Is Adani a Mody Crony?

This State-corporate 'cooperation' didn't begin with the arrival of the Modi government.Many of the big licences, contracts, and even environmental clearances for the Adani group had come in the......

Before Atique Ahmed, there was Chand Baba in UP

Atique Ahmed is one of the most feared dons in Uttar Pradesh today.There was another don who preceded Atique and had he survived, Atique wouldn't have been around today, recalls Sudhir Bisht.......

Post-quake anger changes poll scene in Turkey

The two major earthquakes, which devastated a huge area in south-eastern Turkey and a part of Syria last Monday, killing more than 29,605 people in Turkey and 4,574 in Syria,......

'Xi will wait for the Modi government to make the reconciliation moves'

'Which will not happen.''Foreign Minister S Jaishankar has expressly refuted Beijing's statement that normalcy was returning to Sino-Indian relations.' IMAGE: Chinese President Xi Jinping......

Indian Railways' heritage routes likely to be monetised

The railways heritage lines that are part of the UNESCO-accorded sites list include Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, Nilgiri Mountain Railway, and Kalka Shimla Railway. As part of its plan to monetise......

Adi Godrej: 'There's no dearth of jobs in India'

'What exists instead is a clear gap between skilled people and the work at hand.' 'Employers on most occasions find it difficult to find a match between the two,' Adi Godrej tells Viveat Susan......

Which is going be the biggest hotel complex in India?

'In April 2019, we will be opening the 450-room ITC Royal Bengal in Kolkata.' 'It is coming up in the same complex as ITC Sonar, which has 240 rooms.' 'The 700-room hotel complex should be a......

How the Communists killed Bengal's industry

West Bengal's longest serving chief minister Jyoti Basu once told an industrialist that capitalists were class enemies and he should expect no sympathy.Ishita Ayan Dutt tracks the political......

Anurag Kashyap, making his own rules

There is something about Anurag Kashyap -- whose Raman Raghav 2.0 releases June 24 -- that puts the cinema watchdogs on alert, says Veenu Sandhu. IMAGE: Shahid Kapoor in Udta Punjab. Hours before......

'I have to find my next Ranveer Singh'

'It really kills me to see an elderly man come to the office regularly in the hope of a role to run his house.' 'Casting leads is tough, as it's tough to cast the perfect combination of talent and......

The 330 films I saw in 2015

'In 2015 I watched films in so many places. I attended several film festivals around the world -- Berlin, Tribeca (New York), Telluride, Toronto, Zurich, Mumbai, Dharamsala and Goa,' says Aseem......

The Top 11 English Films of 2014

From Boyhood to The Grand Budapest Hotel, we've seen some brilliant cinema this year. The year 2014 saw many exceptional films, some of which have already dominated the critics’ awards cycle.......

'El Clasico' sparks pro-independence protests

IMAGE: Pro-independence demonstrators gather before the Barcelona v Real Madrid game in Barcelona. Photograph: Pol Baraza via Reuters   Chanting 'Independence' and 'Free political prisoners',......