Edtech firm Think and Learn, which owns Byju's brand, has closed 30 out of its 292 tuition centres, according to an official statement. Byju's has shut down the centres as part of cost optimisation measures and aims to turn most of the centres profitable in the third year of their operations, the edtech firm said. "Byju's is immensely proud of the dedication of its teachers and the performance of its students.
We've seen it all before in Bollywood's numerous Mafia movies but Netflix's Sacred Games might just surprise us with a different treatment, feels Urvi Parikh.
'But he was very quick and did a very stylish adab.' 'Of course, I didn't expect him to hug.'
From tennis love to Tudor queens, Sukanya Verma lists everything you can catch on OTT this week.
Patriotism, politics, pain, it's all there on OTT this week.
Ms Swaraj was a conscientious woman who understood suffering and pathos and attempted in her inimitable way to mitigate them, recalls Rup Narayan Das.
Action, drama, romance, comedy -- there's something for every kind of audience on OTT this week.
Robot girlfriends, wish granting stars, creepy aliens, private detectives, brace yourself for unlimited excitement on OTT this week.
Kolkata-born British author Neel Mukherjee's latest novel The Lives of Others, set in troubled Bengal of the 1960s and centres around a dysfunctional family, has been shortlisted for the prestigious Booker Prize 2014, in its debut as a global literary award.
Billionaire banker Uday Kotak founded bank as well as brokerage created and oversaw an offshore fund used by an unnamed investor to profit from a plunge in Adani shares that followed a damning Hindenburg report, the US short seller said on Tuesday. Hindenburg Research, which had in a January 2023 report alleged stock market manipulations and accounting fraud at the Adani group, said it has received a show cause notice from the Indian markets regulator Sebi over gains made from betting on the conglomerate's shares.
His interrogators hope it will provide clues to his mindset, and how to handle the situation in Iraq today.
Judges for the 30,000 pound Orange award broke with a 39-year unspoken convention by choosing this year's Man Booker and Costa Prize winning books -- Desai's novel and Stef Penney's The Tenderness of Wolves -- on their long-list of 20.
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It said the tests were carried out against high-speed unmanned aerial targets under different interception scenarios.
Thanks to these wacky characters and the actors playing them, Murder Mubarak may be genuinely funny, expects Mayur Sanap.
On an experimental basis one of the mobile content providers has already rolled out Amar Chitra Katha on the mobile, which they claim is a success.
Dazzling, dancing and decked to the hilt, courtesans in Hindi films are a breathtaking mix of shiny fantasy and flirtatious poetry to behold.
The new season coasts along on the simple anecdotes that make up the piggy bank of family lore; the performances are as wonderful as before, but the sharpness of humour is starting to dull a bit, observes Deepa Gahlot.
Jackie Collins, the renowned British-born novelist who penned best-selling novels such as Hollywood Wives and The Stud, has died in the US at the age of 77 after a long battle with breast cancer.
Barun Sobti has just completed 15 years of acting, and his new Web series, Rakshak India's Brave, has fetched him fresh laurels.
A woman, awarded post-doctoral fellowship on the novels of controversial author Salman Rushdie, has decided not to go ahead with it following objections from Islamic seminary Darul Uloom Deoband.
Maharaja is an audacious attempt that breaks down the tropes of a crime film with a brilliant Vijay Sethupathi in the lead, notes Arjun Menon.
Dil Dosti Dilemma is a coming-of-age series without profanity, and that by itself breaks the current mould, observes Deepa Gahlot.
In a novel initiative aimed at increasing voter turnout in Haryana, the state election commission will send an invitation letter to every family in the state urging them to exercise their franchise in the Lok Sabha polls.
Enjoying the spotlight after winning the 2008 Man Booker prize for his debut novel, young Indian novelist Arvind Adiga says his second novel is "almost done" but declined to give details about the upcoming book. The 33-year-old journalist based in Mumbai also rejected suggestions that his award-winning book The White Tiger was overly critical of Indian society saying that he had intended to be provocative but 'funny' at the same time to engage the reader.
May offers a mix of original Web series and digital movie premieres on OTT.
Aadujeevitham marks a new direction for Malayalam cinema, where ambition meets resources and the right people, all in favour of stories that deserve to be told on the biggest stage of them all, notes Arjun Menon.
Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri's new novel The Lowland, shortlisted for Britain's Man Booker Prize and longlisted for the US National Book Award is a story of fate and will, exile and return, of the price of idealism and of a love that can last long past death.
From Vijay Devarakonda to Kung Fu Panda, Sukanya Verma lists everything you can watch on OTT this week.
An exclusive extract from Richard Zimler's compelling look at the Inquisition in Goa.
Dhar has penned a novel named Operation Triple X, an Indian spy-run in Pakistan to be published soon by Manas publications.
'In 2009, I was trying to discover myself as an actor, and that's when the journey started. I'm 41 years old and have been associated with this film for 16 years.'
Roy, however, said she did not yet know what the book would be about.
'It took us 14 years to get our story into theatres.'
Stacey Bendet's Alice + Olivia presentation at the New York Fashion Week was inspired by Salman Rushdie's The Enchantress of Florence.
The Boy And The Heron offers a thrilling joyride inside Hayo Miyazaki's unquantifiable imagination, applauds Sukanya Verma.
'Rahman was a guiding star. He was a co-film-maker rather than just a music director.'
G-VIC is inspired by global high technology innovation clusters such as the Silicon Valley in the US, Hsinchu in Taiwan, Tsukuba in Japan and Sofia Antipolis in France. It has been conceptualised and is led by leading professionals from diverse fields. The company, chaired by former central vigilance commissioner N Vittal, is in close talks with international firms to partner the project.
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