Former Uttar Pradesh director general of police Brijlal joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in presence of party state in-charge Om Mathur and senior party officials. This comes close on the heels of former IPS officer Kiran Bedi joining the party.
Showbiz celebrities and others are speaking up for the eight-year-old girl who was gang-raped and killed in Kathua three months ago. An enraged nation demanded "exemplary punishment" for the culprits of the crime, even as the politics over the arrest of eight people in connection with the case continued to dominate the discourse in this city of temples. While Thursday saw Farhan Akhtar, Riteish Deshmukh, Karan Johar, Varun Dhawan fire off tweets condemning the incident, female artistes took the torch on Friday. Actresses Swara Bhasker, Kalki Koechlin, Huma Qureshi and Gul Panag were among many who posted pictures of themselves as 'Hindustan', ashamed at the incidents.
Bollywood's gorgeous ladies looked glamorous on the IIFA green carpet, but the men didn't disappoint either.
Film folk are celebrating their beautiful handloom outfits on social media on National Handloom Day.
This is the seventh straight month of growth
During April, Maruti Suzuki India's domestic car sales were up 2.72 per cent at 86,481 units, as against 84,188 units in the same month last year.
An inside look at the celebrations.
The chairman of the committee, A K Mathur, sought abolishment of the two-year edge accorded to the IAS officers for empanelment, compared to other services, saying it was an 'archaic concept'.
Ready to plan your week's binging schedule on the OTT? Sukanya Verma offers a menu full of curious offerings.
The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) has issued guidelines that will allow car dealers to become Motor Insurance Service Providers (MISP) and offer the policies of multiple general insurers, says Sanjay Kumar Singh.
Learn how to host parties from the Ambanis!
A look at star arrivals.
Divorce is the end of marital obligation, but not the end of parenting for the kids, says Nidhi Mathur, Lawyer at United We Care. Both parties should understand their rights and liabilities will not severed by severance of their relationship.
Neha Juneja and Ankit Mathur run Greenway Grameen Infra. They've recently designed Greenway Smart Stove, a single burner stove designed as a low cost replacement for traditional mud chulhas, which pose grave health and environmental hazards. Through their company, they are aiming to provide similar such innovative and holistic solutions for rural consumers in India. Juneja and Mathur tell us just why they ditched the idea of thick pay packages to follow their dreams.
From cute cuddly pictures to they-grow-so-fast, these pix are the best way to start a Monday morning.
Airlines and airports are devising their own standard operating procedures, with a limited number of flights being planned to enable social distancing on ground and inside aircraft. The AAI guidelines also state that airport facilities such as smoking rooms, kids play areas, and prayer rooms shall be restricted to a limited number of people, to minimise gathering.
After a gap of 18 years, the Bharatiya Janata Party-affiliated Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad swept the Delhi University students' union elections, trouncing Congress' Nation Students' Union of India to bag all four positions and credited the triumph to the "Modi wave".
Featuring among others the stars of Newton, Victoria and Abdul and Fukrey Returns.
India's first World Cup-winning cricket captain Kapil Dev suffered a heart attack and underwent an angioplasty in New Delhi on Friday but is expected to be discharged in the next couple of days, said the hospital where he is currently admitted.
The second wave of the pandemic in the country has derailed the recovery momentum of the domestic auto industry, which was poised for a comeback in the current fiscal after witnessing the two consecutive challenging years, ratings agency ICRA said on Thursday. Unlike the first wave where infections were largely localised to urban clusters, the second wave has seen deeper and wider penetration, including into rural hinterlands. Accordingly, outlook for various segments has been revised downwards, it said.
Even with an ongoing pandemic, theatres in many states functioning at 50 per cent occupancy, a quieter social life and fewer movies, Bollywood still managed to pack in plenty of drama and trauma, fun and festivity, love and war into the year.
Commercial vehicles however declined by 2.83%
A Special Investigation Team is likely to be set up by the government next week for a fresh investigation into the 1984 anti-Sikh riot cases.
Governor Keshari Nath Tripathi had on Saturday paid a visit to the violence-hit areas of Asansol and Raniganj.
As the national transporter is planning to come out with semi-high speed routes where trains can clock an average speed of 160-200 kmph, dedicated testing becomes essential.
Looking at some Bollywood films that revolve around homosexuality.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday unveiled a Rs 39.45 lakh crore Budget with a view to fire up the key engines of the economy to sustain a world-beating recovery from the pandemic. This was Sitharaman's fourth Budget. While the taxpayers were left in the lurch, once again, was she able to cheer Corporate India?
Here is how the two countries stack up militarily, according to a report in AlJazeera.com.
Chief Information Commissioner R K Mathur rejected the contention of the ministry that details of the amount, reference numbers, dates of bills raised by Indian Air Force and Air India for the foreign visits undertaken by the Prime Minister are scattered across various records and files and collation of information in the manner sought by the appellant would involve searching of voluminous records by a significant number of officials.
Police used mild force to disperse the protesters in which some of them received minor injuries.
Maryland realtor Narain Kumar Mathur has declared his candidacy for the Charles County Board of Education. If elected, he pledged to provide 'our kids a safe, comfortable educational environment and enhance educational standards by reducing class sizes.'
Nearly 25 passengers were so far reported injured after two trains derailed while crossing a swollen Machak river near Harda in Madhya Pradesh even as rescue operations continued, officials said on Wednesday.
With data as an extra product added to its offerings, rural operations have become more viable for the operator.
Pranabda hasn't given us any indication of the tough period when he realised Sonia Gandhi had decided to give the presidency not to him, but to then vice-president Hamid Ansari. He wrested the presidency from her, and handed her the biggest defeat of her UPA years, observes Shekhar Gupta.
It is important to find a room with optimal lighting, preferably near a window or a blank wall where YOU are the only point of focus.
The world premiere of Cirque du Soleil's 43rd original production Bazzar in Mumbai was a night to remember.
