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Bharat Ratna recipients' tally touches 53, maximum awardees in 2024

The decision to award Bharat Ratna to former prime ministers PV Narasimha Rao and Charan Singh and green revolution pioneer MS Swaminathan has taken the number of recipients of the country's......

Nehru to Advani: Full list of Bharat Ratna awardees

The decision to award the Bharat Ratna to Bharatiya Janata Party veteran L K Advani and former Bihar chief minister Karpoori Thakur has taken the number of recipients of the country's highest......

All The Muslim Union Ministers

It is for the first time in the history of Independent India that not a single Muslim is part of the Union Cabinet. After Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi resigned as the Union minister of minority affairs......

Taliban's gains pose fears of JMB's resurgence in East

The Border Security Force has been put on high alert along the India-Bangladesh border in Assam and Tripura following intelligence inputs of Islamic terrorists planning to infiltrate the......

Jagan cancels move to rename Abdul Kalam award

Facing flak from opposition parties including the Telugu Desham Party, the Andhra Pradesh government on Tuesday cancelled a controversial order renaming an award named after former President A P J......

Why Dr Kurien Deserves The Bharat Ratna

It is largely due to his vision and efforts that we have almost quadrupled our per capita milk availability in the last 40 years, points out Shailesh Dobhal. IMAGE: Dr Verghese Kurien cuts a cake......

Pharma firms to need 200,000 more grads by 2015

At a projected growth rate of 15-20 per cent per annum, by 2015 at least 200,000 more pharma graduates would be required by the Indian pharmaceutical industry which currently employs about 10 lakh......

Rocket Boys 2 Review: Fascinating Watch

The intelligently conceptualised show does more for nationalistic pride than a dozen jingoistic series, applauds Deepa Gahlot. Amidst the line-up of crime shows, family dramas and campus capers,......

'I call Rocket Boys an emotion'

'It was so nice to see that someone of her stature, where she came from and whose family she was married into and how she held herself in spite of everything that was thrown at her.' "You don't......

Rocket Boys: Our heroes have come back in flesh and blood

Rocket Boys offer an overwhelming experience to me and many others who saw Homi Bhabha in action at Trombay, notes Dr K S Parthasarathy, former Secretary, Atomic Energy Regulatory Board. IMAGE:......

Rocket Boys Review

Jim Sarbh and Ishwak Singh deliver a soaring tribute to the two pillars of India's science world in Rocket Boys, applauds Sukanya Verma. There was a time when differences didn't come in the way of......

Aamir Khan: I was born here and I will die here

'See my actions in the last 25 years, the kind of films I have done.' 'I have been doing Satyamev Jayate for the past four years. Why am I doing that? It's because I love my country. I am......

Time to go, Mr Kalmadi

Suresh Kalmadi's speech on Thursday night had nothing to do with what happened or did not happen at the Commonwealth Games. It was probably crafted to rescue him from all the inquiries that will......

Kalmadi slips up: Prince Diana attended CWG opener

After his faux pas in the inaugural show on Sunday, the slip of the tongue seems to be continuing for Commonwealth Games Organising Committee chairman Suresh Kalmadi, who said "Prince Diana"......

'Kalmadi is blowing his own trumpet'

Chairman of the Commonwealth Organising Committee andIndian Olympic Association president Suresh Kalmadi on Monday claimed credit for thespectacular three-houropening ceremony on Sunday. "We had a......

Anju George awarded Khel Ratna

Star athlete Anju Bobby George and Olympic silver medallist Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore were on Tuesday awarded the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna and the Arjuna award respectively by President A P J Abdul......

Ganguly violates protocol at President's tea party

Sourav Ganguly, captain of the Indian cricket team,left a tea partyhosted by PresidentA P J Abdul Kalam to catch a flight though the President was stillat the function."This isgross violation......

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