'I was told not to accept money from Gandhiji'

'Even though Gandhiji did not know me well, Sardar knew and remembered me working with him till the Congress was banned.' Glimpses from the fascinating memoirs of Chakkedath Sankarankutty Menon,......

First Bharat Gaurav Tourist train on June 21, to cover Ramayan circuit

Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation will run its first Bharat Gaurav Tourist train on June 21, which would include a stop at Nepal's Janakpur, the railways' catering and ticketing arm......

Oxygen Express reaches Maha; Nagpur, Nashik regions to get life-saving gas

The first Oxygen Express carrying seven tankers filled with liquid medical oxygen from Visakhapatnam returned to Maharashtra on Friday, four days after it started its journey. The train arrived at......

Magistrate orders Abu Jundal to be produced in Delhi court

A local court in Mumbai ordered that 26/11 handler Abu Jundal, in custody of Maharashtra police, be produced before Tees Hazari court in Delhi on Thursday in a case of conspiring to carry out......

Kamathipura: From shanty locality to prized real estate

The township will have a central park, gymnasium, open spaces and so on and each set of residential towers is to have its  own playground, play school, and other amenities. Raghavendra Kamath......

Global hotel chains enter Bharat

'Demand in India has been outstripping supply.'Pavan Lall reports. Photograph: Kind courtesy Pixabay Negotiations for signing a partner near the airport at Port Blair took almost four years for......

Fevicol enters the drawing room...

Pidilite provides content on home design, trends, solutions. With this, the company is hoping to leverage the familiarity that Fevicol brand has with consumers and increase its influence on their......

Gujarat has cleanest railway stations, Bihar dirtiest

Out of the 40 different cleanliness parameters passengers rated stench at stations as their top concern, followed by lack of dustbins and unclean platforms The cleanest railway stations in the......

AB in Mandela's bio-pic?

The London-based Asian Guild's lifetime achievement award may seem just another feather in the crammed cap of India's biggest entertainer. But Amitabh Bachchan, who flew back to Mumbai after a......

FIDE Candidates: Praggnanandhaa enters as India's best bet

Photograph: FIDE Teen sensation R Praggnanandhaa will enter as the favourite among the three Indian participants in the Candidates chess tournament that will get underway in Toronto from Wednesday......

Naren Kumar sets hot pace

Reigning National champion V R Naren Kumar yet again underlined his status as the bestin the country with some superb driving that saw him finish the first leg of the MRF Taj Challenge Rally in a......