Under pressure from Manmohan Singh and the Planning Commission to generate revenue in an internal manner to fund two prominent projects – bullet trains and dedicated freight corridor – Indian Railways has finally done what they are asked of by the government: Increasing passenger fares in all classes. The proposed increase, in the vicinity of 2 paise to 10 paise per km across all classes, will come into effect from January 21. The country’s... 

The one-time best friends Shahrukh Khan and Arjun Rampal, who have also being part of two blockbusters together, parted ways as they have shared some bitter experiences sometime back. Confirming this story was the fact that Shahrukh Khan was ommitted left out from the guest list at Arjun Rampal’s birthday bash, while his wife Gauri attended it, as she is a close friend of Mehr, Arjun’s wife. Though Arjun has said in a recent interview... 

Shares of  Kingfisher Airlines saw an increase of around 9 percent today after a letter sent to employees from Chairman Vijay Mallya highlighted plans for a revival to be funded with 6.5 billion rupees from his UB Group. Kingfisher, which lost its operating licence  in the December last year has not flown since the beginning of October, filed its plan, which consists of the identical funding amount from UB, to regulators in late December. Kingfisher,... 

The wait has finally ended. Nokia has launched Lumia 920 in India. Banking quite a bit on this handset, company believes the device will help the company in coming back in the smartphone sector and match competitors like Apple and Samsung. Nokia fans — and there are lots of them in the country — are hoping that at last they will have a device that can compare favourably to the likes of Galaxy S III and iPhone. So, the question is does Lumia 920... 

Lok Sabha elections are going to be held in 2014 but most of the political parties have already started preparations, triggering speculations that elections may held early. Last month, Samajwadi Party chief Mulyam Singh Yadav asked his party workers to prepare themselves for early polls. Taking cue from Mulayam Singh Yadav, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati too asked her party cadres to quicken up preparations for early general election. And... 

Women’s organisations are angry of the sexist remarks made by number of political and religious leaders in the wake of brutal Delhi gang-rape. Samajwadi Party leader Abu Azmi yesterday said women should not go out with men other than relatives and was in agreement with RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s opinion that most rapes take place in cities and not villages. However, Azmi’s son is not in favor of his father’s opinion. “For... 

There is no doubt about the fact that she is the most famous Kardashian, known for her love of glamour. But looks like Kim Kardashian has undergone a full image overhaul – swapping her long dark locks for short blonde curls. But as a fan, you do not need to fear as it was all for a joke as she filmed a TV show with 90-year-old Hollywood legend Betty White giving her a make-over. The hilarious skit sees Kim, who has admitted her pregnancy interacting... 

Saif Ali Khan and Imran Khan are two of the biggest Bollywood stars at present. However one thing which is missing from their CV is a 100 crore hit. With the release of their respective films just around the corner, both of them can enter the 100 crore club. Imran will get a first chance with Matru Ki Bijlee Ka Mandola. On the other side of the coin for Saif Ali Khan, most of the trade pundits believe that RACE 2 is going to cross the 100 crore barrier. “On... 

The Bigg Boss 6 is full of surprises, the latest one being the midnight eviction of Delnaaz Irani. Yesterday night, Bigg Boss asked all the six participants to gather in the garden area and informed them that  there is going to be eviction. Delnaaz and her ex-husband Rajeev Paul were asked to stand on two separate short stools and that is when it was announced that as Delnaaz has got least number of votes so she is being evicted. The eviction came... 

According to Congress General Secretary Digvijaya Singh, RSS is quite similar to Taliban. “I am saying this because both are fundamentalist in nature and they want to take us back to the 18th century,” said the senior Congress leader. He went on to say that “only fundamentalists want to prescribe a dress code for women and by doing this they want to hide their own misbehaviour”. Digvijaya believes that the day was not far...