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Zahira Sheikh is paying the price for perjury. Her flip-flop-flip has cost her a year’s jail sentence plus a Rs 50,000 fine. There’s no reason why Shyan Munshi, a hostile witness in the Jessica Lall case and no victim, should be treated any differently. HT Image Ok, so Zahira Sheikh is a liar. A big […]

A retrospective of the artist’s works, on display at a premier Delhi art gallery, tells a variety of tales. HT Image He is one of the country’s best-known artists. Now, the premier art institution, the National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Delhi, is honoring Satish Gujral with a retrospective of his works. The Satish Gujral

He is one of the country’s best-known artists. Now, the premier art institution, the National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Delhi, is honoring Satish Gujral with a retrospective of his works. HT Image He is one of the country’s best-known artists. Now, the premier art institution, the National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Delhi, is

Refusing to accept Maxim Editor’s apology, actress Khushboo has filed a petition with Chennai Police. HT Image There is a new twist to the Maxim-Khushboo tale. Ever since the lad mag Maxim published an admittedly morphed picture of the southern film star — using her face on the body of a woman dressed in underwear

THERE IS a new twist to the Maxim-Khushboo tale. Ever since the lad mag Maxim published an admittedly morphed picture of the southern film star — using her face on the body of a woman dressed in underwear — Khushboo has threatened legal action. HT Image THERE IS a new twist to the Maxim-Khushboo tale.

Refusing to accept Maxim Editor’s apology, actress Khushboo has filed a petition with Chennai Police. There is a new twist to the Maxim-Khushboo tale. Ever since the lad mag Maxim published an admittedly morphed picture of the southern film star — using her face on the body of a woman dressed in underwear — Khushboo

Chanda Shroff is the moving force behind a project that sustains thousands of families, reports Namita Bhandare. HT Image She’s an unlikely social crusader. Conservatively dressed, married into a wealthy Mumbai-based family of industrialists, Chanda Shroff is the moving force behind a project that sustains thousands of families in drought-prone Kutch. Chandaben, or Kaki as

Swiss International Air Lines is not out to spoil you silly. But it scores on ? quality, reliability, and hospitality? ott:10:ht-entertainment_listing-desktop HT Image It’s funny how airlines acquire their own image. Take Virgin Atlantic. No matter how much on the straight and narrow you are, flying Virgin will conjure up all sorts of images —

In November last year, the rape of a Maulana Azad Medical College student in broad daylight focused attention on how unsafe Delhi had become for women. A public furor broke out and Deputy Prime Minister L.K. Advani declared that convicted rapists should be given the death sentence. In popular perception, death for rapists — failing

A consensual theme that emerged from HT Leadership Initiative was ‘need to open borders, extend dialogue and expand understanding among South Asian nations’. HT Image If there was one consensual theme that emerged from the two-day Hindustan Times Leadership Initiative on “Peace Dividend — Progress for India and South Asia”, it was this: the need to open

For a place to treat its homeless they way it does, Delhi is one callous city. Namita Bhandare writes HT Image On a foggy winter afternoon early this week, I went looking for the invisible and found Bibi Ayesha, wheelchair-bound, lean, with a grin and optimism placed equally on her face. Bibi is telling me

There is a clear link between keeping girls in school and delaying marriage. Raising the minimum age of marriage for girls to 21 is not a solution We are in danger of losing this gain due to the pandemic. As this newspaper reported, 166,000 students, girls and boys, in Delhi government and municipal schools have