Manish Tewari 'not surprised' at being left out of Cong list

A day after the Congress omitted his name from its list of star campaigners for the upcoming Punjab polls, senior party leader Manish Tewari on Saturday said he would have been 'pleasantly......

Former President Pranab Mukherjee's son Abhijit joins TMC

Former President Pranab Mukherjee's son and ex-Congress MP Abhijit Mukherjee joined the Trinamool Congress on Monday. IMAGE: Trinamool Congress Lok Sabha MP Sudip Bandopadhyay greets son of......

Pranab vs Sonia-Rahul: Who won?

Pranabda hasn't given us any indication of the tough period when he realised Sonia Gandhi had decided to give the presidency not to him, but to then vice-president Hamid Ansari. He wrested the......

Congress lost political focus before 2014 polls: Pranab in memoir

The Congress had lost political focus after his elevation as the President and some party members believed that had he become the prime minister in 2004, the 2014 Lok Sabha poll debacle could have......

The rift between Chidambaram, Pranab Mukherjee grows wider

Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh is under tremendous pressure from Congress MPs to contain Finance Minister P Chidambaram for attributing Pranab Mukherjee 'regime' for the economic slowdown.Five......

Budget 2012: No birdies, only the bunker!

Pranab Mukherjee may not know golf but he could sure have tried to swing a few big bang reforms. Instead he produced a budget with a swing that seems to have missed the ball, the result a very nuts......

If India became world's 3rd largest economy. . .

With minimum fuss and hardly any noise or bragging, China informed the globe that it is now the world's second largest economy. Now imagine, if India became the world's third largest economy what......

Didi just can't do without Pranabda

For the past one-and-a-half months, railway minister Mamata Banerjee has stopped her informal interactions with finance minister Pranab Mukherjee after a sharp exchange on telephone over a......

A dancer with Olympic dreams!

Pooja Kanwal is fast becoming a rising star on television. Her show Palampur Express, a daily show on Sony Entertainment Television, is becoming quite popular, thanks to its unique story of a......

Meet the sexy siren in Black Stallion

After sizzling in Tamil and Telugu films, sexy Namitha has now set her sights on Malayalam. The sexy siren is currently shooting for her maiden venture in Malayalam, Black Stallion, directed by......

'Men are from mars and women are from heaven'

Akshay Kumar gives us action, romance and comedy, all packaged in the same film, Kambakkht Ishq. The film also features the glamorous Kareena Kapoor and Hollywood stars Sylvester Stallone, Denise......

Cheran's Pokkisham, an ode to pure love

Cheran, a man from a sleepy small village in Tamil Nadu came to Chennai in 1997 with his first film Bharati Kannamma and won the heart of all Tamils. Now, the filmmaker is almost ready with his......

'The nation has lost a brilliant leader': Virat, Sachin pay tribute

IMAGE: India captain Virat Kohli receives the Padma Shri from President Pranab Mukherjee at the Rashtrapati Bhavan in 2017. Photograph: Press Information Bureau/Instagram Olympic medallists Sushil......

Track and field goes nuts over Bolt

When Usain Bolt blazed to glory at the Beijing Olympics, he was feted as the hero his tainted sport had been crying out for. Now, having repeated them in Berlin, he can consider himself the saviour......

Spotted: Sourav Ganguly at Vienna airport

Reader Shahid Kazi sent us these photographs from Vienna. 'We ran into Sourav Ganguly at the Vienna airport on Saturday, June 15, 2009,' writes...