The Lok Sabha contest in Thiruvananthapuram is shaping up to be a significant battle involving key candidates like Shashi Tharoor, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, and Panniyan Ravindran. This three-cornered fight highlights the political dynamics in Kerala's capital city, with each candidate bringing their own vision and promises for the region's development, notes Rajeev Srinivasan.
'There is one negative thing which has happened very quietly. The position of the election commissioner has been downgraded.'
Comedies are a difficult genre to pull off in today's day and age, thanks to the audiences' increasing exposure to diverse content and dwindling attention spans. Still, there are quite a few Tamil movies that can bring on the laughs. Arjun Menon lists the recent releases you can watch at home.
'One is happy. The moment one starts criticising the BJP, ED, IT and CBI comes to one's house.'
'Kejriwal tries to project that his party is not Hindu virodhi.'
'The tragedy with Indian Muslims is that they do politics from the heart, not from the head.'
'I've answered all those people who are tweeting nonsense about Varnika Kundu and trying to shame her.' 'Shame her for what? For being a young girl at a party with friends? For enjoying herself?' 'I think it is ridiculous for somebody to say that she should not be out at night.' 'Why should a girl not step out at night?' 'What does that mean?' 'Does it mean that something happens to the boys at night and they change into monsters?' 'If so, then the problem lies with the boys, not with the girls.' 'Please keep your sons at home at night.' 'Why are you telling girls where to go and what to do?'
'Slowing down of the economy was mainly due to the demonetisation shock...' 'If you cut off the oxygen supply to a patient in the ICU and the patient dies, the patient does not come alive again when you restore the oxygen supply.'
Focus on building a healthy, happy, and fulfilling relationship instead of comparing them with your ex, suggests rediffGURU Ravi Mittal, QuackQuack.
Roselynn Raj speaks about the challenges of being a dusky-skinned model in the Indian fashion industry.
Siddharth Anand's artistry bespeaks an upbringing filled with GI Joes, plastic combat boots and plastic bayonets, fake punching noises and fake sounds of gunshots, rudely interrupted by an adult voice saying, 'Beta, all this is good, but try bringing in some feelings too', observes Sreehari Nair.
Aryan Nehra, 19, went on a record-breaking spree at the senior swimming Nationals where he smashed as many as four records in a stupendous campaign.
A Delhi assembly committee asked Facebook India on Thursday to furnish records of users' reports (complaints) on the content posted on the platform one month prior and two months after the northeast Delhi riots in February 2020.
'...is to crack the first project.' 'If you become popular from that, it's a win-win.'
'It is difficult to put a number right now as the value of dollar to rupee has also changed from the exchange rate last time. But don't be surprised if digital rights earns way more than TV.'
'The Israeli government is saying, "OK, leave northern Gaza, because we're going to fight Hamas there".' 'But Hamas is not stupid. They are going to put militants in southern Gaza too. And then what's Israel going to do?' 'At some point are they going to say, 'Leave southern Gaza too because we want to fight Hamas there? Go across the border to Egypt"'? 'That's what people are worried about. Because they fear that once they cross the border into Egypt there will be no coming back.'
In the Shahid Kapoor starrer Kabir Singh, a remake of Telugu superhit Arjun Reddy, a medical student's drinking problem encourages toxic behaviour and romantic distress.
'He killed so many people, doing the kind of horrible things he did, and yet, he believed he was making the right choices.'
'A minor setback is not a bad thing to bring the team closer together'
'When there was no crime committed, everything had to be fabricated. They see it as a war, and everything is fair in love and war.'
My followers and devotees will not have to suffer the trauma of seeing me accept that something wrong has happened under my watch, observes Aakar Patel.
'I came to Bigg Boss so that I could explore and understand myself.'
Beleaguered England captain Alastair Cook on Thursday conceded that they may have gone wrong with some of the tactics they employed in what has been a disastrous Test series against India but insisted that there was no lack of effort.
Never retaliate and write a nasty post in response as it will only make the situation worse, advises Ravi Mittal, founder of the dating app QuackQuack.
According to experts, one of the primary causes of toxic behaviour is a lack of adulting in men and women.
Make way for Anya Singh and Aadar Jain!
The incumbent England skipper Heather Knight backed under-fire Smriti Mandhana, the costliest player in WPL, who had a poor run with the bat, to come back stronger.
Olympic medallist Yogeshwar Dutt on Thursday termed the suspension of the Wrestling Federation of India by the international body as "very distressing".
'My father could have gotten more due. He was capable of much more.' 'But he was always thankful.'
'My father could have gotten more due. He was capable of much more.' 'But he was always thankful.'
India captain Rohit Sharma on Friday said left-arm spinner Axar Patel is likely to miss the first two ODIs against Australia next week while middle-order batter Shreyas Iyer is "99 percent" match-fit.
'I have learnt to say no.' 'I would never say no to anybody before, even when my friends asked for money.' 'Learning to say no is priceless.'
My grandfather Ashok Kumar made me sack my secretary as he thought she was a bad influence in my life.'
The billionaire businessman says many of his supporters are already seething about what they perceive as a political and economic system that is rigged against them.
'Today we have decided to go to Connaught Place and speak to the people there and seek their support in our fight for justice. We have set May 21 as the deadline (for action against Brij Bhushan). If no decision is taken, then we will take a big call on our agitation after that date.'
"So, there was no infiltration of any Afghani Taliban... To that effect, we have been able to control (things)," he said.
'Everybody had told me that I was the next big thing in Bollywood because my face and body structure was like a superstar. But when it didn't happened, I learned a lot of important things in life.'
Gavaskar said it is difficult to find faults in a batter who has been dismissed off the first ball thrice
'She had the courage to not cow down before the entire law and order apparatus, to remain sane and human despite inhuman suffering meted out to her and her family.'
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