Top-level bureaucratic reshuffle at Centre, Pant named new health secretary

Senior IAS officer Sudhansh Pant has been named as the new health secretary as part of a top-level bureaucratic reshuffle effected by the Centre on Tuesday. IMAGE: : Prime Minister Narendra Modi......

AIE crash: Black box recovered, probe underway; toll rises to 18

Investigators on Saturday recovered the Digital Flight Data Recorder and Cockpit Voice Recorder, also called the black box, from the ill-fated Boeing 737 that could provide vital clues in the crash......

Sedition case against celebs who wrote to PM on lynchings

A first information report has been lodged in Bihar's Muzaffarpur against nearly 50 celebrities, including Aparna Sen, Adoor Gopalakrishnan and Ramchandra Guha for alleged sedition after they wrote......

Are Indian nuclear weapons facilities safe?

Parliament must insist that the government should direct its Department of Atomic Energy to immediately examine and make recommendations to the government on the structure of an independent......

Sachin Tendulkar invests $2 mn in JetSynthesys

With this investment, Tendulkar joins the bandwagon of existing shareholders of JetSynthesys, who include Adar Poonawalla, Kris Gopalakrishnan, etc. Sachin Tendulkar has recently made an equity......

'Kris' Gopalakrishnan is first chair of RBI's innovation hub

Senapathy (Kris) Gopalakrishnan, co-founder and former co-chairman, Infosys, has been appointed as the first chairperson of the Reserve Bank Innovation Hub. In August, the central bank had......

Infosys co-founder Shibulal receives over 4 lakh company shares as 'gift'

Infosys co-founder S D Shibulal has received little over four lakh shares of the company as a gift, taking the total number of shares owned by him to more than 21.6 lakh shares, according to a......

How Mahabharata applies to board of directors

Many lay folks cannot fathom the arcane language of the corporate governance brouhaha. I found that a mythological story connects very well, says R Gopalakrishnan. Illustration: Dominic......

Nagpur to PK, Rajkumar Hirani's amazing journey

As Rajkumar Hirani's PK gets ready for release, we re-publish our special on the director, published in December 2009.   Barring a Shah Rukh Khan, an Akshay Kumar or a Preity Zinta, it is......

Review: Singam 2 roars louder than ever

Suriya's charisma and director Hari Gopalakrishnan’s brilliant screenplay make Tamil film Singam 2 a joyful experience, says S Saraswathi. Duraisingam, the much-loved character of the......

Where Biutiful meets Elektra

Rajeev Srinivasan on one of the best film festivals in India. Perhaps the International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK) has an outsize reputation because of the dedicated army of cineastes and......

A taste of Cannes in India

Rajeev Srinivasan on one of the best film festivals in India. This is the second year in a row that I have managed to make it to the International Film Festival of Kerala in Trivandrum from......