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Nitish Kumar Has The Opportunity Of A Lifetime To Change Bihar

If he cannot do it this term by using his bureaucracy and experts from different fields, it will be a tragedy, asserts Ramesh Menon. IMAGE: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar at an election meeting......

'Reporter with a poet's pen': Sankarshan Thakur dies at 63

Sankarshan Thakur, editor of The Telegraph whose prowess with words added that extra edge to his analyses and ground reports, died at a Gurgaon hospital on Monday after prolonged illness. He was......

Bharat Mata Dispute Rocks Kerala Academia

The Bharat Mata controversy in Kerala shows how political and symbolic fights between the state and the Centre have taken attention away from education, throwing the state's oldest university into......

India The Diplomatic Ambassador In Global Crises

Times have changed, situations have changed, but the basic nature of superpower geo-politics remains the same and so also India's diplomacy -- call it non-alignment, strategic autonomy or......

Were Nehru and Menon responsible for the 1962 defeat?

'Rightly or wrongly, 1962 got ascribed to Krishna Menon and him alone. That's unfair.''Certainly, he was one of the guilty men, but he was not the only guilty man. Mistakes were made all around.'......

Tata Power seeks to buy another coal mine abroad

Tata Power is evaluating opportunities to make another overseas acquisition of a coal mine. A senior company management executive said the company was planning to zero in on smaller mines. Prasad......

Homi Khusrokhan to head Tata Chemicals

In a top-level reshuffle, Homi Khusrokhan has been appointed managing director of Tata Chemicals. Khusrokhan takes over from Prasad Menon who has been moved to Tata Power as its managing director.......

Mumbai faces power cuts

Residents of Mumbai who have never faced load-shedding will have to gear themselves to contend with power cuts this summer, though not as severe as the ones in other parts of Maharashtra. Power......

Vistara gets flying permit, to announce schedule soon

Paving the way for launch of its flights, Tata-Singapore Airlines joint venture airline Vistara was on Monday granted flying permit by aviation regulator DGCA, almost nine months after it applied......

Ministry vetting names of top bosses of Tata-Singapore airlines

The Union Home Ministry is vetting the names of top bosses of the new Tata-Singapore Airlines venture for security clearance, a major pre-requisite for the start-up carrier to get an NOC from the......

Chiranjeevi's Top 10 Movies

Chiranjeevi has been entertaining us for over four decades with an eclectic body of work that started out with small supporting roles and ultimately led to defining the action hero of mainstream......

Special Ops 2 Review: Dizzyingly Fast

Special Ops 2 captures the spirit of the modern-day spy thriller and runs with it, observes Deepa Gahlot. A financial defaulter living the high life in Dominica dismisses a pretty young agent.......

Kubera Review: Dhanush Is Terrific

Kubera is a well-intentioned addition to Shekar Kammula's cinematic universe that drags on but never loses its prescient quality, notes Arjun Menon. Kubera is the latest from director Shekar......

Thandel Review: Patriotic Love Story

Naga Chaitanya and Sai Pallavi's competent performances barely elevate this romantic drama, which prefers patriotic thrills, observes Arjun Menon. Thandel, the latest from commercial genre......

Pushpa 2: The Rule: Giant Misfire!

Pushpa 2 is a badly misjudged, doubtful sequel that can't capitalise on the wealth of the story world set up in the first film, observes Arjun Menon. Pushpa: The Rule, the much anticipated sequel......

Former India pacer Venkatesh Prasad elected KSCA president

The Prasad-led panel, which had the open backing of former India players Anil Kumble and Javagal Srinath, hence grabbed four key posts in the polls, which were held at the Chinnaswamy Stadium......

'We need to bring back Chinnaswamy's lost glory'

'This is something which has never happened where the international matches have been moved out. It is not a good thing.' IMAGE: The stampede outside M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru on June 4......

When India Hosted The First Asian Games

Seventy two years ago, a newly independent India ventured to hold the the first Asian Games in Delhi with meager resources. IMAGE: A glimpse of the Chinese city of Hangzhou, the venue for the......

Ind-Pak players inspire UK cricket club to go vegan

Early Cricket Club chairman Gary Shacklady, himself a vegan, realised that many of the meals, especially at away grounds, were inaccessible to many of the players. This included the team's Hindu......