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Kashi Dazzles With Over 2,600,000 Diyas

Once a quiet riverside ritual, Dev Deepawali has evolved into UP's largest soft-power spectacle -- merging faith, art, enterprise into a global cultural brand that reflects state's growing......

19-year-old gang-raped by 23 people over 6 days in Varanasi

A 19-year-old woman was allegedly gang-raped by 23 people over six days, with the accused drugging her and taking her to several hotels as they passed her on for abuse, police said in Varanasi......

How Priyanka's call to Akhilesh clinched Cong-SP alliance

Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra spoke with Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav over phone on Wednesday to break the deadlock on seat-sharing for Lok Sabha polls in Uttar......

'Fear Has Gone From People's Minds'

'Just today a shopkeeper I went to was saying how bad business is. He must have been a BJP supporter.''He finally said, "It's a good thing there's an NDA government, not a BJP government, 'they'......

Modi cleans Assi Ghat, nominates UP CM, 8 others for Swachh Bharat

Picking up a spade, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday launched the 'Swachh Bharat' campaign in his Lok Sabha constituency removing silt deposited along the banks of the River Ganga in......

US to send energy expert to help India cut Iran oil imports

The US will send its top energy expert to India next week to help the country reduce dependence on Iranian oil, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said as she lauded the steps taken by New......

Satellite town plan to go beyond 2012 deadline

The pilot scheme to develop satellite towns around seven mega cities will spill over to the 12th Plan period (2013 to 2018), as against the original deadline of April 2012.The urban development......

India wants US to streamline export controls

India on Tuesday told the US to further streamline its rigid export controls saying that barriers continue to hamper transfer of high-technology. New Delhi identified the specific barriers which it......

Drought: Bihar demands Rs 23,000 cr aid

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar met Food and Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar on Tuesday and sought a central assistance of Rs 23,000 crore (Rs 230 billion), including Rs 10,000 crore (Rs 100......

Are SEZs a good idea?

Political scientists draw a distinction between business-friendly and market-friendly governments. A business-friendly government works closely with business leaders, individually or collectively,......

Mohalla Assi Review: All sound, no fury

'Philosophy, politics and practicality cross paths in Mohalla Assi's ambitious premise.''Except it is directed in such an unwieldy fashion that instead of rich satire, what emerges is a lumbering......

Court restrains release of controversial movie Mohalla Assi

The release of Bollywood film 'Mohalla Assi' has been halted throughout the country by a Delhi court which today prima facie found it hurting religious sentiments and said it should not hit......

Box Office: Pihu, Mohalla Assi fare poorly

The hits and misses of the week. Mohalla Assi and Pihu fail to draw in the audiences. Aamir Khan's Diwali release, Thugs Of Hindostan, flops at the box office. Vinod Mirani gives us his weekly......

Stay Thanda Thanda Cool Cool Like Bollywood

It's that scorching time of the year again when horrid heat waves engulf our beings and nothing except a smack of cool breeze or a chilled glass of refreshment springs us back to life again.......

Which book-to-screen is YOUR fave? VOTE!

In Parineeti Chopra's upcoming Netflix release The Girl On The Train, the actress goes against type to play an alcoholic, whose obsession around a happily married couple lands her in the middle of......

India's equestrian team misses gold by a whisker

Photograph: Kind Courtesy ITPF Winning the country's first ever bronze medal at the Tent Pegging World Cup in South Africa was a historic feat for the Indian riders, but instead of rejoicing the......

Ronaldinho free to return to Brazil after five months

IMAGE: Ronaldinho Gaucho, who helped Brazil win the 2002 World Cup, was arrested on March 6 along with his brother and business manager Roberto Assis when they tried to enter Paraguay with......

Ronaldinho facing money laundering charges in Paraguay?

Investigators hope the phone records will shed light on why Ronaldinho wanted a Paraguayan passport and how he expected to use it. IMAGE: Ronaldinho leaves Paraguay's Supreme Court after......

Ronaldinho to be freed in 'adulterated' passport case

IMAGE: Ronaldinho and his brother and business manager Roberto Assis both entered Paraguay on Wednesday with false documents, officials said. Photograph: Tamas Kaszas/Reuters Paraguayan......

Judge rules Ronaldinho must remain in Paraguayan jail

IMAGE: Ex-Barcelona forward Ronaldinho handcuffed and being escorted by police at the Supreme Court of Paraguay. Photograph: Jorge Adorno/Reuters Former Brazilian international Ronaldinho Gaucho......