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UP Dalits abandon BJP? Wins 8 of 17 SC seats, lowest in 3 polls

The Bharatiya Janata Party, which has been performing well on the Lok Sabha seats reserved for the Scheduled Castes in Uttar Pradesh in the last two general elections, has got a jolt in the latest......

8 ministers from Jai Ram Thakur's cabinet lost HP poll

In a major setback to the Bharatiya Janata Party in Himachal Pradesh, eight ministers lost the assembly elections, results of which were declared on Thursday. IMAGE: Himachal Pradesh Chief......

Ahead of RS polls, chief whip among 8 SP MLAs skip Akhilesh's meeting

As many as eight MLAs of the Samajwadi Party did not attend a meeting called by party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Monday, a day before the voting for the Rajya Sabha elections. IMAGE: SP chief......

MLAs loyal to Kamal Nath in Delhi amid switch to BJP buzz

Around half a dozen Madhya Pradesh MLAs loyal to senior Congress leader Kamal Nath reached Delhi on Sunday amid speculation that he and his MP son Nakul Nath are set to join the ruling Bhartiya......

Akhilesh's party chief whip resigns amid voting for Rajya Sabha polls

Samajwadi Party MLA Manoj Kumar Pandey on Tuesday resigned from the post of party chief whip a day after he skipped a meeting called by party chief Akhilesh Yadav on the Rajya Sabha elections.......

Trade on road to recovery but Indian firms tread cautiously

Truck movements across the India-Bangladesh border are on the rise, with increasing rentals signalling a trade recovery between the two South Asian nations. Photograph: Amit Dave/Reuters Yet,......

A GPS navigator for Rs 11,990

Maps and GPS navigation services provider MapmyIndia on Monday launched its new navigation gadget, which is equipped with maps of 401 cities, priced at Rs 11,990. The device, MapmyIndia LX130,......

IOC eyes $48 bn turnover by 2011-2012

Indian Oil Corporation, the country's largest state-owned refining and marketing oil company, has plans to be a $48 billion global integrated company by 2011-2012.A M Uplenchwar, director......

MapMyIndia plans to go public, raise Rs 1,200 crore

India’s first home-grown mapping company MapMyIndia is looking to list in the public market by raising around Rs 1,200 crore at a Rs 6,000-crore valuation. Sources said the company is ready......

Modi needs to listen to our economists

We have a government with an extremely weak economic team advising a PM who hardly pays attention to their thoughts, says Jayanta Roy. Photograph: Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com I......

I Want To Talk Arrives On OTT

The second seasons of OTT's two best shows, Paatal Lok and Severance, coming up. Sukanya Verma lists your options. I Want to TalkWhere to watch? Amazon Prime VideoLanguage: English. Hindi......

Hrithik Roshan's Top 25 Songs

A singer. A soldier. A superhero. A maths teacher. A Mughal emperor. A conman. A workaholic. A quadriplegic. An actor. An avenger. From saviour of aliens to Shah Rukh Khan in a mask, Hrithik......

Take The Karan Arjun Quiz

Sukanya Verma quizzes you to find out how much you know about the Salman Khan-Shah Rukh Khan starrer. A village stuck in time, a mother's wait of a lifetime, brothers reborn to exact revenge from a......

Vicky Vidya Ka Woh Wala Video Review: Stree, Lies & Videotape

Between tons of sexual innuendo and Kapil Sharma brand of slapstick gags characterised in loud caricatures, moronic behaviour, flimsy wigs and cartoonish rhythm, Vicky Vidya Ka Woh Wala Video's......

The Path-Breaking '70s Actor You Didn't Know

Rehana Sultan was all set to be a path-breaker.The time was right.Hindi cinema had emerged from the 1960s musicals era.But somehow, leading film-makers of the time did not believe Rehana had that......

Bihar cricket: Factionalism rears ugly head again

IMAGE: Bihar fielded two teams for their Ranji Trophy match. Photograph: Screengrab/X Factionalism is nothing new to Bihar cricket and the ugly infighting that has been running well over two......

SPOTTED: Gundappa Vishwanath, Rahul Dravid in Bangalore

Reader Rakesh Verma sent us this picture. 'I was thrilled to meet my childhood star Gundappa Vishwanath and Rahul Dravid during the India-NZ cricket Test series at Bangalore,' he says. ......

Thackeray's role in PCA incident to be probed

The Punjab Police registered a case against Shiv Sena's Delhi unit president Jai Bhagwan Goyal and would investigate party supremo Bal Thackeray's role in Thursday's incident at the Punjab Cricket......

Supreme Court issues direction to Azharuddin-led HCA

'Cricket has gone somewhere else and politics has taken precedence.' IMAGE: Hyderabad Cricket Association president Mohammed Azharuddin. Photograph: BCCI The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed......

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