'UP vote was only for Modi's charisma'

'The Hindu electorate is more or less in the BJP defined space now.' IMAGE: Bharatiya Janata Party supporters at a rally addressed by BJP supremo and Prime Minister Narendra Damodardas Modi for......

UP is dragging India down with it

'Uttar Pradesh, our largest state by population and the most powerful, is also the worst governed.''The only way to fix it is to split it into four or five states,' suggests Shekhar Gupta.......

Rohit Tiwari and the right of a wronged child

Rohit Shekhar's successful legal fight established the right of a child -- at any age -- to know his paternity, reports Veenu Sandhu. IMAGE: Narayan Dutt Tiwari married Ujjawala Sharma in 2014,......

'Rahul Gandhi knows what India needs'

'Rahul Gandhi understands the pulse of the people.''And he's not just got it sitting down; he has worked towards it.' IMAGE: Priya Dutt was one of the first Congress leaders to call for Rahul......

Builders sitting on Rs 70k-cr unsold inventory

Experts attribute this to new launches in anticipation of a demand revival after the 2014 general elections The country’s top listed real estate companies reported nearly Rs 70,000 crore (Rs......

Date Night For Aditi Rao Hydari-Siddharth

It was raining stars at the wedding reception of Aamir Khan's only daughter Ira and Nupur Shikhare, as the proud father invited *everyone* from the film industry. We saw the fam jam and the......

Have A Dev Anand Festival At Home

Gems you can enjoy from the time Dev Saab was at his handsome and magnetic best. Had he lived -- and we did believe he would live forever -- he would have turned 100 today, September 26, 2023. They......

10 OTT Shows That Make Us Nostalgic

Scoop reminded viewers of a time in the not-so-recent-past when Mumbai was in the grip of the underworld. The new Web series Guns And Gulaabs is set in the opium town of Gulaabganj sometime in the......

The Best Of Yash Chopra On OTT

In recent years, Yash Chopra has been labelled King Of Romance, when in fact, his best film, Deewar (1975) did not have a chiffon-clad heroine dancing in the snow. Unfortunately, it is not......

Population size has nothing to do with sporting excellence

IMAGE: Olympic silver medalist P V Sindhu with her incredible Coach P Gopichand. Photograph: PTI 'No country can go from zero to hero at the Olympics.''A hundred Indians now feature in the world's......