More than 150 CISF commandos to man Ayodhya airport

The Union home ministry has sanctioned a more than 150 personnel-strong Central Industrial Security Force anti-terrorist cover for the Ayodhya airport, days before the high-profile......

Why Ayodhya Airport Is Named After Valmiki

The Union Cabinet on Friday, January 5, 2024, approved the proposal to name Ayodhya airport 'Maharishi Valmiki International Airport, Ayodhyadham'. IMAGE: Sadhus arrive on the inaugural flight at......

BJP's Mission UP: Winning All 80 Lok Sabha Seats

The BJP lost 15 of the 80 Lok Sabha seats in 2019. Union ministers have been deployed in all 15, tasked with turning the result around. IMAGE: Prime Minister Narendra Damodardas Modi at a roadshow......

The Vimantal from Ramayan's era

Construction of the Ramayan-based Maharishi Valmiki international airport Ayodhya Dham, in Ayodhya, began in February 2022. Flight operations are planned to commence from January 10, 2024. Terminal......

'Ramdev is a symptom of today's India'

Ramdev's Patanjali is a low-cost, low-margin business that gets away with pretty much what it wants because wily old Ramdev knows how to get around all politicians, says Vir Sanghvi.   IMAGE:......

Nilekanis' most ambitious project to teach 200 million children

Nandan Nilekani and his wife Rohini are trying to improve education across India using interactive computer games and software to teach children via smartphones.  Image: Rohini's involvement......

India's $100 bn solar push draws foreign firms as locals take backseat

India's $100 billion push into solar energy over the next decade will be driven by foreign players as uncompetitive local manufacturers fall by the wayside, no longer protected by government......

Shivkar Talpade: First man to fly an aircraft?

The facts remain cloaked in mystery, but the legend goes that Talpade had created a flying machine powered by mercury and solar energy, and based on ideas outlined in Vedic texts. Image: Wright......

Shriya Saran's bold act in Pavitra

Shriya Saran is looking for interesting scripts and challenging roles and different ones too, going by her last few films. In her forthcoming film Pavitra, directed by Janardhan Maharishi, she has......

Venkatesh completes 25 years Telugu cinema

Get your low down on what's happening in the Telugu film industry, right here! 'Victory' Venkatesh enters the silver jubilee year in filmdom and continues to don the actor's cap though he has been......

Vatican absolves Fab Four...finally!

Less than 50 years ago, in 1966, John Lennon outraged Catholics the world over for predicting the end of Christianity and saying that his group, The Beatles, were "more popular than Jesus". While......

Love Guru: Moronic humour

For the past few months, our e-mail boxes have been bombarded with messages from a self-styled Hindu religious leader, Rajan Zed, who has launched a one person crusade against the mighty power of a......

Open air motorcade for triumphant Team India

The victorious Indian Twenty20 World Cup team led by Mahendra Singh Dhoni will be felicitated at a specially organised ceremony at the Wankhede Stadiumin Mumbai on Wednesdaymorning by theBoard of......

Goof-ups galore at National Games

The National Games is turning out to be an event dominated by organisational dysfunction as the athletes, support staff and mediamen continued to go through harrowing times for the second......