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Mumbai lad rises from Dharavi slum to become army officer

Growing up in a tough neighborhood of Dharavi in Mumbai, it has been a journey of overcoming life's many challenges for Lieutenant Umesh Keelu. IMAGE: Indian Army Lieutenant Umesh Keelu with his......

46 killed in Chile forest fires, toll likely to rise, says Prez Boric

As many as 46 people have been killed in forest fires raging in Chile, President Gabriel Boric said on Saturday. IMAGE: Houses burn amid the spread of wildfires in Vina del Mar, Chile February 3,......

'General Zia was real startled'

'But he was very quick and did a very stylish adab.''Of course, I didn't expect him to hug.' IMAGE: Lakshmi Murdeshwar Puri and her husband Hardeep Singh Puri, currently India's minister of......

Hamas War Is An Immediate Setback To India

India is one of the few countries in the region that enjoys good relations with both Israel and Saudi Arabia, and IMEC would allow it to recreate the old Spice Route to Europe.All this is in......

The Many Portfolios Of Yogi Adityanath

In his second term in office Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has retained 34 portfolios. Syed Firdaus Ashraf and Hemant Shivsaran find out how this compares with his predecessors.......

Mumbaikars spend least on education

Due to the vastly different size of population (79 million in megacities versus 20 million in boom towns and 8 million in niche cities), the average size of various markets differs widely. So,......

Infy and the world's largest training centre

Can a trainee software engineer dream of the following as part of his first job?A fitness centre and recreation facilities.An Employee Care Centre on campus that houses a gymnasium, table tennis......

World's 30 best cities to live in

European cities continue to dominate the list of world's best cities to live in, according to the Mercer 2012 Quality of Living Survey. Globally, the cities with the lowest quality of living......

Modi regime might fuel FDI rush into real estate

With a clear mandate for a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government at the Centre, developers and experts are expecting a revival and an increased inflow of foreign investments into the realty......

Delhi is the best city to live in India

Delhi is the best Indian city to live in, while steel city Jamshedpur ranks lowest in the Liveability Index 2010 prepared jointly by CII and Institute for Competitiveness. The country's financial......

Zero Se Restart Review: Riveting

Zero Se Restart is a must watch for cinema students, and also, perhaps for the layperson who has never been on a film set, and is curious about what goes into the making of a movie, recommends......

'India Is Ready For The World!'

'Never in the history of Indian cinema did we have a distribution system for 240 countries, but we have it now.''And if we still keep catering to the B and C-tiers of our country, and not the whole......

'Gadar is a powerful word that came out of Partition'

'When a common man's house is on fire, he is infused with extraordinary strength.''He will go to any length to save his home and family even if he is not as big and strong as Sunnyji.' IMAGE:......

'Women have no way to express their pain and sorrows'

'When a woman gets married, she leaves her village, her friends and family.''In her new home, she will make friends, but they can never replace those she left behind.' IMAGE: Vinamrata Rai as......

'We hope The Lunchbox will find an audience for it in India'

After wowing critics at Cannes and Telluride, Ritesh Batra brings The Lunchbox to Toronto. The filmmaker in conversation with Arthur J Pais. Ritesh Batra, whose mature romance The Lunchbox, has......

Track and field goes nuts over Bolt

When Usain Bolt blazed to glory at the Beijing Olympics, he was feted as the hero his tainted sport had been crying out for. Now, having repeated them in Berlin, he can consider himself the saviour......

Draft National Youth Policy 2012 unveiled

The exposure draft of the National Youth Policy, 2012, was unveiled by Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports Ajay Maken on Thuursday. The Draft NYP 2012, said Maken, is a first of its kind as it......

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