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Can Praveen Sood Get CBI The Public's Trust?

He takes over the CBI in challenging times.The perception is that the agency is reduced to being an instrument of blackmail and intimidation by successive governments. IMAGE: Karnataka Director......

SC says it will decide on police chiefs of cities too, 'once and for all'

The Supreme Court on Monday said it will decide "once and for all" the legal issue of whether the earlier apex court judgment laying down procedures for the appointment of the director general of......

Maharashtra fumes as Assam claims 6th Jyotirlinga in ad

A Nationalist Congress Party leader in Maharashtra on Wednesday objected to an Assam government advertisement claiming that the sixth 'Bhimashankar' Jyotirlinga was situated in the north-eastern......

Black box, data recorder of crashed IAF jets found in Morena

The black box of Mirage 2000 and a part of the flight data recorder of Sukhoi-30MKI jet, which crashed in Madhya Pradesh's Morena district, have been found from the wreckage, an official said on......

IAF's Sukhoi, Mirage aircraft crash in MP; 1 pilot killed

In a rare and tragic accident, two frontline combat aircraft of the Indian Air Force crashed during a training mission in Madhya Pradesh's Morena district on Saturday, resulting in the death of a......

RBI turned down request to appoint ex-CBI official on board: Religare

Religare Enterprises, a financial services firm, has disclosed that the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) turned down its application to appoint Rakesh Asthana as its whole-time director in May......

Darjeeling tea hits 8-yr low in auctions

Geopolitical headwinds leading to lower demand from export markets, coupled with lower domestic buying, have dragged the auction average of Darjeeling tea to its lowest level since 2015.......

Crisis Brews In Darjeeling's Tea Gardens

In the last three years, 20 gardens have changed hands, and 90 per cent of the buyers are from non-tea background. IMAGE: A worker gathers tea leaves at the Happy Valley tea garden estate in......

Reading the tea leaves: Low production stirs chai industry's teapot

The tea industry’s cup of woes brimmeth — scanty rainfall and pest attacks have dragged down production in May, prices are lower than last year, and demand from some export markets is......

Sri Lankan crisis: Indian orthodox tea gets a boost

It’s a busy season for Indian producers of orthodox tea. Photograph: Rupak De Choudhuri/Reuters As Sri Lanka, the world’s largest supplier of orthodox tea, struggles with its worst......

Modern Love: Mumbai Review

Modern Love: Mumbai has a mostly good selection of stories, and unlike so many other OTT shows that seem to think profanity and sex depict modernity, this one can be watched with the family without......

Chitrangda, Arshad and a Premiere

Stars attend the screening of Modern Love: Mumbai, which will start streaming on Amazon Prime Video from May 13. The Web series, the first of the three Indian adaptations of the original, will be......

Chitrangda has Cutting Chai with...

Pradeep Bandekar glimpsed Kareena Kapoor, Mrunal Thakur, Nushrratt Bharuccha, Sharvari, Disha Patani, Kiara Advani, Janhvi Kapoor, Sara Ali Khan, Aditi Rao Hydari... on Tuesday. Please click on the......

Coming In May: Aadha Ishq, Kashmir Files

There's going to be a lot of interesting content on OTT in May. From original films to Web series across genres, as well as the biggest Bollywood grosser of 2022, Joginder Tuteja lists the good......

Unpaused: Naya Safar Review

Unpaused: Naya Safar holds on to a light-at-the-end-of-a-tunnel thought and looks at the pandemic-afflicted people from all walks of life through the prism of optimism in five poignant stories,......

Navdeep Saini Ties The Knot With Swati

Photographs: Kind courtesy Navdeep Saini/Instagram Indian pacer Navdeep Saini married his long-time girlfriend, Swati Asthana. Sharing the news on his official Instagram profile, Saini......

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