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Conjuring Last Rites X reviews: Is this the ‘least scary film’ of the franchise?

What's X's verdict on The Conjuring: Last Rites?
Published on Sept 06, 2025 01:48 pm IST

Conjuring: Last Rites' director claims real haunting during the film's shoot

Ameerican filmmaker Michael Chavez has directed The Conjuring: Last Rites
Published on Aug 21, 2025 05:32 pm IST

Book Review: K Anis Ahmed's Carnivore is a collision of gourmet and grotesque

The cover of K Anis Ahmed's fourth novel, Carnivore.
Published on Jul 25, 2025 08:46 pm IST

Before Stree 2 cameo, Tamannaah Bhatia stole the show with these dance numbers

Tamannaah Bhatia in stills from Stree 2, Aranmanai 4 and Jailer
Published on Jul 19, 2024 01:51 pm IST

Review: Yellowface by Rebecca F Kuang

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140,000 Chinese labourers (as a part of the British Army, the Chinese Labour Corps) served for both British and French forces in World War 1. ‘The Last Front’, the novel within Yellowface, is about the ill-treatment of those labourers. (Chatham House via Wikimedia Commons)
Updated on Jun 19, 2023 07:10 pm IST

Japanese company’s bizarre ‘Scare Squad’ is helping people to ‘relax’

A participant lies inside a mock of coffin with plastic shields to maintain social distancing amid the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), during a coffin horror show, performed by Kowagarasetai (Scare Squad), in Tokyo, Japan.
Published on Aug 24, 2020 11:47 am IST

In hindsight: Covid profited from our mistakes

A health worker uses an infrared thermometer to measure the temperature of a motorcyclist on a road during a nationwide lockdown to slow the spreading of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Ahmedabad.
Updated on Apr 29, 2020 10:29 am IST

Humour: Befriending economics

Did you know that GDP is not the best indicator of growth? Or that the arrival of low-wage migrants does not upset the wages of native workers in a town
Updated on Feb 08, 2020 11:57 pm IST

Review: Bottle of Lies by Katherine Eban

While this is a happy picture of a mother washing her newborn at a hospital in South Sudan in March 2019, millions of poor people in Africa have died after receiving cheap adulterated drugs donated by the very companies that make them.
Updated on Feb 07, 2020 07:52 pm IST

Tiny #SixWordHorror stories are Twitter’s new obsession, and they’re scary

People are sharing their versions of scary tales under the hashtag #SixWordHorror.
Updated on Jun 18, 2019 01:05 pm IST

It’s the criminal, not his religious identity, stupid!

These are a fraction of the horror stories in a country where, according to National Crime Records Bureau data for 2016, not updated since, 19,764 rape cases were registered — an 82% jump in rape cases from the preceding year, with the worst rise in UP where figures have trebled
Updated on Jun 14, 2019 08:19 pm IST

Ananya Panday says she wants to do a steamy scene with Varun Dhawan, ‘I do have a crush on him’

Ananya Panday has named Varun Dhawna as her latest crush.
Updated on Jun 08, 2019 12:46 pm IST

Demolition of Muzaffarpur’s house of horror begins, set to take a month

Muzaffarpur , India - Dec. 13, 2018: Laborers demolishing top floor of Muzaffarpur shelter home after sexual abuse case in Muzaffarpur District in Bihar , India, on Thursday, December 13, 2018. (Hindustan Times Photo)
Updated on Dec 14, 2018 07:59 am IST

The Haunting of Hill House might be the defining horror story of 2018, here are 10 others

The Haunting of Hill House is the perfect homage to the works of Stephen King.
Updated on Oct 27, 2018 09:42 am IST

A monster funhouse: Rashid Irani reviews Goosebumps 2

There’s slapstick shenanigans, meta-humour and goosebumps galore in this family-friendly caper.
Published on Oct 26, 2018 09:59 pm IST

Romit Raj: A creative director told me that as an actor I must know how to jump off boundaries

Romit Raj talks about a creative director who had once propositioned him in lieu of work.
Updated on Oct 22, 2018 05:28 pm IST

Sharing a cab saves money, but check out the horrible shared cab riders you can ever get

Pooling is cost-effective and many have to go for it, but commuters we’ve spoken to have some seriously unpleasant stories to tell us.
Published on Jul 04, 2018 06:15 pm IST