To mark World Whiskey Day, a toast to its memorable imagery in Hindi films.
Sukanya Verma quizzes you to find out just how much you know about the movies.
Does the "story" of a Mani Ratnam film come first or does its "spirit" asks Sreehari Nair.
There have been media reports that the LJP was unhappy over the return of the Hindustani Awam Morcha-Secular into the National Democratic Alliance fold and contempleting fielding candidates against JD-U nominees.
'Under the more strident Modi version of Hindutva, Nehru has almost become a contemporary political figure.' 'The ruling party knows that without total erasure and distortion of Nehru, their fantasies will always be wobbly.'
We celebrate 50 years of Amitabh Bachchan by testing you on how well you actually know him!
'It was one of the most difficult and complex songs of my career.'
A total of 71 assembly segments of the state's 243 constituencies are voting in the first phase in which nearly 2.15 crore voters will decide the electoral fate of over 1,000 candidates.
'He could memorise a song in any language, but he understood the feelings behind the words in every language.'
With their high-decibel campaigns so far, the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Samajwadi Party may appear to be locked in a direct fight in Uttar Pradesh.
Sukanya Verma presents a super fun Bollywood quiz, where all you have to is identify the movie by looking at the still.
The sitarist, considered among the greatest sitar players alongside Ustad Vilayat Khan, Ravi Shankar and Nikhil Banerjee, belonged to Jaipur's Senia Gharana of music started by the descendants of Tansen's family and known for working towards preserving the purity of ragas.
Legendary Bengali semi-classical singer Sandhya Mukherjee, who had worked with leading music directors such as S D Burman, Naushad and Salil Chaudhury died on Tuesday evening following a massive cardiac arrest, leaving behind millions of mourning fans of all ages across borders.
Lalu Prasad's eldest daughter Misa Bharti, a Rajya Sabha MP, and elder son Tej Pratap Yadav have been omitted from RJD's star campaigners' list released on Thursday for the upcoming by-elections to a couple of assembly seats in Bihar, a development seen as an attempt to push them to the margins in an intra-family feud to control the single largest party in the state assembly.
Sukanya Verma shows us some eye-catching instances.
Oscar winners, festival favourites, massy entertainers, all-time classics, Sukanya Verma offers plenty to pick from on OTT this week.
Pancham, like his father, was besotted by Lata Mangeshkar's voice and his career's finest songs were reserved only for her.
We asked you, dear readers, to send us videos of your school-going kid singing the National Anthem.
President Ram Nath Kovind presented Padma awards to 73 individuals, some posthumously, at a ceremony held in the Rashtrapati Bhavan here on Monday.
As many as 13 (93%) are crorepatis with their average assets pegged at Rs 3.93 crores, the report said.
Despite the BJP emerging as the largest party in the ruling alliance with 74 seats, 31 more than the JDU, the top leadership of the saffron party, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has emphatically endorsed Kumar as the next chief minister.
With four seats each won by junior allies Hindustani Awam Morcha-Secular and Vikassheel Insaan Party, the NDA bagged 125 seats in its kitty, three more than the number required for a simple majority.
Joginder Tuteja looks back at all the lesser known films Bollywood's leading men debuted in.
The Dadasaheb Phalke International Film Festival awards were held in Mumbai, and saw a mix of film and television stars in attendance.
The authorities in Bihar have registered an FIR against Khan Sir and five teachers for allegedly inciting violence over the controversy surrounding the results of tests conducted by the RRB-NTPC after the recent violent protests in Patna.
'The Afghans used to say that if there is any person whose name should be taken after Allah, it is Hindustani.'
'We brought melody back to Hindi cinema and our songs which came straight from the heart, be it Papa Kehte Hain, Aye Mere Humsafar, Ghazab Ka Hai Din or Akele Hain To Kya Gham Hai, resonates even today.'
There is more to Arshad Warsi than meets the eye. Much more.
He, however, said that there have been some 'false cases' of lynching at times that have been filed against some people. Addressing a book-release function in Ghaziabad, Bhagwat said the DNA of all Indians are the same.
Illayaraja, 74, who has been conferred with Padma Bhushan in 2009, was selected for Padma Vibhushan, the second highest civilian award after Bharat Ratna.
A senior BJP leader from Bihar said that a strategy has been worked out to ensure Tejashwi's defeat from the Raghopur seat in Vaishali district, from where he is also the sitting MLA.
Musicians from across the world will gather in Goa for the Ketevan World Sacred Music Festival.
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday sacked its recalcitrant Bihar member of legislative council Tunnaji Pandey whose utterances against Chief Minister Nitish Kumar were putting a strain on the tenuous relations between the two alliance partners.
Amitabh Bachchan completes 50 years in Hindi cinema on November 7 and remains one of the busiest actors till today.
Sukanya Verma lists significant memories in our 1996 recap.
Designer Gaurang Shah brought traditional India alive on the ramp in the most stunning manner.
During the captaincy task, Asim Riaz and Shefali Jariwala have a showdown after which the latter declares that she no longer wants to share an equation with him.
The Delhi high court on Monday refused to stay an order of a trial court directing Indian Medical Association (IMA) president J A Jayalal not to use the organisation's platform to propagate any religion and cautioning him that loose comments cannot be expected from a person chairing the responsible post.
After Prime Minister Modi performed the bhoomi puja for the Ram temple, Lata Mangeshkar picked her favourite Ram bhajans.
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