Modi on stage, Manik Saha sworn-in as Tripura CM for 2nd term

Seventy-year-old Bharatiya Janata Party leader Manik Saha on Wednesday took oath as chief minister of the sensitive border state of Tripura. IMAGE: BJP leader Manik Saha takes oath as Tripura......

Mulayam, Ustad Zakir Hussain, SM Krishna get Padma Vibhushan

Former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav, former external affairs minister in the UPA government S M Krishna and tabla maestro Ustad Zakir Hussain were among six luminaries selected......

Kerala, TN, Assam, WB, Puducherry to vote on Tuesday

More than 750 constituencies spread across four states and one union territory will go to the polls on Tuesday While voting in Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry for their single-phase election will......

Mamata to fight Bengal polls from Nandigram

Mamata Banerjee on Monday declared she will contest the upcoming assembly election from Nandigram, as she took her battle for West Bengal to the home turf of political heavyweight Suvendu......

Shareholders vote down Birla nominees to board of directors

Vindhya Telelinks, Universal Cables and Birla Cable shareholders go against family’s wishes. IMAGE: Harsh Vardhan Lodha. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com. The Birla camp failed to......

Economists tell Sitharaman to focus on reviving growth

At a pre-Budget meeting, the FM was asked to ensure that NBFCs come out of the liquidity crisis they are facing with the help of RBI. They also spoke about the futility of trying to achieve a 3 per......

PM plans pre-Budget balm for note ban pain

Senior bureaucrats say the government has planned a 'feel-good' Budget after the 'pain' of demonetisation.Arup Roychoudhury and Archis Mohan report.Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com The Narendra......

Govt, BJP to counter anti-demonetisation campaign

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley witll spearhead the campaign with BJP President Amit Shah as its chief strategist, reports Archis Mohan. Black money is not just wads of notes Concerned at a......

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......

Cinema Marte Dum Tak Review: Movie Makers No One Knows

Vasan Bala's Cinema Marte Dum Tak shines the spotlight on Vinod Talwar, Dilip Gulati, Kishan Shah and J Neelam.All of them are articulate, witty, and expressive -- talking of their passion for......

When Bollywood made EVIL So Much FUN!

Every story needs a hero and a villain. But sometimes one antagonist is just not enough. Take Director Sujeeth's hugely hyped Saaho for instance. Releasing in Hindi, Tamil and Telugu, the Prabhas......

Sunny Leone to sue Kanti Shah?

Presumably taking cue from Ram Gopal Varma's Antara Mali starrer Main Madhuri Dixit Banna Chahti Hoon, filmmaker Kanti Shah has zeroed in on a title for his next film. Pioneer of the horex......