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Is India still the 'slumdog' for the West?

SlumDog Millionaire has won over the Western audiences with its 'fairy tale in a Mumbai slum' storyline but back home the film has opened up a heated debate about the stereotyped representation of......

Trump visits Pittsburgh synagogue, meets widow of one of the shooting victims

United States President Donald Trump visited the Pittsburgh synagogue where 11 people were killed in an anti-Semitic attack and met the widow of one of the victims and three law enforcement......

Why the Sanjay Dutt case highlights need for jail reforms

Our jails are not reforming inmates but are turning into an inhuman system of heaping punishment, says Mahesh Vijapurkar. It is common knowledge that jails are no picnic spots. The conditions there......

How Headley used Rahul as a 'cover'

Vicky Nanjappa provides a glimpse of what Rahul Bhatt, filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt's son and a 'witness' in the case against David Headley, revealed during questioning. The questioning of Rahul Bhatt,......

RLD supremo's kin sentenced in Iranian dealing

Vikramaditya Singh, son-in-law of Rashtriya Lok Dal leader Ajit Singh, has been sentenced to six months of home confinement by a United States court and now faces deportation after he was caught in......

What Was The Secret Of Rakesh Jhunjhunwala's Success?

His advice was to always start with small positions because we are bound to make mistakes; and remain humble because the markets can be merciless, remembers Debashis Basu. Illustration: Dominic......

Why users are logging out of Twitter and joining Mastodon

Recently, several Twitter users began migrating to the social networking platform after a protest that began with Supreme Court lawyer Sanjay Hegde’s Twitter account suspension, and moved on......

Be a khadoos, Urjitbhai

'If you keep inflation low, everything else like messing up after after demonetisation will be forgiven,' says T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan.Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com The Modi government......

The 400 richest Americans

The nine-figure fortune won't get you much mention these days, at least not on these pages. This year, for the first time, everyone in The Forbes 400 has at least $1 billion. The collective net......

The IPL's capitalist ideology

IPL is a metaphor for a new India - crass, brash and razzmatazz - but it is in big trouble, says Gurcharan Das. The recently concluded IPL has been a non-stop party that lasted for six weeks, to......

10 OTT Shows That Make Us Nostalgic

Scoop reminded viewers of a time in the not-so-recent-past when Mumbai was in the grip of the underworld. The new Web series Guns And Gulaabs is set in the opium town of Gulaabganj sometime in the......

Your OTT Menu: Dinosaurs Or Monsters? Cops Or Crooks?

Time travel, monsters, dinosaurs, Korean cops, what will you watch on OTT? Sukanya Verma offers her picks. DobaaraaWhere to watch? NetflixLanguage: Hindi Taapsee Pannu headlines Anurag......

Shantaram Review: Too Verbose

If future episodes are as verbose and unwieldy, it might be difficult to keep from switching channels, points out Deepa Gahlot. When the book Shantaram came out in 2003, it became a bestseller and......

SPOTTED! Oprah meets Shantaram author

Oprah Winfrey, who landed in Mumbai on Monday, has been shooting for her new travel show Next Chapter and partying with the city's swish set.We spotted the celebrity talk show host in Colaba, South......

PIX: Jeetendra, Anil Kapoor celebrate Sridevi's Padma Shri

Sahara group chief Subroto Roy organised a bash for Sridevi to celebrate her Padma Shri award at the Sahara Hotel in Mumbai on April 23. The actress cut a medal cake while her friends --......

Confident India A take on New Zealand

With the series evenly poised, India A will start their second half campaign hoping to keep a clean slate against their New Zealand counterparts when the two sides lock horns in the Triangular......

Indian umpires Chaudhary, Nandan to officiate at ICC Under-19 World Cup

Indian umpires Anil Chaudhary and C K Nandan will be a part of the 14-strong panel of officials for the Under-19 World Cup starting January 13 in New Zealand, the International Cricket Council......

Sports Shorts: Shubhankar-Lahiri team to represent India at World Cup of Golf

The World Cup of Golf will feature two-man teams from the top 28 nations based on the Official World Golf Ranking. IMAGE: Shubhankar Sharma, who enjoyed great success on the European Tour this......

FRAMED: Stunning Photos from the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games

The 21st Commonwealth Games, came to a close at Gold Coast on Sunday. And what an event it was! India finished 3rd on the medals table with 66 medals in total. All the blood, sweat and tears......

Cricket Buzz: NZ's Taylor fit for first Test against England

IMAGE: New Zealand's Ross Taylor. Photograph: Robert Cianflone/Getty Images New Zealand batsman Ross Taylor has been confirmed fit to take his place in the side for the first Test against......

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