How Non-BJP States Are Paying Back Modi-Shah

Non-BJP chief ministers are retaliating.If the Centre can use its agencies to threaten, intimidate and jail its rivals, so can they.The fightback will get more intense, observes Shekhar Gupta.......

Has language war put BJP on back foot in Karnataka?

With one year left for assembly elections in Karnataka, the last big bastion of the Congress, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has found an emotive issue to counter the Bharatiya Janata Party as the......

A Congress government headed for doom

Failure to deliver on governance, corruption allegations, preoccupation with Lok Sabha and gram panchayat polls and factionalism have weakened Siddaramaiah's government in Karnataka. This may well......

BJP bets on BSY for re-entry in south India

While some would give the BJP full marks for starting early in the only state in the south where it stands a chance, the 'party with a difference' has fallen back on a tainted leader.Raghu Krishnan......

CAs' body asks govt help in accessing PNB fraud data

ICAI intends to investigate the chartered accountants of PNB but the bank allegedly refuses to give the information sought.  The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India has approached the......

CBI lodges fresh FIR against Nirav Modi, approaches Interpol

Central probe agencies, the Central Bureau of Investigation and the Enforcement Directorate, on Friday continued their crackdown in a Rs 11,400-crore bank fraud case involving billionaire jewellery......

Leela Group founder Krishnan Nair is no more

The grand old man of Indian hospitality, Captain C P Krishnan Nair passed away at a private hospital in Mumbai on Saturday after a brief illness. He was 92 years old. Nair, who started started......

Why Forbes' editors in India were sacked

Why did four senior editors at Forbes India, run by the Rs 2,400-crore Network18 group, leave in the last week of May? Was it because of the hurry to rush into a digital future? Or was it because......

Raabta flops at the box office

The hits and misses of the week. Despite Raabta's grand visuals, it proves to be a bad film, with bad reviews and a poor outcome at the box office.  Behen Hogi Teri fails to find......

Review: Saithan is a decent attempt

The first half of Saithan has a lot of suspense, says S Saraswathi. Debutant director Pradeep Krishnamoorthy’s Saithan (Bhethaludu in Telugu) is a decently made thriller that attempts to......

Review: Valiyavan fails to impress

Valiyavan is a slow-paced, ordinary romantic comedy that intends to spread a message of patriotism against the backdrop of the special bond shared by a father and his grown up son,......

'There are no immediate plans to make Thegidi 2'

Over the last one year, several short-film makers have made successful mainstream films: Nalan Kumarasamy (Soodhu Kavvum) and Karthik Subbaraj (Pizza) among them. Most recent is director P Ramesh,......

SAG: Boxers join shooters in gold-hunt, India's medal tally soars

IMAGE: India’s Vikas Krishnan, left, is declared the winner . Photograph: PTI The Indian juggernaut rolled on unabated as the star-studded boxing squad joined the shooters in what is turning......

Manoj Kumar eases into second round of World Boxing

Manoj Kumar eased past Valentino Knowles of the Bahamas, winning 17-11, to enter the second round in the light-welterweight (64kg) category and continue the Indian boxers' fine show at the World......

Dinesh Kumar wins silver in boxing

Dinesh Kumar had to settle for a silverin the men's boxing event in the Asian Games in Guangzhou on Thursday. Uzbekistan's Elshod Rasulov beat the 22-year-old Indian 10-4 in the in the 81kg......

Sasikiran loses from winning position

Grandmaster Krishnan Sasikiran mishandled a winning position and went down to Kazakh Grandmaster Darmen Sadvakasov in the fifth round, as other Indians also conceded points, in Group 'A1' at the......

Ganguly takes Motylev in his stride

Grandmaster Surya Shekhar Ganguly continued on his dream run and cruised past former Russian champion Alexander Motylev in the second round of Aeroflot International chess tournament in Moscow on......