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How the Congress can counter Modi

'What the Congress needs now is an ideological and social contrast to the BJP.''The Congress stable of princelings cannot do it,' argues Mohan Guruswamy. IMAGE: Prime Minister Narendra D Modi in......

Mallikarjun Kharge: Man of the hour

Mallikarjun Kharge, Leader of the Congress party in the Lok Sabha, showed that when the hour was on hand, he was the man, says Mohan Guruswamy. Most of us do not fulfill our potential because we......

Hitler, Frankenstein among candidates in Meghalaya polls

A range of amusing names of poll candidates in the fray in Meghalaya assembly election is bound to make the name panel in the Electronic Voting Machines sound interesting in many constituencies on......

Another stalker barges into Sania residence

It pays to be a teenage sensation. Sania Mirza's irresistible glamour and popularity seems to have become a problem as another stalker tried to barge into her posh Hyderabad residence,......

Mumbai sits in the middle of a battlefield

They are calling it India's 9/11," my sister remarked on the phone to me from California the other day. No. It was not a 9/11. We did not have a bone-chilling 3,500 deaths over those three days.......

A saga of Jet Air's controversies

Controversies have perennially dogged Jet Airways. The latest tussle with the pilots has further dented the company's reputation, demoralised employees, inconvenienced thousands of passengers and......

Affordable housing: The new realty mantra

With the market for high-priced houses crashing, real estate developers are seeking a fortune in affordable housing and devising ways to keep the costs down. You could call it the Nano effect.......

Big business in India's small towns

The land registry office is possibly one of the best-known addresses in Singur today. The girl who directed me to it could not have been more than 16-years old and all the rickshaw and paanwallahs......

No business like family business!

"Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied..."William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet. Act II. Sc. 3. 1596Family businesses, ranging from tightly-held, private operations to publicly-traded, global......

US bizwomen keen to meet 'sisters' in India

In what will be a first for most of them, over 20 American businesswomen are set to leave for India as part of a delegation to meet their 'sisters in business' in that country.February 18 through......

Remembering Dhoom Director Sanjay Gadhvi

Sanjay Gadhvi once revealed to Subhash K Jha that he never wanted to make Dhoom.. IMAGE: Dhoom Director Sanjay Gadhvi. Photograph: From the Rediff Archives Sanjay Gadhvi died on Sunday morning.......

'Eddie Murphy was approached for Sanjay Dutt's role'

'The title of Khalnayak was Be Negative then.''I had started working on the screenplay with Hollywood writers.''And then after three-four months...' IMAGE: Subhash Ghai with Ramya Krishnan and......

When Bollywood Heroes Turned Heroines!

It's almost like a rite of passage for every Bollywood hero to dress up as a woman at least once in his career. Ayushmann Khurrana is ready to repeat the deed second time around in Dream Girl 2, a......

'I'm out of Bigg Boss becoz of politics'

'The easiest thing to do is character assassinate a woman.' So close, yet so far. This may sum up the journey of Bigg Boss 16 contestant Soundarya Sharma, who has been evicted from the reality......

Get Ready For Ranbir's SUPERPOWERS in Brahmastra!

Full credit to Ayan Mukerji for venturing into the 'Astraverse', says Deepa Gahlot. Director Ayan Mukerji's Brahmastra has been in the making for such a long time that jokes and memes about the......

'Dravid's inclusion in ODIs a backward step'

India's bowling is their Achilles' heel and recalling Rahul Dravid to prop the batting order is a retrograde step, according to former cricketers Wasim Akram and Sanjay Manjrekar. Both reckon that......

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