Congress workers protested the rejection of Rajya Sabha candidate Meenakshi Natarajan’s nomination by hanging an RSS uniform on the locked gate of the Chief Electoral Officer’s office in Bhopal. BHOPAL: Escalating its protest against the rejection of Congress Rajya Sabha candidate Meenakshi Natarajan’s nomination, Congress workers on Wednesday hung a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) uniform...
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Bharathiraja rewrote the rules of Tamil cinema with dirt roads, real faces, and no sets
Before 1977, a Tamil village on screen was largely a figment of imagination. Sets were built inside studios in Madras, dialogue was theatrical, costumes were cleaned up, and the emotional register was pitched at the back row. The countryside, when it appeared at all, was more backdrop than subject. However, director Bharathiraja scrapped all of...
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Hindu Raksha Dal members vandalise non-veg eatery on Delhi-Haridwar highway
Hindu Raksha Dal members vandalise non-veg eatery on Delhi-Haridwar highway (Image credit- Social Media) AGRA: Tension flared on the Delhi-Haridwar National Highway in Muzaffarnagar ahead of the annual kanwar yatra after members of Hindu Raksha Dal allegedly vandalised and burnt signboards at a non-vegetarian eatery. Police said three persons were arrested on Monday night, while...
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Hyderabad realtor dumps ailing wife, marries her sister, then guns her down suspecting infidelity
Accused nabbed by the police HYDERABAD: A real estate businessman allegedly shot dead his second wife at his residence in Malkajgiri in the early hours of Wednesday, months after police had arrested him while he was allegedly plotting to kill her with an illegal firearm.D Arun Kumar (48), a resident of Maruti Nagar in Malkajgiri,...
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‘Slap Stokes with a suspension’: Ex-England legend on nightclub controversy
England’s Ben Stokes (AP Photo) England’s preparations for the second Test against New Zealand have been overshadowed by a fresh off-field controversy involving captain Ben Stokes and fast bowler Gus Atkinson. The pair are reported to have broken the team curfew after England’s 115-run victory in the opening Test at Lord’s and later become involved...
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Sushmita Dev on the move again: Why her exit comes as a bigger blow to TMC than it appears
Rajya Sabha MP Sushmita Dev’s resignation from the TMC deals a significant blow to the party’s national ambitions, particularly in the northeast NEW DELHI: The resignation of Rajya Sabha MP Sushmita Dev from the Trinamool Congress (TMC) has dealt another major blow to the party at a time when it is grappling with an unprecedented...
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Battling medical store’s eyedrop blunder, depression: How UP’s Subhi became India Girls’ No. 1
Subhi Gupta (Special Arrangements) NEW DELHI: Imagine it is your first international chess tournament on your own. Your parents have burned a hole in their pockets to take you to the scenic country of Uzbekistan. There, you are supposed to play the toughest of opponents from across the globe. You reach the venue, and you...
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Modi surpasses Nehru as longest-serving elected PM: Tracing the road to 4,399 days in 12 charts
Narendra Modi is now India’s longest-serving elected Prime Minister. ‘Modi hai to Mumkin hai’, a popular catchphrase that has become synonymous with the BJP-led NDA government over the years. Indeed, this idea of “achieving the impossible” has often been projected as a hallmark of Prime Minister Narendra Modi‘s 12-year-long tenure at the helm. But even...
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Oracle founder Larry Ellison loses more than $47 billion in less than 7 days
Larry Ellison has lost more than $47 billion in personal wealth in less than a week as shares of Oracle continued to fall ahead of the company’s earnings report. Ellison’s fortune dropped from about $296 billion last Tuesday, June 2 to around $249.7 billion, according to Forbes’ Real-Time Billionaires List. The fall comes as investors...
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Another big blow to Mamata, TMC MP Sushmita Dev resigns from Rajya Sabha
NEW DELHI: In another setback for the Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo Mamata Banerjee, party MP Sushmita Dev has resigned from the Rajya Sabha, PTI reported citing sources.This comes shortly after the TMC MP met Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, triggering speculation about her joining BJP.In her resignation letter, Dev wrote, “I do hereby resign...
