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BJP resorts to cartoon campaign against Cong LS candidates in Chhattisgarh

The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party in Chhattisgarh has come up with a set of cartoons on social media to target the Opposition Congress' Lok Sabha poll candidates, including former chief minister......

BJP replaces 25 sitting MPs in second Lok Sabha list

The Bharatiya Janata Party replaced at least 25 sitting MPs with new faces as the party released its second list of 72 candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls on Wednesday. IMAGE: Prime......

Cong retains hold over SC seats in Chhattisgarh

Even as the Congress faced a severe drubbing in the Chhattisgarh assembly polls at the hands of the Bharatiya Janata Party, the grand old party by and large retained its hold over seats reserved......

Baghel's deputy loses by 94 votes, 8 other ministers bite dust

Nine out of 13 ministers in the Bhupesh Baghel-led Congress government in Chhattisgarh have suffered defeat in the state assembly polls. IMAGE: T S Singh Deo. Photograph: ANI Photo They include......

Chhattisgarh: Cong reposes faith in old timers

The Congress has pinned its hopes on many of the old-timers and also included some new faces in its first list of candidates announced for the upcoming Chhattisgarh assembly polls, with Chief......

States fail to find lead in Maggi noodles

Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Meghalaya and Mizoram, too, reported lead in Maggi noodles far below toxic levels. Several test reports from states have found Maggi......

Corporates on their toes as rupee appreciation hits exports

Since it hit a low of 68.83 against the dollar in August, the rupee has appreciated about 11 per cent to 61.21 a dollar, hitting a large number of exporters hard. However, the recent appreciation......

Golden tips to invest smart and be rich

Are you always at a loss while planning your finances? Are you aware of the investment options available in the market? How best can you plan your finances? What are the crieria for evaluating an......

Best investment options? Read this!

Are you always at a loss while planning your finances?Are you aware of the investment options available in the market?How best can you plan your finances? What are the crieria for evaluating an......

Demand for more funds to agri, education sector

More emphasis on investment in agriculture, increasing expenditure on education and tackling price rise were some of the demands made by members in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday during the discussion......

'Bollywood is such a waste of time'

'You make a song, it gets rejected, you have to make 10 more.' IMAGE: Rakesh Chaurasia and Ustad Zakir Hussain. Photograph: Kind courtesy Rakesh Chaurasia Rakesh Chaurasia made history when he won......

'I travel the world with a piece of bamboo'

'I will always cherish the fact that I received the first big award of my life, actually two, in the company of legends for an incredible collaboration.' Photograph: Kind courtesy Rakesh Chaurasia......

Rest Well, Pandit Shivkumar Sharma

Santoor maestro Pandit Shivkumar Sharma passed into the ages on May 10. He was 83. Celebrities from the music fraternity paid their respects to Panditji at his State funeral in north west Mumbai. .......

SECRETS about Silsila you never knew!

'Amitabh practised Rang Barse well; the singing, movements, everything. And he got the inflections perfectly.' By 1980, when Yash Chopra launches Silsila, his composers (Hariprasad Chaurasia and......

Tu Hai Mera Sunday Review: Not the movie it could've been

True misogyny is when you stop being curious about women, and Milind Dhaimade directs his actresses with a sense of wonder. Tu Hai Mera Sunday has delightful women characters, sketchy......

Ranji Trophy: Abhimanyu puts Bengal in command against TN

Youngster Abhimanyu Easwaran showed the way with a majestic 150 against Tamil Nadu to take bottom-placed Bengal in sight of their first outright win this season in the Ranji Trophy group A fixture......

Ranji round-up: Gopal ton drives Karnataka to 408 against Bengal

A round up of the second day's play from the Ranji Trophy games being played across the country. Riding on lower-order batsman Shreyas Gopal's maiden first class century,......

Mumbai-J&K match keenly poised after Suryakumar Yadav's ton

The Ranji Trophy Group A match between Mumbai and Jammu and Kashmir was evenly poised at the end of the third day's play, with the visitors finishing on 58 for 1, while chasing a modest target of......

Ranji round-up: Khajuria scores maiden ton as Mumbai falter again

A round-up of the second day's play of the Ranji Trophy matches across the country on Monday. Khajuria scores ton; Mumbai falter again Jammu and Kashmir opener Shubham Khajuria compiled a......

Ranji round-up: Jiwanjot, Mandeep lead Punjab's comeback vs Delhi

Jiwanjot Singh's brilliant century and captain Mandeep Singh's fluent half-century helped Punjab stage a great comeback to gain the upperhand against Delhi, on the third day of the Ranji Trophy......

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