J-K BJP MLA Devender Rana passes away at 59

Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader and Nagrota MLA Devender Singh Rana, brother of Union minister Jitendra Singh, died on Thursday at a private hospital in Haryana's Faridabad. He was 59. IMAGE:......

Nitish to expand cabinet soon, hectic lobbying for Speaker's post

A day after Chief Minister Nitish Kumar formed the government in Bihar in alliance with the National Democratic Alliance, hectic lobbying started for the post of assembly speaker, and other......

BJP list: 33 sitting MPs dropped; Mandaviya fielded from Porbandar

The Bharatiya Janata Party replaced as many as 33 sitting MPs with new faces as it released its first list with names of 195 candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls on Saturday. IMAGE: Union......

21 die in Bihar hooch tragedy; triggers political slugfest

In yet another suspected hooch tragedy in dry Bihar, 21 deaths were reported from Saran district on Wednesday, triggering a slugfest in the state assembly where the ruling ‘Mahagathbandhan'......

Aug tax mop-up gives boost to govt finances

The Union government’s finances witnessed significant improvement in August after a stressful first four months of the current fiscal year. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com......

Wholesale price based inflation eased to 2-year low of 4.73% in Jan

The wholesale price-based inflation declined to 2-year low of 4.73 per cent in January on easing prices of manufactured items, fuel and power, even though food articles turned expensive.......

Consumption, infra investments show recovery

Consumption and infrastructure investments are expected to show a strong recovery as the economy bounces back from two years of the Covid-19 pandemic, the first Advance Estimates of gross domestic......

Fuel price rise could not have stoked March inflation: Experts

This may come as a surprise to many. Retail price inflation in petrol was the lowest at 10.21 per cent in March since November 2020. In diesel, it scraped the bottom of the barrel at 5.19 per cent......

The Best Of Yash Chopra On OTT

In recent years, Yash Chopra has been labelled King Of Romance, when in fact, his best film, Deewar (1975) did not have a chiffon-clad heroine dancing in the snow. Unfortunately, it is not......

6 Sunil Dutt Films You Must See

Among Hindi cinema's leading men of the last century, Sunil Dutt, who passed away 16 years ago on May 25, did not hesitate in doing women-oriented films which addressed the issues of their......

He taught Yash Chopra to make films...

B R Chopra was a reformist film-maker, way ahead of his times, says Subhash K Jha. Baldev Raj Chopra was the visionary film-maker who directed Indian cinema's first multistarrer Waqt... If he had......

PIX: Sonakshi, Akshay watch a movie together!

A special screening of Sonakshi Sinha's Khandaani Shafakhana was held last night.   Sonakshi looked gorgeous!   She has three more films in the pipeline -- Mission......

National Games: Uttarakhand hockey teams knocked out

  IMAGE: Manipur thrashed Uttarakhand 5-2 in their pool match at the hockey event at the National Games in Dehradun on Saturday. Photograph: Kind courtesy Hocke India/X Manipur and Madhya......

India bag 15 medals in DSE Open

Coming up with an impressive show, the Indian athletes won 15 medals including eight gold in an international event for disable athletes -- the DSE 2005 Open Athletics Championship --in Manchester,......

PHOTOS: SRK, Dhoni, Katrina add glamour to Poorna Patel's big day

A gamut of stars from Bollywood and the sports world descended at the wedding reception of Poorna Patel, the daughter politician and the chief of the All India Football Federation Praful......