Bengali directors end strike, Tollywood resumes work

Shooting of Bengali television serials of the Bengal entertainment industry resumed in and around Kolkata on Wednesday after the indefinite cease work by directors ended following the intervention......

Is Bill Gates A Hero Or Villain?

There is no shortage of books on the Microsoft founder, but this latest one is different in that it paints Mr Gates in shades of grey, leaving it to readers to make their own judgement about the......

Gen AI Governance Is A Global Challenge

What all global leaders need to understand is that no Generative AI regulation will work unless they start with the basics, which is data collection, asserts Prosenjit Datta. IMAGE: Kindly note......

Safety Isn't A High Priority In India

Despite the hope that lessons will be learnt, the next accident invariably shows that nothing has been learnt -- or if learnt, they have been ignored, observes Prosenjit Datta. IMAGE: The......

How not to be a shoddy manufacturing nation

If India wants to become a globally competitive manufacturing hub, it will have to rethink the notion that the traditional SMEs will form the manufacturing backbone, argues Prosenjit Datta. IMAGE:......

ABP Group sells Businessworld magazine

The ABP Group on Thursday sold Businessworld magazine to Anurag Batra and Vikram Jhunjhunwala for an undisclosed amount. Batra and Jhunjhunwala have bought Businessworld from ABP on behalf of some......

As trouble brews for the Big 4, VCs, start-ups wait with bated breath

Amazon, Google, Apple and Facebook are both a boon and a bane for angel investors, VCs as well as start-ups. If the Big Tech companies get broken up and their powers to acquire get significantly......

Should Big Tech be broken up?

Are the big five using their dominance to shut out rivals? That is the key question, says Prosenjit Datta. Photograph: Reuters   Has Big Tech become too powerful? Should Facebook, Google......

Why Rajkummar Became A Gangster

'It's rare for an actor to find something new to break an image.' IMAGE: Rajkummar Rao and Manushi Chhillar at the Maalik trailer launch. Photograph: Hitesh Harisinghani/Rediff The humble......

Review: Can't Root For This Maalik

Maalik is just unpleasant, not even slightly engaging, observes Deepa Gahlot. The son of an oppressed farmer decides to go rogue and give himself the title of Maalik. There is class and caste......

'For Me, It's The Story, Director, Producer'

'A story has to do something within me for me to say yes to it.' IMAGE: Rajkummar Rao and Manushi Chillar in Maalik. Rajkummar Rao has acknowledged a decline in parallel/art cinema movies in his......

'Corruption Is No Longer A Bad Word'

'When India opened its doors to the world, moving away from an agrarian to a market economy, everything, whether life or love, was commodified.' IMAGE: Nana Patekar and Rekha in Yatra. In the......

PIX: Bollywood and IPL! What a sizzling combo!

Indian Premier League always have a strong connection with Bollywood. The stars add glamour in almost every match. The cash-rich league has paved way for amazing fusion of cricket and films. First......

AFC U-16 Championship Qualifiers: India thrash Bhutan 8-1

Rising high on Prosenjit Chakborty's hat-trick, India registered 8-1 victory against Bhutan in their third match of the U-16 AFC Qualifiers in KuwaitCity on Friday night. Courtesy the victory......

AFC U-16 Qualifiers: Superlative India held by Tajikistan

India put up a spirited performance to eke out a 1-1 draw against Tajikistan in the opening match of the 2013 AFC U-16 Qualifiers at the Ali Sabah Al-Salem Stadium in Kuwait City on Saturday.......

U-16 SAFF C'ship: India beat Afghanistan, enter final

India defeated Afghanistan 4-3 on penalities to enter the final of the SAFF U-16 Championship football to set up a clash against hosts Nepal, in Kathmandu on Sunday. The final will be played on......

I-League: Venkatesh takes Pune FC past ONGC

Pune FC rode on to Shanmugham Venkatesh's 71st minute strike to win their I-League season-opening match against ONGC FC 3-2, after surviving 15-odd anxious minuteswhen theywerereduced to ten men,......