A freebie once granted can hardly be discontinued. All that can happen is to substitute it with a bigger freebie, notes A K Bhattacharya. IMAGE: Prime Minister Narendra D Modi presents a cheque to......
'Jairam Mahto's new party dented the NDA because he pulled a lot of the OBC vote.' IMAGE: Jairam Mahto of the Jharkhand Loktantrik Krantikari Morcha campaigning in the Dumri assembly constituency......
'If you want to win you need to perform.''Governments have found a way to buck anti-incumbency, but one policy intervention will not pay in all elections.' IMAGE: Jharkhand Mukti Morcha leader......
Women-centric schemes could have proved a game-changer in both Maharashtra and Jharkhand, as both states witnessed a surge in women voters in the recently held assembly polls as well as return of......
Popular folk singer Sharda Sinha, known as 'Bihar Kokila' for her melodious rendition of Chhath and folk songs such as Kartik Maas Ijoriya, Suraj Bhaile Bihaan and Bollywood hits Taar Bijli and......
Real estate investment trusts (Reits) are in talks with regulatory bodies — the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) — to seek changes in......
Global investment firm Blackstone on Wednesday sold its entire 23.5 per cent stake in Embassy Office Parks REIT for around Rs 7,100 crore, according to sources. Photograph: Jeenah......
MTR re-positions its brand to cater early morning to the hungry urban young. It has launched a range of breakfast foods to pave the way for future product and brand transformation. One of......
National brands prefer the acquisition route since the southern market is culturally different, reports T E Narasimhan from Chennai. Entrepreneurs have realised that things have become more......
Infosys said it is in discussion with over 10 institutions globally for deploying the solution Betting big on 'blockchain technology', software services major Infosys has launched a new framework......
'The great singer Shardaji took Bhojpuri music and singing to the national and international level with her singing!' IMAGE: Sharda Sinha. Photograph: Kind courtesy Anurag Kashyap/Instagram Anurag......
What would Sunny Deol do without his menacing gaze, furious dialogues and booming threats? More than two decades later, he's still at it. In Gadar 2, a sequel to his 2001 blockbuster set against......
Bollywood celebrates Maha Shivratri with prayers and pictures. Photograph: Kind courtesy Raveena Tandon/Instagram Raveena Tandon, who is in Kashi, offers prayers to her late father Ravi Tandon on......
In the days of Biswajeet, Rajesh Khanna and Amitabh Bachchan, almost every film had a sister. And every screen sister sang a soul-stirring song about her brother, whether it was Nanda singing......
IMAGE: Amitabh Bachchan in Saat Hindustani. It happens only in India, goes a Govinda song. And these words never seem truer than when applied to Bollywood. But, even by the unpredictable standards......
IMAGE: India secured 13 qualifying spots at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics. Photograph: SAI Media/Twitter India signed off the campaign at the World Para Athletics Championship with their biggest ever......
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Tuesday IMAGE: A view shows the logo at the The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) headquarters in Monaco.......
Three Kazakh weightlifters have been stripped of the gold medals they won at the 2012 London Olympics after failing doping tests, the International Olympic Committee said on Thursday.The three were......
IMAGE: Kazakhstan's Ilya Ilyin poses with his gold medal of the men's 94Kg weightlifting competition at the ExCel venue at the London 2012 Olympic Games August 4, 2012. Photograph: Dominic......
Former India captain and Karnataka State Cricket Association president Anil Kumble on Wednesday said that the KSCA was able to work for the progress of cricket in the state because his team was......