BJP steps up reach out to UP's Pasmanda Muslims for a clean sweep in LS polls

Aiming to win all 80 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh, the Bharatiya Janata Party is sharpening its outreach among numerically strong Pasmanda Muslims, who have benefitted from government schemes......

Mamata's rail: No hike in passenger fares, freight

Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee has cut service charge on passenger fare for sleeper and AC class and did not propose any hike in freight rates in the Railway Budget 2010-11. She announced 101 new......

Saeed Jaffrey: The Great Entertainer

'Sent off to interview him in the late 1970s I met him in a cafe in New Delhi's Regal Building called The Parlour. With impromptu send-ups of Laurence Olivier, Sybil Thorndike and the rich,......