Mumbai civic polls: Mahayuti woos voters with AI, free bus travel for women

The Mahayuti alliance on Sunday unveiled a wide-ranging manifesto for the upcoming civic body elections in Mumbai, promising technology-led governance to make it a "global powerhouse", a 50 percent......

'We Have To Blame Ourselves, Not Macaulay'

'We kept importing educational models from outside that had no connection to our cultural and intellectual strengths.' IMAGE: Professor V N Jha. Photograph: Shivanand Kanavi Professor V N Jha is......

How Modi Changed Indian Politics

In the last 11 years, India and the world witnessed what he stood for, what he promised and did not deliver, and what he actually stood for and practised without fearing how history would judge......

Indira Gandhi Or Modi: Who's India's Strongest PM?

Mrs Gandhi's power ebbed and peaked with the times. Mr Modi's has almost been constant, barring the few months of hard dip after the 240 seats of 2024, points out Shekhar Gupta. IMAGE: Prime......

The Hindu family war may become legal battle

Key members of the family and directors on the board of Kasturi & Sons, who are opposed to the Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of the group publications, N Ram, are considering moving the Company Law......

Rs 2000 note: Hoax or real?

Twitter is abuzz with images of supposed new Rs 2,000 notes On October 21, The Hindu BusinessLine had reported that notes of Rs 2000 denomination would be in circulation soon. The report had also......

Infosys' Kris Gopalakrishnan praises Modi

Infosys executive co-chairman and president of the Confederation of Indian Industries Kris Gopalakrishnan on Friday heaped praise on Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, describing him as ‘a......

India to miss deficit target: S&P

International rating agency Standard & Poor's has said India's budget deficit is likely to exceed the government's target of 4.3 per cent for the current fiscal year, which ends in March, a......

The Gentle Colossus Of Tamil Cinema

Whether it was in the company of superstars Rajinikanth and Kamal Haasan -- or, on rare occasions with both together, among others -- Saravanan's demeanour would stand out, recalls N Sathiya......

Akhanda 2 Review: Barely Watchable

Akhanda 2: Thandavam may appeal to Nandamuri Balakrishna's fans and will be a madcap awakening for those uninitiated in Boyapati Sreenu's no goofball ideas in constructing action, notes Arjun......

Will Thalapathy Vijay Take A Plunge Into Politics?

At the Leo fete, Vijay had this to tell his fans: 'I know you all are in my heart. But today, I also know that I am also in the hearts of all of you...'A typical politician's line, did you say,......

'God willing, there will Gadar 3, maybe even Gadar 4'

'Gadar 2 was made with the purpose of entertaining people and not to perpetuate enmity between neighbouring countries.' IMAGE: Writer Shaktimaan with Sunny Deol on the sets of Gadar 2. Photograph:......

Radhika Yadav was just a co-actor: Music video producer

'This incident is being given a Hindu-Muslim angle too. I don't know why it is being done. I don't have anything to do with this case...' IMAGE: Radhika Yadav had acted in a music video with......