The success of a comedy depends on good timing, dialogues and comedy sequences. But Mast Maja Maadi fails on all three counts.
It is a Budget with a strong emphasis on agriculture, education, healthcare and infrastructure.
Reader Kumara Raghavendra sent us this picture from the UK.
Indicators are that there has been little enthusiasm for Rajinikanth's entry into politics, owing possibly to his 'hide-and-seek' game over the subject since the early to mid-nineties. That was when Rajinikanth was already a superstar, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
'Justice is done, I stand vindicated...' Yeddyurappa tweeted.
Hundreds of protesters on Saturday staged a silent march from the school where a six-year-old girl student was allegedly raped to a police station demanding justice for the girl and swift action against the guilty.
The Lok Sabha constituencies that JD-S will contest are Uttara Kannada, Chikkamagaluru, Shivamogga, Tumkur, Hassan, Mandya, Bengaluru North and Vijayapura.
K Raghavendra Rao, one of the founding promoters and managing director of Orchid Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals, said he may initiate talks to buy back its 14.7 per cent stake that is now with Rexcel, a unit of pharma major Ranbaxy.
The victim was 35-year-old B Prashant Reddy, Venkat's close friend and business partner.
Notorious criminal and serial rapist Jaishankar, who made a sensational escape from the high-security central prison in Bangalore on September 1, was arrested in Bangalore on Friday.
Composer Bharadwaj has come up with a foot-tapping album.
A wayward plot, pathetic music and irritating humour marks this Telugu film.
The UK's Marks & Spencer (M&S) has plans to position itself as a mid-market mass retailer in India and is eyeing a chunk of its revenues from India in the next few years. M&S has severed its partnership with Planet Retail and has entered into a deal with Reliance Retail. Its existing stores will be absorbed in the current partnership eventually. M&S will be positioned as a mid-market retailer in India. It chose Reliance as it moves quickly in its line of businesses.
The results were supposed to be declared on September 8.
Nagarjuna hosts a star-studded reception for his son and daughter-in-law.
Cracking the whip, Karnataka government on Monday transferred Bangalore city Police Commissioner Raghavendra Auradkar in the wake of a series of rape cases, including that of a 6-year-old girl student in a public school.
Raghavendra Kamath and Ashutosh Joshi spoke to Kushal Pal Singh on the growth of Indian realty story and issues surrounding it.
The best dressed men from the GQ Best Dressed red carpet.
Swanky flats, mall to replace the iconic property.
From auto, refrigerator, and mobile handset makers to real estate firms, companies are tying up with banks to dole out attractive finance schemes and discounts to make buying more affordable.
Angry BJP workers flung chairs and other furniture and raised slogans against party president Amit Shah and even tried to stop the cars of Vijayendra and other leaders as they were leaving.
Buyers, viewers and the media too appeared biased towards big names.
Urban planners and real estate experts say bad town planning in Mumbai and rising deaths during the ongoing pandemic are a "sad reality". Dev Chatterjee and Raghavendra Kamath report.
Karnataka beat Maharashtra by an innings and eight runs to register their first win of the season.
While Gurugram sees biggest drop in house prices, housing sales in Bengaluru dropped by 45 per cent followed by Kolkata, a 44 per cent decrease, and Ahmedabad, a 42 per cent decline.
Three weeks after the brutal attack on a woman bank official at an unguarded ATM kiosk in Bangalore, the assailant was still on the run even as police said they were making "all efforts" to nab him.
Resuming on 237 for four, Mumbai were bowled out for 344
Modi's demonetisation move has hit the real estate market in Delhi and Mumbai
'After that, volumes and prices would move up.'
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