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Charan Singh opposed Nehru's socialist economy

Chaudhary Charan Singh, who on Friday was conferred with India's highest civilian award Bharat Ratna, is popularly known as a champion of farmers. IMAGE: Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla greets......

Bharat Ratna recipients' tally touches 53, maximum awardees in 2024

The decision to award Bharat Ratna to former prime ministers PV Narasimha Rao and Charan Singh and green revolution pioneer MS Swaminathan has taken the number of recipients of the country's......

Nehru to Advani: Full list of Bharat Ratna awardees

The decision to award the Bharat Ratna to Bharatiya Janata Party veteran L K Advani and former Bihar chief minister Karpoori Thakur has taken the number of recipients of the country's highest......

BJP stalwart L K Advani to be awarded Bharat Ratna

Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced on Saturday that Bharatiya Janata party stalwart and former deputy prime minister Lal Krishna Advani will be conferred the Bharat Ratna, the country's highest......

These Scientists Shaped India

I suggest we build a Vigyan Mandir (Temple of Science) with the ambience of a place of worship, so that it becomes a destination for pilgrims.We should embed on its walls bronze plaques describing......

How Keki Gharda stunned the MNC giants

Once upon a time he used to bite pens. Now he fidgets with a knife in a cramped office lined up to the ceiling with books that range from Game Theory to the history of the Roman Empire to polymer......

How the Budget is kept secret

It is being guarded like the gold in Fort Knox. High-tech tapping devices, an army of security personnel, sophisticated surveillance gadgetry, digital deterrents, electronic sweeping devices and......

Reliance's mango orchard starts bearing fruit

Reliance Industries' orchard in Jamnagar, with 1,03,000 mango trees planted six years back, has started producing 37 varieties of the King of Fruit.The company also plans to sell guava,......

Is Shah Rukh Khan Defending Pathaan?

IMAGE: Shah Rukh Khan at the Kolkata International Film Festival in Kolkata, December 15, 2022. Photograph: Swapan Mahapatra/PTI Photo Appearing before cheering fans at the star-studded opening......

'War is a real estate business'

'I am against any kind of violence.' IMAGE: A Ukrainian soldier holds a Kalashnikov AK-12 captured from Russian troops in the Kyiv region, March 31, 2022. Photograph: Serhii Nuzhnenko/Reuters......

When Lataji Was Devastated

Biswajit, movie heart-throb of the 1960s, remembers The Legend. IMAGE: Biswajit with Hemant Kumar and Lata Mangeshkar. Photograph: Kind courtesy Biswajit/Instagram Matinee idol of the 1960s,......

Bollywood 2021: R to Z RECAP

Even with an ongoing pandemic, theatres in many states functioning at 50 per cent occupancy, a relatively quieter social life and fewer movies, Bollywood still managed to pack in plenty of drama......

25 FIERY frames of Mirch Masala

Sukanya Verma tells us just what makes Mirch Masala a must watch. Flaming hues of red dominate Ketan Mehta's fiery tale of feminism. But when I first watched Mirch Masala on a black and white......

Olympics postponement rekindles Dipa Karmakar's hopes

IMAGE: Dipa Karmakar’s comeback in 2018 was short-lived as the knee troubled her again at the Artistic Gymnastics World Cup in Baku last year. Photographs: Kind courtesy, Dipa......

A year after Vijender's Olympic bronze

It's not everyday that an athlete emerges champion even in defeat. On August 22, 2008, Vijender Singh did just that when he lost his semi-final bout at the Beijing Olympics. But the bronze medal......

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