'She exists alongside Sita, the archetype of the ideal woman,' notes Arundhuti Dasgupta.
The hits and misses of the week.
The seventh Royal Stag Mirchi Music Awards were held on Thursday, February 26, and everyone was invited!
The band was launched last month to mark Rahman's 48th birthday
The CBSE had announced that it had rationalised the syllabus for Classes 9 to 12 for the 2020-21 session by up to 30 per cent to make up for the academic loss caused due to COVID-19. However, it was the decision to drop topics related to Social Sciences which drew sharp reaction from opposition parties like the Congress, Left, Trinamool Congress, Nationalist Congress Party and Shiv Sena.
NITI Aayog recommendations cite the need for greater industry-academia collaboration to meet skill demand
The hits and misses of the week.
Despite a few flaws in the film, Yash Chopra distinguishes himself.
Once the effects of the slowdown in the economy start to be felt and the feel-good effect of scrapping Article 370 recedes, the BJP fears it would be hard for the party to capture Delhi. Aditi Phadnis reports.
Vinesh wins bronze, Pooja in line for second medal
A B Bardhan, who steered the CPI during the turbulent period of coalition politics in the 1990s, died in New Delhi on Saturday night.
Kumar, a former minister in the Arvind Kejriwal government, was sacked from the party last year over a sex tape purportedly featuring him.
Terming the incident as serious, UP CM Yogi Adityanath has ordered a probe.
Aam Aadmi Party, set to form a government after its Delhi assembly election win, may keep three of its former ministers out of its new cabinet and is likely to give a "more prominent" role to senior party leader Manish Sisodia, sources said on Tuesday.
Bajpai said he quit the AAP as he felt "suffocated" over the "misbehaviour and insult" meted out by the party and claimed that several other legislators of the ruling party in the national capital felt the same way.
The party continued to allege tampering of the electronic voting machines for the verdict, and not a Modi wave, as claimed by the BJP.
Moody's said the asset quality of the banks will remain under pressure.
Leading brewer Anheuser-Busch InBev will pay USD 6 million (Rs 40.2 crores) to the American authorities for settling charges of making "improper payments" to government officials in India to push sales and production.
Building on their just-revived bonhomie, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday invited Anna Hazare to the state secretariat
Hopefully, this sex chat will start many conversations, feels Namrata Thakker.
Sanjay Singh, Sushil Gupta and Narain Dass Gupta were selected as AAP's Rajya Sabha nominees.
Voter turnout was 67.47 per cent in 2015 assembly election. The voting percentage was 57.04 till 6 pm deadline, and rose to 61.46 per cent as those in queues at polling stations were allowed to vote, poll officials said, adding it may increase further.
'He would not hear a word against her, no matter what she did to him.' 'Just because you are a National Award winner, it doesn't give you the license to walk all over people and destroy their lives.'
Amid claims of Kumar Vishwas trying to separate the AAP, Kejriwal issued a tweet saying that the former was like his brother.
'The vocal pacifists who monopolise the media in India need to answer a simple question: Would they have the Taliban or ISIS take over Kashmir or the rest of the country or let the army do its duty so that we are safe in our beds and free to demonise the soldiers in our cozy drawing rooms and television studios,' asks Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
The 50-50 partnership would bring together BSE's closely watched India index suite, which includes the Sensex, with S&P Dow Jones Indices' 115 years of experience in publishing transparent and independent global benchmarks.
Streaming a diverse range of moods and moments, these films are a fairly commendable effort if not always riveting, feels Sukanya Verma.
The President is bound by the recommendation of the Commission.
A 20-year-old man in the United States has been sentenced to over 12 years in prison for his role in the beating to death of an Indian-origin computer scientist in 2010.
Information and Broadcasting Minister Manish Tewari, who is not contesting Lok Sabha polls as he is ailing, has been made acting in-charge of the AICC Communication department along with party spokesman Randeep Surjewala.
Believe it or not, your skin can tell you a lot about your stress level.
Rediff.com meets a family that longs for "a very nice man" who, alas, will never return.
A look at the star arrivals.
The music of Prem Ratan Dhan Payo is well done, and seems to be exactly what the filmmaker ordered, writes Aelina Kapoor.
Lamba claimed after the walkout, "I got a message from the CM to tender my resignation. I'm ready to do so".
'We don't make films which have scope for great music anymore.'
Petitions have been filed with the President seeking disqualification of these MLAs on the ground that they occupied office of profit in violation of Constitution.
The shock of losing her husband to cancer is yet to sink in.
His songs were the anchor, the substratum, if you will, upon which life unfolded day after day, decade after decade -- across villages, towns, cities, and regions. Siva Sankar pays tribute to S P Balasubrahmanyam, the legendary singer who passed into the ages on Friday.
