PIX: 8L earthen lamps illuminate banks of Ganga in Varanasi on Dev Deepawali

Lakhs of earthen lamps lit up the banks of river Ganga in Varanasi on Monday as people celebrated Dev Deepawali to mark Kartik Purnima. IMAGE: Priests perform Ganga aarti at Sheetla Ghat on the......

'300-yr-old' temple bulldozed in Rajasthan; Cong, BJP blame each other

Two temples were demolished during an anti-encroachment drive in Alwar district's Rajgarh, triggering an exchange of barbs on Friday between the Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party in Rajasthan.......

Pushkar Singh Dhami to be Uttarakhand's 3rd CM in 4 months

Pushkar Singh Dhami will be the new chief minister of Uttarakhand following his election on Saturday as the leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party legislature party in the hill state where assembly......

Padma Vibhushan for Gen Rawat, Kalyan Singh; Padma Bhushan for Azad

Former Uttar Pradesh chief minister and Hindutva poster boy late Kalyan Singh, India's first Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat, senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad and former West......

Lead me, follow me or get out of the way: Jaitley

On the day of an unusual Railway Budget, Jaitley spelt out Modi Govt's philosophy, speaking in the context of opposition to the Land Bill No new trains in the Railway Budget and the Bharatiya......

'I do plan to sing again very soon'

'There is so much division in the country. People are getting more and more into 'Main Hindu hoon woh Mussalmaan hai'.''This climate of suspicion and hostility must stop,' The Legend, 92 today,......

7 MUST WATCH FILMS of 2021

Some movies of 2021 excelled in content but yet, they did not do well. They certainly deserve a watch and Subhash K Jha lists them here: Bawri Chhori Though the influence of Vikas Behl's Queen is......

Tere Sur Aur Mere Geet: When Music was King

Film music flourished in the 1970s. Some old masters did some great work, but it was also the decade of new composers.A fascinating excerpt from Amit Khanna's Words. Sounds. Images: A History Of......

What Pataakha has in common with Paheli, Lootere

It goes way beyond a fantastic team! Brevity is the soul of wit. As one of William Shakespeare's greatest admirers, Vishal Bhardwaj knows it only too well. The director's crackling new offering......