'...changed my image, changed everything.' 'Now I make calls with great confidence.' 'Day before yesterday, I sent a message to a director that I heard you are making a film, is there any role for me?' 'I have confidence now. Earlier, I could never do.'
'Hate and violence are an ever-present threat to us.' 'The community is staying vigilant of their surroundings.'
Rahul Khullar's guiding credo was that a civil servant must never lose sight of his client: The little guy. The evil men are those who are decision-makers but abdicate their responsibility of taking decisions, leading people to lose confidence in public institutions.
Ganguly said there was 'absolute clarity' among the team think-tank on how to deal with Dhoni's future.
'There are only two bottlenecks for universal vaccination.' 'One, is availability of the vaccine.' 'Two, is the logistics for administering the vaccine.'
'Here is a woman who has got widespread appreciation for her work.' 'Social media was full of posts wanting her as the chief ministerial candidate.' 'This kind of popularity did not go well within the party.' 'See, today the party is Pinarayi Vijayan!'
The Bombay high court on Thursday asked the Union government to clarify whether "excessive" reportage by the press on an ongoing investigation amounted to interference in the administration of justice under the Contempt of Courts Act.
If indeed the gate opens for big industrial houses, the RBI needs to be smarter than them and demonstrate it through action, not reaction, observes Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
'Cases are increasing, day by day, because testing has increased.'
Sumit Roy, an MBA, shares a simple formula to cut down expenses and save money post lockdown.
'They have a voracious appetite.' 'But there are many places where they go and they lose.'
The iconic Waheeda Rehman tells Subhash K Jha why she refused her most memorable role in Guide until...
Television actor Avika Gor reveals how she made conscious efforts to eat healthy and feel better.
Unlike the regimes of Jayalalitha, Palaniswami and Karunanidhi, ministers are actually getting to make decisions on their own, with the unmentioned rider that they would be held responsible and accountable, observes N Sathiya Moorthy.
Rohit Sharma caught his opening partner Shikhar Dhawan off-guard as he caught his team-mate talking to himself with his eyes closed on a flight.
'He has the voice, the performance, the talent and the presence.' 'He is a bankable star, so he brings all these things to the table.'
Avoid junk food and caffeine as it can dehydrate your hair.
'I have done this before, I have suffered,' the 60 year old actor said while sharing an important relationship advice.
'The people who were assigned the role to look after the affairs of the Congress in Maharashtra have failed.'
'The TMC did not bother telling me, a sitting MLA for 20 years, why I was not being given a ticket.'
'The ground reality is that Banglar manush Didir shonge aachhe (The people of Bengal are with Didi).' 'Even as the BJP is still looking for a CM candidate, the elections will be over and we will form government with a two-thirds majority.'
'The TMC has become a private limited company.'
A lot of former Pakistan cricketers suggested that India did not give their best against England, making it nearly impossible for Pakistan to make the semi-finals.
Having spent decades running a laundromat in Taiwan's coastal city of Taichung, Hsu Sho-Er, 84, and her husband, Chang Wan Ji, 83, are now proving a hit on Instagram after their grandson Reef Chang -- and stylist -- set up an account for them in June. Any items left at the laundromat for over a year are considered fair game.
'One size fits all' approach doesn't work when it comes to skincare routines. You need to be patient, and understand what works best for your skin, warns Dr Dinesh Jain.
Every woman has a 'period' story. Some are funny, others are embarrassing, humiliating or painful.
Akhtaruzzaman Elias's The Raincoat describes the effect of the 1971 war on a college and on one of its teachers in particular.
'I used to be crazy about dates, about car numbers, phone numbers and people would ask, "How can you remember all these things?".'
On a dating app, you have 0.5 seconds to decide whether you like someone enough before you go to their bio and connect with them, ays Ravi Mittal, founder of the dating app QuackQuack.
'No germ, virus or bacteria worth its nasty trait was allowed across the threshold,' observes Kishore Singh.
'But to see the effects of that, it will take a week or two more.'
It's so hard to believe that his laughter and cheerful banter won't be there the next time I go to Delhi.
Former Australian batsman Mark Waugh has called for the scrapping of leg byes from all forms of cricket, saying the batting side shouldn't be awarded runs for missing the ball. The 54-year-old World Cup winner said the drafter of the rule "was a pretty ordinary batsman."
Ever since Australian cricket plunged into crisis following the year-long ball-tampering bans on Steve Smith and Davis Warner, there has been a lot of discussion on the spirit of cricket.
No, no, she ain't doing a mythological for Ekta K...
'The more seriously ill you are from heart disease, the more seriously ill you could get from infection with COVID-19.'
The focus will definitely shift towards more meaningful trips than the kind of micro trips we were into before, says Varun Arora.
'The NRC is thoroughly anti-poor and the CAA is thoroughly anti-Muslim.' 'And these two deadly combinations are going to hit us like how demonetisation and GST has hit the entire nation.'
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