Jio’s subscriber surge continues; BSNL’s dips

New Delhi: Reliance Jio has emerged as...

EVM: The driving force behind Mahayuti’s resounding victory

For the Mahayuti, the EVM could well...

Maharashtra CM dilemma: Who will BJP pick?

The possibility of the BJP installing its...

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Book Review: Return of the cunning little warrior named Asterix

 Asterix and the Missing Scroll by Jean-Yves Ferri and Didier ConradOrion  Pages: 48Price: Rs 499 The year is 2015 C.E., and the indomitable Gauls of the...

Anhad crosses border with ethnic fashion

The borders between India and Pakistan might be unsurmountable for a lot of things; fashion is not one of them. Bringing a large variety...

Delhi carnivalesque: X’mas fairs in the national capital

Christmas comes with lots more store in it. As X’mas approaches with New Year to follow, celebrate this festive month with your family and...

Music scholarship to keep afloat the dreams of Indian classical students

National Centre for Performing Arts, Mumbai has come up with its 7th edition of Music Scholarships, and is open for applications. This time on, they...

Website of the week: Explore the universe

In the middle of a workday, when all you want to do is be miles away from where you are (the office), here is...

Conversations over coffee at India’s best-known bohemian paradise

At a time when cafés are increasingly putting up signs that declare they don’t have Wi-Fi, and encouraging people to talk to each other,...

The bond between craft, passion and imagination

Ruskin Bond is as prolific professionally as he is reserved, elusive and, yes, reticent in his personal life. His bibliography is long enough to...

Movie Review: Difficult friendships and a twisting plotline drive this epic tale

 Bajirao MastaniDirector: Sanjay Leela BhansaliStarring:  Ranveer Singh, Deepika Padukone, Priyanka ChopraBajrao Mastani may be a historical epic, but it is also a mythical fantasy....

Movie Review: A postmodern screwball comedy on the financial crisis

It’s always pleasant when a filmmaker you previously had limited faith in manages to suddenly impress you. Adam McKay has always been associated with...

An artist who figures at the centre of our modern sculpting movement

When I met the sculptor G.Reghu — who has an experience of more than 30 years in sculpting — I had a persisting question...

BJP slams AAP for making false allegations against Arun Jaitley

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday came out in support of Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and slammed the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) for...

Registration of new diesel vehicles banned in Delhi

The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered a ban on registration of new diesel vehicles and vehicles beyond an engine capacity of 2000 cc in...

Headley agrees to tell the whole truth on 26/11

When David Coleman Headley, an accused in the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, agreed to be an approver on the condition of being pardoned, at...

Huge excitement as Saudi women head to the polls

There was huge excitement among Saudi women as they headed to the polling booths for the first time as voters and candidates in Saturday’s...

Forces are prepared to fight possible strike

The Delhi Police put the city on red alert last week over a possible terror attack by the Lashkar-e-Tayyaba (LeT). The National Security Guard...

Unhappiness over nursery admission guidelines

The nursery admission guidelines for 2016-17 for Delhi has received flak for certain omissions that have been made by the Directorate of Education (DoE).Sumit...

Delhi Wakf Board clueless on property

The Delhi Wakf Board (DWB), despite being one of the richest landowners in Delhi, is unable to derive any financial benefits from its properties...

Two cluster universities planned for J&K

The Jammu and Kashmir government has decided to introduce the “cluster university concept” and a legislation would be brought in the January 2016 budget...

Himalayan lab will study climate change

Jammu and Kashmir Governor N.N. Vohra has said that he is making efforts to accelerate the setting up of the first-ever Himalayan ice-core laboratory...

Centre unhappy as madrasas in Kashmir refuse to modernise

The Human Resources Develoment Ministry has expressed dismay that Jammu and Kashmir is not utilising the funds released by the Centre for the reformation...

J&K teachers to be conferred VIP status

Jammu and Kashmir could become the first state in the country to confer the status of VIP to teachers. An official proposal to this...

Prez, Naidu to attend KCR’s mega yagam

Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR)’s “Ayutha Chandi Yagam”, a five-day Vedic ritual that begins on 23 December at his farmhouse in Medak...

Telangana averts clash over beef fest

The Telangana police cracked down on students who planned a beef festival on the Osmania University campus on Thursday. Heavy deployment of security forces,...

New law renders 50% ineligible to contest

With the Supreme Court upholding the conditions for contesting panchayat elections imposed by the Haryana government as valid, more than half of the otherwise...

Ex-journalist will appeal to corporates for Rs 4.28 crore for Dawood property

It has been four days since fugitive gangster Dawood Ibrahim’s property, Hotel Rounak Afroz or Delhi Zaika was auctioned here. Today, S. Balakrishnan, the...

Real estate bill passage in trouble

The Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Bill, 2015, is unlikely to be passed in the ongoing winter session of Parliament despite Opposition Congress favouring...

China wants to talk OBOR with India

China aims to engage in “constructive dialogue” with India to bring the latter on board its ambitious One Belt One Road (OBOR) project that...

Andhra, TN to fight sander smuggling

Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh have decided to bury the hatchet on the encounter killing of 21 red sander cutters from Tamil Nadu by...

Sand mining rampant in Haridwar

Illegal mining of sand and boulders near the Ganga is quite rampant in Haridwar and the neighbouring areas of Uttarakhand despite a crackdown by...

Faster decision-making needed: Larry Summers

“Done is better than perfect” was renowned economist Lawrence Henry “Larry” Summers’ message to India during his visit to the country this week. The...

Sonowal will be BJP’s face for assam polls

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is likely to project Sarbananda Sonowal, Union Minister of State for Youth Affairs and Sports (Independent charge), as the...

‘PWL is good for the future of young wrestlers’

Narsingh Yadav is a class act. The burly 74kg category wrestler won a grudge fight against an old foe to lead his team Bengaluru...

Haryana Hammers register easy victory

Haryana Hammers started their campaign on a winning note by defeating Dilli Veers 5-2 in a Pro Wrestling League (PWL) contest at the KD...

Odd-even rule will impact car sales

The odd-even regulation as proposed by the Delhi government to restrict plying of private cars on the roads is going to impact car sales...

GST passage uncertain

The prospect of the Goods and Services tax (GST) bill being passed in the winter session of Parliament looks uncertain. Although the BJP wants...

NGT restricts registration of new diesel cars in Delhi

Keeping in mind the rising pollution levels in the national capital, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) Friday ruled that Delhi would not register any new diesel...

Witness turns hostile in 26/11 case, claims Ajmal Kasab is alive

A key Pakistani witness in the 26/11 Mumbai attack, the headmaster of the school where Ajmal Kasab, the lone gunman who was caught alive...

Congress stalls Parliament for second consecutive day

Rajya Sabha witnessed repeated adjournments on Wednesday after members of the Congress party created a ruckus over the National Herald case for the second consecutive day....

Congress disrupts Parliament over National Herald

Congress members created a ruckus and disrupted the Rajya Sabha's proceedings on Tuesday accusing the government of "vendetta politics" in the National Herald newspaper case.The protest...

Lok Sabha adjourned repeatedly over CPI-M member’s remarks

The Lok Sabha was repeatedly adjourned on Monday following differences between some opposition MPs and those from the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) when a CPI-M member...

Pranab put duty above all else in Netaji matter

Even though some sources claim that Pranab Mukherjee was not convinced that Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose died in an air crash in 1945, yet...

Lalit Modi probe set to hit a dead end

The Lalit Modi case is all set to hit a dead end as the chances of his return to India get increasingly bleak, say...

Women’s Commission chief wants prostitution legalised

National Commission for Women (NCW) chairperson Lalitha Kumaramangalam has advocated legalising prostitution to bring about improvement in the lives of sex workers and their...

CBI to Peter: Were you in a relationship with Sheena?

“Were you, at any point of time, in a relationship with Sheena?” was one of the questions asked by the Central Bureau of Investigation...

‘Maharashtra Police is better prepared to tackle terror threats’

Seven years since the ghastly terror attacks on Mumbai on 26 November 2008 which killed 164 innocent people and injured over 300, the Maharashtra...

Red tape hurting Indian handset manufacturers

While international phone companies are increasingly seeking access to India as their manufacturing base, Indian small scale handset manufacturers are left behind a slew...

BJP hopes ULFA accord will give it an edge in Assam

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is considering a new strategy in the upcoming Assam Assembly elections, by trying to pursuade the government to arrive...

Cameron spells out strategy to counter ISIS

British Prime Minister David Cameron released the National Security Strategy and Strategic Defence and Security Review, the first since 2010, on Monday and responded...

Dal, Nageen may see revival after PM package

The conservation of Dal Lake and Nageen Lake may see a revival after the Prime Minister’s recently announced package for Jammu & Kashmir that...

J&K mulls Metro for Srinagar

The Jammu and Kashmir government is sitting on a consultancy report which suggests the building of a light Metro service for different routes in...

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