'Where shall we go? Shall we die?'

The storm had come. The storm had passed. Lives lay shattered, but hope is what matters and hope is what they have. Damu Nagar -- a shanty colony built around a hillock in Mumbai's northern suburb......

Two dead, 11 injured as massive fire breaks out in Mumbai suburb

Two persons were charred to death and eleven others injured in a major blaze that gutted over 1,000 hutments in a huge slum colony located in suburban Kandivali on Monday, police said. The......

Impose Prez rule if UP govt can't check violence: Rajnath

BJP Chief Rajnath Singh on Thursday sought the Centre's intervention on Muzaffarnagar violence issue and said if Uttar Pradesh government fails to control such incidents, President's rule should be......

Taj launches Best of Sri Lanka package

In an effort to take advantage of the high tourist interest in Sri Lanka, Taj Group has launched a package that lets tourists take a close look at the nature, culture and people of the island......

The Taj: 100 years of hospitality!

Exactly a century ago, Jamshetji Nusserwanji Tata's dream was concretised when the Taj Group's first hotel, The Taj Mahal Palace & Tower, Mumbai, was opened on December 16, 1903. It is said to have......

In God's own country, aryurveda's booming

God's own country is in the midst of an unprecedented aryurvedic health resort boom. The state is dotted with them. At last count, it had 30 accredited ayurvedic health resorts approved by the......

'Actors kept rejecting Kalyana Vaibhogame'

'I enjoyed writing Kalyana Vaibhogame. I was very confident that as a story, it would work. But initially when I was rejected, I was flummoxed.' Nandini Reddy is ready with her third directorial......

The brilliance of Sombhu Mitra, who directed Jaagte Raho

Writer-filmmaker Rinki Roy Bhattacharya, daughter of celebrated filmmaker Bimal Roy, met Bengali theatre stalwart Sombhu Mitra and his wife Tripti as a teenager and was hugely impressed by their......

First look: Nandini Reddy's Ala Modalaindi

A woman director is quite rare in Telugu. So when a woman director makes a film, it incites curiosity. Nandini Reddy has been in the industry for a little more than a decade and has started to......

Review: Pandhayam

A small boy is surrounded by his coterie of friends who challenge him to run up and down a hill within a count of 100. The boy replies that the task will be a breeze. Why? Because he's a fan of......

Wariner, Lagat, Gay headline US team

An experienced athletics team featuring seven current world champions and a host of medals favourites will represent the United States in next month's Beijing Olympics, USA Track & Field announced......