'Drunken driving is not just a prescribed offence but even a severe social menace'
Mourners in large numbers on Saturday paid their last respects to Jnanpith award winner and Kannada literary giant U R Ananthamurthy who was cremated with full state honours in Bangalore.
In the second half of July this year, when Rishad Premji, the eldest son of Wipro Chairman Azim Premji, joins the company as a business manager, Pratik Kumar, executive vice president-HR will have a tough time.
Major Rohit Suri and Naib Subedar Vijay Kumar were honoured at a military investiture ceremony.
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'Basuda hardly spoke, but he had a sense of humour and that showed in his films.'
Joginder Tuteja looks at the 10 releases that will keep the entertainment going till the end of 2020.
'Their income will reduce, but not the fees.'
BJP leaders Kailashpati Mishra and Ram Prakash Gupta will go to Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh respectively. Governors have also been appointed for Punjab, Himachal and Rajasthan.
Monetising online readership, a deeper focus on content and getting revenue from the reader are ways to make the business future-proof, observes Vanita Kohli-Khandekar.
The Aam Aadmi Party on Thursday released its first list of 22 candidates fielding former ministers Somnath Bharti, Saurabh Bhardwaj, Satyendra Jain and Girish Soni in the Delhi Assembly elections, the dates of which are yet to be announced.
Tuesday's meeting at the PM's residence, attended by all the five secretaries in the finance ministry besides top officials of other economic ministries and NITI Aayog, cleared a five-year vision plan for the government to make India a $5-trillion economy by 2024.
Joginder Tuteja lets us know what to expect.
We're not responsible for his release, says JD-U after BJP's attack.
Bollywood says goodbye to Shashi Kapoor.
'I started reading your MF articles regularly so requesting your guidance as I would like to start investing in MFs'.
The hits and misses of the week.
As the dust finally settles on the outcome of the Lok Sabha elections 2019 and Bharatiya Janata Party along with its NDA allies emerges as the clear winner, here is a list of who won in each of the 7 phases of elections.
This is not her first stint in North Block or in leading a major economic ministry. She started Prime Minister Narendra Modi's first term as minister of state for finance, was made the commerce minister, and then became the defence minister.
In an affidavit filed in response to a PIL, which has been listed for hearing before a bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde, the state government said it is important that the investigation is carried out by an independent central agency.
'If they think they can silence us by suspending us, then they don't know what BJP MLAs are made of.'
'If a politician asks the policeman to do something which is not correct, then why blame the politician?' 'If you do it, then you are equally liable.'
Bihar Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi was at the centre of a controversy over the appointment of his son-in-law Devendra Kumar as his personal assistant, evoking sharp criticism following which Kumar resigned from the post.
Known as 'vikas purush' (man involved in developmental work), Sinha is a three-time Lok Sabha MP who held charge of the communication ministry as a minister of State in 2016 when the telecom industry was engaged in the sale of spectrum.
Concerned by GDP slowdown and unrealistic tax targets, the economists urged Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to implement long-term structural steps like land and labour reforms. Warning against any off-Budget financing the economists said the government should prepare a statement of intent for its social, rural and welfare sector expenditure.
The UP government turned down the Centre's offer to send a water-train to the state's drought-hit Bundelkhand region.
Manish Sisodia is set to be Deputy CM, while four new faces are likely to join the AAP cabinet.
The widow of Rajdeo Ranjan, the journalist who was gunned down, has said the killers had a connection with someone in jail.
The hits and misses of the week.
The hits and misses of the week.
He was not comfortable with the bahubali politician's presence in Siwan after his release.
Rifleman Aurangzeb, who belonged to the 44 Rashtriya Rifles, was on way back home on June 14 to celebrate Eid when terrorists abducted him.
'The colloquial language forced a turn to the recent past and I thought about the hangings of men like Afzal Guru and Yakub Memon.' 'Whatever their deeds, proven or still in doubt, did their deaths not deserve to be mourned by a sister, wife, or child?' A fascinating excerpt from Amitava Kumar's Writing Badly Is Easy.
The Congress's share has almost halved, down from 12 in 2014 to six now.
'Basuda welcomed viewers into a world that was instantly familiar and comfortable,' observes Sukanya Verma.
Aseem Chhabra picks the finest Indian films in the 2010-2019 decade.
The official said the organisation, composed of people drawn from Hindu right groups, had around 60 members spread across at least five states but had no name.
Former Intelligence Bureau Special Director Rajinder Kumar, accused by the Central Bureau of Investigation of murder in the Ishrat Jahan encounter case, was allegedly the brain behind the affidavit filed by the Union home ministry declaring the 19-year-old victim a terrorist.
