A team of astronomers has found a new planetary nebula, which looks like a giant 'soap bubble' floating in space. Planetary nebulae, which got their name after being misidentified by early......
Indrani Roy Mitra and photographer Dipak Chakraborty travel to Cyclone Aila-ravaged Sunderbans and witness untold suffering and misery amidst an apathetic relief effort mired in red tape. "Didi,......
Indians were all eyes and ears as Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee got up to deliver her Railway Budget speech at the Parliament on July 3. Will the firebrand Trinamool Congress leader, known......
It is easier to do business in India at present than it was three years ago, the World Bank has observed in its latest report in New Delhi on Tuesday. The report, Doing Business in......
If it is true that roughly only a tenth of an artist's output would qualify as his best -- this is a widely held approximation -- then how do you arrive at which works deserve to be in that select......
'Javed Akhtar, Naseeruddin Shah and Shabana Azmi have collectively brought more pride and honour to our country than the entire film fraternity put together.' 'Sir, the names you have taken are......
Take a look. Their posters adorn the walls of smitten fanboys and girls but whom do movie stars idolise? We don’t know about real life. But, on screen, they're starstruck like......
For the love of films... and larger-than-life food! What's it about the celluloid that makes everything including food so larger-than-life? Remember when Juliette Binoche concocts a gooey blend of......
'I started learning to pull a rickshaw from two regular rickshaw-pullers.' 'Once I stopped at a roadside tea-stall to have a cup of tea.''It was early morning and two elderly customers were......
What if these old classics were made in today's times?Sukanya Verma figures it out. Bollywood movie titles have gotten a lot zanier in the last decade or two. Who knows what some of our best-known......