Portfolios were on Tuesday allocated in the new Bihar cabinet headed by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar who, predictably, retained the all-important home department which helps him keep direct control......
Chief Minister Nitish Kumar expanded his new cabinet on Tuesday by inducting 31 new ministers, including a huge contingent of 16 from key ally Rashtriya Janata Dal, taking care to give due......
Jailed Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad was on Thursday granted a three-day parole to attend his son’s wedding in Patna this Saturday, a senior jail officer said. Prasad, 69, who has......
Aam Aadmi Party leader Somnath Bharti was on Wednesday assaulted allegedly by BJP workers at the Assi ghat in Varanasi when he went there to participate in an election-related programme. "Somnath......
Inconsolable families of the 22 children, who died after they were fed a meal in school, blame greedy teachers and officials for the disaster, reports M I Khan Bihar’s Dahrmasati Gandawan......
A great story-teller, Mani Ratnam is experimenting with a real-life historical in Ponniyin Selvan, points out N Sathiya Moorthy. IMAGE: Vikram as Aditya Karikalan in Ponniyin Selvan. Now that Mani......
Movie veteran Chandrashekhar, best known for films like Cha Cha Cha, Surang and Street Singer and playing the role of Arya Sumant on the television serial Ramayan, passed into the ages on June 16,......
Bollywood has taken on drugs quite a few times in the movies. From Dev Anand's Hare Rama Hare Krishna to Ramanand Sagar's Charas, quite a few films in the 1970s and 1980s explored this theme. On......
Image: Chandrashekhar. Photographer: Pradeep Bandekar 'Shakti Samanta was a very honest man. I have done four films with him. He was very sick before he died; nobody was allowed to see him in......
Raja Sen reviews Raavan. It's eerie how two very different directors with very distinct styles can gradually start mirroring each other's work. Mani Ratnam makes a film every few years, with the......