President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi led the country in congratulating paddler Bhavinaben Patel for winning a historic silver medal, India's first, in the ongoing Paralympic......
If you want to see what India should be like and how Indians should live, you have to see Bhilai, says Colonel K Thammayya Udupa (retd). IMAGE: Entering Bhilai. Photograph: Kind courtesy......
In this series, Contributing Managing Editor Shobha Warrier has been profiling Carnatic music's brightest stars. In the concluding part, 21-year-old violinist Charumathi Raghuraman, who has been......
Cricket fever has once more gripped India. This time for the World Cup. It is saidnothing unites India more than cricket: youngsters can be seen practising on a makeshift pitch from the gullies of......
It weighs over 100,000 tonnes, is nearly as long as the 102-storey Empire State Building in Manhattan and serves 18,150 meals a day to over 3,200 sailors and 2,480 airmen. Welcome to the USS......
Jet Airways on Wednesday commenced its daily flights between Chennai and Singapore. The flight operated by a Boeing 737-800 aircraft left Chennai at 10.55 hrs on December 7, and arrived in Changi......
You were always the smart Alec in school, engineering and in B-school. Cheeky, irreverent, playing one upmanship games with classmates, showing disdain for rules, never really collaborating with......
When a society begins to flower, blooms sprout all over the place. Whether it is literature, sport, entertainment or media, or business, winners emerge from nowhere.In sport, for instance, Anju......
"If telecom changed the game for how business was done in India, then we need 20 more of those systemic game-changers to take us to the next level," Ronnie Screwvala tells Pavan Lall.Illustration:......
Can a trainee software engineer dream of the following as part of his first job?A fitness centre and recreation facilities.An Employee Care Centre on campus that houses a gymnasium, table tennis......
There is so much political drama going on in our country that even the most imaginative scriptwriter would not be able to match reality. Still, the shenanigans of our political leaders find their......
India's Bhavina Patel, the silver medallist in the Tokyo edition, entered the quarter-finals of the women's singles class 4 table tennis event at the Paralympics with a 3-0 win over Mexico's......
'We have won 21 medals at the Asian Para Games, around 14-15 medals at the World Championships, and 5 medals at the Paralympics, but we don't receive basic appreciation from BAI' IMAGE: Kumar......
Mulls scrapping individual world championships International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) chief Steve Dainton has suggested the sport's annual individual world championships be scrapped, with......
India's Paralympic table tennis star, Bhavina Patel, is aiming to upgrade her Tokyo silver medal to gold in Paris. She kicked off her campaign with a convincing 3-0 victory over Mexico's Martha......
IMAGE: Preethi Pal will be aiming for another podium finish. Photograph: ANI Photos Indian badminton players Nitesh Kumar and Sukant Kadam are one step away from Paralympic glory. Both......