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Ooty: Poor man's Madame Tussads faces closure

It has been the poor man's Madame Tussads for years but the private wax museum, a star tourist puller in the hill resort town of Udhagamandalam (Ooty), is on the verge of 'melting down' following......

2 Sikh men attacked, robbed in New York

In the second such assault in less than 10 days, two Sikh men were attacked and robbed in Queens, New York, the same neighbourhood in the city where an elderly Sikh man was assaulted early this......

Shiv Sena has become Sonia Sena: Kangana

A day after Mumbai's civic authorities demolished portions of her office, actor Kangana Ranaut on Thursday again took on the Maharashtra government by castigating chief minister Uddhav Thackeray......

PM promises development, peace in north-east

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday reiterated Congress' commitment to facilitate 'all round development that leads to peace, prosperity and security to all' while calling upon the people of......

John Abraham is sexiest actor, SRK hot among women

Teenage sensation John Abraham has been voted as the "sexiest actor in India" while beauty queen Aishwarya Rai given the most desired dream date crown by participants of the Durex Global Sex......

Flights lag trains on cost for short-haul travel

Amit Khanna, a sales executive, is planning a trip to Amritsar this summer. Not for him, however, the lure of budget airlines. Instead, he's booked himself on the Amritsar Shatabdi, paying Rs 1,200......

The ancient heritage behind our railway bridges

Of the thousands of railway bridges in India, 36,470 are more than 100 years old, and 6,680 are more than 140 years old! But of these, only 21 rank on the Heritage Directorate of the Indian......

Remembering Amar Bose: The label 'Great Man' fits him to a T

Sree Sreenivasan recalls his encounters with the pioneer of sound who passed away on Friday and gives a sense of how many lives he touched -- in big and small ways. There are two......

Identity crisis for Darjeeling Tea

Real glory of Darjeeling, queen of hill stations, stems from its 87-odd tea gardens producing the exotic stuff for connoisseurs of the brew across the world. Those who have once relished it would......

The Taj: 100 years of hospitality!

Exactly a century ago, Jamshetji Nusserwanji Tata's dream was concretised when the Taj Group's first hotel, The Taj Mahal Palace & Tower, Mumbai, was opened on December 16, 1903. It is said to have......

How Bhumi Spent Her English Holiday

Nimrat's foodie holiday... Bipasha's fun time with Devi... Sidharth explores Europe... Photograph: Kind courtesy Bhumi Pednekar/Instagram Bhumi Pednekar, who will turn 35 on July 18, enjoys her......

Sports Gets Sexy On OTT This Week!

From tennis love to Tudor queens, Sukanya Verma lists everything you can catch on OTT this week. ChallengersWhere to watch? Rent on Amazon Prime VideoLanguage: English Luca......

Remembering Nitin Desai's Magic

There's a moment in Jodhaa Akbar when Aishwarya Rai Bachchan's newly married queen is offered a tour of her marital abode by the palace help. Luxury isn't new for her, but the unmistakable awe in......

Johnny Depp to play Freddie Mercury?

Fans are not getting enough of Freddie Mercury it seems. Just the other day in a poll organised by BBC, Queen -- the band Mercury fronted --upstaged the Beatles to win the title of the greatest......

Read this before you watch Elizabeth

Before the British Raj, before hill-stations and the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre, before Gandhi and an empire on which 'the sun never set' -- there was Queen Elizabeth I of England. She ruled for......

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