I watched the Tamil version of Rocketry: The Nambi Effect last Sunday in a new and fine theatre with red push-back seats in Kottayi, a small village in Kerala’s Palakkad. At the lobby, they sold coffee and popcorn and all of it was just as good as anything in Delhi or Bombay, and you wondered how […]

LUCKNOW: The Samajwadi Party has fielded former Minister Swami Prasad Maurya and three other leaders for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council (LC) elections. All the four leaders filed their nomination papers on Wednesday in presence of Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav for the Legislative Council elections scheduled on June 20. Besides Akhilesh Yadav, party MLA […]

NEW DELHI: A day after one of its biggest hauls in recent times, the sleuths of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) arrested three more accused including two Afghan nationals. NCB on Thursday recovered 97 kg of drugs along with Rs 30 lakhs in cash from a residential premise in the Shaheen Bagh area of Delhi. […]

During the two days of the mega Indian Premier League auction, a number of youngsters stunned everyone by fetching astronomical prices by different teams. Indian wicketkeeper Ishan Kishan and medium-pacer Deepak Chahar emerged as the two most expensive buys of the IPL auction 2022 by fetching Rs 15.25 crore and 14 crore respectively. Kishan was […]

NEW DELHI: Former Congress minister and Jharkhand Congress in-charge Ratanjit Pratap Singh (RPN Singh), a Doon school alumnus whose career in the Grand Old Party spans across three decades, on Tuesday joined the BJP, with likely indications that he will be fielded from the saffron party in Uttar Pradesh in the upcoming polls. This is […]