'BJP Won't Win A Single Seat In Kerala'

'I will win the election. The Congress and BJP are fighting for second place.' IMAGE: Pannyan Raveendran, the Left Democratic Front candidate for the Thiruvanathapuram Lok Sabha seat. All......

2024 LS polls to be costliest ever at Rs 1.35 lakh cr

'The estimated expenditure is expected to be more than double the Rs 60,000 crore spent in 2019' IMAGE: A newly married couple show their ink-marked fingers after casting their votes during phase......

Pro-Palestine Aussie pitch invader sent to 1-day police custody

An Australian arrested for invading the pitch during Sunday's World Cup cricket final between India and Australia wearing a pro-Palestine T-shirt was on Monday remanded in one-day police custody by......

In a first, BSF installs beehives on India-Bangladesh fence to check crimes

The Border Security Force has undertaken a unique experiment of installing beehives on the India-Bangladesh border fence in West Bengal to stop instances of cutting the hedge for cattle smuggling......

Will Financial Stress Break The Global Economy?

What's different this time is that global financial stress -- which has its genesis in four policy choices made in recent years -- is juxtaposed with a more resilient real economy, observes Sajjid......

Centre should privatise all PSBs, except State Bank of India: NCAER

The Centre should privatise all public sector banks (PSBs), except the State Bank of India (SBI). Photograph: Shailesh Andrade/Reuters This is because private banks have emerged as a credible......

'Impossible Trinity': RBI's precarious balancing act

However, the aggressive accumulation of foreign exchange reserves should be able to ring fence the country in the immediate future. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is precariously balancing two......

Why it makes sense to choose bitcoins over gold

From its March 2020 low, Bitcoin has gained a massive 474 per cent and has surged 214 per cent year-to-date. The spectacular surge in Bitcoin over the past few months has lured traders and......

Uri: Election propaganda or genre flick?

'This is a movie made with this gaze fixed on its immediate well-wishers, while at the same time it squints hard looking for those swaying back and forth on the fence,' notes Rohit Sathish Nair.......

Remembering R K Studios before it becomes history

R K Studios is not just another piece of real estate; it is part of India's movie history.Arundhati Dasgupta reports. IMAGE: Shashi Kapoor, Raj Kapoor, Prithviraj Kapoor and Shammi Kapoor. Two......

Gavaskar@75: 15 Interesting Facts

Cricket icon Sunil Gavaskar celebrates a magnificent 75th birthday on July 10th. Sunil Gavaskar, known for his fearless batting, started his Test career on March 6, 1971. He went on to become the......

Ranji Trophy: Pujara slams century; Mumbai thrash Assam

A round-up of the Ranji Trophy matches played on Saturday.Another century for Pujara IMAGE: Saurashtra's centurions Prerak Mankad, Cheteshwar Pujara and Arpit Vasavada pose after stumps on Day 2 of......

Why is BCCI grateful to the ICC?

IMAGE: BCCI Secretary Jay A Shah, left, with President Roger Binny, right, and IPL Chairman Arun Dhumal. Photograph: BCCI The International Cricket Council's decision to revamp the......

Historic! Fencer Bhavani wins bronze at Asian Championships

IMAGE: Fencer C A Bhavani Devi is the first Indian fencer to win a medal at the Asian Championships. Photograph: C A Bhavani Devi/Instagram Olympian C A Bhavani Devi created history by securing......

When Sachin, 15, Played His First Senior Game

'I remember walking up to him and telling him, "Sambhal ke khelna".' IMAGE: Sachin Tendulkar bats during a Test against Pakistan in Lahore in 1989. Photograph: Ben Radford/Allsport/Getty Images......