'Tamil Nadu's youth bulge will soon be 70 per cent of the population, many of them smartphone-toting millennials looking for gains more tangible than what screen gods can give,' says Sunil Sethi.
With his strong views on Bharatiya economics, his appointment to the RBI board may well presage interesting times, says Archis Mohan.
Vaihayasi Pande Daniel glances at the life and political career of Alexey Navalny who has been banned from challenging Vladimir Putin in Russia's presidential election.
'So, why did Kejriwal, the crusader against corruption, choose such an officer as his principal secretary? He has to explain. After that, he realises that Kumar's case is not picking up, so he changes tracks and picks up Jaitley for the DDCA case.' 'I personally feel this is part of Kejriwal's strategy. If he has evidence against Jaitley, then why doesn't he file a first information report like he did in the petroleum case?'
Toilet: Ek Prem Katha has something pertinent to say but isn't clever enough to venture beyond screaming platitudes, notes Sukanya Verma.
Activist-turned-politician and senior Aam Aadmi Party leader from Maharashtra, Anjali Damania, who unsuccessfully contested against former Bharatiya Janata Party president Nitin Gadkari from the Nagpur Lok Sabha seat has quit the party.
Presenting our list of ten influential and best-dressed Indian women across professions.
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Arun Jaitley, who is recovering from a kidney ailment, attended the proceedings after a long gap.
Corrosion is a big menace for anything with steel application from rebars in construction, oil and water pipelines, railway track, power distribution poles to automobiles, says Kunal Bose.
He, however, did not name any particular religion
Republican presidential aspirant Bobby Jindal has sought steps by the United States to take the mantel of global leadership saying even non-aligned nations like India and Vietnam are desperate and hungry for American leadership.
The 28-year-old is believed to be linked to thwarted attacks on a high-speed train from Amsterdam bound for Paris in August, as well as a planned attack on a Parisian church.
Aam Aadmi Party founder-member Shanti Bhushan has created a flutter by praising Kiran Bedi and calling Bharatiya Janata Party's move to field her as a "masterstroke" while claiming "everything is not right" in AAP.
A riveting combination of tough and tender, Raveena shines all the way.
While Jaitley posted his hard-hitting response to the opposition's move in Facebook, BJP fielded its spokesperson Meenakshi Lekhi, who is also a lawyer, to take on the Congress.
IMAGES from the match between KKR and Sunrisers Hyderabad played at Eden Gardens on Saturday
'Even if the anti-Modi 'Mahagatbandhan' gets a majority there is simply no way that Nitish Kumar can ensure even a stable government, leave alone a good -- clean, development-oriented -- government,' argues T V R Shenoy.
'The Indian Right can afford to be rigid; but as liberals, our position has to be one of constant evolution, or else death awaits us,' argues Sreehari Nair.
'In India a strong leader with a majority has never yet been defeated by a challenger.' 'He (or she, as with Indira Gandhi in 1977) must defeat himself,' says Shekhar Gupta.
The woman editor of French Closer magazine, that published topless pictures of Kate Middleton last year, and an unnamed photographer have been charged with breaking France's strict privacy rules.
They're HOT, stunning and their Instagram accounts will give you some serious model vibes.
Elated over winning the Nobel Peace prize, renowned child rights activist Kailash Satyarthi on Friday dedicated the coveted award to people of India and vowed to work with renewed vigour against exploitation of children and to ensure their welfare.
A fresh notification prohibiting cycles and other forms of non-motorised transport along 174 major thoroughfares of the city has been issued by the Kolkata police.
Women should stop being ashamed of their periods. They should start celebrating it, feels Nishant Bangera.
Anti-corruption campaigner Anna Hazare on Wednesday attacked the Narendra Modi government for its 'failure' to bring back black money stashed in tax havens abroad and said people will teach it a lesson for the "fraud" perpetrated on them.
An "under offer" sign outside the 10 King Henry's Road townhouse indicates that the sale process is nearly complete.
'As general elections draw near, the BJP and the JD-U (in whatever form it is) will do a deal -- the state to the JD-U in return for support at the Centre for the BJP.'
'While people complain of the difficulties they are experiencing because of the lack of currency, they remain supportive so far of Mr Modi's initiative.' 'What the country should be concerned about is the prospect of a prime minister who is willing to sacrifice economic gain and risk large-scale job losses in exchange for personal popularity,'
Whatever the final outcome of this unhappy episode, one thing is clear: a glass once cracked cannot be fixed. The trust is gone forever and the relationship between two old friends lies in tatters. For now, IndiGo, the airline, will have to learn to soar with two angry and distracted commanders, says Anjuli Bhargava.
As he gets ready to launch his indefinite hunger strike from Tuesday to demand a strong Lokpal, Anna Hazare on Monday said people are angry with the UPA government over "uncontrolled corruption" which has been reflected in the results of the state assembly polls.
'The best thing about John is that he's tall! So you will never be told, 'Aisha, you are too tall'.' 'Not once did John make me feel it was my first film.' 'The chemistry in the song Tere Jaisa is phenomenal.'
This is not your average superhero TV show, says Paloma Sharma.
Suspended Noida engineer-in-chief Yadav Singh faces a CBI probe into alleged corruption on a PIL accusing him of amassing huge property disproportionate to his known sources of income.
'Muslims and Christians should understand that the cow is sacred to us. It is not good for health. They should eat something else.'
AAP expects 1.5 lakh people to converge at Ramlila Maidan today.
Continuing his crusade against the alleged corruption in the BCCI due to president-in-exile N Srinivasan's presence, Aditya Verma on Sunday threatened to move Supreme Court if the board's Annual General Meeting fails to make its September deadline.
Rajat Gupta, 70, the first Indian managing director of McKinsey and who of 17 months in US prison for insider trading, gets ready to tell his side of the story. And he is less than complimentary about Preet Bharara, then the famous crusading US attorney for the Southern District of New York. "The jury, the press and the public saw only... a 'cropped picture', he says. For someone whose life story was a model of the Great American Dream - an Indian of modest means who rose to the highest circles of politics and business, mingling with the White House and Davos crowd - his indictment in 2012 marked a stunning fall from grace. Many ascribed it to the hubris of the rich and powerful, says Kanika Datta.
"Won't you vote out a government which sullied the reputation of the abode of God," the prime minister said.
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