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Met the 'Department of Big Moves'?

This whirlwind of activity only confirms that rushing around creating an impression of pompous busy-ness is not the same thing as solving problems, argues Mitali Saran. IMAGE: Prime Minister......

Sheena Bora Trial: Indrani didn't want Rahul around

The night before Sheena was allegedly killed, 'Indrani Madam instructed me to not send anyone up to her flat.''She told me to especially not allow Rahul Mukerjea.'Vaihayasi Pande Daniel reports......

Should courts intervene in religious matters?

Awful religious practices need to be abolished. But by social and political reformers, not the courts, argues Shekhar Gupta.Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com The Hindutva leaders in Kerala must......

Is Nawaz Sharif a Ravan?

'Nawaz Sharif knows a coup in 2016-2017 will not only complete Pakistan's isolation, but even a whiff of instability will frighten the world into imagining another Islamic State-zone, and this in a......

Did Harambe have to die?

'It's a humiliating time to be a human being.' It's a pity that the magnificent 17-year-old gorilla is dead. But it's not enough to hang our heads in shame or comfort ourselves with clicktivism,......

Government is playing poker with banks

'By not letting bankrupt banks fail, we have discouraged ordinary folk from taking precautions while choosing their bank or at least when they hear bad news about their bank,' says S Muralidharan,......

At 40, Thums Up's thunder is still intact

Despite the onslaught of international brands - Coke and Pepsi - the fizz has not gone out of India's very own cola brand, Surajeet Das Gupta. It’s been a roller coaster ride for the past 40......

The revulsion! The betrayal. The realisation you knew all along

'I'm a little fuzzy on the details, but I know that everyone is behaving as if they've just discovered that their favourite grandfather is a peeping tom,' says Mitali Saran. My eyes generally......

'GIFT is just another Modi vanity project like Make in India'

'The GIFT will create regulatory crisis for RBI, Sebi' Percy Mistry, chairman of the committee which drafted the report on developing Mumbai as an International Financial Centre, has opposed......

Malang Review

'A witless thriller so far removed from reality yet so consumed by its own self-seriousness, no amount of slick photography, soaring soundtrack or steady supply of conspiracy can salvage its tepid......

Happi Review

'Surely a person like Happi deserves to be treated with dignity.''But does he deserve a two hour movie dedicated to his daftness, and to the failure of the rest of the world to come round to the......

Meet the Woh in Hindi Cinema

We have seen the blissful pati patni pairs on screen. Now here's looking at the Bollywood's favourite reason for trouble in paradise -- the other woman. In the remake of Pati Patni Aur Woh -- so......

The Ujda Chaman review

Fighting prejudice with prejudice, Ujda Chaman is too shallow to dwell compellingly into the frailties of the human mind, feels Sukanya Verma. Ujda Chaman is the sort of movie that spends all its......

The Pal Pal Dil Ke Paas Review

Pal Pal Dil Ke Paas squanders whatever potential it had, feels Sukanya Verma. Manali, #MeToo, coma, snow leopard, it’s a tall order. But Sunny Deol does not leave any stone unturned to......

Soccer Extras: Spain striker Torres announces retirement

News of all that's transpired on and off the football field IMAGE: Fernando Torres, who scored more than 100 goals across two spells at his boyhood club Atletico Madrid, also played for Premier......

Bolt's farewell race: Will he be 'Unbeatable. Unstoppable'?

Two more for the road as Bolt says farewell IMAGE: Usain Bolt, the greatest entertainer of athletics. Photograph: Usain Bolt/Twitter. He had demanded that the world write one last headline about......

Nixon reveals 5 million pound fixing approach

Former England wicketkeeper Paul Nixon has revealed that an unnamed Indian businessman had approached him to fix one of County Twenty20 matches in 2010 with a mind boggling offer of 5 million......

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