Stolen IPL kit sets off alarm
The Kolkata Knight Riders’ arrival in Mumbai for the opening match of the Indian Premier League’s third season turned out to be more exciting than their performance last year. Soon after the team’s luggage reached The Trident hotel in Bandra-Kurla Complex amid heightened security threats, a ...
She’s the man
In her silent way, Sonia Gandhi is changing India. The impact of her social legislation against poverty (NREGS), against corruption (Right to Information Act), and now against inequality (Women’s Bill) is epic. The impact might not be clear to us immediately, but that is because we...
Nariman’s lowest point
For years, Nariman Point has housed Indias most exclusive office property, with impossible rental rates and a listing on all the major international surveys. But Mumbais central business districts good old buildings are now starting to lose out to newer, swankier constructions in other...
I don’t want to make a show of it
The Mahajans have a way of making it to the headlines. This time it is Rahul, who tied the knot, for the second time, with a 21-year-old Bengali model and item girl in a televised event on Saturday which was attended by his mother, but not his sister....
Vidhan Bhavan not secure?
It’s been more than 15 months since the 26/11 terror attacks in Mumbai, but according to a recent security audit report conducted by the police on one of the city’s most crucial landmarks – the Vidhan Bhavan – the building that houses the state’s legislature is still nowhere near...
Shandar gesture for Preity Zinta
The legacy of Kamaal Amrohi, who made films on epic proportions, is now stuff of a controversy, that could assume epic proportions, considering the worth of the spoils in question- a property and a business valued at over Rs 600 crore.The legendary filmmakers three children- sons...
Let’s end this chapter here!
The well-kept secret of Pravin Mahajans confidential statement disclosing his motive for murdering his brother and BJP leader Pramod can be accessed 18 years from now. But the Mahajan family would rather not revisit the tragedy. Under the RTI Act, Pravins in-camera...
And the questions remain...
Pravin Mahajan, the man convicted of murdering his elder brother and senior BJP leader Pramod Mahajan, died on Wednesday evening after prolonged hospitalisation for brain haemorrhage. With his death, the ‘real reason’ for the BJP leader’s murder, will also get a quiet burial....
Bad service: No bar on AI
If you look forward to a peg of fine scotch and find it missing on an Air India (AI) flight, dont blame it on cost-cutting. Liquor is not being served on certain AI flights since last week by the crew citing staff shortage.AI cabin crew belonging to the erstwhile Indian Airlines (IC) and representing...
21-year-old dances to his death on holi
Things went awry when 21-year-old Santosh Jadhav, who was dancing to celebrate the season of rejuvenation, crumbled and fell to the ground. And even as concerned friends and family prayed that it was just a case of fatigue he would soon recover from, doctors at KEM Hospital...