By Sugandha Rawal New Delhi, Dec 27 (IANS) From demonetisation adding to box office’s blues and calls to ban Pakistani artistes, to directors at odds with the censor board and celebrities going public with their…
By Haricharan Pudipeddi Chennai, Dec 26 (IANS) Out of the 600-odd films released in four southern languages — Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam — there were some which may not have earned a robust box-office…
By Haricharan Pudipeddi Chennai, Dec 26 (IANS) As the southern film industry continues to be ruled by stars and hit filmmakers, a wave of new generation movie makers — including first-timers as well as those…
By Sheikh Qayoom Jammu, Dec 26 (IANS) The year 2016 brought back nightmarish memories of past wars for thousands of border residents in the Jammu region whose lives remained on the edge because of myriad…
By Debayan Mukherjee Kolkata, Dec 26 (IANS) Bengaluru FC provided the sparks, while the national men’s team advanced in rankings despite an overall tepid show during 2016 — a crucial year for Indian soccer that…
By Rupesh Dutta New Delhi, Dec 26 (IANS) Amid renewed incidents of violence, the year 2016 proved that peace in Nagaland and Assam will remain a distant dream until the government changes a general perception…
By M.R. Narayan Swamy and Priya Yadav New Delhi, Dec 25 (IANS) It was a year when India lost many prominent personalities from all walks of life, with politics receiving a particularly severe blow, many…
By Tridib Baparnash New Delhi, Dec 25 (IANS) It has been a year of fireworks for Indian cricket. The players have unfurled stupendous performances to close the year as the top ranked Test team, while…
By Haricharan Pudipeddi Chennai, Dec 24 (IANS) From superstar Rajinikanth’s Tamil gangster drama “Kabali” to Mohanlal’s Malayalam action-drama “Puli Murugan”, southern cinema thrived on the business made by these biggies and at the same time…
By Sahana Ghosh Kolkata, Dec 24 (IANS) In 2016, science fiction and reality collided when LIGO opened up our sixth sense to understand the universe and set the ball rolling for a new era of…
By Sujit Chakraborty Agartala, Dec 23 (IANS) It was a year of double delight for Tripura. The border state emerged as an island of peace in the otherwise violence-prone northeastern India with no incident of…
By Saket Suman New Delhi, Dec 23 (IANS) In what is being seen as a major evolution in the Indian publishing space — which, according to industry insiders is a cumulative result of the nation’s…
By Biswajit Choudhury New Delhi, Dec 22 (IANS) The defining moment for the oil sector came towards the end of the year with the deal between OPEC and non-OPEC countries on cutting production, which immediately…
By Mohammed Shafeeq Hyderabad, Dec 22 (IANS) As 2016 comes to a close, it was the second full year in the onward march of Telangana, which appears to be making rapid strides in different sectors…
By Gokul Bhagabati and Rachel V. Thomas New Delhi, Dec 22 (IANS) The rapid rise of the Zika infections across many parts of the world had a large section of the population mightily worried till…
By Venkatachari Jagannathan Chennai, Dec 21 (IANS) The year 2016 was a bag of mixed fortunes for the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) with successes on the technological front and setbacks on the legal front….
By Rupesh Dutta New Delhi, Dec 21 (IANS) India, where just 1.5 per cent of the GDP goes to healthcare, took some promising steps to uplift patient care in 2016 — a year that also…
By Sanu George Thiruvananthapuram, Dec 20 (IANS) In Kerala, the year 2016 belonged to 71-year-old Pinarayi Vijayan who breasted the tape ahead of popular party colleague and arch rival V.S. Achuthanandan in the race to…
By Venkatachari Jagannathan Chennai, Dec 19 (IANS) It was a year of mixed fortunes for the Indian automobile industry that faced growth as well as tax, legal and government policy challenges, industry experts said. “It…
By Ashish Mishra and Vishav New Delhi, Dec 19 (IANS) An eventful year in terms of Delhi politics, 2016 saw a new chapter in the AAP versus central government tussle continuing the drama of last…