In the Dalai Lama, both Tibet and Buddhism have their poster boy, though a triad governs the spiritual leadership of Tibetan Buddhism with the Gyalwang Karmapa and the Panchen Lama as important......
Party justifies total washout of day’s proceedings in Rajya Sabha, citing Dalit atrocity, insult to Congress CMs and the GST bill, reports Kavita Chowdhury. The Congress said the......
The uproar over 'dams' following the Uttarakhand disaster is ill-informed & potentially counter-productive, says Anand Sankar The environmentalist lobby has been predictably up in arms in......
Cutting across party lines, it was an unusual gathering of 15 Members of Parliament. Amar Singh, Jaya Bhaduri [Samajwadi Party], Ravishanker Prasad, Manvendra Singh [Bhartiya Janata Party], and......
The successful effort to combat Cyclone Phailin threatens to put disaster mitigation, and a fundamental overhaul of how disaster management in India is structured, on the back-burner, says Anand......
In a significant push to popularise cricket in the US, a $120 million funding has been secured from prominent Indian-American business leaders, including Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Adobe CEO......
India's electricity regulator, the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission, has proposed a new tariff scheme for power generated from hydroelectric stations, whereby the risks associated with......
In the 1980s, there were about 400 nuclear suppliers and 900 nuclear-certified companies in the US. These have shrunk to fewer than 80 suppliers and 200 certifications. The euphoria of the nuclear......
Officials of the Karnataka Tourism Development Corporation (KSTDC) had a new spring in their step when they headed to the International Tourism Bourse (ITB) at Berlin. They could finally show off......
You can definitely smell the nostalgia when you enter New Gramophone House. Climbing up the narrow staircase into the store is the proverbial trip down memory lane. There is no long line of......
Siva Sankar looks at S P Balasubrahmanyam's fantastic repertoire. S P Balasubrahmanyam passed away in his 75th year, and so we celebrate the singer with 75 of his top songs, in a multi-part......
Siva Sankar looks at S P Balasubrahmanyam's fantastic repertoire. S P Balasubrahmanyam passed away in his 75th year, and so we celebrate the singer with 75 of his top songs, in a multi-part......
In filmmaker Ranjiith Sankar’s Varsham, which will hit the screens worldwide today, Mammootty plays a businessman named Venu. The director, who shot to fame with Passenger and made the hit......
Varsham carries the stamp of Ranjith Sankar which is enhanced by Mammootty's presence, says Paresh C Palicha. There is an intrinsic goodness in every human being. It takes just one event in a......
Revathy and Prithviraj play the lead in director Ranjith Sankar's forthcoming film, Molly Aunty Rocks, the shooting of which will start soon. According to the director, the film narrates the story......
IMAGE: Image used for representational purposes. Photograph: International Chess Federation/Instagram Playing the game of his life, India's Harshit Pawar shocked top seed and youngest ever......
IMAGE: Tamil Nadu opener C Hari Nishanth's unbeaten 92-run knock and Dinesh Karthik’s 46 helped them crush Jharkhand. Photograph: BCCI Domestic/Twitter Krunal Pandya's all-round show......
Barring two surprises when higher seeds K Visweswaran and C J Aravind were held by lower rated Uttam Sharma and Hari Babu respectively, the second round of the Dr Mahalingam Sathabishekam FIDE......