Lessons For The World From 2023

One looks upon the coming new year with foreboding as current wars in Ukraine and Gaza spill over and escalate and new ones erupt in incipient fault lines across the world, notes former foreign......

If you keep speaking, you will be in more trouble: BJP warns Rahul

The Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday asserted that the law will take its course if Rahul Gandhi abuses people and slammed the Congress over its criticism of his conviction in a defamation case,......

Kannada actor Chetan arrested for tweet about Hindutva

Kannada actor Chetan Kumar alias Chetan Ahimsa was arrested by police in Bengaluru on Tuesday for his alleged 'controversial' tweet about Hindutva. IMAGE: Actor and activist Chetan. Photograph:......

Anyone who kills cows is deemed to rot in hell: Allahabad HC

The Lucknow bench of Allahabad high court has expressed hope that the Centre will take an appropriate decision to ban cow slaughter and declare it as a 'protected national animal'.......

What minority status will mean for Jains

Tenants dwelling in prime properties of Jain temples for years may have to vacate these; government interference in institutions and trusts of the community will cease to exist; and there will be......

Remember, the money doesn't belong to you

CSR should be re-labelled ISR, Individual Social Responsibility, and each of us, as individuals ought to feel the need to give back, says Gurcharan Das. At a lunch in Delhi, I was confronted by a......

World's rich expect to get richer in 2010

With recovery in the global financial markets in sight, nearly 78 per cent of the world's wealthy population expects to grow their personal wealth over the next one year, a survey said on......

How I Finally Played Gandhi In A Film

'Top actors like Ben Kingsley, who played Gandhiji, had already raised the bar.''I hoped that Rajkumar Santoshi would be satisfied with my acting.' IMAGE: Chinmay Mandlekar as Nathuram Godse and......

Vicky Kaushal was born to play Udham Singh

Regardless of its commercial success, as an Indian, one needs to watch the story of this unsung hero, notes Syed Firdaus Ashraf. The Sardar Udham trailer has come at a time when the national......

Wow! Is that a perfect figure?

Film folk get gorgeous... Photograph: Kind courtesy Shama Sikander/Instagram Shama Sikander shows off her perfect figure.   Photograph: Kind courtesy Dia Mirza/Instagram Dia Mirza quotes......

Review: Surkhaab is a vanity project

Surkhaab lacks the strength to go all the way either to become a masala thriller or to blossom into an insightful take on the exploitation of immigrants, notes Paloma Sharma. Surkhaab (......