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NIA court issues non-bailable warrant against Zakir Naik

NIA court issues non-bailable warrant against Zakir Naik

20 April 2017 6:43 PM IST
The special NIA (National Investigation Agency) court here on Thursday issued a non-bailable warrant against the controversial Islamic preacher Zakir...
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NIA files closure report; clean chit to Sadhvi Pragya, Indresh

NIA files closure report; clean chit to Sadhvi Pragya, Indresh

3 April 2017 11:34 PM IST
Court will decide on whether to accept the NIA report or not on April 17.
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Two IS suspects plead guilty before court

Two IS suspects plead guilty before court

29 March 2017 5:23 PM IST
The court has asked National Investigation Agency (NIA) to file a reply on the plea.
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Two receive life terms for 2007 Ajmer Dargah blast

Two receive life terms for 2007 Ajmer Dargah blast

22 March 2017 2:11 PM IST
A special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court here on Wednesday sentenced Bhavesh Patel and Devendra Gupta to life in jail in the 2007...
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Extravagance feeding off adversities
"Thomas Manuel’s Opium Inc." | Extravagance feeding off adversities

Author: Thomas Manuel

Publisher: HarperCollins

Price: 595

Opium Inc: How A Global Drug Trade Funded the British Empire’ is not just a magnum opus on opium,...

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On a formidable pulpit
"By Many a Happy Accident" | On a formidable pulpit

Author: M. Hamid Ansari

Publisher: Rupa Publications

Price: 795

Roger Sherman, a founding father of the American Constitution, had observed that ‘if the vice...

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Of light and darkness
"The Long Shadows of Life" | Of light and darkness

Author: Ramin Jahanbegloo

Publisher: HarAnand

Price: 495

The Long Shadows of Life is a collection of seventy-one poems of, an Iranian-Canadian philosopher,...

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Stories of steel and gunpowder
"The Maharaja of Jodhpur's Guns" | Stories of steel and gunpowder

Author: Robert Elgood

Publisher: Niyogi Books

Price: 4500

The Mehrangarh Museum Trust at Jodhpur has preserved the historic monuments and artefacts of the...

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A Culinary Smorgasbord
"Vegetarian Cuisine from the Himalayan Foothills" | A Culinary Smorgasbord

Author: Veena Sharma

Publisher: Niyogi Books

Price: 750

It is not for nothing that the Garhwal region of the Himalayas is referred to as deva bhumi, the...

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Towering intellectual contributions
"How to Read Amartya Sen" | Towering intellectual contributions

Author: Lawrence Hamilton

Publisher: Penguin India

Price: 499

There are a number of ways in which freedom is central to the work of Amartya Sen. Right across his...

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Is dissent necessary?
"Voices of Dissent" | Is dissent necessary?

Author: Romila Thapar

Publisher: Seagull Books

Price: 499

Dissent is, in essence, the disagreement that a person or persons may have with others, or, more...

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India’s irrepressible gadfly
"Rebels with a Cause" | India’s irrepressible gadfly

Author: TT Ram Mohan

Publisher: Penguin

Price: 599

In early 2014, Arundhati Roy wrote a lengthy introduction to one of B.R. Ambedkar’s most powerful...

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Abuse of greatness
"Bahawalpur: the kingdom that vanished" | Abuse of greatness

Author: Anabel Loyd

Publisher: Penguin

Price: 599

Salahuddin Abbasi’s view of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto is epitomized by Stanley Wolpert’s opening remarks...

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Star of the Millennium
"Amitabh Bachchan: A Kaleidoscope" | Star of the Millennium

Author: Pradeep Chandra & Vikas Chandra Sinha

Publisher: Niyogi Books

Price: 1500

Don is the only Hindi film directed by Chandra Barot. Both Don and Barot have interesting histories....

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Of loss and resilience
"Plassey: The Battle that Changed the Course of Indian History" | Of loss and resilience

Author: Sudeep Chakravarti

Publisher: Aleph Book Company

Price: 799

In the Ain-i-Akbari, a record of administration during the reign of the Mughal emperor Akbar, what...

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Building India’s technological edifice
"Midnight's Machines: A Political History of Technology in India" | Building India’s technological edifice

Author: Arun Mohan Sukumar

Publisher: Penguin

Price: 599

Technology has always been detrimental in a nation’s progress and its standing in the world. The...

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All about Marvelous Ms Brosnahan

"The Marvelous Mrs Maisel 3" | All about Marvelous Ms Brosnahan

Director: Amy Sherman-Palladino

Star Cast: Rachel Brosnahan, Alex Borstein, Michael Zegen, Marin Hinkle, Tony Shalhoub, Kevin Pollak

It must be the law of averages, really, how Season Three pales in comparison to Season two, which in...

A fun watch

"Pati Patni Aur Woh" | A fun watch

Director: Mudassar Aziz

Star Cast: Kartik Aaryan, Bhumi Pednekar, Ananya Panday

The interesting thing about the reimagined “Pati Patni Aur Woh” is its setting. Version 2019 is...

A relevant film

"Hotel Mumbai" | A relevant film

Director: Anthony Maras

Star Cast: Dev Patel, Anupam Kher, Armie Hammer

An Australian filmmaker has delivered the definitive manifesto on what must surely rank as one of...

Brilliant performance nails the character

"Joker" | Brilliant performance nails the character

Director: Todd Phillips

Star Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz

For those unaware of the DC comic universe, the Joker is the supervillain who appeared in...

‘Posham Pa’ doesn’t tempt us to invest in its scummy characters

"Posham Pa" | ‘Posham Pa’ doesn’t tempt us to invest in its scummy characters

Director: Suman Mukhopadhyay

Star Cast: Mahie Gill, Sayani Gupta, Ragini Khanna

It is heartbreaking to see how much Sayani Gupta and Mahie Gill have invested into their characters...

It floats with hope

"Big Little Lies, Season 2" | It floats with hope

Director: Jean-Marc Vallee and Andrea Arnold

Star Cast: Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon, Shailene Woodley

Unless you think of ‘The Godfather Part 2’, very few sequels are given an unconditional thumbs-up ....

Smugly, aa, unrelatable kitsch

"Game Over" | Smugly, aa, unrelatable kitsch

Director: Ashvin Saravanan

Star Cast: Taapsee Pannu, Vinodhini, Ramya Subramanian

With all the trappings of its genre tropes, the film Game Over starts with a promise. But to accept...

Modi biopic not historical, but mythological

"PM Narendra Modi" | Modi biopic not historical, but mythological

Director: Omung Kumar B

Star Cast: Vivek Oberoi, Manoj Joshi and Suresh Oberoi

This is not the Narendra Modi biopic that we’ve all been waiting for. The one that shows this...

Powerful and compelling

"City Of Dreams" | Powerful and compelling

Director: Nagesh Kukunoor

Star Cast: Priya Bapat, Sidharth Chandekar, Eijaz Khan and Vishwas Kini

What starts off seeming to be a take-off on Mani Ratnam’s most recent political drama Chekka...

A splashy bore

"Student of the Year 2" | A splashy bore

Director: Punit Malhotra

Star Cast: Tiger Shroff, Aditya Seal, Ananya Panday, Tara Sutaria

In a film that runs on and on, almost as fast as its agile leading man, for nearly two and a half...

Kangana reigns as Manikarnika

"Manikarnika: The queen of Jhansi" | Kangana reigns as Manikarnika

Director: Kangana Ranaut, Radha Krishna Jagarlamudi

Star Cast: Kangana Ranaut, Ankita Lokhande, Jishu Sengupta, Danny Dengongzpa, Suresh Oberoi, Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Kulbhushan Kharbanda

Khoob Ladi Mardaani Woh Toh Jhansi Waali Rani Thi – this is how prominent Hindi poet Subhadra Kumari...

An insanely, illogically fun science-fiction

"2.0" | An insanely, illogically fun science-fiction

Director: S.Shankar

Star Cast: Rajinikanth, Akshay Kumar, Amy Jackson, Adil Hussain and Sudhanshu Pandey

It’s been a long wait for superstar Rajinikanth’s 2.0, which has finally hit the screens, and it can...

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