BJP leads with 20 Rajya Sabha MPs among 41 elected unopposed

Former Congress president Sonia Gandhi, BJP chief J P Nadda and new party entrant Ashok Chavan and Union ministers Ashwini Vaishnaw and L Murugan were among the 41 candidates elected unopposed to......

Justice UU Lalit 6th CJI to have less then 100-day tenure

Justice Uday Umesh Lalit, sworn in as the 49th Chief Justice of India on Saturday, will be the sixth head of the Indian judiciary to have a tenure of less than 100 days. IMAGE: President Droupadi......

Justice Lalit sworn in as 49th Chief Justice of India

Justice Uday Umesh Lalit, the senior-most judge in the Supreme Court, was on Saturday sworn in as the 49th Chief Justice of India. IMAGES: President Droupadi Murmu administers oath to Justice Uday......

'Any litigation is like a war'

'You know the factors against you and those in favour, and you use the weapons you have in accordance with the strategy you've developed.' IMAGE: Poet-activist Professor Varavara Rao in better......

Modi says make in India, but even 'thalis' are from China

Image: Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the launch of the Make in India Mission at Vigyan Bhavan in New Delhi. Photograph: PIB Even as India's business elite gathered in New Delhi to pledge their......

COLUMN: The freebie nation

Despite warnings from a parliamentary panel, the list of tax exemptions in 2012-13 shows a rising trend, writes Sreelatha Menon. The Union Budget shows the charitable instincts of the government......

Why mobiles attract the common man

For 58-year-old Ram Babu, who runs a small shop dealing with old newspapers and other scrap from residents in Dwarka, a satellite city on the outskirts of the capital, business has witnessed a......

Chamaayisi Chindi Udaayisi is an average fun film

The title Chamaayisi Chindi Udaayisi is a take-off from what is used by a radio channel in the Bangalore city. Though the title has little relation to the story, it has some comical overtones. The......

Spotted: Wasim Jaffer in Bradford

Reader Umesh Babu sent us this picture 'Hi,I am Umesh, standingon theleft of Wasim Jaffer (centre). 'We saw him in Mumtaz restaurant in Bradford, Yorkshire, when India was touring England a few......