Rukhsana gets Sarvottam Jeevan Raksha medal

President Pratibha Patil has approved the award of Sarvottam Jeevan Raksha Padak for Rukhsana Kosser, the Jammu girl who braved the bullets of Lashkar-e-Tayiba militants and killed one of them to......

'They continued to fire at everyone'

Twenty-year-old Varun Salvi* is in training to become a front office executive at the Taj Hotel in Mumbai. On the night of November 26, he was on his way to work the 11 pm shift when he learned of......

Longest dance party: The rules

Part I: How long can you dance? 65 hours?On December 28, about 30 persons will begin an attempt to break the record for the longest party. The existing record of 52-odd hours was set by a group......

Longest dance party record: Selection process

Part I: How long can you dance? 65 hours?Since participants will have to dance for 65 hours, event organisers OGL Interactive contacted Mumbai-based fitness expert Kaizad Kapadia, associated with......

'The first priority is to ensure seamless customer service without any disruption'

'We created war rooms -- from an IT perspective and also a customer war room -- to address any challenges that come up.' Photograph: Shailesh Andrade/Reuters Kaizad Bharucha, deputy managing......

HDFC Bank gets six months to move HDFC clients to external benchmark

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has given HDFC Bank six months to migrate HDFC’s home loan customers to external benchmark linked lending rate (EBLR), top sources in the bank told Business......

HDFC Bank's Kaizad Bharucha took home the most among bankers in FY22

Kaizad Bharucha, executive director of HDFC Bank, emerged the highest earning banker for 2021-22 (FY22). Photograph: Courtesy, NSE via Facebook This was revealed in a remuneration assessment of......

'Sashi' has large shoes to fill as HDFC Bank's new boss

Apart from navigating the bank through the Covid crisis, Jagdishan may also have to deal with the latest development on the auto loan lending practice scam. He will be expected to deliver......

Gay love in the movies

Bollywood's homophobia problem bares itself in its various caricatures of the LGBQT community. Where a few film-makers are sensitive in their treatment as noted in the depiction of lesbian love in......

Actor Kushal Punjabi found dead

Actor Kushal Punjabi, who appeared in films such as Kaal and Lakshya as well as the reality show Fear Factor, was found dead in his Bandra apartment, in north west Mumbai, in the early hours of......

Bollywood's Parsi power!

And no, says Sukanya Verma, the list doesn't start and stop with Boman Irani! Often caricatured on celluloid, there's more to the small but solid Parsi community than quirks and accent. Quite a few......

SRK, Big B, Akshay: Vote for your favourite DON!

Take this fun poll now! Shah Rukh Khan, Amitabh Bachchan and Akshay Kumar have charmed the audience with their heroic acts on the big screen a zillion times. There's another thing that they have in......

Readers wishes to John Wright

Name:Balakrishnan Sreenivas Message:May this genial man continue as our cricket team for many for years to come. He taught us what real professionalism is. A nation of 1 billion people who are......

Dirt Track racing in Mumbai

India's leading riders, including Mumbai's Rustom Patel and Vijay Kumar of Karnataka, will be seen in action in the first leg of the Gulf Dirt Track Championship, to be held at the National Sports......