The Bharatiya Janata Party surprised many with its latest list of Lok Sabha candidates for West Bengal, nominating a protester from Sandeshkhali for the Basirhat constituency and changing the seats......
West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose on Monday visited the troubled pockets of Sandeshkhali in North 24 Parganas district, and spoke to women protestors who alleged sexual harassment and torture by......
'My adrenalin kicked in and the happiness returned! It was time to go in for the kill again.'IAF Veterans Group Captain Dilip Kumar Dass tells Air Commodore Nitin Sathe about how the IAF decimated......
'Earlier in my career DGs were nearly 100 per cent honest.''By the time I retired, many DGs have not been honest.''One DG asked me to go and meet a home minister whom everybody knew is corrupt.'......
Former Pune police chief Meeran Chadha Borwankar has claimed in a book that the then “district minister” had insisted in 2010 that she complete the process of handing over an auctioned......
One of the challenges for those car graves is that Indian owners often find markets for their old cars rather than send them to scrapyards. IMAGE: A wrecked car is seen in the scrapyard.......
Suraksha started by funding developers for projects, and then evolved into realty angel investing. Dev Chatterjee reports. IMAGE: Suraksha Smart City - Vasai-Virar's biggest township under......
In power, Mamata Banerjee has tried to bury the ghost of the past, but it might still be work-in-progress. Big-ticket and eye-grabbing (in terms of investment size) projects are still few and......
'Even today, after 63 years, I'm still looking forward to a new release.' IMAGE: Prem Chopra and Rishi Kapoor in Bobby, which turned 50 recently and had the memorable James Bondesque line, 'Prem......
Scoop reminded viewers of a time in the not-so-recent-past when Mumbai was in the grip of the underworld. The new Web series Guns And Gulaabs is set in the opium town of Gulaabganj sometime in the......
In recent years, Yash Chopra has been labelled King Of Romance, when in fact, his best film, Deewar (1975) did not have a chiffon-clad heroine dancing in the snow. Unfortunately, it is not......
'I would rather focus on the good rather than what didn't happen.' Photograph: Kind courtesy Jugal Hansraj/Instagram Did you know about the time when Jugal Hansraj was paid more than Priyanka......
Entertainment may be its raison d'etre, but the tears brought about by cinema are no less significant. Some movies are more sentimental than others -- they strike an instant chord, touch a raw......
IMAGE: Coach Paras Mhambrey believes no coach can create a bowler like Mohammed Shami. Photograph: Adnan Abidi/Reuters Mohammed Shami possesses a rare ability of landing the ball in an upright......
'People till date say Gooch swept us out of the game. But if anyone watches that game, you will see that there were times when he was beaten for turn and the ball missed the stumps by a whisker.......
IMAGE: Kuldeep Yadav wants to 'just focus on the process than the wickets' Photograph: Adnan Abidi/Reuters Ahead of their World Cup semifinals against New Zealand, Indian left-arm spinner Kuldeep......
'I am not envious of those who are making millions. It's their era and I had my era.' IMAGE: Cricket legend Salim Durani trains budding cricketers in Jamnagar in this January 2004 photograph.......