Chef Vikas Khanna is inspired by 96-yr-old student Karthyayani Amma, plans to bring 5 mn girls to schoolThe nonagenarian scores a highly commendable 98 out of 100.
08 Dec, 2022, 07.28 PM IST
Betty White, star of 'The Golden Girls', dies weeks before her 100th birthdayThe legendary actress had a seven-decade long career.
01 Jan, 2022, 02.06 PM IST
63% voting in Maharashtra Assembly poll; turnout similar to 2014Rural areas of the state fared better, with voters there showing more enthusiasm than their urban counterparts. Polling began at 7 am and e...
21 Oct, 2019, 07.06 PM IST
Kamal Haasan launches Makkal Needhi Maiam, starts political journeyWith thousands of his followers shouting slogans, Haasan also unfurled his party flag, a white one with a set of hands holding each other, ...
21 Feb, 2018, 11.29 PM IST
Kamal Haasan's journey from stardom to political plungeAfter a successful five-decade film career, actor-director-producer Kamal Haasan today donned a new role when he took his long-awaited poli...
21 Feb, 2018, 08.06 PM IST
Rajinikanth calls on KarunanidhiKarunanidhi is the first political leader Rajinikanth is meeting after announcing his entry into politics on December 31.
03 Jan, 2018, 10.51 PM IST
Anti-Dravidian forces in Tamil Nadu with hopes on Rajinikanth will fail: MK StalinStalin spoke to the press after actor Rajinikanth visited DMK leader M Karunanidhi in what he termed a courtesy call and a meet to receive ...
03 Jan, 2018, 10.02 PM IST
Rajinikanth could meet PM Modi soon, tells fans to prepare for warHis remarks are well-timed, coming in the midst of a political vacuum created by the death of Jayalalithaa and the absence in the public do...
21 May, 2017, 12.55 PM IST
From Sasikala to Deepa: A look at the key players in Tamil Nadu politicsA look at the key players in the ruling party that is undergoing a tectonic shift as it struggles to come to terms with the void created by...
19 Apr, 2017, 01.53 PM IST
Is there a new leader in Tamil Nadu politics?Apart from Jayalalithaa and Karunanidhi, PMK’s Anbumani Ramadoss, a former Union minister, and actor-politician Vijayakanth of the DMDK, ar...
17 Apr, 2016, 01.26 PM IST
Tamil Nadu polls: People’s Welfare Alliance may implode due to personal egos and ideological contradictionsWhile the Left parties and the VCK had firm ideological roots, neither the MDMK nor the DMDK could lay claim to any such loftiness.
10 Apr, 2016, 12.54 PM IST
Unprecedented rains, floods battered Tamil Nadu in 2015Consequent to Jayalalithaa's appeal to the Centre to declare the rains and floods "national disaster," the government declared it a "calami...
29 Dec, 2015, 12.04 PM IST
Netaji's descendants find Narendra Modi a pleasant hostPM shared his own views and that of his government — which is in favour of declassifying the files that had been kept secret for all these ...
18 Oct, 2015, 12.54 PM IST
Modi government may give Bharat Ratna to Dilip Kumar; buzz rife in power circlesPakistan-born Muhammed Yusuf Khan, popularly known as Dilip Kumar, debuted as an actor in the film Jwar Bhata in 1944.
11 Jun, 2015, 11.41 AM IST
Meet Mohan Parasaran, the third solicitor general of India in less than two years“Being SG is more a challenging job now as we are passing through a critical phase. There are issues related to corruption and coalition.”
24 Feb, 2013, 02.11 PM IST
- Bad old boys
They could all learn a thing or two from the curmudgeonly Sir VS Naipaul and the nonagenarian Khushwant Singh.
03 Jun, 2011, 08.15 AM IST