'Unlike in the sporting arena, where sports federations moved from partisan to impartial referees, in Indian democracy's biggest festival, it appears we are moving backward from unbiased and objective to one-sided and partisan,' observes Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday night discussed with Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan the drought-like situation as also the security scenario in the state arising following the blasts in Pune and exodus of people of Northeastern states.
'There is some deep rot that has set in the Congress party. This requires an organisational surgery.'
A look at how India's athletes fared on Day 3, Monday, July 29, 2024:
'The maximum struggle that I have gone through in this industry was to try to get a film made which had a female action star.' 'And that film never got made, despite reaching out to some of the biggest actresses.'
Here's your complete guide to when India's athletes compete at the Paris Olympics, with dates, events, and timings in IST.
'These betrayers don't realise that their exit opens up vast new opportunities to those whose growth they have always stunted'
'Life had its own plans and now I have learnt to go with the flow.'
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Wednesday
'Vijaya Raje Scindia had assured the prime minister that nothing would happen to the Babri Masjid'
Bollywood is ready with its line-up of theatre releases, but it remains to be seen whether we will get to watch these movies in theatres this year.
Enquiries indicate it belongs to an industrialist with links to a prominent cricketer.
The Congress has appointed observers to coordinate meetings of its legislature party in four states where assembly election results will be declared on Sunday.
Following is India's schedule at the Asian Games in Hangzhou on Sunday, October 1.
Samal also claimed that the Odisha BJP was confident of winning both the polls.
Ibrahim Ali Khan has not opted for a conventional boy-meet-girl movie debut.
Manish Tewari, Prithviraj Chavan, Anand Sharma and Bhupinder Hooda are the members of the pro-reform G23 group who wrote a letter to party's interim president Sonia Gandhi.
'We want to send a notice to the BJP that Rajputs are no longer their slaves.'
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.
Meet Anurag Kashyap's 'two pillars'...Mohanlal gets into Lucifer mode again...Kapil Sharma in his 'little world'...
'I just want to keep on working till they have to shoot me down.'
Prithviraj shows off his dark side... See Deepika do the Cirkus... Nargis' countdown...
''Even today, after 63 years, I'm still looking forward to a new release.'
The Kapoors have more than one reason to cheer but then again, they don't need a reason to party.
Sharmishtha, who has quit politics, also clarified that she has not tried to tweak her father's views about anyone.
Following is India's schedule at the Asian Games in Hangzhou on Saturday, September 30.
By the time they turned 40, Prithviraj Kapoor had done about 50 films, Raj Kapoor about 46 films and Rishi Kapoor about 80 films. As Ranbir Kapoor turns 40, Deepa Gahlot explores the Kapoors cinematic landscape to find out where the young actor stands in comparison to his great grandfather, grandfather and father.
Ranveer turns on the charm... Prithviraj directs mum and Mohanlal... Preity starts shooting...
As the curtain comes down on 2022, Roshmila Bhattacharya flashbacks to some of the year's news-makers and events.
'Earlier in my career DGs were nearly 100 per cent honest.' 'By the time I retired, many DGs have not been honest.' 'One DG asking me to go and meet a home minister whom everybody knew is a corrupt guy.' '
The Congress on Wednesday released a list of 40 leaders who would be the party's star campaigners for the May 10 assembly elections.
Though Karan announced the film in June 2021, the news that Akshay will play Sir Sankaran has only now come to light.
Senior Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge has resigned as the Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha, sources said on Saturday, a day after he filed his nomination papers for the All India Congress Committee president's election.
Meanwhile, the Indian women's team totalled 337 to take home the silver medal behind China's Qingnian Li, Cuicui Wu and Xinqiu Zhang, who combined to shoot a world and games record score of 357 to finish on top of the podium.
Tolerant Muslims can be counted on fingers. I think their number is not even in the thousands, the Union minister of state for law and justice said.
Ajeet Singh, who has rescued over 100 sex-workers from Varanasi area, received 'Man of the Year 2011' award of the news-weekly 'The Week'.
Farah wishes Gauri... Prithviraj promotes Bhramam...
Joginder Tuteja looks at contemporary actors who have done well in their kingly acts.
Senior leaders P Chidambaram and Digvijaya Singh are learnt to be the front-runners to take on the mantle of Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha.
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