Ram temple replicas a hit in India, abroad even before consecration

Ahead of the consecration ceremony of the upcoming Ram temple in Ayodhya, demand for its wooden models has gone up, with one manufacturing unit even claiming to have received orders from the US and......

Ayodhya Is Getting Ready For The Big Day

With the spate of businesses turning their attention to Ayodhya, land rates have shot up, in some pockets by as much as 10 times. Whether one walks into a hotel lobby or sits down for a meal, land......

Deadliest train accidents in India since independence

The train crash in Odisha on Friday, involving the Bengaluru-Howrah Superfast Express, the Shalimar-Chennai Central Coromandel Express and a goods train in which at least 233 people were killed and......

Padma Vibhushan for Gen Rawat, Kalyan Singh; Padma Bhushan for Azad

Former Uttar Pradesh chief minister and Hindutva poster boy late Kalyan Singh, India's first Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat, senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad and former West......

Markets extend losses as RBI decision looms

Coal India topped the losers' list in the Sensex pack on Tuesday, falling 2.36 per cent, followed by Bharti Airtel at 2.16 per cent. Benchmarks buckled under selling pressure for the third......

Now, house keeping staff in trains!

In an attempt to provide better hygiene and ensure passenger comfort, Western Railway has introduced house keeping facility in long distance trains. "In its commitment to provide clean environment......

55 new trains to be introduced

Union Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav announced 55 new trains in the Rail Budget 2006-07 for different destinations across the country.The new trains included 27 weekly, five bi-weekly, five......

Shashi Kapoor: The quiet showman

Shashi Kapoor, the star who made us laugh, romance and cry, passed into the ages on December 4. We look back at the often underrated actor, who reinvested all his earnings as an actor into making......

Saeed Jaffrey: The Great Entertainer

'Sent off to interview him in the late 1970s I met him in a cafe in New Delhi's Regal Building called The Parlour. With impromptu send-ups of Laurence Olivier, Sybil Thorndike and the rich,......

Review: Jaanisaar is tiring to watch

Jaanisaar will test your patience, cautions Paloma Sharma. Muzaffer Ali’s Jaanisaar is a cautionary tale of a film with a half-baked script and pretend patriotism.The film opens......