The global post-Covid fight against inflation is over, while India’s growth has slipped. It’s time for the RBI to take stock

Fighter's distressing lack of thrills and sizzle reduces the exercise to an excuse for tedious amounts of Pakistan bashing, observes Sukanya Verma.

Bullets fly, the noise becomes unbearable and the plot finally ends with the hero doing an unbelievable leap on to the ski of the helicopter aka Schwarzenegger, flown by our pretty heroine. UFF UFF! Squirming in my seat, I ponder over what I have been through, sighs Air Commodore Nitin Sathe (retd).

A feeble fable masquerading as a robo rom-com, Teri Baaton Mein Aisa Uljha Jiya aspires to address what unrealistic expectations in a relationship can lead to, observes Sukanya Verma.

The Zone Of Interest is technically flawless but lacks emotional pull, observes Mayur Sanap.

Lootere deserves points for originality and novelty, observes Deepa Gahlot.

It introduces random characters, goes on several wild goose chases and is incapable of holding onto any thread of the plot, sighs Deepa Gahlot.

A lot of time is spent on giving us the background of the story and establishing the characters but the film is named Kalki and the man is not even born, notes A Ganesh Nadar.

Modern Masters aims to showcase Rajamouli's enigmatic career and paints a context of what makes him the singular voice that defined his generation of film-makers, for millions, observes Arjun Menon.

Mithya The Darker Chapter has a constant been-there-seen-that feeling. Everything is dialled to 11, be it the emotional rundown of the characters or dramatic moments that form their dynamic, notes Mayur Sanap.

The world No. 20 Indian pair was brushed aside 16-21, 16-21 by Hsu Yin-Hui and Lin Yin-Hui, ranked 24, in just 36 minutes in their women's doubles round 32 of clash of the Super 500 tournament

The company’s revenue from operations increased 21% to ₹495 crore as compared with ₹407.7 crore in the same period last year.

A Tata group company seeks allocation of land, another company recently completes a beach resort in Srikakulam

The think tank aims to create a combined pool of talent of all stakeholders, which would be ideally suited to advise the industry and the government on the way forward

The trend signals a shift in the grassroots power dynamics across the State with BJP venturing to claim even more of the BJD’s political territory

The BJP is trying to compensate for the loss of 11 seats in the 2024 Lok Sabha election in the State while the Congress-led INDIA bloc has fallen apart barely five months after the polls

Caste factor often cuts through the religious and social divide in the region’s politics

The byelections, first since the Lok Sabha elections, have somethings at stake for both the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress

She called the book a “space pastoral” about six astronauts circling the Earth, which she began writing during COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns

Mr. Hegseth deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan and unsuccessfully ran for Senate in Minnesota in 2012 before joining Fox News.

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For over 300 years, scientists have primarily studied bacteria using liquid cultures or flat 2D plates in laboratory settings

Cinema screens bring in over 60% of the Rs 19,100 crore that Indian films earned in 2019.The reception a film gets in theatres impacts the price of every other revenue stream -- TV, OTT, overseas.Vanita Kohli-Khandekar explains why the theatre business is not doomed and why OTT won't become the first window of release.

'Songs are a commercial compromise.''I had to invent tricks to fit songs into my films.'

Sushant finished off his innings in style by scoring high on his last theatrical release, Chichhore, a film that was ironically about suicide not being a solution.

The insatiable greed for money and power is too large, too repugnant to thwart.And no one epitomised that better than Harshad Mehta, notes Dhruv Munjal.

'I can write a book about Kamal Haasan. No, make that three books.'

The passing of Satyajit Ray's renaissance man feels like the snapping of the last connection with a generation that built a nation and defined grace while facing everything life had to throw at them, says Sumit Bhattacharya.

'He's always been an all-inspiring kind of director that nobody can surpass,' R Madhavan tells Subhash K Jha about Mani Ratnam.

Even as our tier-2 and tier-3 cities become increasingly well-mapped, and well-documented through myriad tech-driven data, the Indian film-maker's dominantly urban gaze turns to regions not crowded by data, area codes, or directions, observes Debarghya Sanyal.

When the movie started, the crowd went wild.They cheered for Sunny Deol and booed the villains.They laughed at the jokes, cried at the emotional scenes and whistled and cheered at all the action.Rajesh Karkera records the audience reactions at a screening of Gadar 2.

Siddharth Anand's artistry bespeaks an upbringing filled with GI Joes, plastic combat boots and plastic bayonets, fake punching noises and fake sounds of gunshots, rudely interrupted by an adult voice saying, 'Beta, all this is good, but try bringing in some feelings too', observes Sreehari Nair.

What follows is essentially a long scene set in a single location, and you watch in amazement as the scene grows into one of Indian cinema's funniest and most spectacular pieces of sustained craftsmanship, accumulating emotional power and subtext, growing wings and claws, becoming its own beast, applauds Sreehari Nair.

Bring me the mundane lives of the working class next. At least, it won't be as embarrassing as this, asserts Mayur Sanap.

Since the first organized Christmas celebration drew visitors to Colonial Williamsburg in 1936, nothing quite matches the beauty, imagination, excitement, pageantry, sights, smells, sounds, and grandeur of the Christmas season in Colonial Williamsburg.

The first scientist from a developing country to be appointed to the top position of IBRO, Shubha Tole is currently the dean of graduate studies at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai

China’s JUNO will soon start gathering data on neutrinos, a product of nuclear reactions, to help solve one of the biggest mysteries in particle physics

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