Comic Munawar Faruqui detained during raid at hookah bar

Stand-up comedian and Bigg Boss 17 winner Munawar Faruqui was among 14 persons detained by the Mumbai police after they were found smoking hookahs during a raid in south Mumbai, an official......

Mumbai police detain 3 youths from Gujarat over bomb threat email to RBI

The crime branch of Mumbai police detained three youths from Gujarat's Vadodara in connection with the Reserve Bank of India threat email case. Image used for representational purpose only.......

Akhilesh Yadav elected SP president for 3rd time

IMAGE: Akhilesh Yadav declared  Samajwadi Party president at the national convention meet in Lucknow. Photograph: @samajwadiparty/Twitter Akhilesh Yadav was on Thursday unanimously......

Will Modi breach Rajiv Gandhi's 404?

'It is a well-entrenched belief in the downtrodden, the deprived sections, that Modi cares for them. He has come to occupy their mindspace as their messiah.''And it is this deprived, dispossessed......

Why Sairat is such an important film

'Which movie has been about love between castes?''In Ek Duje Ke Liye, the divide was between a non-vegetarian north Indian family and a vegetarian south Indian one; in Amitabh Bachchan's films,......

How Shivaji became Rajinikanth

This fascinating excerpt from Naman Ramachandran's new book, Rajinikanth: The Definitive Biography, charts the rise of a bus conductor named Shivaji Gaekwad to the mega-phenomenon called......