Farm loan waivers should not be regarded as expenditure but as incentive and investment, argues B S Raghavan, the distinguished civil servant. Photograph: Reuters There is a predictable knee-jerk......
The high-level committee that probed the Mumbai 26/11 attacks has blamed the management of Taj and Oberoi hotels for ignoring the security advice given to them much ahead of the terror strikes.......
A fewweeks ago, I read something that made my stomach churn. The Hindustan Times was reporting: India's tour of Pakistan could be worth $20 millionAll it will take to wipe out the Pakistani Cricket......
Four Hinduja brothers -- Srichand, Gopichand, Prakash and Ashok -- had in 2014 signed on a document saying the assets held by one brother belong to all, and that each of them will appoint the......
The first phase of online video's growth is over. Netflix, Amazon, Hotstar, Voot, YouTube are all developing a new content ecosystem, finds Vanita Kohli-Khandekar. Netflix's global content......
Well-known industrialist Lalit Mohan Thapar died at Escorts hospital on Wednesday due to cardiac and renal failure. He was 76. The head of Ballarpur Industries Limited, who had been admitted to......
The soap operas of Ekta Kapoor and Ravi Chopra are likely to be axed to make way for Kaun Banega Crorepati-III because Star Plus intends to reserve the one-hour primetime slot for the show that......
Karam Chand Thapar & Brothers, the Kolkata-based holding company of several Thapar group outfits, will be spilt as part of a division of assets within the Thapar family.When contacted, Vikram......
Photograph: Kind courtesy Pankaj Udhas/Instagram Renowned ghazal singer Pankaj Udhas, whose velvet smooth voice gave expression to the many colours of love, longing and heartache in songs such as......
'You make a hit, everything is fit.' IMAGE: Bappi Lahiri at home. Photograph: Hitesh Harisinghani/Rediff.com Singer-composer Bappi Lahiri, who popularised disco music in India in the 1980s and......
'The amount of work that is happening in the industry today -- whether it is on television, films or the OTT space -- there is ample opportunity for everyone.' IMAGE: Suparn Verma, left, with......
We have lost so many extraordinary talents this year. Subhash K Jha remembers the dear departed. Irrfan Khan Photograph: Kind courtesy Irrfan Khan/Facebook Irrfan lost the battle to cancer......
Film music flourished in the 1970s. Some old masters did some great work, but it was also the decade of new composers.A fascinating excerpt from Amit Khanna's Words. Sounds. Images: A History Of......