Kanika Datta visits the Cu Chi military tunnels -- a testimony to a plucky little country's 30-year war of resistance against, first, French colonisers and, then, the US.
After a brief lull during the pandemic, there is a strong revival in luxury car sales, bolstered by more launches across price bands, replacement demand, ban on old diesel vehicles in the NCR, and 'revenge buying'.
According to the complainant Mohammed Shafiuddin, who is a mosque committee member, the incident took place when a procession to immerse a 'Durga' idol was passing near the place in the early hours of Thursday.
Gupta filed a 70-page petition with the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit yesterday seeking 'panel rehearing and rehearing en banc', saying in 'rejecting two of his challenges to the exclusion of critical evidence in his case, the panel misapprehended several points' about the insider trading case against him.
Ashish Kurme, an MBBS student studying at a university near Wuhan, tells the grim story of ground zero of the coronavirus outbreak.
From The New York Times to BBC and The Guardian to The Washington Post, the historic event in India's space programme on Wednesday made headlines across the globe.
Harry & Meghan, Vaihayasi Pande Daniel realises, is just a sequel to Diana's Story.
The suicides have involved more NEET aspirants than JEE. 'It's a make-or-mar situation.' 'Either you get into a government medical college, where the fee is much lower than in private institutes, or you don't make it.'
For those who believed in her talent since Lootera, Dahaad is a truly rewarding experience, observes Sukanya Verma.
'I'm not jealous anymore. But sometimes I am, when I'm not part of that project.'
The New Year brings with it a new slate of movie announcements. The stars update us:
The over half-an-hour meeting between the opposition parties and the government, however, remained inconclusive.
'I don't watch horror films, so I don't know how I ended up being in the film.'
'And it always should be.' 'I believe nothing should come easily to anyone because then there is no thrill in it.'
The elegant architecture, tree-lined roads, delightful gardens, delicious food, art and military history make Chandigarh an ideal short-trip destination.
Raja Sen brings us all the action from the first day of the 16th Mumbai Film Festival.
"It is shameful that Rahul Gandhi, instead of coming to Parliament and apologising for his undemocratic rant against India, today seeks to be absent from Parliament," she asserted.
Joginder Tuteja looks at Akki's various cop roles through the years, and realises that he's played one as many as 17 times!
Born and abandoned in Mumbai, reborn in Sweden, Erika Sandberg says she is Indian on the outside but feels Swedish on the inside. Vaihayasi Pande Daniel narrates her tale.
'I was under the illusion that this could never happen to me because my background was such -- corporate CEO, IIT professor, IIT alumnus, IIM...'
Today, Anirudh Ravichander's name on a film's poster is enough to pull in audiences, notes Arjun Menon.
Sukanya Verma lists everything you can look forward to on OTT this week.
'One of R&AW's greatest achievements is in projecting itself as benign.' 'This work -- done in tandem with the Diaspora and the MEA -- sells a story of India as mostly the victim.'
Nanpakal Nerathu Mayakkam is a masterpiece, and like most masterpieces of the cinema, it's a great act of folly, observes Sreehari Nair.
It's a fun, Fun, FUN menu on OTT this week.
'All of us tend to believe that they are so well paid, why should we bother about their payments.' 'But who all are well paid? Only a handful, maybe 3-4 of them, who go in for endorsements and things.' 'The others are struggling, playing Ranji Trophy and other matches, so that compensation we made it market-oriented.'
We got the same Diwali bonuses. We ate together. We carried equipment together on shoots. And when the odd reporter tried to throw her weight around and leave the camera person to carry bags of equipment, cables, the camera and tripod down the stairs and to the shoot location, Prannoy would step in, take the tripod off the shoulders of the colleague silently, lightening the load, recalls Revati Laul.
Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Saturday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party of leaking Aam Aadmi Party minister Satyendar Jain's videos from Tihar jail in New Delhi and claimed that he was undergoing physiotherapy for a spine injury.
'I have always been attracted to the dark side of human beings.'
'This was our country, after all, our India, humara Hindustan -- why would we go anywhere else?'
New York raised the curtain on its new $1.4 billion transit station in lower Manhattan on Sunday, a long-awaited connection between the World Trade Center site and the rest of the city more than 13 years after terrorist attacks ravaged the area.
The company comes back to where it started its journey 90 years back as Galving manufacturing Corporation.
There were apprehensions in the SII about rival Bharat Biotech's 'indigenous' tag, opening up shortcuts for it. One senior person, who was very familiar with the sector, told me, 'The message has gone out from the very top. Somani (V G Somani -- drug controller general of India) has told me "Bharat ka karna hai".' A fascinating excerpt from Abantika Ghosh's Billions Under Lockdown: The Inside Story Of India's Fight Against COVID-19.
Finally the winter sun was streaming through the airplane's window, shining gloriously above the thick, frothy blanket of fog.
It is on the exact spot where the Guru is said to have created 108 waterfalls, that the Yangtse clash took place between the Indian Army and the Chinese PLA on the night of December 9, 2022. As it had done in Ladakh in May 2020, the PLA tried to change the unmarked LAC in the Yangtse sector in Arunachal Pradesh. It was the most serious border incident since the Galwan Valley clash in June 2020, notes Claude Arpi.
We present some snapshots of the nation that -- with 2.5 crore people and the world's fourth largest army -- remains one of the world's best guarded secrets.
'I knew Sairat would make an impact because its theme of inter-caste relationship and marriage connects with our entire country. I won't pretend the success was unexpected.' Sairat director Nagraj Manjule basks in the film's success.
Take this simple quiz and find out if you know these common LGBTQIA terms.
How Dinesh Desai, an Indian American from California, changed the life of Denis Ryen, a Tamilian living in Cherrapunjee, Meghalaya, half a world away.
