'They don't see sunlight for years'

'Is it not deplorable that even after 75 years of Independence, there are people in our society who have been denied freedom?' IMAGE: The rescued people. All photographs: Kind courtesy Mahaboob......

Time for Congress to get down from high horse

What we have in the Congress is a useful glue to hold a non-cultural, unified Opposition together.That is the sacrifice the Congress must be willing to live with if showing the BJP the door is what......

Padma Vibhushan for Gen Rawat, Kalyan Singh; Padma Bhushan for Azad

Former Uttar Pradesh chief minister and Hindutva poster boy late Kalyan Singh, India's first Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat, senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad and former West......

Devyani arrest: John Kerry calls NSA Menon, expresses regret

United States Secretary of State John Kerry spoke to National Security Advisor Shivshankar Menon late Wednesday night and expressed regret over the arrest and strip-search of senior Indian diplomat......

Govt eyes 300 mn people for health scheme

After the overwhelming success of its job cards scheme, which covered about 20 million households in villages, the UPA government is ready with yet another programme, health insurance for poor, and......

Corporates in social sector: NGOs to die?

Wal-Mart is opening schools, Vodafone is helping flood victims, Coke is digging wells and recycling plastic... the list of the good things companies are doing is growing longer by the second. Where......

All hay and no sunshine for paddy farmers

High food prices have driven inflation to new highs, leading the Centre to clamp down on export of farm commodities. But have the high retail prices in any way benefited the farmers? How has their......

Don't let high medical bills kill you

Manish and Seema Jain are middle-income professionals just like a lot of us. Four months after their daughter, Mansee, was born, she was diagnosed with a heart problem that could be corrected only......

What's in a name? New daddy Prithviraj asks

Of late, social media is abuzz with discussions about Malayalam star Prithviraj's newborn daughter's rather curious sounding name -- Alankrita Menon Prithviraj?  Turns out,......

Read this before you watch Special Ops

IMAGE: 'From the camel race to the pulsating climax... the picturesque Wadi Rum desert in Jordan is where we shot these parts of Special Ops,' Neeraj Pandey posts. Photograph: Kind courtesy Neeraj......

Was Kangana's National Award calculated?

'Of all artists who openly support the current political dispensation, she is far and away the finest,' argues Sreehari Nair.'With the exception of perhaps Tabu, no Indian actress has done more to......

Box Office: MS Dhoni gets a bumper opening!

The hits and misses of the week. A nation obsessed with cricket was in for a treat, with the release of Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni's biopic, M S Dhoni: The Untold Story. The film saw......

14-year-old dominates National Games!

Teenage sensation Dhinidhi Desinghu continued her exploits on the pool with her fifth gold as Karnataka continued their domination in swimming with two more top podium finishes at the 38th National......

Your next star might come from public ground: HC tells BCCI

IMAGE: The court also said cricket associations and the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) could not cite lack of funds as a reason for not providing basic facilities. Photograph: PTI "Your......

The other side of Dhoni: When Captain Cool's temper flared up on field

IMAGE: MS Dhoni literally 'crossed the line' by entering the field of play during the IPL game between CSK and Rajasthan Royals. Photograph: BCCI For the major part of his international......