Mob barges into heritage madrasa site in Karnataka, performs puja

A mob barged into a 15th Century heritage site in Karnataka's Bidar, that houses a madrasa and mosque, and performed puja during Dasara festivities, police sources said on Friday. IMAGE: Locals......

3 kids among 5 dead in massive fire in Durga Puja pandal in UP

Three children were among five people killed and 64 injured after a fire broke out in a Durga Puja pandal here due to overheating of a halogen light, officials said on Monday. IMAGE: Charred......

Stalin Prepares For Battle Of 2024

The going is not going to be easy for the DMK and its allies in Elections 2024.Despite the seats sweepstake in the 2021 assembly polls, the vote-share difference of 5.6% (DMK's 45.38% versus......

Kolkata's Durga Puja gets Unesco's heritage tag, Bengal ecstatic

Unesco on Wednesday accorded heritage status to Kolkata's Durga puja festival, bringing glory to the country, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee lauding the move.......

Thank God for DeMo, GST!

'Much as I have been enjoying the anti-GST jokes on WhatsApp and also worrying about the economy in a tailspin in more serious moments, there is a tiny part of me that is thankful to Modi and......

Take heart, all is NOT wrong with the economy

Inflation is down, growth is headed for recovery. RIL and subsidiary Jio are on an upswing. However, stressed loans and impending job losses are the dark clouds, says Devangshu Datta. The Monetary......

For Pranab, Puja back home more important than LA

Like his boss Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, the government's chief trouble-shooter, is deprived of the luxury of holidays. But for the four days of Durga Puja,......

Pranab the priest performs Puja!

To his colleagues in the Congress party, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee is known as a man of all seasons, a man of punctuality and precision. We saw the finance minister in a new avatar,......

PIX: Kajol, Tanuja, Tanishaa in festive mode

Candid moments at the Durga Puja pandal. Kajol made pretty pictures with her family at the Durga Puja celebrations organised by the North Bombay Sarbojanin Durga Puja Samiti at Juhu, a western......

Rani, Sanjay Dutt's day of prayer

Here's what your favourite celebrities have been up to. Rani Mukherji makes a pretty picture as she seeks the blessings of goddess Durga in Mumbai on Wednesday.   Rani along with her mother......

Spotted! Sharmila Tagore in London

Reader Kaushik Bhattacharya sent uspictures of Sharmila Tagore, who was in London for the Durgapuja/Dusserah celebrations. The actress was reciting Bengali poems for a Bijoya Dashami cultural......

Sprinter Hima Das takes oath as DSP in Assam

IMAGE: Hima Das revealed that she had dreamt of becoming a police officer when she was young. Photograph: Kind Courtesy, Sarbananda Sonowal/Twitter Star sprinter Hima Das was, on Friday,......

Tax War: ICC wants BCCI's annual revenue slashed

All the details from the meetings of the Committee of Administrators (CoA) held on July 6 and on June 29 IMAGE: CoA chief Vinod Rai. Photograph: PTI The BCCI is set to seek advice from an English......

Sehwag spoke foolishly, says angry Ganguly

IMAGE: Sourav Ganguly. Photograph: Gareth Copley/Getty Images Former India captain Sourav Ganguly on Saturday said Virender Sehwag 'spoke foolishly' when he claimed that 'lack of setting' cost him......

Will wait 30 mins for you but win us a medal in Tokyo: Big B to Dipa

My next aim is to beat Simone Biles in Tokyo 2020, that's my target. I know very well that if I aspire to beat the champion, I would at least finish with a gold or silver: Dipa IMAGE: Dipa......

South Africa to host Champions League in October

South Africa will host the fourth edition of the Champions League Twenty20 in October with Pakistan's Sialkot Stallions being the new entrant, it was confirmed on Tuesday. "South Africa will host......