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PM inaugurates sound and light show at Howrah Bridge

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday inaugurated a sound and light show at the iconic Howrah Bridge from the Millenium Park on the banks of the Ganga in Kolkata. Photograph: PIB......

Mahatma Gandhi like you have never seen before

As India celebrates Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi’s 150th birth anniversary, here are some rare photographs of the Father of the Nation released by Photodivision. On this day, let us remember......

How to make the people use toilets

How does a country make its people use toilets? Blaming and shaming is not the way. Lack of sanitation is leading to avoidable deaths of infants, and underweight and stunted children. IMAGE:......

Who killed India's 1857 legacy?

Human Resources Department Minister Arjun Singh's statement on 1857's 150th anniversary celebrations is a huge letdown -- it has confirmed what scholars and intellectuals working on 1857 feared --......

First Prez's home, now a museum

The Archeological Survey of India willconvert India's first president Rajendra Prasad's ancestral house into a museum. The house is in Prasad's hometown Ziradei in Bihar's Siwan district. It is the......

Swiggy sets up development centre in Gurugram, home turf of rival Zomato

The centre in Gurugram will focus on building platforms and applications that will improve the overall experience of Swiggy's more than 150,000 restaurant partners across 500 cities and towns in......

UIDAI devises a method to retrieve lost Aadhaar numbers

Under the new method, a person can put in the biometrics and the system will keep prompting for more demographic details till the back-end server zeros down to 10 possible matches. The Unique......

BHAG and how not to manage the economy

GST, a much needed reform that widens the tax net, promises to strangle many legitimate businesses while they wait for the tax administration and systems to catch up, says Rahul Jacob.......

The crackdown on black money and its impact

The crackdown on black money has manifested itself in a doubling in outward remittances as black money attempts to leave India, say Saurabh Mukherjea and Ritika Mankar-Mukherjee. ......

India's GDP to expand at 7.5% in 2017-18: Jaitley

Indian economy will grow at a clip of 7.5 per cent this fiscal, up from 7.1 per cent in the previous year, and remains resilient with low inflation, fiscal prudence and low deficit, Union Finance......

Nayanthara to be paid Rs 3 crore for Chiranjeevi-starrer?

The latest updates from the Tamil film industry. Nayanthara has reportedly bagged the coveted role in Telugu superstar Chiranjeevi’s comeback film. This will be Chiranjeevi’s 150th......

Puri Jagannadh to direct Chiranjeevi's 150th film

A lowdown on what's going on in the Telugu film industry. There has been much speculation about megastar Chiranjeevi’s 150th film. Fans and others have been waiting......

Vijay Hazare: Srijith's150 eclipses Shreyas' ton as Karnataka win

IMAGE: KL Shrijith, who was bought by Mumbai Indians for Rs 30 lakh in the recent IPL auction, hammered 150 off 101 balls with 20 fours and four sixes to help Karnataka scale down 383 with 3.4......

Shreyas slams ton, sends strong message to selectors

IMAGE: Shreyas Iyer scored a quick-fire century off 101 balls, capitalising on an underwhelming bowling display. Photograph: Shreyas Iyer/Instagram Shreyas Iyer is on fire in the 2024 Ranji......

Women's WC: South Africa win thriller against New Zealand

IMAGE: South Africa's players celebrate the wicket of Sophie Devine of New Zealand during the 2022 ICC Women's Cricket World Cup match at Seddon Park in Hamilton, on Thursday. Photograph: Andy......

Singapore in the driving seat as it negotiates new F1 deal

'This is one of the top ranked Grand Prix ... and one of the markets that the key sponsors of F1 are most interested in.' Singapore race is one of the most popular, taking place at night on a......

Philander, Rabada rip through Sri Lanka

IMAGE: Kagiso Rabada, left, celebrates with team mates after taking the wicket of Dinesh Chandimal. Photograph: Mike Hutchings/Reuters Vernon Philander and Kagiso Rabada claimed four wickets each......