Govt names 51 leaders to visit 33 world capitals, drops 3 from Cong list

Fifty-one political leaders, parliamentarians and former ministers cutting across party lines will be part of the seven delegations travelling to world capitals to put across India's resolve to......

Kumbh stampede to rock Parliament's Budget session

Parliament's Budget session is likely to get off to a stormy start on Friday with Opposition parties demanding a discussion on the alleged mismanagement of the Maha Kumbh festival in Prayagraj......

Oppn To Push For JPC On Adani Issue

Floor leaders of the Opposition Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance met on Monday ahead of the start of Parliament's winter session and decided to raise the issue of alleged corruption......

Sambhal violence well-planned BJP conspiracy: Akhilesh

Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday alleged a 'well-planned' conspiracy by the Bharatiya Janata Party for the violence in Uttar Pradesh's Sambhal, where a team of Congress MPs led by......

The real state of Kerala

My grandfather had an elephant. This is the title of a Malayalam novel by Vaikkom Mohammad Basheer. So what? I have three flats. That is the story of transition as far as investments in Kerala are......

Worldwide mobile user base to touch 5 bn this year

The number of mobile phone subscribers will touch a staggering 5 billion worldwide this year from 2.2 billion in 2006, according to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). "The......

Neelavelicham Review: A Visual Treat

The lyrical beauty of the songs, the exceptional frames that bind beauty and poetry make Neelavelicham a near-perfect tribute to the legendary writer who marvelled at imperfection and despised......

Rorschach, Mammootty and the Unfeeling Indian Hero

After a lifetime of showing us what it means to 'act at the top of one's bent and never hit a false note', Mammootty had the good sense, in the third act of his career, to pare down his style,......

A Little Bit Of Lalitha In My Life

KPAC Lalitha's specialty was evoking on screen people that the audience felt they knew intimately, and evoking them through telling details that tore down the boundary between the audience and the......

25 GORGEOUS FRAMES of Kareena Kapoor

Kareena Kapoor has a chandelier-like effect on silver screen. Every time she's there, the energy of a scene changes. Some of the best cinematographers in the country have shot her luminous face and......

England team arrive in Rajkot after Abu Dhabi break

Fresh from a one-week break in their pre-series base Abu Dhabi, the England cricket team on Monday returned to India for the remainder of the five-match rubber against the hosts, which is locked......

Afghan Board seeks BCCI support to develop cricket

Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) officials have sought support from the BCCI for development of the sport in their war-torn country. The officials held a meeting with the BCCI officials on Sunday......

Wrestlers Yogeshwar, Amit make it to Olympics; Sushil fails

Amit Kumar (55kg) and Yogeshwar Dutt (60kg) are the first Indian wrestlers to book berths at the London Olympics after clinching gold and silver medals respectively in the Asian qualifying......

Sandipan emerges joint-winner in Dubai chess

Grandmaster Sandipan Chanda played out a draw with overnight co-leader Miezis Normunds of Latvia to tie for the first place in the 14th Dubai International Open chess tournament that concluded on......

Negi slips-up, loses to Chanda in Dubai Open

Grandmaster Parimarjan Negi blundered and went down to Sandipan Chanda from a position of strength in the penultimate round of the 14th Dubai International Open chess tournament on Monday. Negi's......