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Padma Awards 2016: Sri Sri, Anupam Kher, Saina Nehwal honoured

A bevy of stalwarts from different walks of life, including founder of Reliance Industries late Dhirubhai Ambani, former Governor Jagmohan, actors Anupam Kher and Ajay Devgn and badminton star......

BSF giving strong reply to Pakistan's border shelling

Pakistani troops heavily shelled 15 border outposts and hamlets along the international border overnight, leaving three persons injured, one of them seriously in Jammu district.Border Security......

Richest Lok Sabha candidates' club grows threefold

Self-proclaimed heir of Rani Rashmoni, lottery baron join businessmen in the list of MP-aspirants with assets worth over Rs 100 cr, reports Abhineet Kumar. The number of India’s super-rich......

The not-so-subtle art of Tamil slogan writing

If you thought you knew all about sloganeering, maybe you should take a trip to Tamil Nadu. Politicians in the southern Indian state have perfected the art of using catchy idioms and phrases to......

AP speaker disqualifies 15 rebel MLAs from Congress, TDP

Fifteen rebel members of Legislative Assembly belonging to Andhra Pradesh's ruling Congress and main opposition Telugu Desam Party were today disqualified for voting in favour of a no-confidence......

Free Basics and what the debate is all about

Much of the loudest opposition comes from those in the start-up world, who fear this would put them at a disadvantage in reaching new users Both supporters and opponents of Facebook's "Free......

After battering, telcos to charge more

Year 2012 was a turbulent one for the telecom sector. The Supreme Court's cancelling 122 licences, failed spectrum auctions, lower user additions, disputes over Interconnect charges, one-time fee......

Obama 'pokes' fun at Facebook founder

With 19 million Facebook friends, US President Barack Obama is amongst the most followed people on the social media web site. On Wednesday, Obama well nigh kicked off his re-election campaign at......

42 years on, Star of India returns home

More than 40 years after it left the palace in Rajkot, the heritage Rolls-Royce, The Star of India, will soon return home. Haresh Pandya tracks down the road it travelled.It is not without reason......

UP frames 'India's best' land acquisition policy

With a view to containing the crisis arising due to the on-going farmers' agitation in western Uttar Pradesh, Chief Minister Mayawati on Friday chalked out a new farmer-friendly course. Her......

Zakir Hussain, Shankar Mahadevan pay tribute to 'Abbaji,' U Srinivas

Noted Indian musicians came together to pay tribute to Ustad Alla Rakha on his 15th death anniversary, by staging a grand performance at Shanmukhananda Hall, in Sion, central Mumbai. A look at......

Life comes 'full circle' for A R Rahman

For Rahman, who had never attended college, the event hosted by the Berklee College of Music must have seemed humbling. Alla Rakha Rahman galvanised Boston recently, selling out the city's......

First Look: Karthi in Siruthai

After acting in films based on original scripts like Paruthiveeran, Aayirathil Oruvan, Paiyya and Naan Mahaan Alla, Karthi has joined the bandwagon of actors like Dhanush and Jayam Ravi -- the......

Second time lucky with Naan Mahaan Alla

It seems director Suseendran of Vennila Kabadi Kuzhu has hit the jackpot again with his second Tamil film Naan Mahaan Alla. The film starring Karthi and Kajal Agarwal in the lead is doing......

Naan Mahaan Alla is almost perfect

Pavithra Srinivasan reviews the Tamil film, Naan Mahaan Alla.Chennai as the location, and an ordinary middle-class family as the plot-point have been handled numerous times in Tamil cinema, but it......

Poutchek shocks fifth seed Kudrayavtseva

Tatiana Poutchek of Belarus caused a huge flutter by shocking fifth seed Alla Kudryavtseva of Russia in the first round of the US $175,000 WTA Sunfeast Open in Kolkata on Tuesday.Poutchek won 6-3,......

Sharapova, Ivanovic through

Maria Sharapova was given a brief scare on her way to a 6-1, 6-4 victory over Russian qualifier Alla Kudryavtseva in the French Open third round at Roland Garros on Saturday.The second seeded......

Sania-Mattek enter second round

Sania Mirza and her US partner Bethanie Mattek eased past the Russian-Ukrainian pair of Alla Kudrayavtseva and Tetiana Luzhanska 6-1, 6-3 to set up a second round clash with Shikha Uberoi and......

Five things to watch out for at the French Open on Day 5

Five things to watch out for on day five of the French Open on Thursday: * Pick a number IMAGE: Switzerland's Stan Wawrinka in action during his first round match against Slovakia's Jozef......

Indians at Wimbledon: Sania-Martina ease into third round; Paes out

IMAGE: Sania Mirza (right) and Martina Hingis in action. Photograph: Julian Finney/Getty Images Top seeds Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis breezed into the women's third round with a 6-3, 6-1 win......

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