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Bhim Army chief, 5 Indian-origin persons on TIME's emerging leaders list

Five Indian-origin personalities, including Twitter's top lawyer Vijaya Gadde and UK's finance minister Rishi Sunak, and an Indian activist feature in TIME magazine's annual list of 100......

'Dancing breathes new life into me every day'

'My age? It keeps changing every year. I can't remember it. I don't like ageing at all,' the legendary dancer Mrinalini Sarabhai, who passed into the ages on Thursday, told Jasmine Shah Verma in......

'Indian PMs are intelligent. They don't call CBI directly'

Former CBI Director R C Sharma tells Aditi Phadnis that friends in the IAS and the IPS give the agency's directors and officers more trouble than politiciansYou were the director of the Central......

Kamal nath on the Austerity drive

While columnists like M K Bhadrakumar denounce the Congress party and the United Progress Alliance government's current austerity drive, some ministers have a different point of......

Healing hearts

I feel blessed to be part of Dr Cherian's team. I feel blessed to be doing this work," says Delhi-born Dr Inder D Mehta, director, paediatric cardiovascular surgery, MCV Campus, Richmond,......

Decks clear for the birth of India's 2nd largest PSB

The proposed amalgamation will make Bank of Baroda, which will merge the other two lenders with itself, the second largest public sector bank after State Bank of India in place of Punjab National......

The IPO scam that changed India's primary market

Sebi had found irregularities in 21 IPOs between 2003 and 2005. Eleven years on, while 80% of scam-hit investors have been fully compensated, more than 50% of the sum is yet to be distributed,......

5,275 wilful defaulters (+ Mallya) owe banks Rs 56,621 crore

India’s five leading wilful defaulters are Winsome Diamonds & Jewellery Ltd and associate Forever Precious Jewellery & Diamonds, Zoom Developers, Kingfisher Airlines, Beta Naphthol and Raza......

Why are public sector banks under financial pressure?

This Adam Smith quote sums up the role of the banking sector in the economy: “It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and......

Markets volatile: Which stocks to buy, sell, hold

The Indian economy is in doldrums; rupee had touched an all-time low, and the stock markets have turned extremely volatile.What should the investors do under the circumstances?In an hour-long chat......

Watched These Vikram Gokhale Movies?

An actor of remarkable presence and gravitas, Vikram Gokhale's dramatic eloquence and cocksure authority sparkled every time he had to call on someone's bluff or leave them too tongue-tied to beat......

Veteran actor Vikram Gokhale dies at 77

Gokhale, an artist equally at home in theatre, television and movies, acted in several Marathi and Bollywood films, including the Amitabh Bachchan-starrer Agneepath (1990), Bhool Bhulaiyaa (2007),......

The Very Best Of Shabana Azmi

Filmmaker Sai Paranjpye shares an amusing anecdote of Shabana Azmi's perfection in her memoir, A Patchwork Quilt: A Collage of My Creative Life. While filming Sparsh, the actress wished to know if......

The HARD-HITTING RELEVANCE of Govind Nihalani's Party

Cinema entertains, exhilarates and enlightens. Its ability to relate and inform the viewer through universal, timeless emotions are what contributes to its legacy, now available more easily than......

Naseeruddin Shah: 25 TOP Performances

Sukanya Verma celebrates Naseeruddin Shah, acting legend. There's a beautiful quote I once read by Swedish film-maker Ingmar Bergman: 'No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film......

Check out the hottest cricket babes in India

Cricket is no longer a gentleman's game, it seems! Today, more and more women are coming forward in a bid to leave their mark on the gme. Mandira Bedi started the trend by hosting the 2003......

Readers wishes to John Wright

Name:satya Message:Dear John, Thank You for doing a terrific job with the Indian Team. I hope you continue the good work and see the team achieve even greater laurels. You are without doubt the......

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