The founding president of the ruling Sikkim Democratic Front completed 23 years, four months and 17 days of uninterrupted service in office on Sunday.
Leaders of several opposition parties including the Trinamool Congress, the Samajwadi Party, the Aam Aadmi Party, the Rashtriya Lok Dal and the Left assembled at Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar's residence in New Delhi on Tuesday and discussed various issues facing the country, amid intense speculation about the possibility of a third front against the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party.
The year started with Bollywood's gorgeous girls rocking the bikini. From Sara Ali Khan and Bhumi Pednekar to television's hot gals Nia Sharma and Mouni Roy, the ladies kicked off the new year in style with loads of sass.
'The entire cast was all for it, except one actor whose dates were not available.'
COVID-19 forced people to work from home turned into the fuel for new demat accounts, observes Debashis Basu.
Where the larger-than-life villain hogged the show by hurting the hero or throwing hurdles in his path, the role of his female counterpart has evolved from seductive sidekick to she-devil.
In a conversation with Kaushik Basu, professor in the Cornell University in the United States and India's former chief economic advisor, Gandhi said he is all for internal democracy in the Congress, which fought for India's independence, gave the country its Constitution and stood for equality.
The tax department will remain a source of endless nightmares for citizens and 'transparent taxation' will remain an empty slogan and a cruel joke, observes Debashis Basu.
Celeb-inspired ways to style your Diwali look.
Scotland Yard said that they are in the early stages of dealing with an incident at the London Bridge.
The combined Left parties drew a blank in the polls to the assembly which they had run with an overwhelming majority for 34 long years, with their vote share dwindling to a mere 5.47 per cent in 2021.
'There is the greatest pride in the achieving of the contestant... And the happiness that the few hours at the hot seat brings for them.'
Bollywood stepped out to vote for the assembly polls, and made sure to show off their inked fingers on social media.
'I have never had a foul experience in the industry.' 'There are rotten apples everywhere, in your family, relatives, friends circle, colleagues...' 'It's very vulnerable because of the glamour, but it's very heartbreaking to hear bad things about the industry.' 'It's not such a bad place.'
Against the backdrop of the Lok Sabha results, a much larger scale of desertion was anticipated from the TMC. 'It seems, people don't believe that the ship is sinking.'
Sukanya Verma toasts the man, the movies and the many, many, MANY memories he's made on big screen through 80 Amitabh Bachchan moments.
Nothing has ever been done to make bank officers accountable, except for the rare actions when there is a public controversy, argues Debashis Basu.
Namrata Thakker shows you fantastic ways of wearing the look right.
After another hiatus that lasted a decade, the actress makes a comeback once again, this time in JugJugg Jeeyo, where she taps into her comic side to play Anil Kapoor's wife.
This throwback picture of Bipasha in a bikini will give you fitness goals.
The controversial interaction took place on Thursday when Rahul began taking questions from the audience.
Girish Karnad's demise leaves Shabana Azmi shattered.
Indian cricket team's strength and conditioning coach Nick Webb will be stepping down from his position after the upcoming T20 World Cup as the New Zealander is no longer keen on being on the road for five to eight months a year.
After impressing with his cop act in Mumbai Saga, Emraan Hashmi returns to his favourite genre -- the suspense thriller -- with Chehre.
'You win some, you lose some. I suppose I'm winning some right now.'
Monsoon is here, and time to bring out the chhatris.
In a fillip to the West Bengal unit of the BJP ahead of the 2021 assembly elections, Union Home Minister Amit Shah will be on a two-day visit to the state from November 5 to take stock of the party's organisational matters, sources said.
Rogue lending under political influence was rife in the Congress-led regime and is not happening in the Modi regime, certainly not on that scale. But if PSBs cannot lend as indiscriminately as they did last time in the name of 'credit expansion', how well will these banks do, asks Debashis Basu.
The writers have smartly targeted several politicians without mentioning them, says Ramesh S.
Bips plays tourist with her dad, mum, sis and hubby.
Besides giving us a peek into their lives through pictures on social media, Bollywood shares the cutest boomerang videos as well.
'Unless you capture territory and plant your flag, the war is never won.'
He was diagnosed with three blocked coronary arteries, following which a stent was inserted in one to remove the blockage.
Bipasha Basu walked the LFW ramp with hubby and partner-in-crime Karan Singh Grover.
The temptation to get into businesses that are hot is perhaps too great for any politician, no matter what his public slogans are. Nehru plunged into hot sectors of his time -- engineering and iron and steel. Modi has plunged into digital payments -- the hot sector of his time, notes Debashis Basu.
'Every actor has gone through the situation of his work drying up. I am no exception.'
The couple look so hot together that we had to reach for a glass of water.
India has much to be proud of and celebrate. But there is also much that is wrong, much that looks dangerous. Employment, current account deficit, rural distress, agricultural productivity are all in deep crisis, points out Shekhar Gupta.
'There is so much talk about Netflix and what they should be doing.' 'In two years, SonyLIV has done what Netflix should be doing.'
