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Tharoor explains how BJP can lose 50 Lok Sabha seats in 2024

It will be 'impossible' for the Bharatiya Janata Party to replicate its 2019 electoral triumph in 2024, senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has said, adding it is 'conceivable' that the ruling......

Santoor maestro Shivkumar Sharma is dead

Santoor virtuoso Pt Shivkumar Sharma, who took the stringed instrument to the global stage and successfully straddled the worlds of classical and film music, died in Mumbai on Tuesday following a......

Dhankhar seeks meeting with Mamata to end crisis as lawyers protest in HC

West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar on Wednesday urged Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for a meeting during the day in view of the 'disturbing scenario' in the precincts of the Calcutta high......

Fresh crisis in Cong as Azad, Sibal seek CWC meet amid defections

Beset by troubles on multiple fronts within, the Congress faces the danger of imploding with party veterans Ghulam Nabi Azad and Kapil Sibal on Wednesday sharply questioning the decision-making......

Decoding the Kamala Harris Phenomenon

Kamala succeeded as she identified herself with the larger minority groups rather than narrow ethnicity, prodded by her mother who did not want to return to India, observes Ambassador T P......

Should RBI print money and finance govt's fiscal deficit?

Experts disagree with the idea and the RBI, which has the sole right to print money, is not comfortable with it as well. IMAGE: RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das. Photograph: PTI Photo Nobel......

COVID-19: How India Inc plans to keep employees safe

Encouraged by the arrival of vaccines, companies are taking a technology-backed calibrated approach to speed up employees’ return to the workplace while maintaining social distancing.......

Govt response to the pandemic was right

The government kept its nerve in the face of a massive shock.It chose not to resort to a massive fiscal stimulus.It focused instead on providing liquidity support and easing restrictions on......

India among world's worst performing economies: Abhijit Banerjee

Stating that India's economic stimulus was not adequate, Banerjee said, the measures did not increase consumption spending of lower income people as the government was not willing to put......

Abhijit Banerjee has a piece of advice for the Modi govt

In the short run, the government should loosen the purse strings but trying to invent new instruments is a bad idea, Banerjee said. Trust, he said, in the system is important at this point and......

Does Priyanka love Rhinos?

Or does Priyanka Chopra's love for Assam go beyond that? Priyanka Chopra is the latest actor to join the list of actors promoting different Indian states. The Quantico actor will reportedly promote......

It's a baby girl for Ali Zafar, Ayesha

A look at the top tweets from your favourite Bollywood celebrities: Pakistani actor-singer Ali Zafar has become a father for the second time. His wife Ayesha Fazli gave birth to a baby girl in......

Here's why 'BAD' films do TERRIFIC business at box office

Good reviews do not always make a film a hit, like we saw with Dibakar Banerjee's Shanghai. Likewise, bad reviews may not always turn the audiences away. Films like Rowdy Rathore......

Banerjee's Nobel prize much bigger: Ganguly

IMAGE: Abhijit Banerjee is the eighth Indian to win the Nobel prize. On the same day, Sourav Ganguly emerged the lone contender in the race to be the BCCI president. Photograph: PTI The Board of......

Maradona mesmerises children but Dada disappointed

IMAGE: Argentinian football legend Diego Maradona shows his skills during a football workshop at Barasat. Photograph: Ashok Bhaumik/PTI Diego Maradona showed glimpses of his famous dribbling......

Ranji round-up: Gambhir leads Delhi's strong reply vs Mumbai

Gautam Gambhir scored a patient half-century, but Virender Sehwag failed again, as Delhi put up 191 for 3 in reply to Mumbai's 324 in their Group A Ranji Trophy match in Mumbai on Friday. At stumps......

Ranji Trophy: Badrinath hits double ton; Sejwag, Gambhir fail

Subramaniam Badrinath (248) slammed a double hundred as Tamil Nadu amassed a massive 532 for 8 against Madhya Pradesh on the second day of their Ranji Trophy Group B match. On Friday, he......

Mumbai crush Orissa by innings and 210 runs

Orissa's lower order put up a fight, but it only delayed the inevitable, as Mumbai romped home by an innings and 210 runs to garner all six points from their Ranji Trophy Elite Division match in......

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