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Movie Review: Love Breakups Zindagi - a great first date movie

LBZ is a great first date movie and just the right film to watch with family and friends during the festive season.

Coronavirus outbreak forces leaders to transcend party lines, coordinate on Twitter for welfare of migrant labourers stuck amid lockdown

This becomes interesting as social media, especially twitter has been a battleground for different ideologies, with contestation rather than consensus being the norm.

Arabic Graffiti: Unclaimed, on anywhere street

Arabic Graffiti, a book of pictures and personal essays, comes from anywhere streets -- in Beirut, Gaza, Tehran, Paris, London, Berlin or Montreal.

Salman Khan is back in his beloved Mumbai

Salman Khan is back in Mumbai and if the crowds gathered outside the airport at 2 am this morning were any indication, he seemed to be the most adored Khan in the film business, not to mention the most successful too.

Women behind bars: The other inmates of Tihar

Kanimozhi's fate is no worse than those of her less-famous inmates who languish in prison without the luxury of connections or fame.

Three-peat: India on US religious freedom 'Watch List'

To the consternation of some, for the third year in a row, India has been cited in the Religious Freedom Watch List 2011 by the US for violations of religious freedom along with the likes of Afghanistan, Cuba, and Venezuela.

It’s not about farmers, silly. It’s about votes.

Rahul may have made a political point. But his real test as a leader would be in pressuring the Centre to find a formula to address the recurring problem of displacement from the antiquated Land Acquisition Act.

9 words that could make or break James Murdoch

James Murdoch told the British parliamentary committee that the hacking scandal involved one rogue reporter. But two of his editors said he knew many others were told about it.

Siva nails Maran, says he was forced to sell Aircel

C Sivasankaran has contradicted Textiles Minister Dayanidhi Maran's claim that he showed no one any favours while granting telecom licences. Siva told the CBI that Maran forced him to sell his company

Ishrat Jahan: The inconvenient story no one wants to tell

Firstpost has obtained 26/11 perpetrator David Headley’s testimony to the FBI, which shows he was told Ishrat Jahan was a suicide bomber. The UPA government has hidden this and other part of the story even as a CBI probe seeks to indict the highest leadership of India’s intelligence in the 'encounter killing'.

Ordinance on rape: All-or-nothing approach to Verma report is self-defeating

The women activists who are shouting "betrayal" should realise that the Verma report is a roadmap, or a journey, not the destination.

Avalanche triggered by Nepal earthquake sweeps Everest base camp, killing at least 17

At least 17 bodies have been recovered at the base camp on Mount Everest where hundreds of climbers, including many foreigners, are stranded after an avalanche triggered by Nepal's massive earthquake slammed into a part of the camp on the world's highest peak. Here are some images.

Photos: Buildings flattened in Kathmandu as 7.9 Richter scale quake hit Nepal

A high-intensity quake measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale on Saturday rocked many parts of east and north India, including Delhi. The epicentre of the earthquake was in Nepal.

Congress appoints 5 new state unit chiefs; Ashok Chavan, Maken to take charge

Congress today appointed five new PCC chiefs and one regional Congress Committee President.

Is budget 2012 good, bad, ugly? Here are 10 ways to rate it

Of the 10 points on which the budget can be evaluated, six are mildly positive. But the numbers could still go wrong.

PM-Pranab-Sonia hiatus was key cause of policy paralysis

It is now abundantly clear that Manmohan Singh wanted to rule the finance ministry but always stood thwarted by Sonia. This is the cause of UPA's policy paralysis.

Spot-fixing links to Meiyappan will hit IPL where it hurts most

PepsiCo is threatening to pull out of the title sponsorship of the IPL. The IPL gravy train will derail if it doesn't clean up its act.

Dear SRK: A survival guide for Bengal's new brand ambassador

Bengalis are scratching their heads about why Shah Rukh Khan has become their state's brand ambassador. But spare a thought for poor SRK. What did he do to deserve being saddled with Paschimbanga?

Dear Narendra Modi, beware, numbers don't lie

What Modi must not allow is further damage to his image from untruth, particularly those slipping into his speeches frequently.

Raghuram Rajan hits first-ball sixer; set to bowl markets over

Raghuram Rajan has begun with a bold agenda for change in the RBI that is likely to wow the markets on Thursday.

Jet-Etihad deal: How UPA govt has perverted its FDI policy

The UPA government's larger failing is that in virtually every case, it has taken a well-intentioned policy measure and perverted it with whimsical and reckless exercise of discretionary powers.

Food Bill: Amartya Sen's charlatan economics debunked

One more academic debunks Amartya Sen's support for a midless Food Security law.

End of easy money? Fed may begin 'taper' in September

Analysts expect the US Federal Reserve Board to begin slowing down bond purchases - signalling the beginning of the end of 'easy money' - on the back of stronger-than-expected US jobs data for June.

Coalgate scam: Careful, Mr PM, the fig leaves are falling off...

If there was no wrongdoing in the allocation of coal blocks, why did the Law Minister and officials from the Prime Minister's Office go to such elaborate lengths to doctor the CBI's draft report - and get top law officers to lie in court?

Why we're headed for the Nehruvian growth rate of 4-5 percent

All the signs are that India has entered a new phase of low growth - what we should call the Nehruvian natural state of 3-5 percent annual growth.

More Indian companies to list in the US as markets recover

Recovering stock markets, and US investor interest in India's growth story, could boost overseas IPOs by Indian companies this year on the New York Stock Exchange and the tech-heavy Nasdaq.

After four years of UPA 2, the India story looks bleak

As UPA 2 completes four years in office, it appears that for the Indian polity and the economy, things will likely get a lot worse before they can get better.

Why tax havens exist; and how India has its own tax havens

Crooks may want to keep all their money in tax havens, but not all money in tax havens belongs to crooks. Countries create tax havens for their own reasons

The Ambani mega-deal and the Mahabharata complex

The template for the Ambani sibling rivary derives from the Mahabharata, the epic tale of family intrigue, where brother turns against brother and family fortunes turn on a roll of the dice. Yesterday's megadeal, which brought them together again, could alter their family fortunes.