Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan and Prince Karim Aga Khan were among the eminent personalities awarded the Padma Vibhushan, country's second highest civilian honour, by President Pranab Mukherjee in New Delhi on Wednesday.
As means of transport or metaphor, the romance of trains is unmistakable in Hindi cinema.
A top source said that Dhoni met Srinivasan over breakfast and was at the ICC Chairman's residence for close to 45 minutes. After he left, BJP leader Subramanian Swamy met Srinivasan.
The 1975 batch IAS officer joined the BJP after his retirement in 2013.
We pay homage to Bhanu Athaiya by celebrating her best creations.
Sye Raa Narasimha Reddy is a larger-than-life spectacle that deserves a theatre viewing, feels Karan Sanjay Shah.
Good intentions and elaborate roadmaps apart, there is an urgent need for the Tamil Nadu chief minister to come up with branded schemes like MGR's meal scheme, asserts N Sathiya Moorthy.
What your favourite celebrities are saying on social media.
B D Pande was Punjab's governor during Operation Bluestar. In this excerpt from his memoir, In the Service of Free India: Memoir of a Civil Servant, Pande reveals what really went on behind the scenes during those dark days in India's history.
Omkeshwar Singh, Head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
'2013 was the most difficult phase in my life, I was never depressed as much as I was then'
'Once our voices are crushed, they can bring in an agenda of privatisation.'
'What can I do for my India except make films that showcase it's greatness to the world, which touch on national issues and arouse the feeling of patriotism?'
Daredevilry is second nature to Bollywood actors. Be it riding horses, leaping off cliffs or sprinting atop moving buses and trains, the crazier the better. You can only imagine how much adventure sports appeal to the adrenaline junkie in them.
'This country is not of one culture. We must live together and we must respect each other.'
The gifted actress passed into the ages on January 21, 1965.
A movie is no Bollywood movie without a rain sequence!
More than 25 years after the Babri Masjid was destroyed, another generation proclaims its commitment to building a Ram temple.
Get your lowdown on what's happening in the Tamil film industry, right here!
Shashi Kapoor, the star who made us laugh, romance and cry, passed into the ages on December 4. We look back at the often underrated actor, who reinvested all his earnings as an actor into making films and keeping the theatre he established, Prithvi Theatre, alive.
They have been booked under IPC sections 323 (punishment for voluntarily causing hurt), 341 (punishment for wrongful restraint) and 34 (acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention), said a senior police officer.
Aseem Chhabra lists the movies that taught him about the Idea of India.
The letter says Maoists want to assassinate Modi the way former PM Rajiv Gandhi was killed, say Maharashtra CM and the state police.
'Guide will always have a special place in my heart.'
The awardees included one Padma Vibhushan, 11 Padma Bhushan and 44 Padma Shri.
'Amit Shah and Modi have a disciple and guru relationship. But Modi and Jaitley's relationship was based on friendship. That's the difference.'
Shakila's seductive performances in the ever-popular club number Babuji Dheere Chalna and the fabulous torch song Hoon Abhi Main Jawaan made filmmakers sit up and notice this new talent.
A look at the top tweets from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
'If this is how the audience likes me, I will continue doing it.'
Union Minister P Chidambaram has opted out of the Lok Sabha election with the party on Thursday night nominating his son Karti from his constituency Sivaganga in Tamil Nadu while another Union Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad was brought as a candidate from Udhampur in Jammu and Kashmir.
Abhishek has been posting fond memories and interesting anecdotes on Instagram, recapping his #RoadTo20.
You will be exposed to much comedy, emotion and drama during the course of the show, but you will see only a jhalak of the dance.
Family, friends and the army pay their respects to Captain Tushar Mahajan who laid down his life during the encounter in Pampore.
The rally from Raj Ghat to Jantar Mantar saw marchers fervently waving the tricolour and raising slogans like 'Vande Mataram' and 'Bharat Mata Ki Jai' with some of them saying that nothing is above 'nationalism'.
Cupid has played its role for years in the 200-year-old Presidency University in Kolkata but for the first time, love will now become a subject of study in its undergraduate curriculum. The unique interdisciplinary course on love would be offered by the varsity's sociology department and would be available to students of all streams as a 50-mark optional paper.
Karthik Subbaraj's Aviyal is an eclectic mix of fun and interesting stories by five independent filmmakers.
BJP workers and mourners queued up in large numbers outside the party headquarters since morning to pay their last respects to the leader.
A look at the last films of directors, who met with untimely deaths.
The panel is believed to have recommended expulsion of Kanhaiya, Umar Khalid, Anirban Bhattacharya and two other students.
