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Leaked Chat Says OnePlus 3 Will Be Launched On June 14
Smartphone maker OnePlus' next offering OnePlus 3 is set for a June 14 launch, according to a leaked chat between a company representative and a user. The executive gave away the date while chatting...
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Nirbhaya Fund Is Not Enough, Need National Compensation Policy For Rape...
NEW DELHI--The Supreme Court today asked the Centre to formulate a national policy for providing adequate relief to rape survivors. The apex court bench also pointed out that setting up a separate fund...
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Blast In Thane Factory Leaves 3 Dead, Toll Likely To Go Up
THANE--At least three workers were killed and nearly 25 others injured in explosion at an industrial unit in Dombivili township of Thane district today, police said. The mishap occurred when cylinders...
View ArticleI Welcome Close Scrutiny: PM Narendra Modi At Rally To Celebrate Two Years Of...
Narendra Modi addressed a mammoth rally in Uttar Pradesh's Saharanpur, to kick off the UP Assembly elections campaign for BJP and also address the nation on the second anniversary of his government...
View ArticleFive Things That Are Wrong With Indian Banks, According To The Reserve Bank
The quality of service offered by Indian banks to its customers is rather lackadaisical. This is the inference you can draw from a recent speech by the deputy governor of the country's central bank,...
View ArticleHave You Heard Of A Single Accusation Of Corruption Against Us, Asks PM Modi
SAHARANPUR--Prime Minister Narendra Modi today asserted that a mood of hope pervaded the country replacing hopelessness that prevailed under the UPA rule as he pitched his government as one dedicated...
View ArticleINTERVIEW: Ram Gopal Verma On Failure, 'Veerappan', And Why He Is Fascinated...
On my way to meet filmmaker Ram Gopal Verma, I realised I didn’t have a real address for his office, situated in Mumbai’s Andheri (West) area. I called up the PR person coordinating the interview...
View ArticleWhy Brahmins Hold The Key To The BJP's Fortunes In Uttar Pradesh
Voters these days like to give decisive mandates. The drama of post-poll alliance making in hung assemblies is increasingly a distant memory. After 17 years of unstable governments in Uttar Pradesh,...
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19 Chinese Manufacturers Selling Smartphones In India
India's smartphone shipment crossed 100 million units last year, placing it in the second spot globally after China. India beat the US for the second spot. A large chunk of these 100 million...
View ArticleAjay Singh Gangwar, IAS Officer Who Praised Nehru In FB Post, Transferred
IAS officer Ajay Singh Gangwar and Barwani district Collector, who praised the country's first Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru in a Facebook post, was transferred by Madhya Pradesh government...
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6 Magical Experiences You Cannot Afford To Miss In Positano
In the 1950s, when John Steinbeck visited this gem along the Italian coastline he wrote an essay for Harper's Bazaar. "Positano bites deep. It is a dream place that isn't quite real when you are there...
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Buying A Drone? You Need A License To Fly It
Thinking of buying a drone, or already own one? Then you need to get a license and permission from Director General Civil Aviation (DGCA). A draft bill a draft bill released by DGCA spells out the...
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Mamata Beat A Decades' Old Poll Trend, Showing Media Gets Her Appeal Wrong
Among the many remarkable things that Mamata Banerjee accomplished in her magnificent election win in West Bengal, one was exorcising the ‘curse of Kolkata’. This phenomenon, so far noted but not...
View Article'Phobia' Review: Radhika Apte To The Rescue
I have a confession to make: horror is my least favourite genre. This is not to say that there haven’t been great horror films or that they don’t work for me. On the contrary, I’m quite lily-livered...
View ArticleNarendra Modi Will Reshuffle Cabinet, Confirms Amit Shah
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to reshuffle his cabinet and BJP president Amit Shah hinted at a press conference today that the ball has been set rolling on the process. Though he confirmed that a...
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Why Pakistani Films Should Give Cities Like Lahore And Karachi A Starring Role
Courtesy: Matteela Films A few months ago, there was a clamour within the Pakistani film fraternity to choose an appropriate term to address the cinema. While some wanted to use the word Lollywood,...
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Weaving A Champa Chronicle
My last visit to Champa, in Chhattisgarh, was during the Navratri days. A great time to be there, what with the whole village coming alive in a festive mood, with kirtans and all-night jagarans...
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Can The West Indies Recover Their Lost Cricketing Glory?
When the West Indies won the T20 cricket world cup in April, it was a moment of joy for every cricket lover, even as England's Ben Stokes, who got hit for four consecutive sixes, burst into tears....
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The Clarity Of Dying
My father is dying. I watch him in his hospital bed, his face alternately contorted in pain and peacefully asleep. He has lost 10 kilos in the last year. The needles leave dents in his skin and every...
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Don't Hide Your Wounds If You Want To Heal
Ecstasy is only out of agony -- and the deeper the agony, the deeper the ecstasy will be; total the agony, total will be the ecstasy. Everything has to be paid for. For ecstasy, we have to pay in...
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