Bedi offers to return excess travel money to organisers

Under attack over charging her hosts business class for economy class travel, Team Anna member Kiran Bedi on Monday offered to return the excess money collected but it did not cut much ice with her......

Bad weather fails to curb Surat's eclipse spirit

A monotonous, steady drizzle, from the wee hours of the morning, did not stop thousands of Surat residents from hitting the road at 5.30 am on July 22. Traffic was nastily snarled in the pre-dawn......

'This is like the fall of the Berlin wall'

This is like the fall of the Berlin wall.' This is what summed it up for many at the Gateway of India on Wednesday evening. The waves of people just kept coming, they poured in from every......

Nation mourns Mumbai bloodbath

Tens of thousands of people across the country poured into the streets and held candle-light vigils and peace marches this evening in a spontaneous show of solidarity with residents of......

Kashmir post: From KFC to Toyota, global firms scramble for damage control

Besides Hyundai, distributors and franchisees of Japanese auto brands including Toyota, Suzuki Motor Corp, Isuzu and Chinese truck brand Faw Trucks also faced a backlash for similar messages posted......

Media & entertainment space gets new PE fund

In what is amongst the first focused fund in the space, India Media Entertainment Fund (IMEF) is raising Rs 500 crore, which will provide both equity as well as instruments like non-convertible......

Is Amitabh Bachchan the right choice to promote GST?

The question that is being asked is: Does the GST campaign gain from his all-too-familiar face taking forward its message or will brand fatigue flatten the impact? The superstar has been appointed......

Brand Raina shines in the spotlight

Suresh Raina currently endorses Ceat Tyres, Pureplay (apparel brand) and is expected to sign on Intex, a petroleum brand (he launched Repsol by Gulf Oil last year), and a health care brand.......

When KK had India going DIL MAANGE MORE

'There was so much grace, depth and serenity in him.' Photograph: Kind courtesy KK/Instagram Rajat Dholakia, singer-composer Dileep Dholakia's son, is a prolific Indian composer, who has given the......

'Shah Rukh is being targeted for who he is'

'When you target Shah Rukh's 23-year-old son, everyone can see what you're doing.' Photograph: Kind courtesy Shah Rukh Khan/Instagram   Has brand SRK taken a drubbing after his son Aryan......

'Delhi Crime won top Emmy, but people know me from Mirzapur'

'The chowkidar and the paanwala have seen Mirzapur.''They may have missed Delhi Crime, but they have seen Mirzapur'.'Sometimes I feel I have done so much work, why do people know me only by this......

PIX: Ayushmann parties with Neena Gupta

It's celebration night for these stars! The cast and crew of Badhaai Ho said, well, badhaai ho! to themselves, as they celebrated their film's success. Scenes from the success party: Ayushmann......

Virat Kohli's tweets and the IPL factor

Virat Kohli clarified his stance on unfriending the Australian team, saying he 'meant only a couple of guys' and that his comments were blown out of proportion.What made the Indian captain change......

'Retirement from Test cricket won't affect Brand Dhoni'

Mahendra Singh Dhoni's brand value worth millions of dollars will undergo a change after his retirement from Tests but it is unlikely that the poster boy from Ranchi will go downhill in the world......

Spotted: Shane Warne in Johannesburg

Reader Aravinda Ram sent us this photograph from Johannesburg. 'Me and my husband Ananth came across a large number of cricketers in Johanesburg during the Indian Premier League. We meet......

Australia crash out of World T20

Ricky Ponting tried to hit spinner Ajantha Mendis against the spin and saw his leg-stump uprooted for 25. The skipper's 15-ball innings included five hits to the fence Sri Lanka defeated Australia......

Doubts in ad industry over IPL success

Some experts in India's thriving advertising industry are sceptical about whether the Board of Control for Cricket in India's multi-million dollar Twenty20 league will be an unqualified financial......