PIX: People across country celebrate Diwali with pomp

Colourful lights decked up buildings and diyas (earthen lamps) dotted houses as people across the country celebrated Diwali with great enthusiasm on Thursday. IMAGE: Prime Minister Narendra Modi......

Is Tourism Destroying Goa?

Poor governance and mediocre short-sighted politics are destroying the paradise that Goa was as its environment, water table, culture and way of life is drastically threatened by tourism and......

Maharashtra's Covid curbs: What is allowed/not allowed

The weekend lockdown will start from 8 pm on Fridays and last till 7 am on Mondays. Besides, prohibitory orders will be in force during daytime on weekdays, the Chief Minister's Office (CMO) said......

The 92-year-old civic warrior

Kamakshi Paatti, a sprightly nonagenarian, has the Chennai civic corporation on its toes. IMAGE: Kamakshi Paatti. Photograph: A Ganesh Nadar/Rediff.com   Kamakshi Paatti (grandma in Tamil),......

Entire text of finance minister's Budget Speech

Budget 2010-11 provided considerable relief to income tax payers by raising the slabs at two levels but hiked the central excise duty on non-petroleum products across the board from 8 to 10 per......

Financial guide for young women

Starting long before the teen years, young women and those who are responsible for them should employ many strategies to confront adulthood's impending financial challenges. Given the high......

Building opportunity in India

The rich parts of India are like a handful of diamonds scattered on a sunny beach. There's a lot of hot sand between the shiny bits. In places such as the Delhi suburb of Gurgaon, the outskirts of......

Can Hollywood build a better business?

"You can take Hollywood for granted like I did, or you can dismiss it with the contempt we reserve for what we don't understand. It can be understood, too, but only dimly and in flashes. Not half a......

371 Films And Shows To Watch!

Aseem Chhabra rates the movies he's watched in 2023, and tells you where you can watch them! With the pandemic done and dusted, people are back to watching films in their neighborhood theaters and......

10 Lovely Stories From Across The World

After an interruption of two years, the Berlin Film Festival returned in full force. A range of remarkable films were show, from new discoveries, return of old masters and a celebration of classic......

10 Films that Amazed Me at Cannes

The 74th Cannes Film Festival ended with the jury -- headed by Spike Lee -- handing out awards to a number of international films from France, Iran, Finland, Israel, Norway, Japan and the US. But......

'Heroines flocked to him, but...'

'... their love was jinxed.''His celluloid path to his partner's heart was seldom smooth; it had to contend with greedy relatives and indecisive sweethearts, who were more ready to sacrifice than......

Rumble in the Jungle shook the world

The Rumble in the Jungle was the greatest boxing spectacle of the 20th century, notes Dhruv Munjal. IMAGE: Muhammad Ali and George Foreman. Photograph: Stewart Cook/Getty Images It almost didn't......

Asian Games diary: Japan send home players for night with women

IMAGE: Picture for representational purpose only. Photograph: Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters Japan have sent home four players from their Asian Games basketball team for spending the night with......

Sports Shorts: NBA star LeBron James's home vandalized with racial slur

A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Thursday IMAGE: Cleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James. Photograph: Winslow Townson-USA TODAY Sports/File Photo Basketball......

Ronaldo: From Lisbon to Madrid, via Manchester

Few players in world football fit the Galactico description better than Cristiano Ronaldo, and the Portuguese box of tricks appears to be on the verge of re-locating to his natural habitat at Real......