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Key Mahayuti meet cancelled, Shinde heads to native village

A key Mahayuti meeting scheduled on Friday was put off and likely to take place on Sunday now as outgoing Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde headed to his native village, delaying government......

Maha pact: What will BJP offer to keep Shinde on board?

Maharashtra's outgoing Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, his deputies Devendra Fadnavis and Ajit Pawar met Union Home Minister Amit Shah in New Delhi on Thursday night to thrash out a power-sharing......

Does Maha poll rout signal end for Sharad Pawar's politics?

Sharad Pawar had led the Nationalist Congress Party faction to an emphatic win in Lok Sabha elections in Maharashtra, however, five months later the 83-year-old suffered one of the worst setbacks......

NCP leader Baba Siddique shot dead in Mumbai

Nationalist Congress Party leader and former Maharashtra minister Baba Siddique was shot dead by three men in Mumbai's Bandra area on Saturday, and two of the assailants have been since arrested,......

Eknath Shinde Has No Cards Left To Play

The meeting in New Delhi etc is just the BJP being nice to the man who helped it realise its dream by stabbing Uddhav in the back, notes Saisuresh Sivaswamy. IMAGE: A clearly downcast Eknath......

Meet Girish Chandra Murmu: PM Modi and Amit Shah's go-to man

A 1985-batch IAS officer with a reputation for industriousness, Murmu is currently special secretary in the revenue department. There was one crucial way in which Gujarat cadre bureaucrat Girish......

Ex-airline CMD flagged Praful's favour to rivals

The letter was sent as an early warning of what was then widely being perceived as a plunder of national resources.Anjuli Bhargava reports. Even as the Enforcement Directorate began questioning......

India to be among top 5 aviation markets: Patel

India will be among the top five aviation markets in the world - both in terms of size and scale in the next five years, Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel said. "In 2004, when I came to this......

Will Modi find a buyer for Air India?

'Industry observers are certain the next attempt will succeed even if they have to browbeat someone into buying as the government has put its might behind it,' predicts Anjuli Bhargava. Aviation......

Jet Airways designed airline's business class seat in garage

Stiff competition pushed the airlines to take to Naresh Goyal's garage in his London home Have you ever heard of an airline's business class seat being developed inside a garage? That's what stiff......

Jacqueline Parties with Salman

All roads led to Arpita Khan and Aayush Sharma's Eid party, as Bollywood's A-listers -- power couples and surprise guests -- looked their festive best. Please click on the images for a look at the......

All hail twinkletoes Swayze

Dirty Dancing was never supposed to be a hit. Made on a tiny budget, the producers intended to show it in theatres for just one weekend and take it to the video stores, but something magical......

Taylor Swift, Beyonce win big at MTV awards

Singer Taylor Swift won the Best Female Video award at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards in New York on Sunday. The 19-year-old songtress won the Best Female Video award for You Belong With Me.......

Ram Gopal Varma takes on Aliens!

After scaring us with his last horror movie Phoonk, Ram Gopal Varma hopes to send more chills down our spine with Agyaat, a thriller set in a jungle. The film stars Priyanka Kothari and is set......

FIFA tells AIFF to hold elections to avoid ban

World governing body FIFA has told India's football association to complete changes to its constitution and elect new office bearers by Sept. 15 to avoid being banned, officials said. India's......

Indian footballers await COVID results in Doha

IMAGE: The Indian team, fourth in Group E with three points, is already out of contention for a World Cup berth but it is still in the reckoning for the 2023 Asian Cup in China. Photograph: AIFF......

Former captain Bhutia files nomination for AIFF president's post

IMAGE: While Bhaichung Bhutia has filed his nomination as an "eminent player", the inclusion of which is debatable, he could turn out to be a unifying figure if right-minded people come together......

Captain Chhetri eclipses Messi in top scorers' list

IMAGE: Sunil Chhetri scored two goals against Bangladesh to take his international tally to 74 goals, two more than Lionel Messi, and is now only behind Portugal star Cristiano Ronaldo (103) in......

Former Asiad gold medallist Fortunato Franco dead

IMAGE: Fortunato Franco would forever be remembered for providing the assist that enabled Jarnail Singh to nod home the winner against South Korea in the 1962 Asian Games. Photograph: Praful......

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