Safety railings may have averted Maha bus mishap: Rescuer

Deepak Sawant spoke to his daughter Jui when she reached Pune safely for an event, but little did he know it would be his last conversation with the 18-year-old who died along with 12 others when......

Don't Delay Appointing Service Chiefs!

If the government of the day would like to set in place a smooth and well-planned changeover and facilitate the incoming chief to chalk out his action plan well in advance, the announcement of a......

Shiv Sena-NCP Leaders Facing ED Heat

IMAGE: Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar with Ministers Dilip Walse Patil, Jayant Patil and others stage a protest at Mahatma Gandhi's statue near Mantralaya, the state government......

ED Attacks: MVA leaders to meet this week

'The BJP's real pain lies in the fact that all their skullduggery and chicanery has failed to cow down the Shiv Sena. They just cannot digest this fact.'Prasanna D Zore/Rediff.com reports on the......

Strange case of why the handloom board was abolished

The Bharatiya Janata Party manifesto in 2014 announced it would set up a separate ministry for handlooms and handicraft. Instead of doing that, the BJP government has abolished the only institution......

For Tata Comm, no IoTa of doubt over future

Tata Communications has invested around Rs 6.5 billion in developing its IoT business, which is being managed by some 75 executives over the past three years.  Tata Communications, best known......

Caller tunes earn Rs 8,185 cr for telcos in 3 years

Paying Rs 30 a month isn’t a big deal for a mobile telephone user, to get his favourite song as the caller tune.Yet, this has earned Rs 8,185 crore (Rs 81.85 billion) for operators in the......

Caller tune revenues no music to telcos' ears

Caller tunes, until recently telcos’ hottest value-added service after SMS, are singing a different tune. Over the past 18 months, the number of caller tune subscribers, each paying Rs 30 a......

Tiger 3 review: Some Fan Service, Some Fun!

Too bad the one time it is friendly to the environment, Tiger chooses to celebrate his Diwali with 'meetha' and not 'pathaaka', points out Sukanya Verma. You know the Tiger is on its knees when......

The Night Manager 2 Review: The Drama Intensifies

As emotions escalate and drama intensifies, The Night Manager 2 becomes more gripping, applauds Mayur Sanap. There is something seductive about the world of The Night Manager, the Hindi adaptation......

The Man Who Gave Pathaan Its Heartbeat

'Every story has a heartbeat of its own.''Sometimes you want to go thak thak thak and finish the screenplay fast.''In other stories, you go thak (pause), thak (pause), thak (pause). That also......

Is Pathaan Copied From Skyfall?

'This trope must have been taken in 30 films.''The rogue agent is a common trope and not something unique.' IMAGE: Shah Rukh Khan and Deepika Padukone in Pathaan. The man who gave Pathaan its......

Cricket Buzz: Pujara, the man in demand in Saurashtra's T20 League

IMAGE: Cheteshwar Pujara in action for Kings XI Punjab during the seventh edition of IPL in 2014. Photograph: BCCI India's premier Test batsman Cheteshwar Pujara will play for Team Zalawad Royals......

Sports Shorts: Srikanth, Sindhu approved for TOPS scheme

Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Thursday IMAGE: PV Sindhu will be one of the beneficiaries of the TOPS scheme. The Target Olympic Podium Scheme is a flagship programme of the......

101 cricketers sever ties with ICL

Former internationals Rohan Gavaskar, Deep Dasgupta and Hemang Badani are among 101 cricketers who have severed links with the rebel Indian Cricket League and applied to the Board of Control for......