21 cops injured in clash over Hindu seer's remarks in Amravati

Twenty-one policemen were injured after a mob hurled stones at them in Maharashtra's Amravati city to demand registration of a case for a Hindu seer's "objectionable" remarks against Prophet......

Nitish, Naveen meet, deny discussion on alliance for 2024 polls

Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and his Bihar counterpart Nitish Kumar met in Bhubaneswar for more than an hour on Tuesday but later claimed that there was no discussion on politics or any......

Should A Collegium Pick Election Commissioners?

The system of 'selecting' an election commissioner, which is before the Supreme Court, must be institutionalised.Aditi Phadnis reports. IMAGE: Election Commissioner Arun Goel, whose appointment......

Modi to address four rallies in Bihar Sunday

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address four back to back rallies in Bihar Sunday to garner support for the National Democratic Alliance candidates in the poll-bound state.   Modi will......

Coal scam: Naveen Jindal, Madhu Koda get bail

Congress leader and industrialist Navin Jindal, ex-Minister of State for Coal Dasari Narayan Rao, former Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda and seven others were on Friday granted bail by a......

India builds solar plants atop canals to save land, water

As India moves to ramp up investment in solar power, it is exploring innovative places to install solar plants, including across the top of canals. Last weekend, UN Secretary General Ban......

With new FDI rules, relief in sight for realtors

The recently-concluded festival season proved a damp squib for real estate developers. In spite of hefty advertising and promotion, sales didn't pick up. Many developers were hoping to offload some......

Invest to make homes eco-friendly, reap rich rewards

Sealine Co-operative Housing Society in Union Park, an upmarket residential colony in Khar, Mumbai, generates about 4 kw (kilowatt) electricity per day, using solar panels and one windmill. This......

Sanjay Leela vs Farah Khan

There is doubled excitement in the air this Diwali with Om Shanti Om and Saawariya hitting the marquee. While OSO's producer Shah Rukh Khan is going all out to promote the 70s inspired......

Traffic Signal has boring music

After profiling seedy bars (in Chandni Bar), scheming politics (Satta), high society parties (Page 3) and thebusiness circus (Corporate), Madhur Bhandarkar now eyes the Traffic Signal.With an......

Counterview: Parineeta, just a music video

First, the baggage. The only Sarat Chandra Chatterjee works I have read are Ramer Sumoti-- about how a boy who is a complete nuisance becomes responsible, a story my mother insisted I read-- and......

The different faces of Parineeta

Like Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay's Devdas, his other book Parineeta has also been filmed in Hindi thrice. And both the novels have shared the same director for one of its versions-- Bimal Roy made......