VRS offered by companies to pick up further: Experts

Faced with rapid fluctuations in business cycle and looking to optimise costs, Indian companies are likely to press further with the Voluntary Retirement Schemes in the coming quarters, say......

Good news for India's top executives

As companies seek to retain their best taken employees amid a global economic slowdown, they have hiked the pay and perks of top-level executives in India by about 70 per cent in the past four......

Jobless growth in private life insurance

\\nJobless growth has found a new home - India's life insurance companies. In the last financial year, private life insurers reduced headcount by 27 per cent to achieve profitability.The number of......

Uniting against a tsunami

But for the tsunami, the four Sumatrans whom an Indian coast guard vessel rescued near Great Nicobar's Campbell Bay would have been arrested and thrown into jail. The wrath of wind and wave had......

Rajiv Kapoor's journey in Bollywood

Rajiv Kapoor did not do many films in his career but he is still remembered for his solid hit, Ram Teri Ganga Maili. The actor-director was planning to make a comeback to the movies after a break......

Revisiting 1983 in Hindi Movies

Kapil Dev's historic World Cup win wasn't the only highlight of 1983. Sukanya Verma looks back how the year treated Bollywood. It was a year of excitement and extremes. If parallel cinema in India......

Bollywood's FABULOUS train journeys!

On the silver screen, the significance of trains can be traced all the way back through its use in innumerable movies. As means of transport or metaphor, the romance of trains is unmistakable in......

How Shammi Kapoor became a superstar

'After watching Elvis Presley, Shammi Kapoor decided to pick the rock and roll star's style itself.''Dada was the kind of producer who took a leap of faith and gave Shammi Kapoor the freedom to......

PIX: Deepa Malik basks in Khel Ratna glory

IMAGE: Malik became only the second para-athlete after Devendra Jhajharia, to have won the prestigious award. Photograph: PTI/Kamal Singh Paralympic silver-medallist Deepa Malik, on Thursday,......

Deepa Malik joins Bajrang for Khel Ratna, Jadeja among 19 for Arjuna

IMAGE: Deepa Malik won a silver in the shot put F53 category in the 2016 Rio Paralympics. Photograph: Doordarshan National/Twitter Rio Paralympics silver medallist Deepa Malik was on Saturday......

Did you know some IPL owners wanted auctions in England

...majority reject it IMAGE:   The captains of the 10th Indian Premier League. Photograph: IPL/Twitter Two Indian Premier League team owners on Tuesday floated the idea of having next......

BCCI committees for 2011-12

Following are the various committees and sub-committees of the Board of Control for Cricket in India for the year 2011-12, selected at its 82nd AGM, in Mumbai, on Monday. Working Committee for......