A new Congress leader may make an electoral impact by his very presence. Congress voters who had moved away from the party, after being influenced by the BJP's 'family rule' campaign, can now return with a certain moral satisfaction, observes N Sathiya Moorthy.
Chief Minister Kumaraswamy, on private visit to the United States, said he was keeping a tab on the developments while the state Congress attacked the Bharatiya Janata Party, alleging the opposition party was trying to destabilise the government.
Hitting out at actor Kangana Ranaut for describing India's Independence in 1947 as bheek or alms, the Congress on Thursday said her remarks amounted to 'treason' and demanded the government take back the Padma Shri bestowed on her recently as she has 'insulted' the country's Independence movement.
The party is divided on the leadership matter with a section demanding collective leadership and another reposing faith in the Gandhi family.
The CBI has arrested former Maharashtra Home minister Anil Deshmukh's lawyer Anand Daga for allegedly trying to subvert the probe against him, officials said.
The Kapoors are in festive mode!
Rahul knew this was coming. That 'dirt' would be dug up.
Mukesh Ambani has resigned from the board of his group's telecom arm, Reliance Jio and handed over the reins of the company to elder son Akash, a step seen as succession planning by the 65-year old billionaire. In a stock exchange filing, Reliance Jio Infocomm said the company's board at a meeting on June 27, "approved the appointment of Akash M Ambani, non-executive director, as chairman of the board of directors of the company." This comes after his father resigned with effect from close of working hours on June 27, it said.
The civic body's horticulture department fears some of the uprooted trees might be among those tagged as 'heritage trees' by the NDMC, but the team is yet to compile a damage report and ascertain the facts.
Producer Krishan Kumar and his wife Tanya threw a grand Diwali bash, and invited all their friends over.
Test specialist Cheteshwar Pujara continued his good form with the bat as he and Robin Uthappa helped Saurashtra crush Punjab by eight wickets.
Some senior Congress leaders, including Kapil Sibal and Shashi Tharoor, met at their senior colleague Ghulam Nabi Azad's house in New Delhi on Monday evening after the Congress Working Committee debated their letter to the party's interim chief Sonia Gandhi seeking urgent organisational reforms.
'You come out of the theatre feeling happy, inspired, with moist eyes and in awe.'
Tiger Shroff and his sister Krishna Shroff hosted the Matrix Fight Night in Mumbai on Tuesday night.
Delhi cops claimed to have busted a 'Kabootar Baazi' (human trafficking) racket of providing fake supportive documents to obtain US visa in lieu of Rs 10 lakh from each passenger
Celebrating Aamir Khan and his 55 popular songs on his 55th birthday
Dhumal said the interest to stage IPL matches was indicative of its popularity abroad.
Why did NaMo skip the celebrations?
The MLAs were upset ever since the cabinet reshuffle and expansion on December 22 that saw removal of Jarkiholi.
The makers of Section 375 chose to host an early screening for film folk, and they didn't shy away.
'Ghulam Nabi Azad and Kapil Sibal are the two people who have been marked and punished'
Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu also made a fervent appeal to the leaders of various parties at an all-party meeting to ensure smooth and effective functioning of the House during the Budget Session.
Do actors really look like the real life people they portray on screen? It's time to have *your* say!
Senior bureaucrats Avinash Joshi and Niraj Verma are among the 10 candidates who are in the race to become chairman and managing director of India's largest oil and gas producer, ONGC. Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd (MRPL) director-finance Pomila Jaspal and ONGC director for technology and field services Om Prakash Singh are the other prominent names in fray for the top job, according to a candidate shortlist by the Public Enterprise Selection Board (PESB). PESB - the government headhunter - will hold interviews to select the new head of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) this week. Both the bureaucrats are from the 1994 batch of IAS officers belonging to the Assam-Meghalaya cadre.
In the 2018 assembly polls, the Congress shocked the BJP by securing 30 of the 47 ST seats, proving that this vote bank has drifted away from the ruling party over some time. Sandeep Kumar reports.
The BJP won 12 of 15 seats on which bypolls were held. Congress could win only two.
A departmental notice dated December 15, 2020, stated that the cooperation of officers and employees of the directorate general will be needed during the proposed coronavirus vaccination.
Many bahubalis have fielded their wives and relatives as proxies.
The party has not applied the "one-family, one-ticket" formula for the Karnataka polls which it followed in the Punjab polls held last year.
Joginder Tuteja looks at his biggest hits, and where you can watch them.
In other India-related news, Manish Kaurav (KL3 men 200m) and Manjeet Singh (VL2 men 200m) made it to the finals of their respective events for the first time in the history of the tournament.
Sanjeev Chaturvedi said though he had investigated "hundreds" of corruption cases, never did his "very appointment to probe a case evoke the kind of nervousness, fear, confusion and apprehension as in this case".
A Simple Murder tries to complicate while showing a simple murder but gets trapped in its own mesh of staggered sub-plots and too many characters.
Bappida's softer more creative work got buried in the noise, rues Subhash K Jha as he picks the late lamented composer's most soulful songs.
Under SPG protection, Sonia Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi were using Range Rovers.
Sreesanth, who was part of the triumphant Indian squads in the 2007 World T20 and the 2011 World Cup, was earlier named in one of the squads for a local T20 tournament to be conducted by Kerala Cricket Association in Alappuzha from December 17.
A bench headed by Chief Justice N V Ramana ordered status quo in the present situation, and said the petition would be listed before an appropriate bench.
Ulhas Joshi, Head -- Sales, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
'Last time we waited for the situation to get better but ultimately had to go back home anyway'
It's always exciting to see Bollywood's superstars pair up with actors they have never worked before.
