In days of smart, networked technology and no shame over collateral damage, what will blow up next -- cars, mobile phones, TV sets, refrigerators? And where?, asks Shyam G Menon. IMAGE: Smoke......
'The group commands 85 per cent of the global GDP, and if you are able to convey your point of view effectively to this group then you have reached more or less all the important players that......
Only the future will tell if Modi can leave his mark on the Ukraine crisis.Nonetheless, it is both a challenge and an opportunity for India's diplomacy, notes Rup Narayan Das. IMAGE: The Ukrainian......
We have already suffered considerable collateral damage as a result of the war, and its continuance will continue to dampen our prospects for faster economic growth.We, therefore, have a direct and......
Image: A worker displays a miniature 22 carat gold replica of the historic Taj Mahal. Photograph: Babu/Reuters The world is home to a record number of 2,089 billionaires. The past......
Thousands of air travellers remained stranded and train services were severely disrupted as fresh snowfall and sub-zero temperatures worsened Europe's Christmas travel chaos.For the fifth......
The G-8 industrialised nations and five major emerging economies, including India, have prepared the ground for discussions on key development issues by their leaders when they meet for a summit in......
National borders are now more real than ever. Personal freedom is under attack in many forms. Visas are more difficult to get, writes Barun Roy. To many like me, the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989......
It was an evening when Union Minister for Petroleum Mani Shankar Aiyar stole the show from three-time Pulitzer Prize winner and The New York Times columnist Thomas L Friedman, and how! The event......
Aseem Chhabra lists his favourite 2024 films that he watched at film festivals in Berlin, Cannes, Toronto and India. It's that time for the year to track its very best. These are personal choices,......
Aseem Chhabra rates the movies he's watched in 2023, and tells you where you can watch them! With the pandemic done and dusted, people are back to watching films in their neighborhood theaters and......
Here are Aseem Chhabra's picks -- 'films that mattered to me, entertained me and will stay with me through the year.' With nearly 400 films in several different sections, this year's Berlinale was......
The Berlin film festival's Golden Bear went to U-Carmen eKhayelitsha, a stunning film from South Africa, directed by Marc Dornford-May. The film sets the popular opera Carmen in the shanty township......
'We had decided that if the audience liked Stree, then after two or three years we would plan a sequel.''Because of the kind of reaction we received for the film we have already started work on......
'The biggest disgrace in German World Cup history!' IMAGE: A Germany fan is left dazed after the team's humiliating defeat to South Korea in Wednesday's 2018 FIFA World Cup match. Photograph:......
The FIFA 2022 World Cup will kick-off in Qatar on Sunday, November 20. Here is a list of the 26-man squads playing in the quadrennial global football extravaganza. ARGENTINA......
Leicester held by 10-man Southampton IMAGE: Leicester City's Jonny Evans scores their first goal. Photograph: Kirsty Wigglesworth/Reuters Third-placed Leicester City suffered a frustrating......
IMAGE: Fritz Hegner of Switzerland on the shooting range at Bisley, Surrey, during the modern pentathlon event at the Olympic Games, on August 2, 1948. Photograph: Topical Press Agency/Hulton......
- 'Somebody like Brendon McCullum retired from Test cricket even though I feel he still had three-four years in him. He is just working for superannuation right now, for his family, which is......