Rajya Sabha passes bill to appoint CEC, ECs as Opposition walks out

Rajya Sabha on Tuesday passed a bill to regulate the appointment and service terms of Chief Election Commissioner and election commissioners incorporating key amendments like retaining their status......

Nitish 'condemns himself', apologises in assembly and outside

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday apologised in both Houses of the legislature, as well as outside, for remarks made a day before on the importance of women's education to control......

Kangana says '1947 freedom was bheekh', sparks outrage

Actor Kangana Ranaut kicked off a firestorm on Thursday for declaring that India attained 'real freedom' in 2014, when the Modi-led government came to power, and describing the country's......

Rajya Sabha passes bill to punish those attacking medics

The Rajya Sabha Saturday passed a legislation that provides for up to seven years in jail for those attacking doctors and healthcare workers fighting the COVID-19 outbreak or during any situation......

IIT prof among new members on NSE board

Naved Masood, former secretary in the Ministry of Corporate Affairs and Sebi board member; TV Mohandas Pai, chairman of Manipal Global Education and Dinesh Kanabar, CEO, Dhruva Advisors have ceded......

Why ICICI Bank chose Girish Chaturvedi as its chairman

The ICICI board is looking to the retired petroleum secretary to provide 'maturity and sagacity'.Jyoti Mukul reports.Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com His former colleagues in the powerful......

ZEE's Subhash Chandra bets on white-label ATMs

With more than 100 million new accounts opened under the Jan Dhan Yojana, the demand for white-label ATMs has increased ZEE promoter Subhash Chandra is betting highly on white-label automated......

Meet the new Petroleum secretary

When the word spread that Petroleum Minister Jaipal Reddy wanted to replace the secretary at his ministry, the questions that came to everyone's mind were why and who?Guessing why was not very......

Get A Taste Of Nayanthara On OTT

Stories of friendship, former life and fights against the system dominate OTT this week. Sukanya Verma lists her recommendations./strong>   Kho Gaye Hum KahanWhere to watch?......

10 Must See Cop Thrillers On OTT

Thrillers are the most popular shows on streaming platforms, and Hindi OTT channels do this genre well, even of some of the series are adapted from foreign sources. The crime thriller can be......

Guess who's back to work in Bollywood?

Things are finally returning to normal for Bollywood, as actors return to film studios. It all started with Akshay Kumar, who completed his start-to-finish shoot for his film Bell Bottom in the UK.......

PIX: Riteish-Genelia step out for a party

Film folk assembled for a mid-week party at a Mumbai restaurant, when Nikkhil Advani celebrated eight years of his production house Emmay Entertainment. The Batla House director has produced quite......