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Remembering Anglo-Indian Courage For The Motherland

'Anglo-Indians have played a significant role at the forefront, meeting every challenge to the security of the motherland.'A fascinating excerpt from Barry O'Brien's The Anglo-Indians: A Portrait......

'LCH Outperformed Other Aircraft In Ladakh'

All of India welcomes the Light Combat Helicopter into the Armed Forces arsenal and wishes it a safe tenure and happy shooting.May it rule the skies and ensure that the enemies are given a fitting......

'Our community has lost a giant'

Urvashi Vaid dreamed of a common movement for social justice that could address them all: Racism, gender oppression and homophobia.Sandip Roy salutes the memory of Urvashi Vaid, one of America's......

How NIA got Jack, John, Alpha, Golf to bring down Yasin Malik

'Jack', 'John' and 'Alpha' were among the National Investigation Agency's protected witnesses who helped nail banned Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front chief Yasin Malik. IMAGE: Jammu and Kashmir......

What if India banned Chinese restaurants...

China will flood direct flights to India with wholesale takeaways of the authentic stuff; Indian businessmen will fight for the commission and the consumers for the cuisine, predicts Sunanda K......

Was Nirav Modi tipped off?

'One cannot avoid speculating whether there was something else at play that led to the uncovering of this saga.' Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com Last month the British government agreed to......

Indian economy is like a man with aggravated hydrocele

'The Indian economy has become like a car that has the appropriate wheels on one side -- political liberalism -- and scooter wheels -- economic illiberalism -- on the other,' points out T C A......

How cosmetic brands are wooing online shoppers

Brands leading the shift include Colorbar, MAC, Smashbox, Becca, Innisfree, Bobbi Brown, Bodyography and Sephora. Jigisha Mehta, 25, is the envy of her friends, thanks to a new lipstick collection......

Lessons to revive India's ailing agriculture sector

Farming and agriculture are crying out for a business model innovation, says R Gopalakrishnan. Election fever and Diwali are behind us, so it is time to discuss mundane things again. The humble......

E-commerce vs kirana: And the winner is. . .

The growing presence of retail networks is hard to miss, in the (also) growing number of shopping malls and elsewhere, rues T N Ninan A young woman was setting up house in Mumbai recently. About 85......

Amazing OTT To Watch This Week!

Bring out the popcorn, Sukanya Verma promises there's *tons* to catch up on OTT this week. YudhraWhere to watch? Amazon Prime VideoLanguage: Hindi Siddhant Chaturvedi flexes his action and......

Which of these films will win Oscars?

Aseem Chhabra lists the films that won his heart at the Toronto International Film Festival. The COVID-19 pandemic hit us hard, but the recently concluded Toronto International Film Festival is a......

'I could only imagine Dev as David Copperfield'

'Dev for me embodied all that kind of charm, optimism, energy, vulnerability, awkwardness and yet strength.''He's in every scene for two hours.''He has to play drama, melodrama, romance, pathos,......

20 scenes that took our breath away!

The entry scene is star. Things are off to a good start when a lead movie character appears for the first time against strategic music or swaggering drama and the audience bursts into wholehearted......

Will La La Land lose out at the Oscars?

There is a group of La La Land haters -- especially jazz aficionados who feel the film gives too much importance to a white man who sets out to save the musical genre associated with the African......

US set 4x400m mixed World mark; Cheptegei wins 10,000

IMAGE: Uganda's Joshua Cheptegei celebrates winning the Olympics men's 10,000m final at Stade de France, Saint-Denis, in Paris, on Friday. Photograph: Phil Noble/Reuters World record holder Joshua......

Creator of Misha, mascot of 1980 Moscow Olympics, dies at 84

'It's symbolic that the artist has left us as many of us are remembering the 1980 Olympics.' IMAGE: The Olympic mascot Bear Misha is seen during the closing ceremony of the 1980 Summer Olympic......

AMAZING Super Bowl PIX: Families take centre-stage after Patriots win sixth title

IMAGE: Tom Brady #12 of the New England Patriots kisses his wife Gisele Bündchen after the Super Bowl LIII against the Los Angeles Rams. Photograph: Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images The New England......

PHOTOS: Germany hit Norway for a six, England rally to win

Images from the 2018 football World Cup qualifying matches on Monday night. England hit back to beat Slovakia IMAGE: Marcus Rashford scores the winner for England. Photograph: Mike Hewitt/Getty......

Football Briefs: Ex-United striker Berbatov joins Tendulkar's Kerala Blasters

News of all that's transpired on and off the football field IMAGE: Dimitar Berbatov also played for Fulham and Tottenham Hotspur in the EPL. Photograph: Mike Hewitt/Getty Images Indian Super......

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