Ayodhya And India's New Tryst With Destiny

If Saudi Arabia, with just two Muslim holy sites of Mecca and Medina, can create a huge tourism-based ecosystem beyond oil, Ayodhya is sure to become the world's hottest religious tourism site in......

Very little said about 4.5 lakh Kashmiri Pandits because...: Ex-SC judge

Very little was said about the 4.5 lakh Kashmiri Pandits who got displaced from the Valley with the advent of separatist militancy, possibly because they were not "such a big electorate" as to......

Retiring SC judge says tolerance must for each other's opinion

People must have tolerance for each other's opinion at a time when the tolerance level has gone down internationally, Supreme Court judge Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul said on Friday. IMAGE: Supreme......

Supreme Court On Article 370: A Landmark Judgment

We must heed what the CJI has said. Challenging every judgment of the central government is inviting chaos, asserts Shreekant Sambrani. IMAGE: A five-judge Constitution bench comprising Chief......

Lessons Nestle must learn from its big mistakes

Every new episode seems to simply reinforce Nestle's inherent inclination to put up the walls and hunker down.  Image: Nestle needs no lectures or prescriptions on managing food crises.......

M&As can negatively impact workforce, is there a way out?

Mergers are not just about balance sheets or marketing synergies; they are also about those who make the synergies real, says Shyamal Majumdar. A new chief executive officer (CEO) takes charge and......

The Very Best Of Shabana Azmi

Filmmaker Sai Paranjpye shares an amusing anecdote of Shabana Azmi's perfection in her memoir, A Patchwork Quilt: A Collage of My Creative Life. While filming Sparsh, the actress wished to know if......

'Only Chay and Sam know the truth behind the split'

IMAGE: Samantha and Naga Chaitanya at their wedding. Photograph: Kind courtesy Samantha Ruth Prabhu/Instagram On October 2, Samantha Ruth Prabhu announced her separation from husband Naga......

The MAGIC and MADNESS of Movies

Film festivals don't just applaud art, but also cultivate a discerning viewer. When the Mumbai Film Festival kicked off in 1997, its goal was to showcase 'good, social, family-oriented films.' But......

When I met Sara Ali Khan

Decoding the Sanju myth, baking for the Avengers and more in Sukanya Verma's Super Filmi Week.   Monday IMAGE: Sara Ali Khan. Photograph: Pradeep Bandekar The Internet is abuzz with videos of......

Buzz: Ex-BCCI umpire translates Laws of Cricket into Hindi

IMAGE: Rajiv Risodkar, 58, served as the BCCI umpire from 1997-2016. Photograph: Kind courtesy BCCI/Twitter Former BCCI umpire Rajiv Risodkar has translated the Laws of Cricket into Hindi, which......

Shami's wife seeks CM Mamata's support in 'fight for truth'

'Shami called me today saying 'Aren't you ashamed of yourself? You have framed me.' He further asked me to take back all the allegations for the sake of my and my daughter's lives' Indian pacer......

Armstrong says life ban unjustified, reckons he was singled out

Lance Armstrong believes he was treated unfairly and singled out for punishment by the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) after being banned for life for doping. Armstrong, who was stripped......

French Senate lays bare doping in 1998 Tour de France

The top two in the 1998 Tour de France - Italian Marco Pantani and Germany's Jan Ullrich - were taking the banned blood booster EPO, a French Senate inquiry into sports doping said on Wednesday.The......

Winning without doping was impossible: Armstrong

Disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong, who cheated his way to seven Tour de France victories from 1999-2005, claims it would have been impossible to win the world's greatest race without doping.......