THE COUNTRY’S 11th vice-president, Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, who died in Jaipur on Saturday at the age of 87, may have had his political affiliation to the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Yet, despite his ideology, he was a politician who was respected and admired by many across the political spectrum.

What feels soft and breathes easy on your skin? Many would say linen is ideal for summer, but then what has made the fabric withstand the test of time and still be a favourite with the chiffons and georgette flaunting

The National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) chairman Buta Singh on Saturday visited Jait — the ancestral village of Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan in Sehore district. This visit acquires

The queen of the television soaps Ekta Kapoor is going into thriller mode and jumping into mobile television with two new shows made exclusively for that one gadget we can’t do without — the cellphone. Under her banner Balaji Telefilms, she plans on catering to the young on-the-go audience with the series.

Samajwadi Party president Mulayam Singh Yadav has said that his party would continue to extend “issue-based” support to the Congress-led coalition at the centre.

Don’t be surprised if you log on to a social networking site and see your friends looking like one of the blue-skinned, green-eyed humanoid species of the Na’vi tribe. Call it the Avatar hangover or a fun gag to kill

Trinamul Congress chief and railway minister Mamata Banerjee continues to keep the UPA on tenterhooks. And this time, it’s about her likely presence, or absence, for the UPA dinner slated to be held in the capital on May 22.
While Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is learnt to have extended an invite to the temperamental Trinamul l

Prachi Desai is very excited about her role in Krishan Choudhery’s Main Joker opposite Rajeev Khandelwal.

The CBI had recently asked the UP police to provide pieces of crucial evidence relating to the murder of teenaged girl Aarushi Talwar — the bedsheet on which she was found dead and her room’s doormat — as it continues the probe in the case even as two years have elapsed.

They all sat around her laptop while she ranted about him and clicked away furiously. Her friends sympathetically listened, nodded and agreed that he was a cad.