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Results 2024: What Lies Ahead For India

'The 2024 election results will lead to much intense targeting of Modi, more intense debates, many more breakdowns in Parliament and many more movements on the streets.' 'The results have hit......

A Campaign For Change

Unfortunately, the best man does not always win, but I feel enriched by the experience of the campaign and getting to know Rajeev Chandrasekhar, says Ambassador T P Sreenivasan. IMAGE: Rajeev......

Neighbourhood First At Modi's Swearing-In

Engagement with neighbours is a strategic imperative, and not an option, asserts Rup Narayan Das. IMAGE: Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina arrives to attend Prime Minister designate Narendra......

Foreign Policy As A Poll Tool Can Be Harmful

It is time the political leaderships in this country arrived at a common ground over issues of foreign and security policy concerns. There has to be a greater communication between the government......

Modi's speeches: HC rejects plea seeking EC action

The Delhi high court on Monday dismissed a plea seeking direction to the Election Commission of India to take action against Prime Minister Narendra Modi for allegedly delivering communally......

Majority of Byju's shareholders vote for removing CEO, family members

Majority of Byju's shareholders on Friday voted unanimously for removing founder CEO Byju Raveendran and his family from the board over alleged "mismanagement and failures" at what was once India's......

Sitharaman expects India to become a developed nation by 2047

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday said the government is close to reaching saturation in implementing social sector schemes designed to provide basic necessities to the poor. Image:......

Dabur's plan to buy Religare hit by fraud charges

The Burman family has refuted the allegations of their activities as being "fraudulent and illegal" by independent directors of Religare Enterprises Ltd (REL), terming them " false, frivolous and......

A Budget With An Eye On Elections

Nirmala Sitharaman's messaging was clear when she presented a well-balanced Budget with an eye on state elections in nine states followed by a general election next year, observes Ramesh Menon.......

'Adani affair overshadowed Budget's stability, prudence'

'That is the one headline the world is reading about India, and it is a potentially damaging story...''I don't think a panic mentality has set in, but this story is one that investors and market......

Indian 2 Review: Kamal Haasan Elevates Overwritten Sequel

The saving grace of Shankar's expanded universe is the masterful precision with which Kamal Haasan drops himself into a messy setup, only slightly to elevate the pulpy tendencies of Shankar's......

Kalki 2898 AD: The Alternate Review

A lot of time is spent on giving us the background of the story and establishing the characters but the film is named Kalki and the man is not even born, notes A Ganesh Nadar. Director......

2024's Biggest Hindi HITS So Far

2024 may have seen a few flops at the box office but there have been some hits as well. Sadly, there were no Rs 500 crore club (Rs 5 billion) blockbusters like last year's Pathaan. Here's a look at......

Maidaan Review: Snooze Soccer

Maidaan draws out more yawns than yays, observes Sukanya Verma. Underdog sports stories are as life-affirming as they are formulaic. What distinguishes the decent ones from the drags is vision.......

Why Merry Christmas Left Me Feeling Shortchanged

If you have never seen Sriram Raghavan fly, you would hardly realise that this time, he is happy in his cage, this time he isn't reaching for the skies, notes Sreehari Nair. IMAGE: Katrina Kaif in......

World Jr Chess: Harshit Pawar shocks top seed USA's Mishra

IMAGE: Image used for representational purposes. Photograph: International Chess Federation/Instagram Playing the game of his life, India's Harshit Pawar shocked top seed and youngest ever......

Candidates Chess: Praggnanandhaa holds Firouza; Vaishali draws with Humpy

IMAGE: Debutant Vaishali Rameshbabu (2475) held her own against the experienced compatriot Humpy Koneru (2546) in the Women's Candidates on Thursday. Photograph: International Chess Federation/X......

Aus Open: Ukrainian qualifier Yastremska, Noskova reach quarters

IMAGE: Ukraine's Dayana Yastremska in action during her fourth round match against Belarus' Victoria Azarenka. Photograph: Edgar Su /Reuters Qualifier Dayana Yastremska continued her......

Will India Serve Up Kul-Cha In 1st ODI?

IMAGE: Will India play spin twins Kuldeep Yadav and Yuzvendra Chahal in Sunday's first ODI against South Africa? Photograph: BCCI An interesting contest is on the cards as a new look Indian......

Decoding Dhoni: Next season will be about figuring how to manage team from dugout

MSD is CSK and CSK is MSD IMAGE: MS Dhoni guided CSK to a fifth IPL trophy in 11 final appearances and he remained unfazed. Photograph: BCCI Mahendra Singh Dhoni was numb. He didn't raise his head......

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