For some, he's a bully and probable 'blackmailer' who targeted the rich and famous, especially in Bollywood, for fame, and allegedly, ransom. For others, he's finally the one brave narc who decided to do his job, no matter how powerful his quarry, observes Shekhar Gupta.
UPSC's female topper, All India Rank 5 Srushti Jayant Deshmukh, tells us how she cracked the tough exam.
Manish Sisodia, Satyender Jain, Gopal Rai, Kailash Gehlot, Imran Hussain, and Rajendra Gautamas took oath as the ministers in Delhi.
South Africa trounced India by 105 runs in the sixth and final women's T20 International in Surat on Friday. Despite the defeat, India cliched the six-match series 3-1, with two games being washed out due to rain.
The combativeness reflects her insistence not to meekly acquiesce to what has been going on in Raisina Hill for years or decades, observes Kartikeya Tanna.
The amazing story of how two young women set up a home for mentally ill homeless women.
Epidemiologists point out that if there is no second wave, it means that the number of infected has surpassed the uninfected, reports Ruchika Chitravanshi.
Feeling the heat and tension of the crisis? Fikar not!
'Many enter the civil services with the desire to do good work but get beaten by the system, step back or become part of it.' 'Ten fantastic officers out of 100 can completely change the game.'
In this weekly self-help series, mental health and life coach Anu Krishna tells you how to take control of your life.
The Kangana Ranaut and Hrithik Roshan tiff continues
The CoWIN portal will be made available in Hindi and 14 regional languages by next week, while 17 more laboratories will be added to the INSACOG network to monitor the variants of COVID-19, the health ministry said on Monday.
A spectacular Taapsee Pannu brings out the shift of a happy homemaker to a heartbroken woman most strikingly in her deeply affecting performance, applauds Sukanya Verma.
Lesser known facts about India's first female lawyer.
Women's football is expected to get a boost with India hosting the FIFA U-17 World Cup next year and the AFC Asian Cup in 2022.
Biden has urged the Senate not to act on the vacancy until the American people select their next president and the next Congress.
Meet Nita Ambani's go-to make up artist, Mickey Contractor.
Bhumi Pednekar and Konkona Sen Sharma's ode to sisterhood, Robert Pattinson's amusing accent, Satyajit Ray's many masterpieces, Steven Soderbergh's breakout indie, Mark Ruffalo's good fight -- all this and more on Sukanya Verma's recommendation list on OTT this week.
From Sri Lanka's most popular political family to its most despised -- going by the voices on the streets calling for the Rajapaksas' ouster -- what went wrong for the clan? Veteran Sri Lanka watcher N Sathiya Moorthy offers an insight.
Already a sporting icon, Osaka's fight for equality has focussed even more attention on her
'A relationship is not on my mind now, but I am not saying no to anything because when you say no, things happen.'
India is apprehensive about the Taliban's return as it would mean loss of access to Baluch rebels and help to the restive tribals of Waziristan. This would be a setback to the Indian strategy of returning the compliments of death by a thousand cuts to Pakistan, notes Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
India's tennis star Sania Mirza is planning to make a return to the game by year end following the birth of her baby.
The popularity of the fashion trends the movie established saw the Filmfare awards introduce a new category for costume design, Manish Malhotra being the first recipient.
As the curtains come down at the Tokyo Olympics, here's a glance at the medallists and those who came within touching distance of glory.
A group of public health experts, including doctors from All India Institute of Medical Sciences and members from the national taskforce on COVID-19, have said that mass, indiscriminate and incomplete vaccination can trigger emergence of mutant strains and recommended that there is no need to inoculate those who had documented coronavirus infection.
Many women find the re-branding effort patronising as opposed to inviting. Social media has already started ripping the campaign to shreds.
Meet Namrata Purohit, Bollywood's favourite Pilates trainer.
Several factors force women out of the workforce. But mainly it's lack of good childcare facilities.
US endurance swimmer Sarah Thomas has become the first person to swim across the English Channel four times without stopping.
'Never in my wildest dreams did I believe that I would ever get to join such an illustrious group of players'
'I've been working hard for this for the past 18 months and away from home for a long time...and it is good to know that it all paid off and the event is done and we've got what we came for'
Achieving a key breakthrough in space technology, three Chinese astronauts including the country's first woman astronaut Liu Yang, on board the spacecraft Shenzhou-9 (Divine Grace) docked with the orbiting Tiangong-1 lab (Heavenly Palace).
She wants people to boycott Victoria's Secrets' annual lingerie show.
Omkeshwar Singh, Head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
Sania Mirza became the first Indian to climb to the top of the WTA doubles ranking after she teamed up with Swiss great Martina Hingis to claim the Family Circle Cup title on Sunday.
India's limited overs vice-captain Rohit Sharma has been nominated for the prestigious 'Khel Ratna', the BCCI announced on Saturday, acknowledging the prolific batsman's stupendous performance in the 2019 ODI World Cup. In the women's category, all-rounder Deepti Sharma was BCCI's pick for the Arjuna for her consistent show in both ODIs and T20Is in the past three years.
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