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The Train Action That Inspired Bhagat Singh

One hundred years ago, a group of 10 revolutionaries carried out an operation that shook the British Empire.Utkarsh Mishra revisits the 'Kakori Conspiracy Case', a turning point in the armed......

'Gandhiji Gave Me Contentment'

Gandhiji asked me if I had sufficient warm clothes in view of the coming cold season. I said yes.But he verified my statement by asking Miraben to search my bag to make sure.Such was Gandhiji. The......

Remembering Girija Devi, the voice of Benares

'There is no one who can fill the vacuum created by the passing of Girija Devi,' mourns Sunita Budhiraja. Photograph: Kind courtesy Suyash Dwivedi/Wikimedia Commons It was the year 2008. I learnt......

'Modi has come to Benares to forward the Hindutva agenda'

'Benares has always encouraged healthy debate where disagreement and dissent was never frowned upon. Today, the people are faced with a situation where a political opponent is not being allowed to......

'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'......

Hotel stocks have more room for an upside; buy selectively: Analysts

The move to demerge the hotel business into a separate entity by ITC has brought back focus on hotel stocks, which have already seen a good run thus far in fiscal 2023-24 (FY24). Image used for......

Tata group companies outshine the market under N Chandrasekaran

The group began to outperform the broader market only with the onset of the pandemic in March 2020 while earlier it was largely keeping pace with the Sensex. The group’s market cap is up......

GP Birla dies at 87

Industrialist Ganga Prasad Birla diedon Fridaynight at 87 after a prolonged illness. His Rs 5,000-crore business included companies like Hindustan Motors, Orient Paper and Industries, Hyderabad......

Tata group's most valuable company is TCS

Tata Motors, Titan Company & Tata Steel come in at second, third & fourth slots. India's largest software services company Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) accounts for over two-thirds of the......

Smaller Tata companies sparkled under Cyrus

Small- and mid-size companies where Cyrus was the chairman did better on bourses than large Tata group companies The small and medium sized Tata Companies were the star performers during the......

Mouni Roy's Bhootnii Gives You The Chills On OTT

Kajol resumes her 'maa' duties and Adam Sandler is back to playing Happy Gilmore once again on this week’s OTT special. Sukanya Verma lists your options. The BhootniiWhere to watch?......

Pather Panchali@70: Beautiful, Broken People

Seventy years after Pather Panchali released on August 26, 1955, we finally get it.Shuttling between the village of Boral and a studio in Calcutta, caught between worrying about the next purse of......

Mandala Murders Review: BALONEY!

There's an obvious attempt to startle with its gruesome imagery of severed heads skewered on chopped limbs and peeled-off faces but it's too tacky to elicit any real dread, observes Sukanya Verma.......

Princess Vibes! Janhvi At Cannes

Photograph: Kind courtesy Janhvi Kapoor/Instagram Janhvi Kapoor walked the red carpet at the much-awaited premiere of her film, Homebound, at Cannes. Directed by Neeraj Ghaywan, it has been......

10 Wrestling Moments In Hindi Movies

A sport of strength, focus, technique and timing, there's much more to wrestling than beating the opponent black and blue. Like WWE legend Shawn Michaels always believed 'A true wrestler is the one......