Karpoori Thakur: Jan Nayak who is revered across ideologies

Chosen for the country's highest civilian award Bharat Ratna a day ahead of his birth anniversary, Karpoori Thakur has been the veritable 'Jan Nayak' or people's hero of politics in Bihar, whose......

Karpoori Thakur and the power of street politics

'Karpoori Thakur must be remembered by people today who are tired of witnessing fractious politics where corruption, bigotry, hatred and violence seems to have become distressingly recurrent,' says......

Toll mounts to 146 in Indore-Patna Express derailment

The death toll on Monday mounted to 146 in the Indore-Patna Express derailment in Kanpur rural area as rescuers wrapped up their operation with little hope of finding any survivor after overnight......

Survivors recount horror while frantic kin search for loved ones

Distraught relatives of people on board the ill-fated Indore-Patna Express who have still not been united with their family, searched frantically for their loved ones on Monday, a day after the......

Reliance, Cidco in spat over SEZ land deal delay

Reliance Industries and the Maharashtra urban development ministry are locked in a war of attrition over the delay in allotment of 1,250 hectares of land land for the special economic zone at Navi......

Is Deepika the new Sita?

Photograph: Kind courtesy Deepika Padukone/Instagram Once upon a time, Deepika Chikhalia inscribed her name into history by playing Sita Maiyya in Ramanand Sagar's long-running......

His first film made Rs 175 crores!

'We had decided that if the audience liked Stree, then after two or three years we would plan a sequel.''Because of the kind of reaction we received for the film we have already started work on......