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The Star Gazer Stars At TIME Gala

At this year's TIME ball in New York City on Thursday, April 25, you would have run into a Coimbatore-born American scientist, looking lovely in Sabyasachi Mukherjee designer finery, who would most......

'General Zia was real startled'

'But he was very quick and did a very stylish adab.''Of course, I didn't expect him to hug.' IMAGE: Lakshmi Murdeshwar Puri and her husband Hardeep Singh Puri, currently India's minister of......

Tagore's Santiniketan added to UNESCO World Heritage List

Santiniketan, the famed place in West Bengal where poet Rabindranath Tagore built Visva-Bharati over a century ago, has been inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. IMAGE: The clock tower at......

Tahawwur Rana stayed in Mumbai hotel ahead of 26/11: Mumbai police

Pakistani-origin Canadian businessman Tahawwur Rana, a key accused in the 26/11 terror attacks case, stayed at a hotel in Mumbai's Powai area for two days in November 2008 ahead of the attacks,......

India's Discoveries Haven't Received Attention They Deserve

In the ancient world there is a great deal of give and take and reciprocal learning.India was an integral and important constituent of such interchanges of goods and ideas. A fascinating excerpt......

Farewell, AVR

One of the finest minds on foreign exchange management, monetary and fiscal policies, on debt and currency markets, on bank management and governance, and indeed on almost every aspect of modern......

India, China plan Asia energy agency

India on Friday said it would support, a Chinese suggestion for creating an Asian counterpart to the International Energy Agency to coordinate the long-term energy import policies of major oil......

US for an MBA, India for a career

Visa restrictions imposed by the United States after 9/11 may have deterred many foreign aspirants from pursuing management studies in America, but not Indians. The number of Indians taking the......

Piyush Pandey to head jury at the Cannes Ad Fest

Piyush Pandey, group president and national creative director of Ogilvy & Mather India, will be the president of the Film and Press & Outdoor juries at the Cannes Lions International Advertising......

Outsourcing to India can save $1 bn for MNCs

Multinational companies could save up to $1 billion in five years by utilising the information technology outsourcing facilities in India, Arun Kumar, chairman of National Association of Software......

Soumitra Chatterjee and the inheritance of loss

The passing of Satyajit Ray's renaissance man feels like the snapping of the last connection with a generation that built a nation and defined grace while facing everything life had to throw at......

Rituparno Ghosh: The man behind the revival of Bengali cinema

After Satyajit Ray died and Mrinal Sen retired, Bengali cinema was no longer what it used to be -- until Rituparno Ghosh triggered its revival. Rituparno Ghosh, the auteur who brought the Bengali......

Seven things Harry Potter fans didn't notice

With J K Rowling declaring recently that the headmaster of the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in her hugely popular Harry Potter series, Albus Dumbledore, is gay, a thousand analysts......

Satyajit Ray's Feluda is back again

Like father like son, goes the adage. But Sandip Ray has big boots to fill. His father was the legendary filmmaker and Bengali author Satyajit Ray, who wouldhave been 84 on Monday, May 2.Having......

New York mourns end of an era

Mortality never fails to take us by surprise.A few months before his next film was due to release, the passing of filmmaker Ismail Merchant -- likely the most recognised Indian name in the world of......

France's predicted starting XI for World Cup Final

IMAGE: France players pose for a team group photo before the match. Photograph: Peter Cziborra/Reuters Didier Deschamps is likely to keep his usual starting XI for France's World Cup final......

COVID-19 missteps topple Sandpaper-gate survivor Roberts

IMAGE: Cricket Australia announced Kevin Roberts' resignation with immediate effect on Tuesday. Photograph: Scott Barbour/Getty Images Friends in high places may have enabled Kevin Roberts'......

Will ISL inspire youth to take up football as career?

IMAGE: Nita Ambani said that ISL had ‘rekindled’ love for the beautiful game in India The ISL 2017 witnessed a spike of over 103 per cent in domestic players' salary as compared to the......

Kevin Pietersen's Pataudi Memorial Lecture: Full Text

Full text of Kevin Pieterse's Pataudi Memorial Lecture in Bengaluru IMAGE: Kevin Pietersen during the 6th M.A.K. Pataudi Memorial Lecture and BCCI Awards.Photograph: BCCI Office bearers,......

Football World Cup: Meet the men at the helm

Though they don't take the field or even kick a ball, the coach is an important part of a football team. Strategies, counter-strategies, team formations, game plans and mostly everything......

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