BJP leads with 20 Rajya Sabha MPs among 41 elected unopposed

Former Congress president Sonia Gandhi, BJP chief J P Nadda and new party entrant Ashok Chavan and Union ministers Ashwini Vaishnaw and L Murugan were among the 41 candidates elected unopposed to......

List of VIPs invited for Ram temple Event

Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan, business tycoons Mukesh Ambani and Gautam Adani, and sporting icon Sachin Tendulkar are among India's crme de la crme who have been invited as state guests for......

MP poll: BJP releases 5th list, drops Vijayvargiya's son

The Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday released a fifth list of 92 candidates for the next month's MP assembly polls dropping sitting Indore-3 MLA Akash Vijayvargiya, son of the party stalwart......

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......

Inflation eats into India's rural demand while green shoots become visible

In May, Satpal Singh, who runs a dairy business with three buffaloes in Jewar, near Noida, was worried about the steep spike in input costs. Photograph: Amit Dave/Reuters Singh said dry fodder......

Why India is unlikely to double farmers' income

Earlier this month, the Central government said in a reply in Parliament it had taken measures to double farmers’ income by the end of FY23 and the progress made so far indicated it was......

Of all farmers' demands, legalising MSP is tricky and highly complicated

A back of the envelope calculation being floated by some experts shows that at the current levels of production and marketable surplus, if the Centre legally guarantees to purchase a portion of the......

Why inflation pain could get worse

Except for wheat and rice, for which we have huge inventories, overall commodity prices will remain high this year. Photograph: Amit Dave/Reuters As India looks to mend its Covid-battered economy,......

Why Lataji Didn't Sing With Rafi, SD...

Photograph: Kind courtesy Lata Mangeshkar/Twitter When it came to doing the right thing, Lata Mangeshkar was next to no one in the Hindi film industry. There are innumerable instances of her......

Revisiting 1983 in Hindi Movies

Kapil Dev's historic World Cup win wasn't the only highlight of 1983. Sukanya Verma looks back how the year treated Bollywood. It was a year of excitement and extremes. If parallel cinema in India......

Bollywood's Cricket Movies

This is as uncanny as it gets, but 2021 will end up with two back to back releases which are based on cricket -- '83 and Jersey. COVID ended up being a spanner in the plans for many film-makers and......

25 UNFORGETTABLE Dilip Kumar songs

Unlike his contemporaries Raj Kapoor and Dev Anand whose career boasts of a great many songs, Dilip Kumar's name isn't synonymous with music. Considered an acting school by himself, the legend's......

The World Cup That Cheers

In cricket, we have something that we can share with our families, neighbours and indeed, the whole country. It is colour-blind, language-neutral, truly secular and transcends all regions, from......

How India Have Fared In World Cup Finals

A dominant India thrashed England by 68 runs in the second semi-finals of the T20 World Cup in Guyana on Thursday to set up an exciting final against South Africa.India and South Africa are the two......

PIX: Dhoni, Gambhir, Babita cast votes

IMAGE: Former India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni at the polling station in Ranchi on Saturday. Photograph: Kind courtesy Election Commission of India/X Former India skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni......

Rohit, Gavaskar, Anand, P T Usha, Bhutia get Ram Temple invite

IMAGE: India captain Rohit Sharma has been invited for the consecration of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya on Monday. Photograph: Rohit Sharma/Instagram Cricketing icon Sachin Tendulkar, chess......

Rohit, Kohli hold the key for India against South Africa...

IMAGE: For Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma, this could be their last chance to conquest what no other Indian team could on eight previous tours -- win a Test series in South Africa. Photograph: BCCI......