Nehru to Advani: Full list of Bharat Ratna awardees

The decision to award the Bharat Ratna to Bharatiya Janata Party veteran L K Advani and former Bihar chief minister Karpoori Thakur has taken the number of recipients of the country's highest......

To Those Who Fought The Good Fight

The fight for freedom was long and hard and that is why it is important to go back to the monuments that celebrate those who fought the good fight. IMAGE: Built in 1892, the Aga Khan Palace in......

In late night sitting SC stays Gujarat HC order asking Teesta to surrender

InThe Supreme Court late on Saturday night protected social activist Teesta Setalvad from arrest and stayed for a week the Gujarat high court order rejecting her plea for regular bail and asking......

'Surrender immediately': Gujarat HC denies activist Teesta Setalvad bail

The Gujarat high court Saturday rejected the regular bail plea of social activist Teesta Setalvad and directed her to surrender immediately, observing she made attempts to unsettle a democratically......

Remembering Ashok Mitra

Dr Mitra called the Pandara Road crowd a 'cheerful collective of young dreamers,' united in its 'love and pride for the newly Independent India,' despite 'sharp disparities in background,......

40 Years ago... and now- Faqir Chand Kohli: The original Indian techie

Kohli is best known as the first chief executive of India's largest IT services company, Tata Consultancy Services Padma Bhushan Faqir Chand Kohli, father of the Indian software sector, turned 90......

India - The emerging giant, or has it emerged?

The latest book by Prof. Arvind Panagariya, India: The Emerging Giant (Oxford University Press, 2008), has generated ample interest among the academia and policy makers, both in India and abroad.......

Manmohan Singh honours economist Padma Desai

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh joined former Russian Premier Yegor Gaidar and Nobel laureates on Thursday to compliment Padma Desai, described as 'An economist's economist' by Nobel laureate Paul......

Veteran actor Dharmendra hospitalised

Veteran actor Dharmendra has been admitted to Mumbai's Breach Candy hospital after he complained of weakness and shoulder pain.   "Dharmendra was admitted last night after he......

Today's Oscar Challenge!

Did you take our fascinating Oscar 1 and Oscar 2 quizzes? Check out how much more you know about the Oscars with our third Oscar quiz. Enjoy! 1. Ben Kingsley won the 1982 Oscar for Gandhi. He......

Just why am I a champion of Slumdog?

As we were planning this weekend's Academy Award-viewing plans, I mentioned them to my 5-year-old twins, Durga and Krishna. "Oscar Award?" asked Krishna, "is that when they give awards for......

How The Namesake came to be

Kal Penn, who plays the sensitive, emotionally fragile son of immigrant parents in Mira Nair's The Namesake might not have paid the customary 10 percent (finder's fee) to Zohran Mamdani, 14 and his......

SAG: India consolidate top spot; widens gap with rivals

India grabbed another 18 silver and 4 bronze to take the total tally to 165 medals IMAGE: Tejinder Pal Singh Toor broke the South Asian Games record. Photograph: SAI Media/Twitter Shuttlers......

Deepa Malik joins Bajrang for Khel Ratna, Jadeja among 19 for Arjuna

IMAGE: Deepa Malik won a silver in the shot put F53 category in the 2016 Rio Paralympics. Photograph: Doordarshan National/Twitter Rio Paralympics silver medallist Deepa Malik was on Saturday......

'When brothers go hand in hand they are unmatchabl

USER: Atreya Banerjee1. Virender Sehwag2. Sachin Tendulkar3. Inzamam ul Haq4. Saurav Ganguly5. Rahul Dravid6. Yuvraj Singh7. Abdur Razzaq8. Wasim Akram9. Shoaib Akhtar10. Zaheer Khan11. Saqlain......