It is for the first time in the history of Independent India that not a single Muslim is part of the Union Cabinet. After Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi resigned as the Union minister of minority affairs......
If the government of the day would like to set in place a smooth and well-planned changeover and facilitate the incoming chief to chalk out his action plan well in advance, the announcement of a......
A spinning wheel which former prime minister Lal Bahadur Shastri got as "dowry", Chaudhary Charan Singh's diaries and P V Narasimha Rao's spectacles are among the articles that their families have......
NCP president Sharad Pawar on Saturday said he had insisted that Uddhav Thackeray become chief minister of Maharashtra when Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) was being formed two years ago, hours after BJP......
Ambassador Venu Rajamony, who served as press secretary to President Pranab Mukherjee during his tenure, salutes the statesman and political legend, who passed into the ages on Monday. IMAGE:......
Venkataraman Krishnamurthy, who is considered as the turnaround man of several Indian corporate houses like BHEL, Maruti Udyog, SAIL and Gail (India), passed away on Sunday at the age of 97.......
An analysis of Budget speeches made by finance ministers over 75 years also offers a glimpse of how low on the priority list healthcare has featured for the political class and policy-makers, which......
We have a government with an extremely weak economic team advising a PM who hardly pays attention to their thoughts, says Jayanta Roy. Photograph: Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com I......
10 per cent for those who earn up to Rs 30 lakh a year and 25 per cent for those who earn more, suggests T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com Business Standard's Budget......
Pranab Mukherjee's stewardship of the economy will stand out as much for the manner in which he managed controversies as for creating quite a few of them, says A K Bhattacharya. IMAGE: Then prime......
IMAGE: Vijay Deverakonda and Ananya Panday on Koffee With Karan. Photograph: Kind courtesy Ananya Panday/Instagram Vijay Deverakonda had no idea that host Karan Johar would hit him with sex talk......
'I told Shah Rukh I wanted to sign him for our film, Deewana.''He responded by saying he had no dates.''I was shocked because he hadn't had a single release till then.' On June 25, 1992, Deewana,......
Neetu Singh retired when most stars begin their careers. At 21, she bid adieu to films to focus on life with frequent co-star turned husband, Rishi Kapoor and raise their two kids, Riddhima and......
'Khel risky tha whiskey ne kiya beda paar': Sharaabi 'Iski uski kaun kiski yaaran da imaan whiskey': 2 States 'Aaj botlan khullan do. Daaru shaaru ghullan do. Whiskey da peg laga ke, saari duniya......
'South movies have the perfect script, the perfect action and the perfect romance.''That's why these films are running in theatres.' IMAGE: K.G.F.: Chapter 2 earned Rs 200 crores (Rs 2 billion)......