Haji Karam Din continues to play the game he loves and inspires new generations with his passion for cricket.
Israel debutant Yarden Shua scored an 86th-minute winner as they upset more fancied Belgium 1-0 in Budapest on Sunday.
Vidhya Pant remembers the Diwalis celebrated in her home in Shillong in the 1960s.
Mamata Shankar remembers the amazing actor Sreela Majumdar, who passed into the ages last week.
'The world cannot remain a mute spectator. We could have televisions blowing up in our homes, smartphones blowing up in a gym or mobile phones blowing up on aircraft.' 'Our adversaries are not going to sit quiet. They have got an idea that they will encash to our detriment,' warns Vice Admiral Biswajit Dasgupta (retd).
How some Bollywood ladies celebrated Holi.
As the spirit of summer holiday takes over , here's looking at 15 Hindi songs whose tourist-y picturisation transported us into a feast of sights and sceneries on silver screen.
'Leave aside the negative fallouts of phraseology like 'urban Naxals' and 'terrorists', both the BJP and the Congress have to re-discover themselves in the context of the 2024 election results, including those of the upcoming ones for Maharashtra and Jharkhand,' observes N Sathiya Moorthy.
A bill to link electoral rolls with the Aadhaar ecosystem to weed out duplication was introduced in the Lok Sabha on Monday.
Italy recovered from the shock of conceding the fastest goal ever scored at a European Championship to beat Albania 2-1 on Saturday as Alessandro Bastoni and Nicolo Barella ensured the defending champions made a winning start.
The complainant alleged that Darekar posed as a labourer, which was later found wrong.
'The lack of opportunities here remains the biggest worry.' 'We have seen investment summits, but if you look around, much of it is only on paper and not on the ground.'
Spain's dream team met its match as Rafael Nadal and Carlos Alcaraz's hopes of an Olympic doubles gold medal were ended by American duo Rajeev Ram and Austin Krajicek on Wednesday.
Self-styled godman Bhole Baba said Wednesday that he is very disturbed by the Hathras stampede but nobody can avoid what is destined and everyone has to die one day.
How wonderful it would be for all of us to watch the Oscar ceremony on March 2, 2025 and watch AWIAL win an Oscar, notes Aseem Chhabra.
Sukanya Verma compares yesteryear stars and the contemporary ones at about approximately the same age and the results are glaring.
On a mission to visit the families of soldiers who have died in action, Vikas Manhas has met over 1,000 families whose loved ones made the supreme sacrifice for the country.
'If the country felt very strongly about the BJP, then why did the country not put money where the mouth is?'
Forty four years after Mohammed Rafi's untimely demise on July 31, 1980, at the young age of 55, the singer's work continues to enjoy a musical afterlife on radio, television and modern streaming channels.
Acha Din is quite a disappointment as it lacks depth, even though it deals with a serious subject.
Narendra Modi may have promised to deliver achche din (good days) to the nation in his first term as prime minister, but, a year into office, his own party's president seems to disagree with the rhetoric.
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The locals believe the homes began to develop cracks after some portions of the land began to sink.
With six children of Karnataka ministers in the Lok Sabha poll arena, the campaign scene is getting spiced up in the high-stakes elections for the ruling Congress in the state.
Questions that the state had come to recognise over time but consistently delayed treating seriously because doing so requires an overhaul of perspective and lifestyle, notes Shyam G Menon.
The CBDT has now laid down parameters specifying the manner in which any communication issued by any income-tax authority relating to assessment, appeals, orders, statutory or otherwise, exemptions, enquiry, investigation, verification of information, penalty, prosecution, rectification and approval to the assessee will be dealt with.
Priyanka Vadra has admitted to mistakes in submitting multiple applications for Director Identification Number while Karti Chidambaram has been asked by the Corporate Affairs Ministry to explain his position on a related issue.
There is logic at work in most of what has been announced by Arun Jaitlley.
The Who's Who of the showbiz world attended Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant's pre-wedding festivities in Jamnagar.
The bill known as the Karnataka Prevention of Slaughter and Preservation of Cattle Bill-2020 seeks a total ban on the slaughter of cows in the state and stringent punishment to those who indulge in smuggling, illegal transportation, atrocities on cows and slaughtering them, Bharatiya Janata Party sources said.
Bharatiya Janata Party MP Kirodi Lal Meena moved for leave to introduce the bill to provide for the constitution of the national inspection and investigation committee for preparation of a Uniform Civil Code and its implementation throughout India and for matters connected therewith during the private member's business.
'Ranvir will run out of steam pretty soon.' 'The way he is reacting or rather, overreacting to things, I am sure he will be exhausted soon.' 'You need to chill at times to play a game like Bigg Boss.'
The opposition caused repeated disruptions in Parliament Friday over the NEET paper leak issue, with both Houses being adjourned for the day without transacting much business apart from the Rajya Sabha taking up the Motion of Thanks for the President's address amid protests including by the Biju Janata Dal, which almost always supported the BJP in the previous Lok Sabha.
Dominic Xavier offers his take on the third increase in the LPG rate since May and the fourth this year.
Nikhil Daswani, scion of Charagh Din, a leading apparel brand, has been charged with kidnapping, assaulting and wrongful confinement of a female friend recently at Gamdevi in central Mumbai.
Shiv Sena's Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut last week met NCP chief Sharad Pawar requesting him not field a candidate against Aaditya Thackeray in Worli.
It is the first Indian film in competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 30 years.
As the Bharatiya Janata Party celebrates the completion of its first year in office, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday told news agency UNI that the government had managed to usher in achche din (good days) in the country.
The climate for 'doing business' remains forbidding, taxtortion is still rife, corruption at state and district levels has increased, oil prices remain extortive with high taxation, and the continued red tape has kept the enterprise system as stifled as before, points out Debashis Basu.
Manoj Tiwari is the only sitting MP whom the BJP has retained.
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