95 not out versus COVID-19

Maan Kunwar, from the historic city of Jhansi in Uttar Pradesh, was initially scared to see doctors in protective gear around her and even called one of them "betaal", a ghost, but then she......

No Geneva Conventions for terrorists: US

Rejecting the Red Cross's contention that some clauses of the Geneva Conventions apply to captured terrorists, a high-level US commission said that complying with them would deprive the country of......

Taking long view on India, Canada's Harper comes knocking

The eastward shift of the global fulcrum of power has something to do with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper's six day-long visit to India, but more importantly, his calculations have some......

Why the UN didn't respond to 26/11

Today, at the national and regional level, large loopholes still exist in the security system. On the international front, however, there have been a lot more initiatives, yet the apex body of the......

Cloud kitchens: The future of India's food biz

The cloud kitchen market in India will hit $1.05 billion by 2023.Just 13% of the total market has been utilised so far.Veer Arjun Singh and Dhruv Munjal report. IMAGE: A waiter with a protective......

Do we want to be cyber coolies or cyber masters?

Here is an instance of the short-term policy destroying the long-term future of the country. Despite many efforts at quiet lobbying the ghost of 74 per cent foreign direct investment in the......

'eBay sells 18 cars, 65 two-wheelers every day'

In 2000, Avnish Bajaj launched Bazee.com, a website that pioneered the concept of online auction in India. In 2004, he sold his online company for a whopping $50 million to the US-based company......

Review: Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol is fast and furious

Director Brad Bird, for most part, lends Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol a sense of splendid urgency with fast-moving impulses and ambitious set pieces but lacks the smarts to wholly approve,......

Amitabh, Shabana Azmi, Anil Kapoor: The Great Hollywood cameos

Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, Carey Mulligan and a host of others, but the only one Indian audiences care about is Amitabh Bachchan -- which is why......

Did Dimple understand the Tenet script ?

IMAGE: Dimple Kapadia in Tenet. Christopher Nolan's latest mind-bender Tenet has opened in select theatres across the world. Critics are baffled by the plot and are not embarrassed to say they......

Bollywood's Ticket To Hollywood

It's a small world. Desi sightings in Western fare are no longer a rarity. Be it Farhan Akhtar in Ms. Marvel, Shabana Azmi in Halo or Nimrit Kaur in Homeland, it's great to see our stars in......

Lifter Mirabai Chanu wins silver medal at Tokyo Olympics

IMAGE: India's Mirabai Chanu Saikhom on the podium after winning a silver medal in weightlifting at the Tokyo Olympics on Saturday.Photograph: Edgard Garrido/Reuters A confident smile never......

Focus on Germany as Bundesliga resumes amid coronavirus

'This game lives off fans, their emotions, the intensity of the stadium. We will not experience any of that.' IMAGE: FC Bayern players wearing protective masks enter the training ground in......