Mixed response to Maha bandh, road transport hit, 200 detained

The 'Maharashtra bandh' called by the ruling Maha Vikas Aghadi partners to protest the death of farmers in Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur Kheri received a mixed response on Monday with the shutdown......

PHOTOS: Heavy rains in Delhi break 46-year record

Record heavy rains lashed many parts of the national capital on Saturday, making it the wettest monsoon season in 46 years and causing extensive waterlogging that affected operations at the Delhi......

Coronavirus leaves Ravana effigy business on last legs

It's a day before Dussehra and Karan 'Ravan Wala' looks disconsolately at the empty stretch of pavement, the handful of in-the-works effigies underscoring the despair of a festive season that is......

Smoky haze shrouds Delhi-NCR; air quality now 'very poor'

Stricter anti-pollution measures, including a ban on electricity generators, under the Graded Response Action Plan came into effect in Delhi-National Capital Region on Thursday as a layer of haze......

India on verge of becoming world's most digitised economy: PM

Strongly committing to continuing economic reforms, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday promised to bring a paradigm shift in polity and economy by providing corruption-free regime and easing......

Tackling Delhi's pollution problem: An open letter to Arvind Kejriwal

A woman on a motorcycle covers her face from smoke coming from burning garbage dump. Photograph: Mukesh Gupta/Reuters Dear Mr Kejriwal, I am sure you have plenty on your plate but even as you......

How car majors plan to woo customers this festive season

Image: Audi Q3 Dynamic. Photograph: Kind courtesy, Audi Audi, Mercedes-Benz and BMW target broader segments of the market by looking at innovative ways to reach a wider audience Luxury car......

Future looks bleak for India's real estate sector

Given the current global cues, if the next six months do not turn out to be the way we would want it to, we are definitely looking at a very gloomy start to 2016 Today, we are at a juncture where......

'I am an outcast in Bollywood'

'The idea is to sideline you, box you up in a smaller box, so you don't go out of that.''The bigger boxes are for their own people.'   Photograph: Kind courtesy Ranvir Shorey/Instagram......

Metro Park 2 review

Metro Park 2 has the same cliched jokes, sighs Moumita Bhattacharjee. In the first season of Metro Park, we were introduced to some Gujaratis in New Jersey and the theme revolved around: You can......

Where these stars got their looks from

Choreographer-director Farah Khan managed a coup of sorts when she got Salman Khan to appear on her new chat show Tere Mere Beach Mein with his mother, Salma, in tow. Few of us have actually......

TV presenter Morgan takes a jibe at United on Twitter

British TV personality Piers Morgan has trolled Dutch footballer Robin van Persie and Manchester United on Twitter after Manchester United beat Crystal Palace on Saturday. Van Persie's switch from......

Seeking parochialism

Not so long ago, there was random moaning about increasing parochialism in Indian cricket. Players were being booed in the home stadiums of their perceived rivals; it was no longer about wanting......