I'm a cobra, one bite is enough: Mithun Chakraborty joins BJP

Yesteryear Bollywood heartthrob Mithun Chakraborty, who had millions of fans swooning with his dance and action moves, on Sunday joined the Bharatiya Janata Party at Brigade Parade Ground......

Bengal's tinsel town takes sides in high-octane TMC vs BJP battle

Ironically, the BJP, which seeks to unseat the TMC from power, has taken a leaf out of Mamata Banerjee's strategy of soliciting tinsel town's support towards causes and fielding actors in......

Hamid Ansari on 10 years as Rajya Sabha chairman

'The chair is a referee in a match, whether this side is playing better or that side is playing worse is no concern of the chair.' Part I: 'Indianness of any citizen being questioned is......

Trolls Impact? No Letters to the Editor please

'It may not be coincidental that the rise of these warriors with their bile and diatribes has come at a time when the concept of neutrality in journalism is fading,' says Amulya......

Kolkata's iconic Coffee House faces commercial dilemma

Paribartan (change) in Bengal appears to have caught up with even the iconic Coffee House, a regular hangout for this city’s intellectuals. It is renting out its historical premises on......

The uniqueness of Professor Raj

Bliss it must have been in that dawn to be alive, but to be an economist working for Jawaharlal Nehru must have been heaven (with apologies to Wordsworth)! No retired bureaucrat around to say you......

BHEL may have power venture at Nano's Singur site

There is a flicker of hope for Tata Motors' abandoned Singur site. A team from government-owned Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL) visited the place, along with state government officials, for a......

Men behind the Bharti, MTN merger talks

Roughly one year after the merger talks between the two broke down, Indian telecom giant Bharti Airtel and South African telecom major MTN Group are back at the table discussing a possible $23......

Mithunda Seeks Sharmila Tagore's Blessing

The 70th National Awards saw some beautiful moments on stage and off it. What caught our attention was Sharmila Tagore's cute moment with Mithun Chakraborty when the Bengali movie legends caught up......

Mithun: The Outsider We Love To Watch

Mithun Chakraborty started from scratch in bit roles and had no Godfather backing him. Yet, remarkably, his career now straddles six decades and he continues to win acclaim, observes Dinesh Raheja.......

The Cult of Mithun Chakraborty

National Award-winning actor, producer, hotelier, ex-MP, cricket team owner, philanthropist, highest tax payer, reality show judge, animal lover and, above all, people's hero -- Mithun Chakraborty......

Indian Film Makes HISTORY At Cannes

IMAGE: Director Payal Kapadia, the Grand Prix award winner for the film All We Imagine as Light, at the closing ceremony of the 77th Cannes Film Festival, May 25, 2024. Photograph: Clodagh......