Poll Schedule Works Against First Phase Contestants

Constituencies that are going to the polls in the first phase, slated for April 19, have just 19 days for campaigning. Contrast that with those going to polls in the 7th phase, notes N Sathiya......

Amritsar No Cakewalk For Taranjit Singh Sandhu

Barring 2004 and 2009 when Navjot Singh Sidhu won the Amritsar seat as a BJP MP and 1998 when Daya Singh Sodhi from BJP was elected as the MP, it has essentially a Congress bastion. IMAGE:......

Setback to Cong as party MLA from Kamal Nath's home turf joins BJP

In a setback to the Congress ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, its three-term MLA from Amarwara in Madhya Pradesh's Chhindwara district, Kamlesh Shah, on Friday joined the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party......

Carnatic Music Goes From Raga To Rage

They all seem to forget that the Music Academy is as much an independent institution as T M Krishna is an individual musician. In drawing those red lines for the Academy management, they do not......

500,000 Homes, Worth Rs 4.48 Trillion, Stuck In 7 Metros

The NCR and the MMR together account for 77 per cent of 10 big housing projects stuck because of developers' bankruptcy or litigation. Kindly note the image has only been published for......

Tata Sons to invest Rs 975 crore in Pune IT City Metro rail project

Tata Sons, holding company of the Tata group, is investing Rs 975 crore in Pune IT City Metro Rail, a special purpose vehicle that has won the contract to construct, operate, and maintain the......

10 Classic Malayalam Films On OTT

There's a peevish quality to all the films on this list, which is fitting, because peevishness is the defining characteristic of most Malayalis. These films, even at their saddest, darkest and......

Is This Parineeti's Boyfriend?

After Parineeti Chopra and Aam Aadmi Party Rajya Sabha MP Raghav Chadha were spotted together on several occasions, rumours linking them have been doing the rounds. On March 23, when the paps......

'I knew my film would not have a hero or villain'

'Rakesh's life is hard, but he knows how to find joy.''He doesn't think his life's value comes from money. He sees no shame in his poverty.' IMAGE: A scene from Against The Tide. In what seems......

Yet Another Blockbuster Night For Kartik

The Stardust 50th Anniversary Honours awards saw the who's who of Bollywood on the red carpet. The ladies looked gorgeous but the men made some smart clicks too.   Kartik......

Former India pacer Praveen survives horrific car crash

Photograph: Kind courtesy Praveen Kumar/Twitter Former India pacer Praveen Kumar and his son had a narrow escape when his SUV collided with a trailer truck in Meerut on Tuesday night.   The......

WFI's emergency general council meeting in Ayodhya called off

IMAGE: Thakur, along with wrestlers Bajrang Punia, Vinesh Phogat and Babita Phogat, addresses a joint-press conference following the wrestlers' protest against the Wrestling Federation of India......