Over 2,000 fresh accounts were opened in a Bareilly branch of State Bank of India post-demonetisation till December 31 to allegedly channelise black money in which at least Rs. 8 crore were deposited in old notes, a CBI probe has found. The CBI has now registered an FIR against unknown bank officials and unknown persons for criminal conspiracy, cheating and corruption. Based on source information, the CBI had carried out […]

It is the “land far, far away” of a fairy tale. Its unknown corners have the call of an adventure. The beauty here changes your definition of beautiful. Its in-your-face isolation has the power to transform. Zanskar is a valley in the higher Himalayas, about 250 km and an 8-hour drive from Kargil, which is its only connection to the outside world in the summer. In the winter (if they […]

If you ask experts robots are going to be claiming a lot of human jobs in the future. However, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau believes he has a plan to deal with this eventuality, in a way that doesn’t leave hordes of people lining up at the unemployment office. According to guys like Elon Musk, Bill Gates, and Stephen Hawking, everything from factories to taxis to even some office jobs […]

Each time Mani Ratnam comes up with something unique, it’s a celebration for cinephiles across the state of Tamil Nadu. The euphoria is so much that the entire industry wants Mani Ratnam to emerge as a winner. Set against the backdrop of the Kargil war, Kaatru Veliyidai is an emotional love story between fighter pilot Varun (Karthi) and doctor Leela Abraham (Aditi Rao Hydari). While being held captive, Varun reminisces […]

In the aggressively fought by-election to J Jayalalithaa’s RK Nagar constituency in Tamil Nadu, in which every day has been dramatic and action-packed, taxmen arrived at the homes of minister C Vijayabaskar and popular actor Sarath Kumar in Chennai early this morning. They both are accused of handing out cash for votes, tax officials say. They claim documents seized during the raids reveal 80 crores have been paid to RK […]

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has made 56 foreign visits since assuming charge in May 2014, Parliament was informed on Wednesday. According to a list provided by Minister of State for External Affairs VK Singh in reply to a question in the Lok Sabha, after first visiting Bhutan in June 2014, Modi visited the US four times, and Nepal, Japan, Russia, Afghanistan and China two times each. In September 2014, he […]

Irrfan Khan never fails to surprise you. After a string of superlative performances in recent times, the Bollywood actor revealed the first trailer of his next big surprise: Hindi Medium, a Saket Choudhary-directed film which also stars Pakistani actor Saba Qamar. Hindi Medium shows Irrfan and Saba as a young couple struggling to get the perfect education for their daughter. Saket co-wrote Shah Rukh Khan-starrer Asoka (2001) and has also […]

The winners of 2017 World’s Best Restaurant Awards were announced recently at Melbourne’s Royal Exhibition Building, Australia. For the second time in 15 years, a restaurant outside of Europe won the award for World’s best restaurant. New York’s Eleven Madison Park has been named this year’s best restaurant of the world, knocking down last year’s winner Osteria Fracescana, after seven years climbing the leader board, CNN reports. Surprisingly, no single […]

Animal lovers, step aside. This farmer from Kollegal taluk takes pride in protecting the smallest of nature, namely Microbes. And because of this focus, he has created a world where nature appears in all her glory. When BM visited Murthy’s farmhouse, which has never gone dry, we found he uses only natural methods of farming and shuns artifical inputs. Tucked away in a village in Kollegal taluk is an oasis […]

More than one in 10 deaths globally was caused due to smoking in 2015 and over 50 % of them took place in just four countries, one of which was India, a new study said. Over 11 % of 6.4 million deaths worldwide was caused by smoking in 2015 and 52.2 % of them took place in China, India, USA, and Russia, according to the latest estimates in the Global […]