2 convicted for raping 5-year-old girl in Delhi in 2013

A Protection of Children from Sexual Offences or POCSO court convicted two men on Saturday for raping a five-year-old girl in east Delhi seven years ago, saying the case had shaken the collective......

Jyoti Malhotra assesses the Rahul impact

The Congress may not win many seats, but the vote for Rahul Gandhi has come in: He has already done more for UP than all other Congressmen put together. Jyoti Malhotra reports from Poorvanchal in......

From poverty-stricken villages to the G-8 summit

Koraput in Orissa is very rich in history and culture. L'Aquila in Italy is also known for its palaces, churches and ancient monuments. Both cities will now come closer through Sanjukta Pangi, a......

No truce in sight; Akhilesh, Mulayam fight for 'cycle'

Mulayam Singh Yadav and Akhilesh on Thursday continued attempts to claim ownership of Samajwadi Party even as further efforts were being made for a rapproachement between the warring factions led......

Air Deccan, Cafe Coffee Day in pact

Cafe Coffee Day would be the single point vendor to supply food and beverages to the Air Deccan passenger. An agreement to this effect was signed in Bangalore on Thursday by Capt G R Gopinath,......

SBI gets Chinese Govt nod to lend in Yuan

India's largest lender, State Bank of India has received the permission from the Chinese Government to lend in the local currency -Yuan, a top official said on Thursday. SBI is the first Indian......

Cafe Coffee Day plans flavoured water foray

Coffee chain Cafe Coffee Day plans to launch flavoured water in 2007. The company has already extended its brand Coffee Day to packaged drinking water. Naresh Malhotra, CEO, Cafe Coffee Day, told......

Sequoia may invest $40 m in Co

Sequoia Capital, a global private equity fund, is expected to invest close to $40 million in Cafe Coffee Day. It is learnt that the investment would be a mix of debt and equity, skewed towards......

Amazon Unveils Slate Of Films, Series

Amazon Prime Video has announced 41 titles in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and English, thereby throwing a challenge to its streaming competitors. Amazon's attractive line-up for the next two years......

COMING UP in August: Shershaah, Bhuj, Cartel

July saw many movies finding straight-to-OTT releases, what with Toofaan, Hungama 2, 14 Phere and Mimi arriving one after another. August is set to be exciting as well with films like Bhuj - The......

Bollywood wants to remake 'Phone Booth'

The buzz is that Twentieth Century Fox India, which is based in Mumbai, has been approached by several Bollywood production companies to make a Hindi version of the Hollywoodthriller,Phone......

Dum or not, Vivek-fever continues

Subhash K KhaDum or not, Vivek-fever continuesThe poor collections of Dum have not dampened Vivek Oberoi's spirits. "It was so strange. On Day 1, there were 5,000 people at one theatre. On Day 2,......

Malhotra extends Ritwik

Top junior Vikram Malhotra of Maharashtra was the cynosure of all eyes when he extendedtop seed Ritwik Bhattacharya of Delhi in an exciting men's pre-quarter-final, in the 53rd Senior National and......

Indian challenge at World jr squash ends

India's challenge at the 14th World Junior men's squash championship in North Palmerston, New Zealand, came to an end on Tuesday, with the third round exit of Sandeep Jangra and Parth......

Chinappa in line for double

India's youngest national champion Joshna Chinappa of Tamil Nadu set herself up for a coveted double when she entered the Under-19 women's final on the penultimate day of the Indian Oil Open squash......

Ritwik, Saurav to clash in final

Top seed Ritwik Bhattacharya of Delhi and defending champion Saurav Ghosal of Tamil Nadu posted fluent semi-finals victories to set up a title clash in the 53rd Senior National and 30th Bombay......

Field day for top seeds

Top seed Saurav Ghosal of Chennai and second seed Gaurav Nandrajog of Delhi sailed into the last eight stage (boys' under-19) with straight games victoriesin the Rs 300,000 Oil-Servo All India Open......