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Salman Khan’s Sultan’s day 8 box office collection’s Rs 219.6 cr: Can it destroy Aamir Khan’s PK record?

Salman Khan’s Sultan’s day 8 box office collection’s Rs 219.6 cr: Can it destroy Aamir Khan’s PK record?

Sultan released with high expectations. Salman Khan, Anushka Sharma film exceeded every single one of them. On Tuesday, the film made Rs 10.82 crore, taking the movie’s tally to Rs 219.6 crore. The film’s continuing its box office dominance despite these being weekdays and lower ticket prices. As the film became the fastest film ever to earn Rs […]

How do the falling circle rates affect you?

How do the falling circle rates affect you?

In the last week of June, Haryana government’s revenue department decreased the circle rates in Gurgaon. The new rates are now 15% lower in almost all areas of the city. This has been done for residential as well as commercial properties. In January, the Uttarakhand government had reduced circle rates in various parts of Dehradun. […]

Meet the inheritors of India’s business empires

Meet the inheritors of India’s business empires

MUMBAI: As India’s richest men hit their 60s and beyond, succession questions about the next generation of tycoons will increasingly emerge in a country where business is still dominated by family-run enterprises. Bloomberg has profiled some of these young guns of corporate India, selecting those who are 35 and under, based in India, have a public profile, […]

Op Sankat Mochan: Indians rescued from South Sudan to reach Delhi today

Op Sankat Mochan: Indians rescued from South Sudan to reach Delhi today

External affairs minister Sushma Swaraj said the two flights sent to evacuate Indians from South Sudan, where a fragile ceasefire holds amid civil war, had cleared the conflict zone late on Thursday. In a series of tweets on the micro-blogging site, the minister gave updates on Sankat Mochan — the evacuation operation — stating both […]

On return to India, inform bank of changed residential status

On return to India, inform bank of changed residential status

I am 60 plus, and am returning to India after staying in the Gulf for 20 years. I have non-resident external (NRE) and foreign currency non-residential (FCNR) deposits, which mature at different times up to 2020. Considering that my status after return is resident not ordinarily resident (RONR) during the first 2 years (minimum), please […]

Cong names Sheila Dikshit as UP CM candidate, says chosen for experience and good work

Cong names Sheila Dikshit as UP CM candidate, says chosen for experience and good work

Former Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit was on Thursday named as Congress CM face in Uttar Pradesh where assembly elections are due next year. The announcement was made by Congress General Secretary Janardan Dwivedi at the party headquarters in the national capital. “For the first time your assumption has proved right,” he said, referring to media speculation […]

‘Cynical’ and ‘misguided’: India hits back at Pakistan for raising Kashmir at UN

‘Cynical’ and ‘misguided’: India hits back at Pakistan for raising Kashmir at UN

UNITED NATIONS: India has sharply hit back at Pakistan at a high-level United Nations forum for misusing it to raise the Kashmir issue. CharacterisingPakistan as a country that “uses terrorism as state policy” and one that masquerades its use of terrorism as its “support for human rights”, India firmly dismissed Pakistan’s attempt as not having any resonance in […]

Sound of Raaz | Raaz Reboot | Emraan Hashmi, Kriti Kharbanda, Gaurav Arora

Sound of Raaz | Raaz Reboot | Emraan Hashmi, Kriti Kharbanda, Gaurav Arora

“TU HAI” Video Song | MOHENJO DARO | A.R. RAHMAN,SANAH MOIDUTTY | Hrithik Roshan & Pooja Hegde

“TU HAI” Video Song | MOHENJO DARO | A.R. RAHMAN,SANAH MOIDUTTY | Hrithik Roshan & Pooja Hegde

India, Kenya sign 7 pacts; to deepen cooperation in security

India, Kenya sign 7 pacts; to deepen cooperation in security

NAIROBI: Seeking to bolster their ties, India and Kenya on Monday decided to deepen and expand cooperation in a wide range of areas as they signed seven pacts, including in the field of defence and security and avoidance of double taxation. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, after his talks with Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta here, also […]

Life in curfew-hit Srinagar: Petrol in black, stores open half-shutter at night

As curfew stretched on for a third day on Monday, indefinitely suspending civic life, Srinagar almost resembled a ghost town. Grocery stores, vegetable shops, petrol pumps and other business establishments remained shuttered, even as the death toll from protests went up by one more; a youth died on Sunday from injuries sustained in the police […]

Lafarge to sell India assets to Nirma for $1.4 bn

Lafarge to sell India assets to Nirma for $1.4 bn

LafargeHolcim on Monday said it has entered into an agreement with Nirma Ltd to sell its entire 100% holding in cement maker Lafarge India for an enterprise value of $1.4 billion. The deal will be subject to approval from the Competition Commission of India (CCI), Lafarge said in a statement posted on its website. Lafarge […]

Pakistan Government, Hafiz Saeed Provoke With Comments On Burhan Wani

Pakistan Government, Hafiz Saeed Provoke With Comments On Burhan Wani

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistani government and internationally-condemned terrorist Hafiz Saeed have made twin attempts to aggravate the tension in Kashmir, where more than 20 people have died and nearly 300 been injured in clashes after the death of terrorist Burhan Wani on Friday night. “The Prime Minister of Pakistan has expressed his deep shock at the killing […]

Indian Hockey Team’s ‘Sardar’

Indian Hockey Team’s ‘Sardar’

Sardar Singh. The captain of the Indian hockey team and a man who will have a big role to play if India are to win their first Olympic medal in Men’s field hockey since 1980 In 2008, Sardar Singh became the youngest man ever to captain the Indian National Men’s hockey Team. Eight years later, […]

Kids Who Suck Their Thumbs, Bite Nails Have Fewer Allergies: Study

Kids Who Suck Their Thumbs, Bite Nails Have Fewer Allergies: Study

MELBOURNE:  Children who bite their nails or suck their thumbs are less likely to develop allergic sensitivities, a new study suggests. And, if they have both ‘bad habits’, they are even less likely to be allergic to such things as house dust mites, grass, cats, dogs, horses or airborne fungi, researchers said. “Our findings are consistent […]

Deepika to play Padmavati in SLB’s next?

Deepika to play Padmavati in SLB’s next?

Looks like Deepika Padukone and Sanjay Leela Bhansali are all set to hit a hatrick soon…because there’s gossip doing the rounds that the gorgeous actress is set to play Padmavati in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s next movie based on Rani Padmani. A leading site has stated that the actress has been roped into play the titular […]

Kumkum Bhagya : Dadi to ask Abhi to divorce Pragya?

Kumkum Bhagya : Dadi to ask Abhi to divorce Pragya?

Will Pragya be able to come out of Nikhil’s clutches ? In the last episode, Nikhil kidnapped both Pragya(Sriti Jha) and Pari. Pragya had come to free Dr.Sheila’s daughter, Pari but she ended up getting trapped herself. Abhi(Shabbir Ahluwalia) was missing Pragya terribly. He was worried that why hasn’t she returned back home. Pragya had told […]

Jag Ghoomeya Song | Sultan | Rahat Fateh Ali Khan | Salman Khan | Anushka Sharma

Jag Ghoomeya Song | Sultan | Rahat Fateh Ali Khan | Salman Khan | Anushka Sharma

440 Volt Song | Sultan | Mika Singh | Salman Khan | Anushka Sharma

440 Volt Song | Sultan | Mika Singh | Salman Khan | Anushka Sharma

Official MIRZYA Teaser Trailer | Harshvardhan Kapoor, Saiyami Kher, Anuj Chaudhary | T-Series

Official MIRZYA Teaser Trailer | Harshvardhan Kapoor, Saiyami Kher, Anuj Chaudhary | T-Series