As Covid cases rise in Mumbai, civic body goes on high alert

Mumbai’s municipal commissioner Iqbal Singh Chahal on Wednesday asked civic officials to ramp up coronavirus testing immediately on a war-footing and keep the staff of jumbo field hospitals......

CBI heat on Navy war room leak case accused

The CBI has intensified its efforts to arrest and bring back Navy war room leak accused Ravi Shankaran, a kin of former navy chief Admiral Arun Prakash, to the country amid reports that the main......

War room leak: Ravi Shankaran traced to Sweden

Ravi Shankaran, a relative of former navy chief Admiral Arun Prakash who is the main accused in the war room leak case, has been spotted in Sweden after slipping out of Britain when an arrest......

BMC proposes masks in Mumbai's civic hospitals, for senior citizens

Amid a spurt in Covid-19 cases, the use of face masks has been made mandatory for employees, patients and visitors in all civic-run hospitals in Mumbai, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC)......

Death of a bank: The complete saga

In August 2000, Satara, a sleepy district town on the Mumbai-Bangalore highway, 270 km from the country's commercial capital Mumbai, woke from its slumber. Two rival groups were camping there,......

It's a sweep for 1917 at Baftas!

IMAGE: Callum McDougall, Pippa Harris, Sam Mendes, Krysty Wilson-Cairns and Jayne-Ann Tenggren with their awards for Outstanding British Film for 1917. Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters Sam......

Oscars 2014: Matthew McConaughey, Cate Blanchett win top awards

The 86th Annual Academy Awards have been announced. Here's a quick glance at the winners, listed in bold: Best Picture American HustleGravityTwelve Years A SlaveCaptain PhillipsDallas Buyers......

Finishing School for Team India

There is a buzz in the warm Bangalore air at the Chinnaswamy stadium as I make my way towards the newly-built office of the 'Centre for Radical Ideas and Enterprising Solutions' (CRIES). A bold new......