Setting the tone for 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday termed the proposed Mahagathbandhan a compulsion of leaderless grouping with BJP chief Amit Shah asserting that if the party succeeds in next general election, it would remain in power for the next 50 years.

With slogans of "Ajeya Bharat" and "Atal Bhajapa" the two-day BJP National Executive concluded here on Sunday not only pledging to return to power in 2019 but also to remain there for the next 50 years on the basis of performance and its organisational strength.

With the party deciding to fight the next Lok Sabha elections under his leadership, BJP President Amit Shah on Saturday hit out at opposition plans for a grand alliance, saying his party was not in the least bothered about it calling it an "eyewash".

the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday decided to defer its organisational elections to pave the way for Amit Shah to continue as President until the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.

Producer Sohum Shah, whose dark fantasy film "Tumbbad" opened the Venice Critics' Week here, says he faced several obstacles to make the movie, even as people around him constantly expressed doubt that it will ever get made.

Notwithstanding the push for simultaneous polls, the BJP appears to be in no hurry to go for parliamentary elections along with a round of Assembly elections due this year end.

The nuances and technicalities of Indian classical music are sometimes hyped and do not take away the emotional impact it has on a listener, says noted vocalist-composer Vidya Shah, urging people not to shy away from appreciating it just because they may not immediately understand it.

The little known secrets of the theatre world, recitation of Vikram Seth's poems by Bollywood veterans Naseeruddin Shah and Ratna Pathak Shah, experiences of two young novelists from Bhutan and India, along with chronicles of wanderlust came together under one roof here at the Mountain Echoes literary festival on Friday.

With old and gold songs like "Waqt ne kiya kya haseen sitam", "Mud mud ke na dekh" and "Yeh hai Bombay meri jaan" playing as the background score, award-winning textile designer Gaurang Shah's show 'Anupama' -- inspired by yesteryear actresses like Nutan, Meena Kumari, Nargis and Madhubala -- took fashion lovers at the ongoing Lakme Fashion Week (LFW), back in time to the 1950s and 1960s era.

Describing him as "Pole Star" of Indian politics, BJP President Amit Shah on Thursday paid his tribute to former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, saying he guided the party's journey from its seeding to taking a shape of "banyan tree".