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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......

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,......

Govt, Oppn spar over who did more for space mission

The Lok Sabha on Thursday witnessed sharp exchanges between the Opposition and treasury benches during a discussion on Chandrayaan-3's success with INDIA bloc members asserting the mission was not......

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......

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......

Changing your brand logo? Few things that can make or kill business

Is your new logo doing more harm than good? Here's a look at the issues that could potentially derail a redesign exercise, and how to get around them. Image: A wrong strategy can derail a redesign......

Connaught Place has something for everyone!

Once in decline, the central Delhi landmark is buzzing with new restaurants, cafés and public events. Image: Connaught Place, New Delhi. Photograph: Reuters Walking through the colonnades......

Some interesting trivia on loans

Lending has been around for a long time in human civilisation. Though the exact origin of loans is not known, it can be inferred from our scriptures and ancient writings that it has been around for......

Outlook for markets in 2009

After enjoying three years of nearly 35 per cent plus returns, investors burnt their fingers as the Nifty plunged over 50 per cent in 2008, making it one of the worst years in market history. The......

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......

Reader's take on Saawariya

I've relocated. Bed 7, Ward 12, Wockhardt, Cunningham road. Fun Cinemas? A block away. Emergency, it seems. I was told, when I regained consciousness, that I had poisoned myself. I'm trying to......

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......

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'......

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,......

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......

Prem Panicker: If I was Dhoni, I'd bowl first at the MCG vs Bangladesh

The best eight teams in World Cup 2015 are ready to face off for the cricketing world’s top honours. Who will scale the summit on March 29 at the MCG? - Predict your FOUR World Cup......

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