Sunny Deol and Preity Zinta’s Batwara 1947 opened to Rs 5.75 crore nett in India on Friday, registering a moderate start at the box office. The Rajkumar Santoshi directorial, which arrived in theatres alongside Emraan […]
Filmmaker Nitesh Tiwari’s Ramayana is among the most-awaited films of the year. The film’s trailer, released on July 30, quickly became a talking point, with viewers divided over its visuals and VFX. While some praised […]
Production on the second season of Crave’s breakout hit drama Heated Rivalry is officially underway in Toronto, and the series is dramatically broadening its footprint. Following the recent casting announcements of Justice Smith (Harris Drover) […]
Khatron Ke Khiladi 15 has again come under scrutiny after another pain-based stunt triggered strong reactions from viewers and contestants. A week after a rubber pellet gun task left four participants badly bruised and sparked […]
Actor Ajay Devgn has been announced as the new host of Crime Patrol, prompting a reaction from former host Anup Soni, who remains closely associated with the long-running true-crime series. The move marks a new […]
New Delhi (TIP): Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, skipped the 80th Independence Day celebrations at the Red Fort on Saturday for the second consecutive year, as Prime […]
New Delhi (TIP): President Droupadi Murmu has approved seventy-eight Gallantry awards, including 13 posthumous, to the personnel of the Defence Forces and Central Armed Police Forces on the eve of Independence Day 2026. Following the […]
New Delhi (TIP): The Congress hit back at Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday, Aug 15, for his “dimaagi Naxals” attack and termed it a “sure sign of desperation”. Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh said […]
Dehradun/ New Delhi (TIP): Seven workers were confirmed dead and three remained trapped inside a flooded, under-construction hydropower tunnel in Chamoli late on Friday, more than 24 hours after a suspected aquifer burst sent a […]
New Delhi (TIP): The Union government on Friday, Aug 14, notified 40 questions, including a query on caste for the first time in independent India, to be asked of respondents for population enumeration in the […]
From Scarcity to Scale: The Making of a Modern Economy When India became independent in 1947, political freedom arrived in a country facing enormous economic challenges. The colonial economy had left behind low industrial capacity, […]
New Delhi (TIP): Former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday, Aug 15, said that after Gen Z, Gen Alpha has started raising its voice for better facilities in government schools. In a post on […]
Democracy, Power and the Making of a Political Nation When India became independent in 1947, it inherited a state but had to build a democratic political system almost from the ground up. The country was […]
1947–2026: Democracy, Development and Transformation On 15 August 1947, India inherited freedom. On 26 January 1950, it gave that freedom a constitutional shape. Between those two dates lay one of the most demanding transitions in […]
1857–1947: The Long Road to Independence India’s independence was not the achievement of a single movement, a single leader or a single generation. It was the culmination of a long, complex and often painful historical […]
A Civilization, a Subcontinent, a Nation in the Making India marks its 80th Independence Day celebration on August 15, 2026. This event completes 79 years of freedom since 1947 and enters the country into its […]
From 1947 to the India of Tomorrow: Building a Nation, Shaping a Future India’s story is one of extraordinary transformation. On 15 August 1947, a nation emerged from nearly two centuries of colonial rule, carrying […]
DHAKA : A suspected gas leak at a shipbreaking yard in southeastern Bangladesh killed at least eight people on Friday during the dismantling of a decommissioned ship, police said. Several others were injured at the […]
Pakistan has once again dipped into its familiar playbook of indulging in empty and hollow rhetoric against India, with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif threatening a “direct response” over water even as Islamabad grapples with a […]
As Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers mark five years since sweeping back to power, some Kabul residents say they feel safer after decades of conflict and upheaval but stress the leaders should now focus on creating jobs […]
Norway’s soccer star Erling Haaland ‘s face has appeared on billboards, trading cards and television screens, becoming a social media phenomenon for scoring seven goals across four World Cup matches in July. Now, police in […]
North Korea on Aug 14 threatened unspecified stern steps against the United States and South Korea ahead of their upcoming military drills, which Pyongyang called a war rehearsal that claimed would be more provocative than […]
For five nights, Israeli settlers surrounded three Palestinian homes on the outskirts of a town in the occupied West Bank, preventing the families from leaving safely as their food and water supplies dwindled. Qusai Abu […]
Firefighters across Europe struggled against multiple fires Friday as a new wave of record-breaking heat baked a swath of the continent, their task further complicated by exceptionally parched landscapes. With France experiencing its driest year […]
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