"I hope they both become ultra successful because at the end of the day, they will be humbled very quickly. If you become successful you cannot carry on like this.
Photo sharing website Instagram released its annual list of the most photographed places on its site. Which location topped the list? Read on!
Bernard Tomic has swatted aside offers of help from Australian tennis officials following his arrest in Miami after a noisy hotel room party.
'She was the only prime minister who won a decisive military victory.' 'She won a real war; she didn't play video games on prime time TV over surgical strikes!' 'She understood power better than any other politician, saw it as her birthright and used it with inborn expertise.' 'Every politician today who tries to be a "supremo" through populism and absolute control over his or her party is referring to the Indira Gandhi playbook!'
More than two years after Felix Baumgartner broke the world record for the highest skydive, Alan Eustace has trumped it by jumping a height of 135,890 feet from the Earth's surface.
Narendra Modi has been in power in Gujarat for a decade now. Has the time not come to discourage the trend towards a personality cult by trying an alternate leader, asks B Raman
Welcome Back is dumb yet entertaining, utterly silly but made with a kind of absurd, warm energy, says Raja Sen.
There are solid reasons recent observations at the company raise question marks about its adhering to corporate governance in spirit.
Taming inflation may prove difficult because the social consensus in favour of moderate inflation appears to have eroded
Volkswagen did not name a successor, but said proposals on management appointments would be made to a full board meeting on Friday.
Volkswagen is under huge pressure to act, with its shares down more than a third in value since the crisis broke, and the bad news still coming.
It's not as easy to know how the funds were deployed and gauge the impact.
Sonia Gandhi, who is set to be re-elected as the Congress chief for a record fourth term after holding the top post for 12 years, was once a reluctant politician.
Princess Jahanara, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan's daughter, was a paragon of virtues: well-educated, well-versed in statecraft, even-tempered, beautiful. Although she was on the side of Dara Shikoh in the succession battle, it says much for her stature that after Shah Jahan's death, she was made the chief lady of the court by Aurangzeb and accorded every respect.
A composer and guitarist in his own right, Ehsaan Noorani of Shankar Ehsaan-Loy, talks about music composition as a profession.
The actor talks about his action TV show, and his stunts over the years.
The football-style, franchise-based Indian Premier League (IPL) almost overnight became a multi-billion dollar brand.
Shock and disbelief at the death of Michael Jackson.
Sri Lanka expert M R Narayan Swamy speaks about the impact of Prabhakaran's death on Sri Lanka and India.
An young IT executive discusses how would-be employers duped him and left him without a job.
In an interview Wisden editor Scyld Berry said consolidating the importance of Test cricket, the longest and ultimately most satisfying form of the game, was paramount.
Raja Sen feels the 85th Oscars were boring and underwhelming.
The Communist Party of India-Marxist on Thursday said that the Supreme Court order cancelling the 2G spectrum licences is a "strong indictment" of the government and asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to take a call on its fallout as it has exposed the "bluff" on the UPA-II's claims.
'Politicians are thick-skinned. Nothing affects them. NOTHING. Not the newspapers. Not bad publicity. They don't care about the common man's woes. The fact that humour affects them is damn good.'
Diary of Wimpy Kid: Dog Days releases in the US on August 3.
While the arrest of Kanimozhi in the 2G scam is a good development, there is still a long way to go for the CBI in the case. Sheela Bhatt on the repercussions of the arrest.
'I started everything early; I was way ahead of everybody,' Ranveer Singh tells Sonil Dedhia.
MotoGP world champion Valentino Rossi will switch to Ducati from Yamaha for next season, delighting millions of his bike-mad compatriots who have yearned to see the sporting great finally race for the Italian team.
Looking to cash in on the cricket fever after India's World Cup win, corporates are lapping up advertising spots in the forthcoming IPL, with the likes of Tata Motors earmarking a Rs 30 crore (Rs 300 million) spend for the tournament.
See the Anderson film on DVD or Blu-ray, and see if you can let anyone or anything distract you from this inventive fable.
Her concern was the continuation of security breaches and terrorism and the apparent mood to move forward in normalising relations with Pakistan, without any guarantee that terrorism will not be its State policy anymore, says T P Sreenivasan.
Singapore is working with European authorities investigating the fixing of football matches on a global scale but its silence on any action being taken against local suspects risks damaging the reputation of the wealthy, tightly regulated Asian country.
Following the heated exchanges, the bench rose early for the day, to resume the hearing on Tuesday. The schedule of hearing was changed and according to the current estimate, it will end by mid-December, just before the year-end holidays.
The one overweening concern of most Indians -- leaders of statecraft, captains of industry, matinee idols, paragons of professions, and common citizens alike -- is the future of their progeny, says Shreekant Sambrani
'India should think big: About how in a multi-polar world, India can indeed be one of the poles, rather than being a secondary power that has to worry about 'alignment' with one of the poles. A G3 in other words, India should look to getting others to align with itself rather than the US or China,' says Rajeev Srinivasan.
The role of audit committees and independent directors and the levels of responsibility as well as the limits to their accountability will come under greater scrutiny in future with the negative fallout likely to be a greater reluctance on the part of professionals and academicians of repute to participate on company boards and chair audit committees.
If a public debate ended in a near-ban on Bt brinjal, the next review could well end up the other way.
Few readers will remember the socialist utopia of Indira Gandhi when food queues were the norm even for the middle class and tankers supplied water at odd hours of the night twice a week. Is that what you are trying to return us to, dear Congress, asks Jaideep Prabhu
The overall message of the assembly election is certainly anti-UPA insofar as it was the endless series of corruption scams that determined the 2011 outcome, says Virendra Kapoor
In an interview to CFO Asia, a publication of The Economist Group, Montek Singh Ahluwalia said the general public was opposed to privatisation of state-owned enterprises although they feel that public sector was inefficient and corrupt.