Shubhanshu Shukla Is All Set For Space

Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla Shukla says Wing Commander Rakesh Sharma -- the first Indian to travel to space --has been advising him about the space flight. IMAGE: Ax-4 Mission crew members:......

Did Chances Of A Trump Win Spook Bezos?

Did Jeff Bezos decide against endorsing Harris because it would hurt his business interests? Only God and Bezos know, and neither of them are talking, notes Prem Panicker. IMAGE: Jeff Bezos, owner......

How Modi Has Been Cut To Size

In the event of the BJP's poor performance in the assembly polls this year and in early 2025, Modi's hold will get further weakened because he will no longer remain the invincible electoral persona......

China Threat Leads India Japan To Boost Defence Ties

The compulsion behind India and Japan to deepen security cooperation is in response to China's growing political and economic clout and its assertive behaviour in disputed areas. This has been the......

Govt plans to contest SC order on this endangered bird

SC order would cost the project developers an additional Rs 1.5 trillion for underground transmission. IMAGE: There were 1,000 great Indian bustards in 1966. Their population shrank to 200 in 2014......

All you need to know about India's new software policy

The policy proposes a single-window platform for facilitation of the Indian software product industry, to help fast-track legal and regulatory issues over import and export, as well as setting......

Crippling story of India's urban infra projects

Of the 538 projects examined, 294 suffered from cost overruns, 303 from time overruns, and 166 projects suffered both time as well as cost overruns.     With the announcement of 20 names......

Mission RBI: Affordable dal-chawal

After surprising banks and companies with further monetary tightening, Y V Reddy explains why he is putting inflation before growth. Excerpts: How do you see the inflation curve moving over the......

Kushi Review: Decent Watch, Good Performances

If you are looking for a fluffy rom-com without much pravachan, Kushi is worth a watch, recommends Divya Nair. There is a magnetic quality about love stories involving disapproving parents and......

Khufiya Review: Gripping Spy Drama

In Khufiya, a mother's journey, a lover's vendetta and a country's mission, skewed patriotism and moral disengagement coalesce and highlight the nature of the spying business, notes Sukanya Verma.......

Por Thozhil Review: Compelling Thriller

The treatment of the crime and criminal may seem predictable, but not quite the way you'd imagined it to be, discovers Divya Nair. Approximately 35 minutes into the film, after two young women......

Mrs Undercover Review: Sloppy Spy Social

An amateurish crime comedy that wants to be taken seriously, Mrs Undercover can never quite find its bearings, observes Sukanya Verma. In the 1980s, Basu Chatterjee created a television series......

IOC mulling return of anti-war Russian athletes

IMAGE: International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach stressed that the current guidance on Russian athletes was still standing but added that the IOC also needed to think about the future.......

Olympics: India's foreign coaches likely to get contract extension

'We have spoken to all the foreign coaches and they have assured us that they are all committed to their jobs till Tokyo Games' IMAGE: India's women's hockey team coach Sjoerd Marijne is among......