How India Can Overtake China

India must integrate more with East Asia by getting into regional trade arrangements, lower its tariff walls, and improve the quality of its workforce, suggests T N Ninan. Illustration: Uttam......

Farmer takes on cybercriminal, recovers lakhs lost in fraud

Pawan Kumar Soni, a 55-year-old farmer based in Sri Ganganagar City in Rajasthan, became a victim of a cyber fraud when his 26-year-old son Harsh Vardhan opened a link from a phishing message that......

Gujarat court convicts Asaram Bapu in another rape case, acquits 6

More than nine years after a former disciple of Asaram Bapu lodged a case of rape against him during her earlier stay in his ashram, a court in Gandhinagar on Monday convicted the self-styled......

Mr Putin, Satisfied With The Destruction?

The latest glimpses from Vladimir Putin's brutal war in Ukraine:   IMAGE: Part of a football stadium lies destroyed after being hit by a Russian missile in Bakhmut, Donetsk. Photograph: Carl......

Zee seeks $90 million from Sony for calling off merger

Zee Entertainment Enterprises has sought a termination fee of $90 million (around Rs 748.7 crore) from the Sony Group for calling off the $10 billion merger deal in January this year. Photograph:......

Zee sacks 50% staff at its Bengaluru-based tech centre

Zee Entertainment on Friday said it has "pruned" its Technology and Innovation Centre (TIC) by about 50 per cent following the guidance of a special committee, which had conducted a critical......

Disney-Star & RIL JV will see loss of $400 mn on $3.5 bn revenue next FY

Both sports and digital will drag down the healthy operating margins that entertainment television continues to make. IMAGE: Kindly note the image has been posted only for representational......

RIL's 'Paramount' dream to be a media giant

Paramount Global has agreed to sell its 13 per cent stake in its Indian TV business to Reliance Industries for Rs 4,286 crore, the Indian firm said on Thursday. Photograph: PTI Photo from the......

If Ambani Buys Disney Star...

Assume Voot, JioCinema and Disney+ Hotstar are merged into one entertainment app, and you have a streaming service with more than 233 million unique visitors.That is a reach just under half of......

Will Disney Exit India?

Disney Star India, bought at a valuation of $15 billion, could be on the block for roughly one-third that amount. Photograph: Dado Ruvic/Reuters For the first time since it entered India in 1993,......

Super Dancer 3 In Trouble For 'Sexually Explicit' Talk

IMAGE: Super Dancer judges Geeta Kapoor, Shilpa Shetty and Anurag Basu.   The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights on Tuesday wrote a letter to Shaeesta Naqvi, grievance......

The Top 10 Spy Thrillers On OTT

The West has had an advantage over Indian cinema and OTT when it comes to espionage thrillers -- the two World Wars and the Cold War were grist for the mill, and then the Middle East joined the......

From Wushu champ to UFC winner: Puja's journey to MMA

Photograph: Kind courtesy Puja Tomar/X India's Puja Tomar scripted history as she became the first mixed martial arts fighter from the country to win a bout at the Ultimate Fighting Championship......

Djokovic has a 'special connection' with India

IMAGE: Novak Djokovic expressed his desire to be part of a programme to help young kids in India take up tennis. Photograph: Novak Djokovic/Instagram Novak Djokovic says he has a 'special......

Asian Games: India's schedule on October 2

Photograph: Kind Courtesy World Archery/X Following is India's schedule at the Asian Games in Hangzhou on Monday, October 2. Aquatics - Diving London Singh – M 1m Springboard – Final......

Asian Games: Indian women to begin their quest for gold

IMAGE: The Indian women’s hockey team will take on Singapore in their Asian Games opener. Photographs: Kind courtesy Hockey India The Indian women's hockey team will begin their quest......

Asian Games: India's Schedule on September 26

IMAGE: India's chess player Koneru Humpy will be seen in action in the women's individual round at the Asian Games on Tuesday. Photograph: Lennart Ootes/FIDE Following is India's schedule at the......