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Abandoned Shiva temple reopens in Aligarh's Muslim-dominated area

Right-wing organisations and some local Bharatiya Janata Party leaders held a shuddhikaran (purification) ceremony and chanted Hanuman chalisa at a long-abandoned Shiva temple in a Muslim-majority......

Rightwing threat forces interfaith couple to cancel wedding reception

A United States-based interfaith couple of Indian origin was forced to cancel their wedding reception in Aligarh district of Uttar Pradesh following 'threats of protests' by rightwing......

UP hospital had expired fire extinguishers? Govt says...

The Uttar Pradesh government on Saturday ordered a three-tier probe into the fire incident at the children's ward of a medical college in Uttar Pradesh's Jhansi district that killed 10 newborns and......

This close aide of Nitish becomes Union minister

Senior Janata Dal-United leader Rajiv Ranjan popularly known as Lalan Singh, who was inducted as a minister in the Narendra Modi government on Sunday, has been among Bihar Chief Minister Nitish......

Assam bans land sale among 2 communities

The Assam government has stopped selling of lands between two different communities for three months to avoid any possible 'conflict on communal lines' ahead of the Lok Sabha elections. Image only......

Impact of untimely rain on wheat crop marginal

There has not been a large impact of untimely rain and hailstorm so far in several major wheat-growing areas, and those might have damaged around 3 per cent of the standing crop -- not enough to......

Tax ruling on back-office services shocks IT, BPO sector

The recent ruling by the Authority of Advance Rulings making back-office services provided by a company to global firms taxable under GST, has sent shockwaves through the information technology and......

Agri-credit target up at Rs 1.25 trillion

In a big boost to farm sector, Finance Minister P Chidambaram proposed a whopping Rs 1.25 lakh crore increase in agri-credit target for next fiscal at Rs 7 lakh crore and raised allocation to the......

Battle royal over Bt cotton royalty

A quiet but determined battle is being fought in the courts, and outside, by US agricultural biotech giant Monsanto, its Indian affiliates and seed lobbyists to free the prices of genetically......

Monsanto looks beyond Bt brinjal

Even as the country awaits the final word on genetically modified brinjal, seed company Monsanto is moving ahead with new products. Monsanto (India) is testing a new variety of corn (maize) that......

Choona Review: Not Much Fun!

Choona is too slow, has redundant characters and needless complications, observes Deepa Gahlot. In Mumbai slang, 'choona lagana' is to fool or con someone. Which is what six men do to a politician......

The Actor Who Overshadowed Shahid

'We are all here to hustle.' The road is seldom easy for outsiders to break into the Hindi film industry. But when they do, their success is glorious. One such story is scripted by Bhuvan Arora,......

Ghar Waapsi Review

Ghar Waapsi is strewn in pithy wit. And believable scenes of pyaar and takraar, observes Sukanya Verma. Man'S survival instincts kick hardest in crisis. With the growing fear of coronavirus......

The BEST Indian Films of 2021

Aseem Chhabra lists his favourite Indian films of 2021. Aseem's Best International Films of 2021 In the second year of the pandemic when movie theatres remained closed for an extended period of......

Asian Games 2023 Schedule

The 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou officially opens on Saturday, September 23. While some events like football, rowing and volleyball have already begun, the other big-ticket sports start over the......

Rahul may face axe; Hardik set to lead India in T20s

Chetan's committee to select teams for SL series IMAGE: The outgoing selection committee, chaired by Chetan Sharma, will choose the Indian squad for the Sri Lanka T20s. Photograph: KL......

Who will be the new Chief Selector of Team India?

Mongia, Maninder, Das among notable names in contention for senior selectors' posts IMAGE: As the date of application for the new panel closed at 6 pm on Monday, it is understood that more than 50......

Former India pacer RP Singh's father dies of COVID

Photograph: Kind courtesy BCCI/IPL Former India pacer RP Singh lost his father Shiv Prasad Singh, who died on Wednesday in a Lucknow hospital due to COVID-19. The former skipper of the Uttar......

T20I Rankings: Azam climbs to 2nd spot, Kohli unmoved at 5th

IMAGE: Last week, Babar Azam topped the ICC ODI rankings. Photograph: ICC/Twitter India skipper Virat Kohli remained firm at the fifth spot but Pakistan captain Babar Azam advanced one place to......

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