I-T raids Hemant Soren's aide ahead of Jh'khand poll

The Income Tax Department on Saturday conducted searches at multiple locations in poll-bound Jharkhand, including on the premises of a person linked to Chief Minister Hemant Soren, as part of a tax......

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:......

IC-814: The Hijack That Shook The Nation

All You Want To Know About The 1999 Hijack. IMAGE: The hijacked Indian Airlines plane, an Airbus A300, sits at Kandahar airport in Afghanistan December 31, 1999. Photograph: Muzammil Pasha/Reuters......

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......

How Swift Changed Maruti's Thinking

Swift Dzire has clocked 2.5 million in sales, and you might, in a non-too-distant future, see headlines that the DZire has done 3 million as well, observes Suveen Sinha. IMAGE: Maruti Suzuki's 4th......

With 7.2% GDP growth in FY23, India's economy now stands at $3.3 trillion

Firing all cylinders, India continues to maintain its streak of world-beating economic growth after the GDP growth for the March quarter beat all expectations with a 6.1% expansion that helped push......

Small, frequent spikes in fuel prices to dent consumption, challenge growth

The recurrent increases in fuel prices over the past 10 days are eating into the margins of transporters, who will be forced to pass on the hikes to their customers. Photograph: PTI Photo This, in......

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......

Bollywood's Most Mesmerising Tawaif? VOTE!

Dazzling, dancing and decked to the hilt, courtesans in Hindi films are a breathtaking mix of shiny fantasy and flirtatious poetry to behold. Under those resplendent adas and thumkas though, often......

Will Kangana Make A Good Politician?

Entertainers can be good politicians if they treat the citizens as the audience, and treat their job like a live show, and work hard to make sure the audience likes them, asserts Sandeep Goyal.......

'I don't have the 'giving up' attitude'

Photograph: Kind courtesy Harshita Gaur/Instagram Harshita Gaur is excited about her coming show Jehanabad Of Love And War, where she plays a youg woman from Bihar. A trained Kathak dancer,......

Aamir Parties With Kartik Aaryan

Arpita Khan and Aayush Sharma invited their friends from the industry over for their annual Eid party. There were the regular faces, plus a few surprises on the guest list. And here, the invitees......

Is IPL the Saviour of Test cricket?

The IPL, by giving a large pool of Indian talent the opportunity to compete with the best international players, has also come to be seen as the cauldron that spews out the most exciting talent for......

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......