The A-W Of Desi Guests At the White House Dinner

The dinner Jill Biden and her husband US President Joe Biden hosted for Prime Minister Narendra D Modi, June 22, at the White House brought together, Indians and Americans from so many firmaments,......

Why Did Supreme Court Strengthen UAPA?

Reversing the burden of evidence means that the principle of innocent until proven guilty does not apply.It is exactly the opposite: Guilty as charged, until you can convince the judges of the......

HC sets aside BJP Delhi MLA's suspension from assembly, allows attendance

The Delhi high court on Friday set aside the one-year suspension of BJP lawmaker Vijender Gupta from the Delhi legislative assembly and permitted him to attend the remaining budget session while......

Mundka fire: 29 still missing; death toll likely to rise

A day after a massive fire in a building in outer Delhi's Mundka claimed 27 lives, frantic relatives were still searching for their loved ones with police saying that 29 people remained unaccounted......

Rs 15 Trillion In Direct Taxes Comes Via Automatic Route

96 per cent is being collected through TDS, advance tax, self-assessment tax, and other receipts. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com   A smaller proportion of direct tax collections......

Walmart-owned PhonePe crosses 500 million lifetime registered users

Walmart-owned fintech firm PhonePe said it has crossed 500 million lifetime registered users on its platform. With this milestone, 1 in 3 Indians are now on PhonePe. The company said it is the......

Diwali extravaganza for buy-now, pay-later biz

The ‘buy-now, pay-later’ (BNPL) juggernaut continued to roll on during the festive season with multiple players seeing disbursals grow by more than 100 per cent compared to Diwali last......

Google introduces global kids safety programme in India

Google on Wednesday launched its global 'Be Internet Awesome' programme for children in India in partnership with Indian comic book publisher Amar Chitra Katha to interweave critical internet......

Taapsee Celebrates Her BIG Win!

It was a night to celebrate. The Filmfare OTT Awards honoured the cast and crew of OTT movies and shows doffed their hat to their talent and hard work. Abhishek Bachchan's Dasvi won for Best Film......

Ranbir's 40 on 40 Playlist

Raj Kapoor's grandson and Rishi and Neetu's son Ranbir proved he's a chip of the old block when he made his acting debut in Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Saawariya. Though Bhansali's 2007 musical......

Vidya Parties With OTT's Popular Stars

Bollywood's gorgeous actresses turned up to celebrate five years of Applause Entertainment, headed by Sameer Nair, and the eclectic content it has created over the years. Nair, who has been behind......

Why should patriotic Indians be embarrassed by Mulk?

'Mulk questions the very principle, of good-Muslim exceptionalism.''That, of course, we adore Abdul Hamid, A P J Abdul Kalam and Bismillah Khan and if only more Muslims were like them.''Anubhav......

Prannoy in Round of 16 at Australian Open

IMAGE: India's HS Prannoy had it easy against Brazil’s Ygor Coelho in the Round of 32 match at the Australian Open Super 500 badminton tournament in Sydney on Wednesday. Photograph: Arnd......

IPL Auction: Shami, Iyer for Rs 2 cr

IMAGE: Mohammed Shami celebrates taking a wicket for the Punjab Kings during IPL 2021. Photograph: BCCI The top Indian players, including Mohammed Shami, Shikhar Dhawan, Ravichandran Ashwin and......

India Open: Malvika sends Saina packing; Sindhu in quarters

IMAGE: Malvika Bansod celebrates victory over Saina Nehwal at the Yonex-Sunrise India Open, in New Delhi, on Thursday. Photograph: Badminton Association of India Two-time Olympic medallist......

Sports Shorts: Jayaram enters Vietnam Open final

IMAGE: India’s Ajay Jayaram in action. Photograph: PTI India's Ajay Jayaram stood a step away from his first title of the season as he made it to the finals of the Vietnam Open after......

Sports Shorts: Saina out of top 10, Srikanth at 8th spot in BWF ranking

A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Thursday IMAGE: Saina Nehwal. Photograph: Twitter Following their poor run of form at the badminton World Championship, Saina Nehwal dropped......