Nitish Kumar: Longest-serving Bihar CM despite JD-U's majority challenges

Janata Dal-United president Nitish Kumar has distinguished himself as a leader who ruled Bihar for the longest time, without his party having ever won a majority on its own. IMAGE: Bihar acting CM......

Dalai Lama successor must be from within China, needs govt nod: Beijing

China on Friday asserted that any successor to 88-year-old Dalai Lama should be from within the country and his heir needs to have its approval, as it projected the strategically-located Tibet......

2 more Oppn parties join INDIA, take number to 28

Ahead of the crucial third round of discussions, the opposition INDIA bloc on Wednesday exuded confidence that it would provide a formidable alternative to bring political change in the country and......

Modi's guarantee India will be 3rd largest economy in BJP's 3rd term, says PM

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday made a strong pitch for a third term for his government, promising to make India the world's third-largest economy with a faster-than-now pace of growth......

Pathaan Is About Shah Rukh's Life

More than anything else, Pathaan is a silent and subtle statement of Shah Rukh Khan about his place, his commitment to cinema and, if one can say, his politics, observes Mohammad Asim Siddiqui.......

The BEST Indian Films of 2021

Aseem Chhabra lists his favourite Indian films of 2021. Aseem's Best International Films of 2021 In the second year of the pandemic when movie theatres remained closed for an extended period of......

TOP 20 Indian Movies of the Decade

Sreehari Nair presents his Top 20 movies of the decade. The story of Indian Cinema in this decade pivots around the Nirbhaya Case of 2012. The sheer brutality of that incident coupled with the......

'Independence is a state of mind we Indians have not understood'

'Freedom of expression is not a freedom to abuse those who do not agree with you.''It is also about being liberated from prejudices and intolerance.''To me, freedom is the right to be who I am and......

My Daughter Mithali Raj

'From the beginning (I have told her) "Whatever it may be -- you are losing or winning -- on the ground you're not going to cry!" She never cried.''"I don't want you to project that you are a......