List of Padma award winners

Following are the winners of the country's highest civilian awards this year:Padma Vibhushan No Name Discipline State 1. Asha Bhosle Art Maharashtra 2. Justice AS......

Scam helped Rose Valley create Rs 2,500-cr assets

Unlike Saradha mastermind, Gautam Kundu used illegally collected money to expand the company's hotel business across India "I am not a fool like Sudipta Sen," Rose Valley Chairman Gautam Kundu shot......

Tollywood benefits from chit funds

‘Chit fund’ companies, as loosely called, are entrenched in the city’s film industry, popularly known as Tollywood. At present, about 30 per cent of all movies made in Tollywood......

Meet Harish Thawani, the Nimbus CEO

He may be better known as a street-savvy fighter and might have made his first million producing and marketing serials on Doordarshan. But all that did not deter him from going to court against......

Aattam: The Play Wins Top National Award

IMAGE: Zarin Shihab in Aattam: The Play. Malayalam film Aattam: The Play has won the award for Best Feature Film. Sooraj R Barjatya was judged Best Director for the Hindi movie Uunchai at the......

Is This The Hottest Song Of The Year?

Photograph: Hitesh Harisinghani/Rediff.com What's more gorgeous than one Stree promoting her film? Well, two Strees, of course! Tamannaah Bhatia joined the film's OG bhootni, Shraddha Kapoor, to......

The Actress Who Caught Mrinal Sen's Eye

'She didn't tell us she had been diagnosed with cancer.' Photograph: Kind courtesy Sreela Majumdar/Facebook Sreela Majumdar caught the discerning eye of Mrinal Sen and he cast her as Alhadi in his......

'After divorce, I shut myself in my flat for 3 years'

'Then, one fine morning, I returned to my first love.''All the top directors of the time were waiting for me.''In one day, I signed 12 films.''Prosenjit Chatterjee was back!' Photograph: Kind......

From the Colonel: Tales Between Two Titles

IMAGE: Dilip Vengsarkar with Sachin Tendulkar and Krishnamachari Srikkanth during the first Test match between India and New Zealand in Kanpur on September 22, 2016. Photograph: BCCI Former India......

Wrist Assured: Viswanath's autobiography launched during India-Lanka Test

IMAGE: Gundappa Viswanath with Sourav Ganguly. Photograph: BCCI The autobiography of former captain Gundappa Viswanath, one of the finest batters in the history of Indian cricket and hailed as an......

Boost for India as Ishant starts bowling full tilt at NCA

IMAGE: Ishant Sharma was mainly bowling single stump with NCA coaching staff like Paras Mhambrey and Mansur Khan also in attendance. Photograph: BCCI India's senior-most fast bowler Ishant......

NCA physio faces heat after Ishant injury, pacer could miss IPL first part

IMAGE: Was there a greater push from Ishant Sharma to get fit in time for the Test series? Photograph: Ishant Sharma/Twitter The resurfacing of Ishant Sharma's ankle injury has left the Board......

Vijay Patil elected Mumbai CA chief; Azhar to represent Hyderabad

IMAGE: Vijay Patil, son of former Governor and Congress politician Dr D Y Patil, was elected unopposed. Photograph: Vijay Patil/Facebook Education baron Vijay Patil and Sanjay Naik were elected......