Politicians' guru Mauni Baba passes away

Mauni Baba, who had close proximity with veteran political leaders and celebrities and was considered to be the fourth link in the Shirdi Saibaba lineage, passed away due to cardiac arrest at......

25 Tigers killed in northern Lanka

T V Sriram in Colombo At least 25 Tamil Tiger rebels were killed in clashes with security forces in the embattled northern Sri Lanka, while a soldier was killed in a blast in the region, the army......

37 accused in Al Umma escape case sentenced

A fast track court on Wednesday sentenced all 37 accused in the Al-Umma activist Imam Ali escape case to varying terms of imprisonment. The judge, G Savithri, sentenced six accused - A Syed Ali,......

Efforts continue to rescue 4-yr-old Akshata from borewell

The round-the-clock operation to rescue a 4-year-old girl who is stuck inside a borewell at Nagathana village near here continued for the third day on Thursday, with rescuers still struggling to......

Sitharaman delivers 2.17 hr-long Budget speech, earns praises

Nirmala Sitharaman, the country's first full-time woman finance minister, on Friday delivered one of the longest Budget speeches which was peppered with Urdu, Hindi and Tamil couplets. IMAGE:......

'I am ecstatic to portray Ramanujan on screen'

Twenty-nine-year-old Abhinay Vaddi plays the mathematics genius Srinivasa Ramanujan in National award winning director Gnana Rajasekharan's forthcoming film Ramanujan. As the grandson of legendary......

Review: August Club Since 1969 is nothing great

Malayalam film August Club Since 1969 could have been much better, writes Paresh C Palicha.There is tendency among us to term a film bold if it revolves around a female character, it does really......

Review: Matinee is an interesting film

Paresh C Palicha feels Malayalam film Matinee tackles a dark subject with much conviction.Matinee, the new Malayalam film helmed by dbutante Aneesh Upasana tries to tell the story of some people......

'People will see Ravichandran in a new light in Narasimha'

Actor-writer S Mohan is now directing his second film, Narasimha, starring V Ravichandran, which is set for an Ugadi release this Friday. Mohan, who shot into the limelight as a comedian with films......

Spotted: Warne and McGrath

Reader Savithri sent us these pictures from Singapore. 'We were at Brisbane Sea World where we spotted Shane Warne and Glen McGrath. My daughters Surekha, Sunanda and husband Durga Prasad are......

Sreesanth to wed Jaipur girl on December 12

Former India pace bowler Shantakumaran Sreesanth will marry a girl from a royal family of Jaipur on December 12 at the Guruvayoor Sree Krishna temple. A close aide of the disgraced cricketer, who......