IIT-Guwahati students launch indefinite stir against 'steep fee hike'

The research scholars and post-graduate students of Indian Institute of Technology-Guwahati have resorted to an indefinite sit-in protest, which continued for the second day on Wednesday, against a......

Just 10.5 cm rainfall wrecks Bengaluru even before monsoon arrives

Monsoon is yet to set in, but already the rain has put Bengaluru's administrators in a tight spot. Even with an average rainfall of 10.5 cm on Sunday night, the city found itself deploying dinghies......

Woman 'herself invited trouble', says HC; grants bail to rape accused

The Allahabad high court has granted bail to a rape accused, observing that the complainant "herself invited trouble" by agreeing to go to the applicant's house after getting drunk, the news coming......

'We Have Begged For Justice'

'Justice may or may not happen, but who are those people who did this to her?''If the hospital authorities had helped us that day, or the police, then the real culprits would have been......

Classic: Love, longing and disillusionment in Gharonda

In this series, we re-visit great Hindi film classics. Today, we look back at Amol Palekar and Zarina Wahab starrer Gharonda (1977).Sometime back I discovered a diary maintained by my father in the......

'I said I'll do Baghban if I got maximum scenes with Amitabh Bachchan'

'I got an offer to do a cameo in Jassi Jaisi Koi Nahin.''I did it just to get out of my house, and so that my parents would not see me so depressed.' IMAGE: Samir Soni. Making a career in......

'If I had to be trashy, I'd be the best trash'

'I always gave my best, even to what people considered to be trashy content.' IMAGE: Mita Vashisht in Criminal Justice. "When I was 33, I remember going to Govind Nihalani's house in the night to......

The actor who became a chowkidar

'My fate could have been much worse.' IMAGE: Savi Sidhu. Photograph: Ronjita Kulkarni/Rediff.com It is rare to see an actor, who played Mumbai's police commissioner in an acclaimed film, play a......