Mandela is our greatest hero: Mahatma's granddaughter

Ela Gandhi, the granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi and a member of Nelson Mandela’s party, recalls some fond memories of the South African legend in a conversation with Sheela Bhatt.   The......

Former Union minister K C Pant passes away

Former Union Minister K C Pant, who had served under late Prime Ministers Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi and switched to BJP in the late 1990s, died in New Delhi on Thursday. He was 81. The son of......

'Sonia would have preferred Pratibha Patil as prez again'

Shekhar Iyer, a familiar face on television's news analysis programmes and senior associate editor at the Hindustan Times in New Delhi, threw light on the politics behind the presidential polls as......

'For Sonia, Mulayam is a long term, unpredictable ally'

The race to elect the 13th President has so far seen plenty of action and intrigue, it even appearing for a brief while as if the government of the day could be challenged and actually brought down......

Market crash: Bargain hunters make hay

After the market re-opened at 10.55 am on Tuesday, Anil Anand (name changed), a retail investor working in a bank in Churchgate, called his broker to ask him to buy 100 shares of Reliance......

Economists root for tax reforms

Economists on Wednesday pitched for speeding up tax reforms and asked the government to focus on attracting more foreign direct investment in order to sustain a GDP growth rate of over 7 per......

Kanika Kapoor, Gauahar Khan, Ayushmann at Mirchi Music Awards

It was time for the music industry to take over the red carpet! The music industry made sure to make its presence felt at the Mirchi Music Awards, held over the weekend in Mumbai. Quite a few......

'Don't harbour dreams of buying a Jaguar with my money. I have other plans'

'The roles I’m getting are of seductive divas and everything in the opposite direction of a jaded housewife trapped in a loveless marriage!' The Lunchbox actress Nimrat Kaur looks ahead.......