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Seen Kites With Freedom Fighters?

IMAGE: Kite maker Jagmohan Kanojia prepares special kites with images of freedom fighter at his workshop in Amritsar. Photograph: ANI Photo IMAGE: Kanojia arranges the kites at his shop.......

Yeh Hai India: It's Time For Lohri

Please click on the images for a look at the latest in our Yeh Hai India series: Capturing the events and moods across our incredible country. Yeh Hai India IMAGE: A man carries a large kite......

Why Is The Taliban Angry With Pakistan?

The Taliban is showing its strong discontent as the high hopes given to it by the Pakistani military have been dashed, observes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar. IMAGE: A Talib stands guard at the......

Assam gas well 'killed', fire fully doused after over 5 months

The damaged gas well at Baghjan in Assam was successfully 'killed' and the blaze was fully doused on Sunday after over five months of a blowout, Oil India said. The worst industrial disaster of......

Massive blast in Assam oil well, 3 foreign experts injured

A massive blast occurred near the Oil India Limited's Baghjan well in Assam's Tinsukia district on Wednesday, injuring three foreign experts involved in the dousing of the well fire raging for over......

Mahindra XUV700: A powerhouse that ushers in a new era of excellence

Is the XUV700 just a facelifted XUV500 or is it a completely new breed in the vast range of SUVs available today? Rajesh Karkera takes the latest offering from the Mahindra stable for a spin to......

Facebook acquires Spool team for its mobile business

In its latest talent hiring move, social networking giant Facebook Inc is acquiring the team behind start-up firm Spool in an aim to beef-up its mobile business.In a blog post the mobile......

The funky Maruti Ignis may not impress all, but...

Small cars are a boon in day-to-day city driving as manoeuvring and parking is quite easy because of their compact footprint. One fine day, a blue Maruti Ignis arrived at MotorBeam's garage and we......

With the latest facelift, Chevrolet Cruze is a better package

The next generation Chevrolet Cruze will be launched in India this year or maybe in early 2018, but as a stop gap measure, Chevrolet has given the Cruze a minor cosmetic facelift and automobile......

Volvo V90: New definition of estates in India

The Volvo V90 Cross Country could make Indians fall in love with station wagons, says P Tharyan. All photographs: Courtesy volvocars.com Station wagons or estates were never really popular in......

When Lataji Stunned Noorjehan

Was this indeed the Lata who had started out with her, as a child star, in Badi Maa (1945)?Raju Bharatan recalls yet another memorable incident from Lata Mangeshkar's incredible life. How Lata......

When Kishore Kumar created magic with the Burmans!

If Kishore Kumar were alive today, he would have turned 90 on August 4. We celebrate the genius with several special features dedicated to him. We start with Raju Bharatan's beautiful insight into......

Soni: Outrage, unedited

'Soni is a soft treatment of a very complex subject,' feels Sreehari Nair. One tweet proclaims Ivan Ayr's Soni 'the only kind of film I want to watch'. To this, a reply: 'Only those who like......

Review: Tournament is a crass comedy

Paresh C Palicha reviewsTournament.Post YOUR reviews here!It is a rarity that the opening narration of a film in the director's baritone voice makes us sit in rapt attention. In Tournament,......

Conan O'Brien finds his perfect curtain in India!

Talk show host Conan O'Brien, who returns to late night television on Tuesday with his new show, has featured in a new American Express commercial in which he is shown taking a trip to India......

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