Ivan Thanthiran, a medium budget Tamil movie that was released on June 30, had a good opening at the Chennai box office. The film is estimated to have collected Rs 1.5 crore in its first three days. However, the movie’s director and
The national parties gave to its candidates more than double the amount that the regional parties handed over to their candidates, showed a detailed analysis carried out on the funds collected and expenditure incurred by political parties in the 2
Meena, a solemn, raspy-voiced woman in a black salwar-kameez, is gyrating to a Bollywood number with gusto. The vivid range of her expressions counterpoints her lanky frame. Life is limping back to normal for Meena at what she calls her new home:
The government has given the final touches to the electoral bonds scheme, which promises to reform political funding. The draft norms prepared by the union finance ministry say that each politica
Expenditure on Police accounts for only three percent of the central and state government budgets. State police forces had 24% vacancies (about 5.5 lakh vacancies), 7% in central forces in January 2016.
Social activist Harsh Mander said that he mourns Junaid`s death in the same way that he would mourn his own son’s death. Mander was speaking at a book discussion organised in Delhi on Monday for his latest book: Fatal Acciden
In a historic move, the government, after nearly two decades, ratified two of International Labour Organisation’s (ILO) core conventions on child labour – convention number 138 (minimum age of labour) and convention number 182, which b
The union government is keen to create an All India Medical Service, just like the IAS and IPS. A letter has been sent to all chief secretaries of the states and union territories to “offer your views on this
A small but sophisticated night vision device (NVD) that could track moving terrorists in the dark was the first gift from Israel to the Indian forces at a time when the latter was facing a huge challenge in the form of hordes of terrorists infilt
Five years ago, when the Congress had finalised Pranab Mukherjee as its choice for the 13th president of India, the news-hungry media was eager to know if he had agreed. One day, he gave in to the persistent queries, saying, “I am a diabetic
“If India has to grow rapidly, it cannot grow without exports. We still import a lot of raw material like laces, buttons, elastics etc, which makes production expensive for the (clothing) manufacturers,” noted NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Ka
Narendra Modi is all set to become the first Indian prime minister to visit Israel where he lands on July 4 and leaves for home on July 6. It will also be the first time that an Indian leader visiting the West Asian nation will not visit Palestine
Outgoing vice president Hamid Ansari has batted for tolerance and the spirit of pluralism and called for the need to accommodate cultural diversity in his speeches that he has made over the years. The election of t
Till late evening of July 2, hash tags like #Worldsno1greendriveinMP and #MPplants6croretrees were popular on Twitter’s trend list. There were plenty of tweets appreciating Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s bi
Ram Nath Kovind, whom the BJP has chosen as its candidate for India’s next president, was a prime dalit face of the party in Uttar Pradesh during the time of LK Advani and Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Indeed, it’s in central Uttar Pradesh &nd
At the stroke of midnight hour, India got converted into one seamless market, with multiple taxes being replaced with singular Goods and Service Tax (GST). GST was rolled out in an event held at the parliament&rsqu
The Goods and Services Tax (GST) is expected to be a game changer. According to the
"There is a demand for products with zero carbon footprint,” said prime minister Narendra Modi who inaugurated a mega-trade fair and exhibition: Textiles India 2017 in Gandhinagar on Friday. Modi emphasised on the
Prime minister Narendra Modi finally broke his silence, once again, and denounced the spate of lynching in the name of cow protection. As he visited the Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad, he also said Gandhiji would not have approved of this way of
Army chief General Bipin Rawat personally oversaw the defence preparedness in Sikkim, amid Chinese media’s vituperative comment on India and escalating tension between the two countries over the Doklam plateau where Chinese army’s effo
