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Salute! India's First Ethnic Gorkha General

Lieutenant General Shakti Gurung deserves to be complimented in telling his life story and that of his people, as subaltern communities within this vast and diverse nation of ours clamour for......

LTTE chief Prabhakaran alive, claims Tamil leader, but finds few takers

Fourteen years after the Sri Lankan government announced his death, a veteran Tamil nationalist leader claimed in Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, on Monday that Velupillai Prabhakaran, the leader of Eelam......

Gotabaya sworn in as Sri Lanka's President

IMAGE: Gotabaya Rajapaksa addresses the nation at the presidential swearing-in ceremony in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka, on Monday. Photograph: Dinuka Liyanawatte/ Reuters Gotabaya Rajapaksa was......

New Sri Lanka Prez to visit India on Nov 29: Jaishankar

Newly-elected Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa will travel to India on November 29 at the invitation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, external affairs minister S Jaishankar said on Tuesday.......

Mahinda Rajapaksa takes oath as Sri Lankan PM

Mahinda Rajapaksa was sworn in on Sunday as Sri Lanka's new prime minister at a centuries-old Buddhist temple after his party won a landslide victory in parliamentary elections that allowed the......

India's most astute deal maker is now a bankrupt entrepreneur

A look at the life and times of maverick businessman Chinnakannan Sivasankaran Chinnakannan Sivasankaran On August 26, the Supreme Court of Seychelles declared Chinnakannan Sivasankaran, better......

'One Actor Can Only Do So Much Work'

'I had not even realised I had done almost 100 films.' Photograph: Kind courtesy Pankaj Tripathi/Instagram Pankaj Tripathi revealed that wooing his wife Mridula was far more difficult than wooing......

The Kiss Girl Hema Malini Took Panga With

'Dharmendra was paying a little extra attention to me and she didn't like it.' IMAGE: Sonia Sahni in Maya. She did a kissing scene in the 1960s, and was promptly nicknamed the 'Kiss Girl'. But......

'Picturein Bhi Toh Bana Mere Bhai'

IMAGE: Karan Johar and Shah Rukh Khan. Photograph: Kind courtesy Karan Johar/Instagram Shah Rukh Khan teased his friend and film-maker Karan Johar for hosting more chat shows and directing lesser......

Watched These Amazing 2022 Movies?

As the pandemic slowed down in 2022, people across the world came back to movie theatres. This summer, Tom Cruise's refurbished Top Gun: Maverick became a huge global hit. And just around the time......

Can You Watch 384 Films In A Year?

Aseem Chhabra watched some great films and some huge disappointments in 2021. IMAGE: Aditya Rao Hydari and Konkona Sensharma in Ajeeb Daastaans. Year two of the pandemic was a challenge in so many......

Indian football: NorthEast United stun Mumbai City

NorthEast do a double against mighty Mumbai with 2-1 victory IMAGE: NorthEast is the only side who have managed to win against the might of the table-toppers. Photograph: ISL/Twitter......

Movie on Hansie Cronje nears completion

For Hansie Cronje, the lure oflucre proved fatal. From beinghero one day tovillain the next,itall wentwrong for the late South Africa cricket captain. Now his brother Frans Cronje isset to bring......

PIX: Germany qualify for 2022 World Cup; Croatia draw

Images from the World Cup qualifying matches played on Monday. IMAGE: Germany, who were eliminated in the first round of the 2018 World Cup and the last 16 at this year's Euros, became the first......

Fowler suspended for 4 games, fined for anti-ref comments

IMAGE: East Bengal coach Robbie Fowler. Photograph: Denis Balibouse/Reuters/Files East Bengal football club's high-profile English coach Robbie Fowler was on Wednesday suspended for four matches......

India eye series lead as they move to Antigua for 3rd ODI

IMAGE: Virat Kohli pulls a shot. Photograph: BCCI/Twitter A formidable India will fancy their chances of taking an unassailable 2-0 lead against a weakened West Indies when the two sides lock......