A favourite breakfast food or snack with your chai.
A crisp, golden filo traybake which is layered with fragrant ginger-spiced butter and mincemeat and finished with crunchy walnuts.
Mustard-crusted air-fried fish is a refreshing start-the-week entree. Chef Roopa Nabar serves it with lightly-cooked broccoli.
A soft, fruit-studded cake with crumble topping that turns golden as it bakes. You will find it impossible to stop at just one slice.
The unique East Indian community of Mumbai is one of the city's oldest Catholic communities. Their Christmas celebrations have a distinctive blend of Portuguese influence, Maharashtrian roots and age-old family traditions.
'Removing Nitish Kumar prematurely risks unsettling both the alliance balance and parts of the social coalition that delivered this victory.'
In Tamil Nadu a steamed, spicy delicacy, looking like a modak, is made for Vinayak Chaturthi.
Andhra Pradesh and Telangana do a different kind of rice-jaggery-coconut sweet for Ganesh Puja -- steamed balls that taste just as delightful.
The 71st National Awards were presented at the Vigyan Bhavan in New Delhi on Tuesday, September 23, 2025.
The MiG-21's sharp silhouette and supersonic roar will live on in the memories of those who flew it, those who maintained it, and those who watched it streak across the sky as a symbol of India's strength, asserts IAF veteran Air Commodore Nitin Sathe (retd).
Chenna Poda translates to mean burnt cheese. That's precisely what this delightful sweet is.
Enjoyed best during Raja, it's a unique dessert from Odisha.
Chitau Pitha is a traditional rice cake prepared during festivals in Odisha for Chitalagi Amavasya or Chitau Amavasya celebrations.
Are you a fan of chocolate and coconut? Chef Manish Kusumwal from Keys Hotels has the perfect recipe for you.
Over the years, with some amount of experimenting, I have learnt exactly what freezes well and what does not.
Growth in demand for diesel, India's most consumed petroleum product, fell to its lowest since the pandemic in the financial year ended March 31 as the economy expands at a slower pace and consumption shifts to cleaner fuels. Diesel consumption rose 2 per cent to 91.4 million tonnes in 2024-25 (April 2024 to March 2025) fiscal, according to provisional data released by the Petroleum Planning and Analysis Cell (PPAC) of the Oil Ministry.
Leftover rice is the versatile ingredient that can be used to make quick and easy idiyappam.
The legendary Adam Gilchrist showered praise on Australia captain Pat Cummins for his outstanding performance in the Adelaide Test.
Former India opener Navjot Singh Sidhu hailed MS Dhoni and Virat Kohli as "institutions" whose relevance will not die down while their contemporaries fade.
In a major development in the Morbi bridge collapse case in Gujarat, the additional public prosecutor in the case disclosed that one of the accused managers of Oreva, the company responsible for the bridge's maintenance, cited "act of god" in court as a reason for the tragic mishap.
The use of freshly-made mango pickle makes all the difference to this recipe for a yum paneer starter.
Can Christmas be any more festive with this magnificent dessert all the way from Romania?
Overripe bananas, fit for discarding, can make the most gorgeous addition to a chocolate cake.
Mini Mohan shares a Christmas recipe for cake lovers.
This sweet that uses edible gum and nuts is a winter favourite.
The balance was so perfect in that moment, the irony so rich. Those who cheered on Elia Kazan were cheering on the one quality that made him such a singular artist: He was his own man and not susceptible to groupthink. Those who protested Kazan's presence were protesting that very quality: They were saying that he was too much of an outlier, a wolf in a radical's clothing. Sreehari Nair captures his Kodak moment at the Oscars.
Millets, dal and a bunch of spices can be steamed together for an awesome version of this rice cake.
Jaggery and wheat come together to make the fastest and most perfect Diwali sweet.
Using black rice in your idlis makes them more nourishing.
Skip milk, butter and eggs to make a truly delightful vegan cake.
This sweet is vegan, gluten-free and not very sugary.
Go experimental while making your modaks! Try unusual stuffings and coverings.
Delicious snacks, parathas made from sabudana.
Time to surprise your family and friends with a really unusual dessert.
You can make these cutlets in a microwave oven without compromising on their taste.
This special Maharashtrian sweet is made by the CKP community just before Ganesh Chaturthi.
'In the case of a road accident, prevention is the only answer.' 'There's no cure to death or disability when the accident happens, and when it's due to reckless or negligent driving, it's worse because it's avoidable.'
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