When Will This Heat Wave End?

Sweltering conditions prevail across the land.     IMAGE: People cover themselves to protect from the heat on a hot summer day, in Surat, here and below. Photograph: ANI Photo  ......

Tiger! Tiger! Swimming Deep!

A tiger decided to beat the heat at Mumbai's zoo this way:   A classical dive that would earn applause at the Paris Olympics. All photographs: Sahil Salvi   Ooooo... that feels so good.......

Is That An Alligator In Mumbai?

People enjoy the newly opened alligator enclosure at the Rani Jijamata Udayan -- the Mumbai zoo.   IMAGE: Visitors watch an alligator through a newly opened underwater viewing gallery.......

Penguins Of Mumbai

April 25 is celebrated as World Penguin Day. 12 Humboldt penguins live at Mumbai's zoo. In 2016, three male and four female penguins were brought from Seoul, South Korea, to the Mumbai zoo. Five......

Confused about the Budget proposals? Please read this

Extends fiscal deficit reduction roadmap by one year to 2017-18 Raises services tax, to implement GST by April 2016 and cut corporation tax from 2016-17 to 25% by 2020 The Government has presented......

How to win the Dalal Street money game

Big stock market players, who believe that they can slaughter small investors for an easy meal of healthy profit, often derisively call individual investors 'pigs.' Indeed, individual investors......

Mumbai's first 5-D cinema: Be a child again

Taking 3-D a few steps further is Mumbai's, and India's, first 5-D cinema screen that has opened as part of a themed family entertainment centre. It begins before you can say 'Good Heavens'. Your......

McDonald's is loving it in Asia

Make that a Big Mac, fries, and a quart of motor oil, please. If executives at McDonald's and China Petroleum & Chemical Corp., better known as Sinopec, get their way, mainland consumers may be......

354 films in 365 days

How many of the 354 films Aseem Chhabra watched in 2017 have you seen? IMAGE: Vin Diesel and Deepika Padukone in xXx: Return of Xander Cage. For some people, watching films is a social experience,......

Meet the Shashi Kapoor no one knows!

He was Bollywood's beloved star, the Kapoor who could charm the birds off the trees. He starred in both commercial and art cinema. He went international before most actors in India even considered......

How about Alia and Bhumi together in a movie?

Savouring Spielberg's fierce, fine, movie; salivating over MAMI 2017's line-up; gobbling a Shrek cake; visualising a desi Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants with Alia, Bhumi and more in Sukanya......

'I want to do a Bollywood film'

'I did not go for the Oscars because I was not invited. I felt bad but I watched the show on television. I had never watched the Oscars before this, it was my first time.' Lion actor Abhishek......