'Highway' Review: An Overloaded Vehicle That Takes The Wrong Route
Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni is one of the best-known and most acclaimed directors working in Marathi cinema today. An FTII grad, Kulkarni has previously directed acclaimed and successful films such as Valu...
View ArticleThe Indrani Mukerjea Trial is 'The Aarushi Story On Steroids'
Somewhere in this whole Mukerjea scandal we are in danger of forgetting that the real story is about the death of a young woman. A murder it is alleged. Whether that young woman is actually Indrani...
View ArticleWatch: Why This Movie-Loving Couple's Engagement Went Viral
Discovering (and in a lot of cases, accidentally swallowing) an engagement ring in a flute of champagne is passé as a proposal. Now there are destination proposals, quirky photoshoots, and a lot of...
View ArticleThe Onam Of My North Indian Childhood
There are two things that come to mind when I think of Anandavalli aunty. The first is the jingle of her anklets, so distinct that I could hear it from across the street as she walked up to our house...
View ArticleTwo More Members of Al-Qaeda Group Arrested In Bangladesh Blogger Murder Case
DHAKA — Two more members of an Al-Qaeda linked Islamist militant group in Bangladesh have been arrested in connection with the killing of a secular blogger who was brutally hacked to death here in the...
View ArticleDocu On Modi-Kejriwal Election Battle Has Been Stalled By The Censors For...
National-Award-winning filmmaker Kamal Swaroop is, currently, somewhat baffled. His upcoming documentary Battle For Banaras, which chronicles the 2014 Lok Sabha elections in Varanasi, has reportedly...
View ArticleDelhi's Aurangzeb Road To Be Renamed APJ Abdul Kalam Road
NEW DELHI—One of Delhi's most elite addresses, Aurangzeb Road, will now be called the APJ Abdul Kalam Road. The New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) has decided to rename it in honour of the former...
View ArticleA Man Named 'Hardik' Is Getting Trolled On Twitter For Gujarat Unrest
"What's in a name?" Shakespeare had once asked. If only he had known Hardik Shah, a Mumbai resident, who is the business head of Videogram, he would have sure agreed that there's a lot in a name. Since...
View ArticleBCCI Adjourns Working Committee Meeting Over N Srinivasan's Presence
KOLKATA—BCCI's crucial Working Committee meeting was adjourned over lack of legal clarity on the sidelined former chief N Srinivasan's presence. President Jagmohan Dalmiya adjourned the meeting sine...
View ArticleAmbulance Scam: CBI Files Corruption Case Against Congress' Sachin Pilot,...
NEW DELHI—CBI has taken over probe in the ambulance scam of Rajasthan in which it re-registered FIR of the state police naming former Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, ex-Union Minister Sachin Pilot, Karthi...
View ArticleGrey Wolves, Victoria's Secret And The Bangkok Bombing
As Thai intelligence agencies try to catch the culprits of the Bangkok blast, many people instinctively thought that Thai ISIS recruits or al-Qaeda sleeper cells might be responsible. It seems however,...
View ArticleASHA: Delivering Hope To India's Villages
ASHA stands for Accredited Social Health Activist. It also means hope. My first connect to this woman-driven community health initiative came as a message in my Facebook inbox. I recognised Neha, my...
View ArticleStories of Sisterhood: Kangana And Rangoli Ranaut
There's a reason we've chosen August as Sisters' Month. And it's not because we don't like brothers, or men. What we don't like is the narrative that a brother should promise to protect and that a...
View ArticleWhat Chennai Means To Me (Pictures)
Madras (Chennai) means different things to different people. For some it is the charming old lady with a string of jasmine in her hair reading Mylapore Times; for others it is a young buxom woman...
View ArticlePakistan Blames India For Ceasefire Violation, Summons Indian High...
ISLLAMABAD—India and Pakistan blamed each other Friday for exchanges of fire over their disputed border that killed nine civilians and wounded dozens more. "Pakistan Rangers resorted to unprovoked...
View ArticleIndrani's Former Husband Sanjeev Khanna Confesses Complicity In Sheena Bora...
MUMBAI—The Sheena Bora murder case probe took a new turn on Friday, with police claiming that Sanjeev Khanna, former husband of Indrani Mukerjea, confessed to his complicity in the crime. "We just...
View ArticleIndia Women's Hockey Team Bags Historic 2016 Rio Olympic Berth After 36 Years
Indian women hockey team booked their tickets to the 2016 Rio Games, the second qualifications ever for the Olympics. The last time the team was qualified for the Games was in 1980, where they finished...
View ArticleHow PM Modi, Sushma Swaraj And Kejriwal Are Celebrating Raksha Bandhan
It's a special day for all the brothers and sisters in the country. And that includes, our politicians. Prime Minister Narendra Modi took to Twitter today to greet the nation on the occasion. रक्षाबंधन...
View ArticleOn Raksha Bandhan, 10-Year-Old Reunited With Lost Sister Who Was Trafficked 5...
JAIPUR— Ten-year-old Mahesh had no hope of reuniting with his younger sister Mamta, who had gone missing five years back, but this Rakhi brought a pleasant surprise for him. Mamta was abducted and...
View ArticleSheena Bora Murder: Indrani Mukerjea's Son Mikhail Bora Says His Mother Tried...
In a significant development, in the high-profile Sheena Bora murder case, the Mumbai Police have recovered the car used in the murder in April 2012. The focus in the case has now shifted to the...
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