'Even the President does not have the power to overrule the ECI.' A revealing excerpt from T N Seshan's Through the Broken Glass: An Autobiography. IMAGE: Then chief election commissioner T N......
'The Hindu electorate is more or less in the BJP defined space now.' IMAGE: Bharatiya Janata Party supporters at a rally addressed by BJP supremo and Prime Minister Narendra Damodardas Modi for......
'Uttar Pradesh, our largest state by population and the most powerful, is also the worst governed.''The only way to fix it is to split it into four or five states,' suggests Shekhar Gupta.......
Rohit Shekhar's successful legal fight established the right of a child -- at any age -- to know his paternity, reports Veenu Sandhu. IMAGE: Narayan Dutt Tiwari married Ujjawala Sharma in 2014,......
'Rahul Gandhi understands the pulse of the people.''And he's not just got it sitting down; he has worked towards it.' IMAGE: Priya Dutt was one of the first Congress leaders to call for Rahul......
The finance minister said Mallya couldn’t be ignorant to what happens to banks because of his default. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Monday said Kingfisher Airlines promoter Vijay......
Experts attribute this to new launches in anticipation of a demand revival after the 2014 general elections The country’s top listed real estate companies reported nearly Rs 70,000 crore (Rs......
1999 in Hindi movies marked the end of a vibrant young decade and a gentle promise of electrifying new things to come in the new millennium. Where madcap masala still reigned supreme, morally......
It was raining stars at the wedding reception of Aamir Khan's only daughter Ira and Nupur Shikhare, as the proud father invited *everyone* from the film industry. We saw the fam jam and the......
Gems you can enjoy from the time Dev Saab was at his handsome and magnetic best. Had he lived -- and we did believe he would live forever -- he would have turned 100 today, September 26, 2023. They......
Scoop reminded viewers of a time in the not-so-recent-past when Mumbai was in the grip of the underworld. The new Web series Guns And Gulaabs is set in the opium town of Gulaabganj sometime in the......
In recent years, Yash Chopra has been labelled King Of Romance, when in fact, his best film, Deewar (1975) did not have a chiffon-clad heroine dancing in the snow. Unfortunately, it is not......
IMAGE: Olympic silver medalist P V Sindhu with her incredible Coach P Gopichand. Photograph: PTI 'No country can go from zero to hero at the Olympics.''A hundred Indians now feature in the world's......