PHOTOS: Theatres open after 7 months in COVID-19 shadow

Cinemas in several parts of the country opened after seven months on Thursday with a few film enthusiasts venturing warily into movie watching in a COVID-19 'contactless' era of alternate seating,......

Cinemas get ready to open in new COVID-19 normal

Sushant Singh Rajput's last theatrical release 'Chhichhore' is among the films that will get a big screen re-release on Thursday as cinemas in several parts of the country ready to open after seven......

Remembering Kargil: 'Bombs on Target!'

Twenty one years ago, the Indian Army and Indian Air Force fought a bloody and bitter war to evict Pakistani intruders from the icy heights in Kargil. Air Commodore Nitin Sathe (retd) salutes the......

Suniel Shetty to be grand marshall at NYC's I-Day parade

Valour and sacrifice of the Armed Forces will be honoured at this year's India Day parade, the largest parade outside India to mark the country's independence that brings together thousands of......

Allow sale of non-essentials: Retailers to govt

Retailers are also demanding that home delivery across all forms of retail should be allowed to ensure a level playing field. Some of the country's top retailers, including Future Retail, Bata and......

ADAG bites into food business

Brother Mukesh Ambani might be the king of retail, but Anil Ambani's ADAG is getting ready to make its presence felt in branded food products. The group is all set to launch a food and beverage......

Flu effect: Film business may lose Rs 25 crore

With the Maharashtra government ordering closure of all multiplexes and theatres in Mumbai till August 16 due to fast spreading swine flu, the film exhibition business may incur an overall......

Pune malls see 70% drop in business

Shopping malls, multiplexes and top retailers in Pune are seeing as much as a 70 per cent drop in business owing to the swine flu outbreak in the city. The 10 multiplexes and 20 movie halls in......

'Film business is not going anywhere'

'This is a blip in the 100-year history of cinema.' IMAGE: A worker sanitises chairs inside a theatre hall. Photograph: ANI Photo The devastation has been absolute. PVR Cinemas had sold over 101......

Movie business loses Rs 120 billion!

From Rs 191 billion in 2019, the world's largest film producing industry now stands at Rs 72 billion, thanks to the pandemic.Vanita Kohli-Khandekar reports. IMAGE: A scene from Saina streaming on......

Lockdown: Cinema halls lose 1,000 crore every month!

'In our business, every time a seat goes empty, it is a perishable good.''We have lost the opportunity of earning revenue out of it.''It's impossible to recover what we have lost.'Bedika/PTI......

The movie theatre experience, post lockdown

Movie theatres may reopen around the second week of July. The next time you walk into a cinema hall, be prepared to find an empty seat adjacent to you. India's movie-going experience has been......

Sunday's Blockbuster streaming was all Ind-Pak cricket

IMAGE: Fans had a great time watching the India-Pakistan matches on Inox screens. Photograph: Inox Twitter It was a Sunday blockbuster with over 1.8 crore viewers tuning into the India-Pakistan......

India at the Asian Games: Day 4

Ashish Kumar creates history in gymnastics Gymnast Ashish Kumar on Tuesday opened a new chapter for India in the little followed sport by clinching the country's first ever medal, a bronze, in the......

Alok ends India's medal drought in Pool events

National billiards champion Alok Kumar on Sunday became the first Indian to win an Asian Games medal in pool events by clinching bronze in the men's 8-ball category despite losing in the......

Images: Hurricane Gilchrist hits Centurion

Deccan Chargers' fast bowler Ryan Harris dives to stop a shot against the Delhi Dareddevils in the first semi-final of the Indian Premier League in Centurion, on Friday. Harris had given Deccan an......

Pool probables for Asian Games

Veteran Alok Kumar and national snooker champion Manan Chandra were included among the probables for the 8-ball and 9-ball pool events at the Doha Asian Games in December.The Billiards and Snooker......