Giant In The Earth: M S Swaminathan

Dr Shreekant Sambrani pays tribute to Dr M S Swaminathan, the renowned agricultural scientist and a lifelong crusader against hunger who passed away in Chennai last week. IMAGE: Prime Minister......

Now, high-end SUVs for ITBP troops on Sino-India border

Expensive Sports Utility Vehicles, usually found zipping across roads in urban locations, have for the first time been deployed at high-altitude border posts of the Indo Tibetan Border Police......

Rakhi Sawant owes IT department Rs 72 lakh dues

Actress Rakhi Sawant, who has jumped into poll fray while claiming to be an "illiterate" person with assets of Rs 15 crore, has outstanding loans worth about Rs 2.5 crore and an additional Rs 72.5......

'Illiterate' Rakhi Sawant has assets worth Rs 15 crore

Bollywood starlet Rakhi Sawant who is contesting from Mumbai North West seat has declared herself an “illiterate” with total assets of Rs 14.69 crore. Rakhi, 36, who is taking on......

Ford Motor in talks with TN to restart production

Two years after winding up its India production, global automobile giant Ford Motor Company is in talks with the Tamil Nadu government to restart operations at Maraimalai Nagar near Chennai, where......

Ford India workers' protest for better severance package enters Day 4

With Tata Motors subsidiary taking over Ford’s passenger vehicle (PV) manufacturing unit at Sanand in Gujarat, uncertainty over the future of Ford’s Maraimalai Nagar unit in Tamil Nadu......

What made Ford pull the plug on its EV PLI?

Earlier in May, Ford India announced that it had dropped its plans to make electric vehicles (EVs) in India, which it intended to export, under the production-linked incentive scheme (PLI). Ford......

FADA seeks govt support over compensation for Ford dealers

Automobile dealers' body FADA has urged the government to formulate a task force to monitor the compensation structure being worked out by Ford India for its dealer partners across the country. In......

Marie Antoinette: Poor show

Lazing around and wasting other people's hard-earned money can be quite an art. And this, sadly, seems to be the all-important message that director Sofia Coppola is trying to impress upon young......

Hockey 9s: Australia thump past India 4-1

The Indian men's hockey team's hopes of reaching the final went up in smoke after Australia handed it a 4-1 drubbing in their last league match of the Lanco International Super Series 9s in Perth......

New India coach before Australia ODIs

Once bitten ever shy seems to be the policy of the Board of Control for Cricket in Indiavis-a-vis its selection of the national coach in the aftermath of the disastrous Graham Ford episode a few......