'A bus driver should possess a comprehensive road plan: Toll plazas, major hospitals, road conditions, repairs, diversions, and dangerous areas.''Only through such preparation can we save......
'If Uddhav bhau and Raj bhau come together, who can stop us?' Prasanna D Zore reports on the fervour and hope set off by the Thackeray cousins coming together. IMAGE: Shiv Sena-UBT chief......
Thanks to a close one's illness, I have seen quite a few hospital rooms in the past half a year or so.They have revived my respect for life reinterpreted via its essentials, notes Shyam G Menon.......
'Does 99 percent guarantee character and capacity for an independent awareness of life or does it make you -- barring exceptions -- a compliant careerist beholden to governments and......
'We accept EVMs cannot be hacked because it is not connected, but can they be manipulated? Are you allowing us to check if EVMs can be manipulated?' IMAGE: An electoral official shows the EVM to......
Sebi chairperson Madhabi Puri Buch on Wednesday said any business on the 'black box' model that cannot be audited or validated will not be permitted. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com She......
Much of this has been made possible by the owners's insistence on building a team, rather than banking on a collection of talented individuals not necessarily suited to play alongside one......
Kolkata trams -- now in their 150th year -- are the last to survive modernity in Indian cities, writes Ishita Ayan Dutt. IMAGE: Tram at Esplanade depot in Kolkata. All photographs: Hitesh......
After Indian Institute of TechnologyDelhi, IIT Kanpur, Indian School of Business and Management, Hyderabadand National Stock Exchange, it was the turn of students of the Vinod Gupta School of......
Mumbai's famous dabbawalas are reinventing themselves to meet the challenge posed by food delivery portals. Image: Prince charles meets dabbawallahs, who deliver meals to office workers......
A hero with a heart, and remained one till the end. IMAGE: Dharmendra. Photograph: Kind courtesy Film History Pics/Instagram "No conversation with the actor, a Sher Dil, who in the 1976 film Maa......
In 1973, Mumtaz, Raakhee, Jaya Bhaduri, Dimple Kapadia, Tanuja, married and retired from films.Producers wanted a new heroine as a replacement.Many thought Sulakshana was a Mumtaz lookalike and was......
'Why don't I organise an auction of cinematic memorabilia?' recalls Dinesh Raheja.'There are sure to be legions of film buffs who will cherish the chance to own souvenirs intimately associated with......
'People ask me about my biggest action sequence; this is it, because it involved two giants of Indian cinema.' IMAGE: Shah Rukh Khan's action stunt in Ra.One. Photograph: Kind courtesy Parvez......
'I played five different versions of Woh Subah Kabhie Toh Aayegi for Raj Kapoor, only to be greeted with a totally blank reaction.''Thereafter, for 40 minutes, he disappeared, leaving us......
'We all make mistakes, but what is important is that you've got to get that out of your mind before the next ball commences.'K R Nayar recalls his many encounters with Dickie Bird, the legendary......
IMAGE: The football-mad city of Kolkata will be the first stop in Lionel Messi's whirlwind trip named 'GOAT Tour of India 2025', followed by Ahmedabad, Mumbai and New Delhi. Photograph: Sam......
With a view to break the impasse over the governing of boxing in the country, newly-formed and registered Boxing Federation of India has called for elections in Mumbai on September 25. "The Boxing......
IMAGE: Ratan Tata with former Jamshedpur FC coach Steve Coppell during launch of the football club in 2017. Photograph: Jamshedpur FC Fans/Instagram From the time Sir Dorabji Tata sponsored a......
Indian boxing finally came out of an administrative exile after the International body AIBA gave provisional recognition to the newly-elected Boxing India, clearing the decks for the the country's......