Show 'big heart' and join Parliament inauguration: BJP to Opposition

The Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday alleged that the opposition parties have decided to boycott the inauguration of the new Parliament building by Prime Minister Narendra Modi just because it......

King of the road! Karnataka minister travels 340 km daily to office and back

Karnataka Public Works Minister H D Revanna commutes a gruelling 340 km every day for work from his hometown to Bengaluru and back, but insists it has nothing to do with either astrology or......

Will KCR's BRS Make Any Impact In National Politics?

Maharashtra is the first BRS' target, reports Aditi Phadnis. IMAGE: Telangana Chief Minister and Bharat Rashtra Samithi Founder Kalvakuntla Chandrashekar Rao. Photograph: PTI Photo Till recently,......

Dilli Gupshup

Why is Uma Bharti disillusioned? Did Vaastu lead to this Congress leader's downfall? The late Arjun Singh's controversial autobiography... All this and more in this week's Dilli Gupshup.........

India's matchmaking portals spreading wings

India's virtual matchmaking portals are entering what some surfers consider allied services.First matchmakers jumped from reality into the virtual world, and we got Shaadi.com, Bharatmatrimony.com......

What China learned from Lee Kuan Yew... and India didn't

Lee deserved to lead a bigger country than Singapore, the city of 5 million he ruled for three decades, says Rahul Jacob. One of the asymmetries of history is the lack of correspondence between the......

'Vaastu Prakaara is an out-and-out commercial film'

Rakshit Shetty is one of the busiest actors in Kannada cinema. He is also charting a path in the film industry as a credible writer-director. His directorial debut Ulidavaru Kandathe may not have......

Vaastu Shastra: Not for the faint of heart

Right now, in a semi-deserted office, I'm looking around me. Sounds: a computer whirring to life, a door slamming shut, footsteps behind me, are all making me jumpy, and I'm just stopping myself......

Choona Review: Not Much Fun!

Choona is too slow, has redundant characters and needless complications, observes Deepa Gahlot. In Mumbai slang, 'choona lagana' is to fool or con someone. Which is what six men do to a politician......

Why Sara Was The Perfect Match For...

'For the paraplegic young girl, I needed a fresh face, someone who did not have the baggage of doing such movies before, someone who the audience liked.' IMAGE: Chitrangda Singh, Sara Ali Khan and......

All of Beijing is an Olympics venue

In this bestirred capital city, the Olympics began long ago. The official approach to it has also brought out one commonality between China and India -- faith in numerology and vaastu, in what is......