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'Absolute chaotic disaster': Obama on Trump's COVID-19 response

United States President Donald Trump's handling of the coronavirus pandemic has been "an absolute chaotic disaster" for America, Barack Obama has said, the starkest assessment yet from the former......

ISIS chief Al-Baghdadi dead in US raid: Trump

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi "is dead" in a secret United States special forces raid in northwest Syria, US President Donald Trump announced on Sunday, saying the elusive leader of the "ruthless" Islamic......

Sheena Bora Trial: The tricks memory plays

When it came to his cross examination by Sanjeev Khanna's lawyer Niranjan Mundargi, Imtiaz Shaikh appeared to be afflicted by that peculiar gap-in-one's-memory or Choosy Memory Syndrome with his......

'Rainfall is one of the hardest things to predict'

'Temperature and wind can be predicted more easily than rainfall.' 'Rainfall, as common experience suggests, is very spotty.''The last bit of physics required that tells us whether it is going to......

These people have the most ABSURD collections ever

If you can name it, someone collects it. Here’s a gallery of collectors and their (unusual) obsessions. 1) Seeing spots Karen Ferrier, a 44-year-old secretary, is a Dalmatian-obsessive woman......

Inflation a cause of worry for FMCG companies; margins could take a hit

While companies remain cautiously optimistic about demand panning out this year, a dry August has already played spoilsport for demand, especially in rural areas. Higher inflation has again become......

2 major factors that will weigh on demand and margins of FMCG

Irregular rainfall and a pick-up in commodity costs are expected to weigh on the demand and margins of fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) companies. Photograph: Mansi Thapliya/Reuters Most......

Breaking Up Business Groups Would Create More Problems

Policies to break down the business group format are far more likely to be effective, argues Simon Commander. IMAGE: A Youth Congress activist holds a placard featuring Gautam Adani, chairman of......

Meet India's 10 richest realty tycoons

Total wealth of top 100 Indians in the real estate sector stood at Rs 2,77,080 crore -- up 17 per cent against 2018. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com Lodha Developers' M P Lodha and family has......

ADB slashes India growth forecast for 2017-18 to 6.7%

Growth forecast has been lowered owing to tepid growth in the first half of 2017-18, the lingering effects of demonetisation, transitory challenges of GST, and some risks to agriculture stemming......

Here's Zaheer Khan's Indian squad for T20 World Cup

IMAGE: Zaheer Khan reckons seamer Yash Dayal should make T20 WC squad. Photograph: BCCI Former India pace spearhead Zaheer Khan has picked Rishabh Pant as the sole wicketkeeper in his team for......

US Open PIX: Error-prone Alcaraz into third round; Murray out

IMAGES from matches on Day 4 of the US Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center at Flushing Meadows in New York on Thursday. IMAGE: Spain's Carlos Alcaraz in action during his......

Why Pant apologised to Avesh Khan after IPL auction...

Photograph: Kind Courtesy IPL/Twitter Pacer Avesh Khan became the most expensive uncapped player. Delhi Capitals co-owner Parth Jindal revealed that their skipper Rishabh Pant wanted to have the......

US Open PIX: Djokovic, Zverev romp into third round

Images from Day 4 of the 2021 US Open, in New York, on Thursday. IMAGE: Serbia's Novak Djokovic gestures to the crowd after recording match point against Tallon Griekspoor of The Netherlands in......

PIX: Djokovic takes first unsteady step toward calendar slam

Images from Day 2 at the US Open. IMAGE: Serbia's Novak Djokovic hits a forehand during his first-round match against Denmark's Holger Vitus Nodskov Rune at the US Open on Tuesday. Photograph:......

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