Big winners and losers in 2019 polls

Counting's underway and the fate of the candidates is awaited. As we wait for the results with bated breath, here's how your heavyweights are faring for now. -- INDIA VOTES -- LEADS/RESULTS: 2019......

BJP leaders seek RSS help to resolve crisis

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat met top leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday and Sunday to resolve the ongoing factional feud in the party. BJP leaders......

Narayanan is WB governor, Patil gets Punjab

The much-awaited list of newly-appointed governors was formally released by the Rahstrapati Bhavan late on Saturday night. Former Union home minister Shivraj Patil has been appointed the Governor......

Blast in cracker unit kills boy; 10 kids injured

A 12-year-old boy succumbed to injuries on Friday morning even as the condition of 11 other children and three adults injured in an accidental blast in an illegal cracker-making unit in the city on......

India raises fuel prices for the first time in 2009

India unexpectedly raised gasoline and diesel prices by as much as 10 per cent on Wednesday, its first increase this year, passing some of oil rally into an economy just beginning to......

Lift ban on Satyam, Tech M to World Bank

Tech Mahindra, the new owner of the troubled Indian IT services firm Satyam, has officially written to the World Bank seeking an end to the eight-year ban against Satyam Computer Services for......

Want big salaries? Try the realty sector

A player from this sector recently raised India's biggest IPO. The Bombay Stock Exchange has introduced an index for it. Foreign investment of $10 billion is expected to flow into the sector over......

Bollywood's Most Successful Horror Movies

Ajay Devgn's Shaitaan is a superhit. Joginder Tuteja looks at how successful the horror genre has been at the box office in recent times.   Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2Box office collections: Rs 186......

Bollywood's Famous Lost And Found Tales

Dramas woven around the theme of lost and found is a iconic trope in Hindi cinema. From melodrama to mockery (remember Amar and Prem's phony separated-at-Kumbh Mela reunion in a gag of Andaz Apna......

Why Janhvi's Film With NTR Jr Is Special

It's raining birthdays and anniversaries this weekend! Photograph: Kind courtesy Janhvi Kapoor/Instagram Janhvi Kapoor unravels the poster of her next film with NTR Jr on a very special day: Her......

How Katrina Celebrated Christmas!

Like everyone else, Bollywood celebrated Christmas over the weekend and made beautiful, festive pictures. Photograph: Kind courtesy Katrina Kaif/Instagram Katrina Kaif and her sister Isabelle......

Spotted: Shane Warne in Johannesburg

Reader Aravinda Ram sent us this photograph from Johannesburg. 'Me and my husband Ananth came across a large number of cricketers in Johanesburg during the Indian Premier League. We meet......

Cielo Filho breaks 47 seconds in record flood

Brazil's Cesar Cielo Filho sliced through the 47-second barrier to triumph in the men's 100 metres freestyle final amid another torrent of swimsuit-aided records at the world championships in Rome......

Australia's bowling woes ahead of Ashes

Australia start their Ashes defence on Wednesday without a single frontline bowler who has previous Test experience in England. On Monday their most experienced bowler Brett Lee pulled out of......