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52-yr-old Nepali Sherpa scales Everest for 26th time; breaks own record

A 52-year-old Nepali Sherpa has climbed Mount Everest for the 26th time, bettering his own record for most number of times to scale the world's highest peak, expedition planners said on Sunday.......

Whither The Middle Class?

Ajit Balakrishnan on how to arrest a worldwide decline. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com As a son and grandson of doctors and a firm believer in a meritocratic education system, and......

Do you know how Everest's height is calculated?

For one, triangles are involved, explains Devangshu Datta. IMAGE: Mount Everest, as seen from the border of Nepal and China, looking north from Nepal. Photograph: Kind courtesy......

The music of Ishiguro's words

'Did the Nobel committee, reviled for awarding Mr Dylan, play a little inside joke this time around, by awarding another lyricist who was once an aspiring musician?' asks Uttaran Das......

Maoists, gravest threat to National Security: PM

Addressing a conference of Directors General and Inspectors General of police organised by Intelligence Bureau in New Delhi on Tuesday Prime Minister Manmohan Singh expressed concern......

India can grow at 8.5% in 2 years: Montek

Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia Thursday said there is no reason why India, despite the current global financial turmoil, could not get back to earlier high......

Note-worthy: Whose face is on which currency?

Countries through the world feature prominent personalities on their banknotes to acknowledge their contribution to the nation. For example, there are about 49 personalities that feature on......

China, India keep building on success

Speak to an investment banking executive in Asia and it will not be long before the conversation turns to China and India. Both countries' rapid growth is generating vast opportunities for banks,......

The rise of renminbi

The renminbi is likely to be used increasingly for current account purposes, but its use in capital account transactions will hinge on convertibility in China, says Ashok K Lahiri.In 1928, with the......

Call Me Bae Review: Ananya Is Quite A Riot!

Call Me Bae is a spirited new addition in guilty pleasures for the fashion-loving, rom-com starved soul, applauds Sukanya Verma. If the DNAs of Elle Woods, Cher Horowitz, Blair Waldorf and Rachel......

Why Aishwarya Is Bollywood's Golden Girl

When a person is blessed with as much beauty as Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, it's hard to notice anything else. But in her two-and-a-half-decade-long career, the former Miss World and Cannes red carpet......

Jaadugar To Jane Austen: On OTT This Week

From jaadugars to Jane Austen, OTT offerings this week are as eclectic as it gets, says Sukanya Verma. JaadugarWhere to watch? NetflixLanguage: Hindi When Jitendra Kumar's small-town......

While Stars Won Globes, Audiences Lost Out

There was no drama, no applause, no tears, no laughter. The 79th Golden Globes had indeed lost its lustre, says Aseem Chhabra. Photograph: Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for the Hollywood Foreign......

Potluck review

Things may seem too nice to be true but the affable energy of its harmonious cast makes Potluck a rare light watch on the desi OTT scene, says Sukanya Verma. A well-heeled Indian urban family, its......

Skeet great Hancock targets perfection at Paris Games

Men's skeet, where competitors use shotguns to break clay targets flung into the air, has become much more competitive over the last decade, and it was "getting harder and harder to win", Hancock......

Sanam-Jeevan crash out of doubles

India's challenge in the boys doubles event of the Australian Open Junior Championship came to an end when top seeded pair of Sanam Singh and Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan suffered a shocking 4-6, 6-3, 3-6......

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