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'First Congress Candidate To Get Vote From A Thackeray'

While the responses of the candidates were predictable, depending on which side they belonged to, an interesting point slipped through when Rahul Shewale cited the Dharavi Redevelopment Project as......

'Dharavi will be a piece of art and I will ensure it'

'You will really wish oh! Had I stayed in Dharavi I would have got a nice house. I can assure you that. We will make dreams come true.' IMAGE: An aerial view of Dharavi. Photograph: ANI Photo......

NSG In Action Like Never Before

The National Security Guard calendar of 2023 is special as a lady commando in training is included in the calendar for the first time. These stunning images, covering the NSG commandos using......

What Is Raj Thackeray's Gameplan?

Or, is it the BJP's game plan?And, what is that gameplan? IMAGE: Maharashtra Navnirman Sena founder Raj Thackeray. "Raj Thackeray has been asked to focus only on Uddhav Thackeray and Sharad Pawar......

'The roads are blocked with military tanks'

'Those (Russian) fighter jets just drop bombs and fly away.''How will they know if a bus is carrying Indian students?' IMAGE: Indian students catch a quick nap on the floor of a train station in......

Advertising titan, civic activist, actor, writer Gerson da Cunha is dead

Advertising industry veteran Gerson da Cunha, a multi-faceted personality passionate about civic activism in later years, died in Mumbai on Friday after a brief illness, a former colleague said.......

Hope for young Indians: Demonetisation will slash real estate prices

Housing prices could drop by up to 30% over 6 to 12 months after demonetisation, says T S Ramakrishnan. After demonetisation, a prominent economist tweeted that 19% of India's employment share......

Centre okays 34 km Mumbai coastal road project

Currently, 60 per cent of the vehicular traffic is taken care by the Western Express highway The Centre on Thursday came out with a notification for the long pending proposal of constructing a......

Happy 5th, Xiaomi, now can you show Indians you care?

As Chinese gadget-maker Xiaomi, the world's third largest smartphone seller after Apple and Samsung, turns five today, it will seek to intensify its India push. But there are miles......

Asia Society Conference: PM's speech

This is the text of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's speech inaugurating the Asia Society's 16th Asian Corporate Conference -- whose theme is 'Driving Global Business: India's New Priorities, Asia's......

Om Puri: The Chronicler Of Cities On The Boil

'If it weren't for Om Puri, a whole range of our big city experiences wouldn't have found their honest representations on the screen,' notes Sreehari Nair on the legendary actor's birthday. IMAGE:......

Watch Aishwarya's Romance Gone Wrong On OTT

Royal tragedies, loony vampires, nuclear disasters, scoop hunters becoming the story, all that and more on OTT this week. Sukanya Verma lists everything you can watch on streaming platforms this......

COMING UP In June: Your OTT Menu

Things are heating up in the OTT space this June, especially with Jio Cinema going full throttle with their release plans. Joginder Tuteja looks at the Web shows and movies coming up for release.......

'I am an outcast in Bollywood'

'The idea is to sideline you, box you up in a smaller box, so you don't go out of that.''The bigger boxes are for their own people.' Photograph: Kind courtesy Ranvir Shorey/Instagram......

Naseeruddin Shah: 25 TOP Performances

Sukanya Verma celebrates Naseeruddin Shah, acting legend. There's a beautiful quote I once read by Swedish film-maker Ingmar Bergman: 'No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film......

Dravid tells Kohli to complete one major unfinished business...

IMAGE: Three stalwarts of Indian cricket, Virat Kohli, Head Coach Rahul Dravid and captain Rohit Sharma celebrate after winning the T20 World Cup, on Saturday, June 29. Photograph: ICC/X Staying......

All I wanted was to play international cricket in front of my father: Sarfaraz

IMAGE: Sarfaraz Khan struck a half-century on his Test debut. Photograph: BCCI All that Sarfaraz Khan wanted since the beginning of his cricket journey as a six-year-old was to become an......

Why Wankhede Is 'Special' For Rohit

& IMAGE: Rohit Sharma has hit 398 runs in 6 matches in World Cup 2023. Photograph: Andrew Boyers/Reuters "Wankhede is such a special venue, my best venue. What I am today as a cricketer......

Can India create cricketing history in South Africa?

IMAGE: India, who registered a comprehensive 113-run win in the first Test, are aiming to win their first ever Test series win in South Africa. Photograph: Rogan Ward/Reuters India's formidably......

'When Mumbaikars experience English summer'

Jemimah Rodrigues is right on the money with her latest post on Twitter. Put a Mumbaikar in any place under 20 degrees C and out come all the woolens. In just one photograph, the young India batter......

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