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Freedom of expression under threats worldwide, including India, warns Rushdie

Booker Prize-winning author Salman Rushdie has warned against the “alarming” threats to freedom of expression around the world, including in India, as he accepted the Freedom to Publish......

Govt has reduced Parliament to 'notice board': Tharoor

The Bharatiya Janata Party government has successfully reduced Parliament to a 'notice board and a rubber stamp', Congress MP Shashi Tharoor alleged at the Jaipur Literature Festival on Friday.......

Tharoor explains how BJP can lose 50 Lok Sabha seats in 2024

It will be 'impossible' for the Bharatiya Janata Party to replicate its 2019 electoral triumph in 2024, senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has said, adding it is 'conceivable' that the ruling......

'The women loved Elaben'

'Who would think of making a bank of poor women? She had vision and boldness.' IMAGE: Renana Jhabvala, left, with SEWA Founder Elaben Bhatt, right. Many women from SEWA across caste, religion and......

Salman Rushdie loses sight in eye, hand movement after knife attack: Report

Salman Rushdie has lost sight in an eye and his one hand is incapacitated following the brutal knife attack on the acclaimed Mumbai-born author in August, his literary agent said. Rushdie, who......

FMCG distributors call off stir against Colgate after talks

FMCG distributors on Thursday said they have suspended their boycott of certain products of oral care maker Colgate after talks with the company representatives over the issue of price disparity......

Colgate India meets distributors' body to sort out issue of price parity

Colgate India’s meeting with distributors comes after the traditional channel stopped supplying its Colgate MaxFresh range of products in Maharashtra. Colgate-Palmolive India (Colgate India)......

Note 7 backlash may affect Samsung festive sales in India

All but 500 who booked Note 7 phones have bought older devices instead of cancelling their orders but Samsung may still lose market share this festive season. Loyal Samsung customers in India......

This time for iPhone 6, Indians queue up at midnight

Apple’s premium resellers, who organised the midnight sale, made special arrangements for the prospective buyers. In her mid-30s, she takes care of her father’s business. She is......

What actually saved the rupee?

Primarily external factors and an unconventional intervention by Reserve Bank of India provided the timely relief, notes Arvind Subramanian The near-crisis witnessed this year will be the subject......

Life Of Pi Comes Alive Again

IMAGE: Jonathan David Martin poses with the tiger puppet at the Broadway opening night of Life Of Pi at The Schoenfeld Theatre, in New York, March 30, 2023. Photograph: Michael Loccisano/Getty......

'When do dreams come true?'

'If you sit collar turned up and tell yourself, you are great, you will never evolve as an actor.' IMAGE: Raghubir Yadav in Panchayat. After more than three decades in the industry, the......

'Film-makers have forgotten the real India'

'The real India lives in the villages where everyone is trying to improve the other.' IMAGE: Raghubir Yadav is one of India's finest actors. Raghubir Yadav is a phenomenal actor, who embraces......

The BEST ACTORS of 2021

Men in our movies are slowly but surely realising the power of characterisation over imagery. While the market for slo-mo strutting peacocks isn't shutting down any time soon, it's heartening to......

Which book-to-screen is YOUR fave? VOTE!

In Parineeti Chopra's upcoming Netflix release The Girl On The Train, the actress goes against type to play an alcoholic, whose obsession around a happily married couple lands her in the middle of......

Tokyo Games: MIND-BOGGLING Pix!

Please click on the images for a better look at the action. IMAGE: Team United States's Cory Juneau warms up prior to the Men's Street Skateboard event. Photograph: Ezra Shaw/Getty Images......

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