How Congress is targeting 150m first-time voters

Congress chief Rahul Gandhi has taken to invest in young people from non-dynastic backgrounds to build a core team of 100-odd youths in every state who believe in the Congress party’s......

What went wrong for the Congress?

'Modi's more than dozen interviews are helping him fine-tune the rough edges of his campaign. He is trying to influence floating voters, undecided voters, non-committal and caste-neutral voters......

Indian Americans make it big under President Obama

The small Indian-American community -- constituting just about one per cent of the US population -- never had it so good as under the Barack Obama administration, with a record number of community......

Bobby Jindal is India Abroad Person of the Year

Special messages from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President GeorgeBush were the highlight of the India Abroad annual awards conferred at a gala banquet at the Hotel New York Palace, which was......

Markets end at 2-month high; Sensex rallies 332 points on rate cut hope

  Jewellery stocks surged across the board after the 18-day long strike by jewellers ended on Saturday night. Markets finished the session on a strong note as clamours for higher than......

'I give him A+ for his speech'

Modi’s statement that ‘California is where the sun sets last and new ideas see the first light of the day,’ drew huge applause 'It is a good thing for India that it has a leader......

Bloodbath on Dalal Street; investors poorer by Rs 221,268 lakh crore

The Bombay Stocks Exchange S&P BSE Sensex plunged by over 750 points, or 4%, its biggest fall in four years, to end at 18,598 on fear that the roll-back of US stimulus could spark selling pressure......

Steel: Will the big bets pay off?

This is not the first time that Indian steel companies have announced grand plans to increase capacities.They did so with a vengeance in the mid-nineties, and the result was a steel glut that......

Hundred review

Hundred is all fun as it lasts, says Joginder Tuteja. There is this girl, who is in her early 20s, with a heart that is as pure as it gets. Then there is this woman in her mid-30s, who doesn't......

16 shows to watch during the lockdown

Nikita Puri lists the best shows and films to watch online as you ace social distancing. Be it videos of penguins being taken for walks around the zoo or cats playing games with their humans, the......

Fine directors get together in Mumbai Cutting

The Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (IFFLA) will see an unusual film make its world premiere. Mumbai Cutting has been directed by some of the most reputed directors like Sudhir Mishra......

Dil Dosti: Brainless college flick

Spare us from the C-grade college/hostel-life movies. Especially when the central character has some obscure philosophy on life and love and acting ability of a sleeping pill. And can someone tell......