From start to finish, Dharmaveer 2 feels less like a biopic and more like propaganda crafted for Eknath Shinde's political gain, observes Prasanna D Zore.
A round-up of the Ranji Trophy matches played on Friday.
Mithun Chakraborty started from scratch in bit roles and had no Godfather backing him. Yet, remarkably, his career now straddles six decades and he continues to win acclaim, observes Dinesh Raheja.
Bengaluru FC's academy graduate Vinith Venkatesh scored the winner as the Blues picked up their first points of the ISL season with a 1-0 win over East Bengal.
Master's student. Activist. Folk music researcher. Foodie. Anoop Desai wears many hats, discovers Arthur J Pais.
Economist and professor emeritus at London School of Economics, Lord Meghnad Desai on Friday questioned Mahatma Gandhi's philosophy of non-violence in view of his endorsement of the Bhagvad Gita.
According to a statement issued by the chief minister's office, the meeting will be held in Vidhana Souda conference Hall.
It was a busy weekend for film folk as they stepped out for events and parties.
Bhumata Brigade chief Trupti Desai on Thursday took her movement for gender equality to the famous Haji Ali dargah in Mumbai but stopped short of going into the shrine.
National champion Harmeet Desai, ranked 86th in the world in men's singles, is seeded 49th. He will make his Olympic debut.
Hemant V Shivsaran/Rediff.com does a deep dive and lists the winners with the highest and lowest margins in the recent Lok Sabha elections.
India internationals Shardul Thakur and Shivam Dube starred with the ball and the bat respectively as 41-time champions Mumbai took an upperhand over Assam on the opening day of their Ranji Trophy Group B match in Mumbai on Friday.
'Maggie was very reserved and private. Nobody would dare to ask Maggie personal questions.' 'She was not that kind of person. She didn't share and would not want you to share either!'
Team India's manager on the South Africa tour had snubbed former Test player Dilip Sardesai previously.
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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh joined former Russian Premier Yegor Gaidar and Nobel laureates on Thursday to compliment Padma Desai, described as 'An economist's economist' by Nobel laureate Paul Samuelson.
Investments worth more than Rs 80 trillion are expected in roads, railways and urban infrastructure between now and FY30 and the supply chains helping to build this core infrastructure are also readying to cash in on the growth. In the first half of the current financial year, orders worth more than Rs 2.6 trillion were tendered in the roads and railways segment alone, according to data sourced from ICRA Ratings and Research. "India's transportation infrastructure sector is in high gear, and we enjoy a sizable share of it," said S V Desai, whole time director and senior executive vice president (Civil Infrastructure) for Larsen & Toubro.
The Lord Ayyappa shrine will re-open for the two-month-long Madala-Makkarvilakku puja on Saturday.
ECL Finance Company MD and three officials were on Tuesday quizzed for nearly eight hours by the Raigad police in Maharashtra probing the alleged suicide of film art director Nitin Desai, an official said.
A round-up of the Ranji Trophy matches played on Saturday.
When it gets to its silly climax where the dots are finally joined, you can't help but see how cheap these thrills are, sighs Mayur Sanap.
Nearly two months after her The Inheritance of Loss won the Man Booker Prize, the Indian community in New York finally celebrated Kiran Desai's awesome achievement.
The women activists were also detained on Monday while heading to the temple and were later released.
As with biopics these days, Kangana Ranaut's films may be less about telling the story of a dark chapter of Indian history and more about giving fodder to those who seek to defend or justify government highhandedness today, observes Utkarsh Mishra.
Taapsee, Vikrant, Sunny are a fine fit on their own as well as around each other and prove themselves to be well equipped to survive the air of double dealing. What's missing is sizzle, feels Sukanya Verma..
The outcome of the general elections, the Morgan Stanley note says, has enough firepower to sway the markets on either side.
Reader Aditya Shrivastav has sent us a photograph.
The youth -- their dreams of government jobs unfulfilled -- are voicing their frustration.
Model Tina Desai talks about the highs and lows of the fashion industry.
'China is struggling to get out of its property bubble.' 'Japan took 35 years to walk out of its equity bubble.' 'Bubbles can be difficult to forecast.'
While Anushka Sharma and Virat Kohli welcomed their second child in February, Namrata Thakker looks at the other celebs getting ready to embrace parenthood for the first time.
Here's your complete guide to when India's athletes compete at the Paris Olympics, with dates, events, and timings in IST.
Why are financial-technology (fintech) players moving back to India, or doing the reverse-flipping?
Amid suspense over Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA)'s prime ministerial face for the 2024 general elections, Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar on Wednesday said the 1977 Lok Sabha polls were fought by the opposition without projecting Morarji Desai as the PM candidate.
Desai, along with three of her colleagues took darshan of the 'shivlinga' in the 'garbha gruha' around 6 am and left after nearly 15 minutes.
She's figured an easy and elegant way to make sweaters feel fancy.
Check out how India's athletes fared on Day 11, Tuesday, August 6, 2024:
'He said the N D Studios wasn't functioning, shootings were not happening.'
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 council of ministers discussed the showcause notice, and alleged that it was a "gross misuse of the constitutional office' of the governor and said that a concerted effort is being made to destabilise a lawfully elected majority government in Karnataka for political considerations.
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