Rajkumari Kaul's death over the weekend brings back memories of phone conversations at a time when landline numbers were still in vogue, and Atal Bihari Vajpayee was still to become prime minister, remembers Girish Nikam.
Legendary Indian sprinter Milkha Singh is 'better and more stable' as he battles COVID-19 in the ICU of the PGIMER hospital in Chandigarh and also received a phone call from Prime Minister Narendra Modi enquiring about his health on Friday.
Mother's Day reminded me of how my mom learned to cook Indian food.
'Amritpal was just a plant.' 'We have to be careful that such kind of people do not emerge in Punjab.'
Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju also quashed the rumours and wished Milkha a speedy recovery.
2023 has seen some beautiful performances in films that released on OTT as well as in theatres.
The 69th Filmfare Awards, held in Gandhinagar, Gujarat on Sunday, saw cute moments on stage and on the red carpet.
If the party's members aren't sure what it stands for, see no path to wealth or power, and endure control by a dynasty, which, almighty as it is within the party, cannot get them the votes, they are likely to explore options, notes Shekhar Gupta.
Do you know how difficult it is to get Mahendra Singh Dhoni's attention?
Jaswant Singh, former external affairs in the National Democratic Alliance government, while taking a dig at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, for telling American president George Bush how much Indians loved him, said that none of the preceeding prime ministers had ever made such a comment.
Entertainers can be good politicians if they treat the citizens as the audience, and treat their job like a live show, and work hard to make sure the audience likes them, asserts Sandeep Goyal.
India will achieve new heights and gain new respect across the world because of leaders like Dr Manmohan Singh.
Say hello to the cast of The Accidental Prime Minister.
'There must have been some wonderful genetic disorder due to which I was attracted towards filmi songs.'
'And when the floats go by in the parade garlanded and decorated with the posters of gun toting assassins and murderers and martyrs, you look the other way.' 'And in return we will bring you 10,000 votes because the people of the gurdwaras will vote as we tell them to vote.'
Sisodia had sought bail to attend to his ailing wife.
A bust of Captain Vikram Batra Param Vir Chakra was unveiled at the Palampur military station by his parents Mr G L Batra and Mrs Kamal Kanta Batra on Wednesday, January 19, 2022.
It's not uncommon for performers to become bigger than the stories they are placed in and Sreehari Nair would happily pay to watch Isha Talwar and Paramvir Singh Cheema riffing on love, bad life choices, psychology, rhythm, and oven-baked Kulchas in Chamak.
If Indira Gandhi hadn't targeted the RSS, Narendra Modi wouldn't be sitting pretty with his second majority and looking at a third, asserts Shekhar Gupta.
Filmmaker Vishal Bharadwaj ruled out rumours that actor Aamir Khan was in the cast of his forthcoming film Mr Mehta and Mrs Singh
The competition for the worst or most perilous 10 years has always been between the 1960s and the 1980s, points out Shekhar Gupta.
Sakshi Dhoni took to Instagram to share a poem to lift the spirits in the CSK camp.
Several top Congress leaders including party general secretary organisation K C Venugopal, Sachin Pilot, Randeep Surjewala and Shashi Tharoor, wished the former party chief on her birthday.
If the government of the day would like to set in place a smooth and well-planned changeover and facilitate the incoming chief to chalk out his action plan well in advance, the announcement of a successor needs to be done early, observes Colonel K Thammayya Udupa (retd).
Sharmishtha, who has quit politics, also clarified that she has not tried to tweak her father's views about anyone.
Chief Selector M S K Prasad also denied all the rumours saying that there is no update on Dhoni's retirement.
Aamir Khan's Lal Singh Chaddha was the first film screened at the Srinagar cinema.
In 2017, a retired R&AW officer conveyed that Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath was keen to get monarchy restored in Nepal and suggested that I support these efforts.
CSK players's wives and children watched Chennai win its fourth IPL title.
Though the incoming First Lady of the US is a former model who has retained all the glamour of the ramp, there is a curious radio silence on the subject of who's offering their sartorial services for her time at the White House, notes Kanika Datta.
"This is no small feat", Prime Minister Narendra Modi said as he led the nation in hailing young Indian Grandmaster Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa's runner-up finish.
There's so much entertainment coming up in 2023!
There are many movies coming up titled after their protagonist.
Kiara Advani and Sidharth Malhotra's wedding reception was as star-studded as it can get.
Can a Twinkle Khanna book be launched without much masti and mazaak? Find out.
'Bihar, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Bengal can be the game changers of 2024.'
'Mr Badal wanted to talk to a member of the Gandhi family to bring about some sort of rapprochement between the Akalis and the Congress which were the two major parties at that time.'
Asking that if all these leaders and actors accompanying the Pakistani journalists are Inter-Services Intelligence's contacts, Singh asserted that he would have invited her again had there been no visa restrictions between India and Pakistan.
In an open letter to Congress chief Sonia Gandhi senior analyst B Raman says that the credibility of the Manmohan Singh government is withering and what the nation needs is a psychological turnaround.
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