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Phir Ek Baar Modi Sarkar, says PM after poll dates announced

Asserting that the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance is fully prepared for the general elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday slammed the opposition as......

Nitish breaks silence on Kharge to be made PM face of INDIA

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday rubbished speculations that he felt having been passed over at Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA)'s meeting in Delhi last week when......

Dying for nation: Parl breach accused Sagar Sharma's 2015 diary note

Sagar Sharma, one of the two men who had jumped into the Lok Sabha chamber and set off smoke canisters, maintained for some years a diary in which he often wrote "Inquilab Zindabad" on top of the......

UP temple purified with 'Ganga jal' after Muslim MLA's visit

A temple in Uttar Pradesh's Siddharthnagar district was 'purified' with Ganga jal after a visit by a Muslim MLA of the Samajwadi Party. IMAGE: SP's Doomariyaganj MLA Sayeda Khatoon (right).......

After big setback, rescuers now prepare for vertical drilling

The operation to rescue 41 workers trapped in the Silkyara tunnel may take a long time with the auger machine for horizontal drilling facing repeated hurdles, and rescuers are now preparing to......

How Skymet weathered the storm

If Jatin Singh is right in the long run and his morphed business can help reduce farmer distress, Skymet will provide a service of far more value from where it began Where you start, where you......

Modi reforms flicker in rural India, other big challenges remain

While many promises remain unrealised, power reforms and the creation of tens of millions of new bank accounts have helped Modi maintain his popularity, say Tommy Wilkes and Rupam Jain. For Indian......

Saradha scam: Where has all the money gone?

It was a multi-million rupee scam whose extent and reach are still being unravelled, so why did the chief of the scam-tainted Saradha group Sudipta Sen plead that he was unable to pay Rs 30,000 as......

Saradha scam: CBI to quiz Suvaprasanna

Artist Suvaprasanna Bhattacharya, known to be close to the Trinamool Congress leadership, has been summoned by the Central Bureau Investigation for his dealings with Saradha’s Sudipta......

What Silence Means To Manoj, Prachi

IMAGE: Manoj Bajpayee and Prachi Desai. Photograph: Hitesh Harisinghani/Rediff.com When Silence: Can You Hear It released in 2021, it got some good reviews. The song-less thriller, by......

Get Your Sex Education On OTT

Thank You For Coming recently discussed female desire and a 32-year-old woman's lack of an orgasm despite a vigorous sex life. Quite a few Hindi films have taken up issues related with sex, and......

Why Are Bollywood Marriages In Trouble These Days?

For many years, in Bollywood cinema that loved families, divorce was a dirty word. Of course, that did not mean marriages could not be strained and couples had to obey the happily-ever-after rule......

Why Madhoo Quit Acting So Abruptly

'A feeling of dissatisfaction had set in. I believed the flood of offers coming my way didn't do justice to my talent.' Photograph: Kind courtesy Madhoo Shah/Instagram One still remembers her......

Take This Bollywood Quiz Now!

Sukanya Verma quizzes you to find out just how much you know about the movies. Add an extra feather to your cap by acing our fun and filmi quiz of the week. You know the drill. Identify the movie......

More than me, I am happy for my father: Sarfaraz

IMAGE: Sarfaraz Khan with his father Naushad and wife Romana Zahoor ahead of start of Day 1 of the third Test against England in Rajkot on Thursday. Photograph: BCCI Sarfaraz Khan being ignored......

Too much emphasis on No 4 slot, reckons Ganguly

'Number four is just a number and anybody can fit in. I started in the middle-order in one-day cricket and went on to open because I was asked to by Sachin (Tendulkar) as captain. It is the same......

How Indians Dominate World Chess

In 2019, World Champion Magnus Carlsen was asked to guess the nationality of the reigning world champion in 2050. He responded: 'India will have had many by then!' IMAGE: 16-year-old R......

Vishy Anand to play against fans to raise funds for COVID-19

IMAGE: The fans will get an unique opportunity to play against former World champion Viswanathan Anand if they make a donation of $150 to support COVID-19 relief work in India. Photograph: Dean......

The Kapil Dev interview you must read!

'Today's cricketers are amazing, they know everything, but still you find a few cricketers, they have a talent, but their mind is not there.' IMAGE: Kapil Dev poses with his wax statue at Madame......

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