The director of ‘Aladin’ on making a ‘summer movie’, the importance of fantasy in cinema, and his influences

The year’s most expensive film is a no-brainer action flick with some spectacular visuals

While most members of the film fraternity have confined themselves to campaigning, some also turned out to contest the elections

The political adage is based on simple logic: The community tends to vote en masse for a particular party

Mint is reviewing key metrics of the Lok Sabha since 1952, based on a compilation by PRS Legislative Research, an independent research initiative. Today, in the second part, we review the influence of dynasty politics; the third part will focus on MPs who are not grass-roots politicians

Cleansing politics of criminals is important, but doing it through courts is a short cut, one that is wrong

Ali, 52, had earlier contested the 2004 parliamentary polls on a Congress ticket against Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee from South Kolkata seat but had lost

IBM bidding for Satyam through a New York based legal firm, terror visits Lahore again and drug firm Wockhardt in financial trouble, made news in the week gone by

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The actor, who was the Samajwadi Party candidate for the Lucknow Lok Sabha seat, was denied permission to contest polls by the Supreme Court

The AICC general secretary was of the view that opposition parties were not giving equal status to all Indians

Can there be a judicial cleansing of politics? The answer is a qualified yes

The bench disqualified Dutt from contesting under section 8 (3) of the Representation of People Act, which debars a person sentenced to two or more years of imprisonment, from standing for polls

The actor had sought a stay on his convictionin connection with the 1993 Mumbai blasts to contest elections

A bench headed by chief justice K G Balakrishnan reserved the order after hearing contentions of Dutt’s counsel and the CBI