A teacher like no one else

Anjuli Bhargava discovers Brand Abha Adams.Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com   Abha Adams, 66, has an abiding memory of her own school days. Standing with her two thin plaits among a......

BJP, Cong in war of words over UK leader's Kashmir remark

British opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has sparked a war of words in India between the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress on Thursday after he claimed that human rights situation......

Indian-origin store owner shot dead in US

A 43-year-old Indian-origin store owner in the United States has been shot dead outside his home, just days after an Indian engineer was killed in Kansas in a hate crime shooting that had sent......

Euro 2016 qualifier: Mueller double helps Germany edge past Scotland

Germany's Thomas Mueller (13) scores past Scotland's Steven Naismith, second left, and David Marshall, left, during their Euro 2016 qualifying match in Dortmund. Photograph: Ina Fassbender/Reuters......

With CEO shakeup, Twitter under pressure to please advertisers

Twitter Inc's next chief executive officer faces a crucial challenge as the company seeks to appease Wall Street after this week's management shakeup - helping disaffected advertisers connect with......

The Peter Principle lives

The Peter Principle, about to be reissued in a 40th anniversary edition, was a best seller when it was first published. A satiric treatise on workplace incompetence, it touched a nerve with readers......

Investing in stocks? Beware of falling knives

At the end of last year, Bill Miller, manager of the Legg Mason Value Trust lamented that he had purchased Citigroup at what he thought was a bargain price, only to see its shares drop lower as the......

Sun, Taro fail to reach out-of-court settlement

Sun Pharmaceutical Industries, which is attempting to take over Israel-based Taro Pharmaceuticals, has said that talks for settling merger-related disputes have failed. The out-of-court......

BAFTA Nominations: RRR Out, All That Breathes In

S S Rajamouli's RRR failed to make it to the nominations of the 2023 BAFTA awards. The movie was in the long list for the Film Not in English Language category but could not find a spot in......

The Favourite is the favourite at BAFTAs

Yorgos Lanthimos's royal drama has 12 nominations! IMAGE: Olivia Colman, Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone in The Favourite. British royal drama The Favourite earned an astonishing 12 nominations for......

'Thank you to the Academy. Thank you'

'All you people who feel like there's no mirror for you, that your life is not reflected, the Academy has your back, the ACLU has your back, we have your back, and for the next four years, we will......

Sunny Leone, Arvind Kejriwal, Konkona: Stars in Toronto

Of all the Indian films screened in Toronto, three stood out for Aseem Chhabra -- A Death in the Gunj, Mostly Sunny and An Insignificant Man. "There are so many films from India this year," my......

Germany's Tuchel new England football head coach

IMAGE: Thomas Tuchel is regarded as one of the most progressive tacticians in the game, albeit a coach not afraid to ruffle feathers. Photograph: Angelika Warmuth/Reuters German Thomas Tuchel was......

PIX: Canada stun Ireland for first win at T20 World Cup

Images from the T20 World Cup match between Canada and Ireland, in New York, on Friday. Scorecard IMAGE: Canada captain Saad Zafar celebrates dismissing Ireland's Harry Tector in the......

EPL PIX: City held again in six-goal Spurs thriller, Liverpool move second

Kulusevski earns Tottenham dramatic draw at Man City IMAGE: Manchester City's Jack Grealish scores their third goal. Photograph: Carl Recine/Reuters Champions Manchester City drew a third......

There Will Surely Never Be Another Bishan Singh Bedi

One of cricket's greatest players passed into the ages on Monday.Rediff.com salutes the legend. IMAGE: Bedi in action, August 2, 1971. Photograph: Dennis Oulds/Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty......

India to test bench strength in 3rd T20I against Ireland?

IMAGE: India will look to complete a clean-sweep against hosts Ireland. Photographs: BCCI/Twitter Jasprit Bumrah will have to balance between adding miles to his legs and checking his team's......