2020-21. The real estate sector might have been caught off guard by the second wave of the Covid-19......

S P Balasubrahmanyam's TOP 50 Songs

Siva Sankar looks at S P Balasubrahmanyam's fantastic repertoire. S P Balasubrahmanyam passed away in his 75th year, and so we celebrate the singer with 75 of his top songs, in a multi-part......

Guess whose biopic Varun Dhawan stars in?

Get your low down on what's happening in the world of Bollywood, right here! Photograph: Kind courtesy Varun Dhawan/Instagram Sriram Raghavan reunites with his Badlapur actor Varun Dhawan to make......

What's so obscene about Kabir Singh?

'By ruffling dignified feathers, and by polarising its audience, Kabir Singh has put movies and art back into our public discourse,' says Sreehari Nair. In January appeared the Netflix special,......

Revisiting Back to the Future

What could be a big difference between Back to the Future, and a current big budget blockbuster? The latter will surely have elaborate stunt scenes, high technology and kinetic speed. But Back to......

Modi to lay foundation stone of cricket stadium in Varanasi

IMAGE: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lay the foundation of a new cricket stadium in Varanasi. Photograph: Adnan Abidi/Reuters Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on Saturday lay the......

Can Australia end India's home domination?

IMAGE: Australia's players warm up ahead of their training session at the Vidarbha Cricket Association in Nagpur on Tuesday. Photograph: Robert Cianflone/Getty Images Australia's blockbuster......

Sports Shorts: Pliskova sets up Brisbane semi-final showdown with Vekic

Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Friday IMAGE: Karolina Pliskova interacts with fans. Photograph: Brisbane Open/Twitter Former world number one Karolina Pliskova lost her......

Dhoni switched to Plan B: Take the pace off the ball and the oxygen out of the game

'For all practical purposes, the game ended at the break. The Irish bowlers had neither the pace nor the skill to compete against the Indian line-up; the lack of swing further blunted any edge they......

BJP calls for transparency in CWG expenditure

Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, senior vice-president of the Bhartiya Janata Party, has alleged that in the name of developing Delhi for the Commonwealth Games in October later this year, the development of......