British author Samantha Harvey wins Booker Prize for space novel

British author Samantha Harvey has won the 2024 Booker Prize for her 'ambitious and beautiful' Orbital, which becomes the first novel set in space to win the GBP 50,000 literary prize selected from......

'Trump Will Back India On Pakistan'

'Trump will absolutely back New Delhi on its position that Pakistan must do more to crack down on terrorists that threaten India.' IMAGE: Then US president Donald J Trump and Prime Minister......

Trump becomes first former US president to be convicted of felony

Donald Trump on Thursday became the first former United States president to be convicted of a felony as a grand jury in New York found him guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records.......

How June 25, 1983 Changed India Forever

That win gave us something no other victory ever would: It gave a young nation hope. It gave us the will to dream, notes Abhishek Mande Bhot. IMAGE: Kapil Dev holds aloft the World Cup on the......

Will RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das get an extension?

The December meeting of the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI’s) six-member Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) will start on Wednesday even as there is no clarity on whether Governor......

RBI rate cut in Feb may not be a done deal, say economists

Even as the high inflation figure for October has ruled out any possibility of a rate cut by the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI’s) monetary policy committee (MPC) in December, a rate cut......

Rate hikes since May '22 helped reduce inflation by 1.60%: RBI paper

The cumulative rate hikes of 2.5 percentage points by the central bank since May 2022 negatively impacted headline inflation by 1.60 per cent, a paper by senior RBI staffers said on Monday.......

MPC's Repo Rate Decision Not Unanimous

Dr Nagesh Kumar, one of the three new MPC members, wanted the MPC to reduce the repo rate by 25 basis points to 6.25%. IMAGE: Reserve Bank of India Governor Shaktikanta Das. Photograph: Francis......

Transformers One Review: Dazzling CGI, Dull Story

If you're a fan of the Transformer films already, you will be delighted with a hearty dose of nostalgia here but... Mayur Sanap adds a caveat. I'm not a huge Transformers fan, but I don't deride......

Kamal Haasan@70: What Makes Him Ulaga Nayagan

'With passage of time, Kamal did move away from the humdrum of commercial cinema, using it only as a peg to launch a new concept or new technology, as no other actor/film-maker has done in Indian......

The Perfect Couple Review: Entertaining

The Perfect Couple has suspense, humour, romance and gorgeous visuals, says Deepa Gahlot. Known as the Queen of The Beach Read, Elin Hilderbrand has written a series of bestselling novels, set on......

'We Lost So Many Things In This War'

'The war ended in 2009 and I believe the new generation of Tamils don't know what was going on there.''I felt it was my duty to tell our story.''Since 2009, it seems like we are sleeping.' IMAGE:......

'Alcaraz has best of Nadal, Djokovic, Federer but...'

IMAGE: Andre Agassi is all smiles at an event where he was named brand ambassador for a private equity firm in Mumbai. Photograph: Hitesh Harisinghani/Rediff.com Legendary Andre Agassi......

PIX: Djokovic-Kyrgios lose in doubles

IMAGE: Novak Djokovic with Nick Kyrgios were beaten by top seeds Nikola Mektic and Michael Venus, who advanced to the quarter-finals. Photographs: Brisbane International/Instagram Grigor Dimitrov......

Kohli's clash with Konstas: Did he get off lightly?

I like the emotion but didn't want it to be tainted by physical contact: Usman Khawaja IMAGE: Screengrab of Virat Kohli and Sam Konstas bumping shoulders. Several former players disapproved of......

'Indian cricket has depth to fill Rohit, Kohli's void'

IMAGE: Yashasvi Jaiswal celebrates his century during the first Test against Australia in Perth. Photograph: BCCI/X Indian cricket has produced a generational superstar in Yashasvi Jaiswal and......

PIX: The longest ever match in US Open history!

IMAGE: Britain's Dan Evans celebrates after winning his first round match against Russia's Karen Khachanov in five hours and 35 minutes at the US Open on Sunday. Photographs: US Open/Instagram......