China Knows India Has Stolen A March

China has signalled it will prevent India from assuming leadership of the Global South, observes Ambassador T P Sreenivasan. IMAGE: Prime Minister Narendra D Modi at the G20 Summit in New Delhi,......

Why Great Men Worship Light of Asia

Count among The Light of Asia's many, many admirers over 132 years: Gandhi, Tagore, Vivekananda, Nehru and Ambedkar, Tolstoy and Kipling, Yeats and Eliot, Alfred Nobel, Dmitri Mendeleev and C V......

Madras HC retracts remarks on Christian institutions

Madras high court judge Justice S Vaidyanathan on Tuesday withdrew his controversial observation that co-education in Christian institutes was "highly unsafe" for the future of girl children. The......

8 months after judges' dissent, Chief Justice Dipak Misra breaks silence

Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra on Wednesday said that to criticise, attack and destroy a system was easy but it was difficult and challenging to transform it into a performing one. The Chief......

Can Suresh Prabhu take on the Railway Bureaucracy?

Ministers may come and ministers may go but the attitude of the RB remains the same forever, and it is this group that really calls the shots in Indian Railways, says S Pushpavanam. The rhetoric......

Can brands come to the rescue of the people?

Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon in front of them Volley'd and thunder'd; Storm'd at with shot and shell, Boldly they rode and well, Into the jaws of Death, Into the mouth of......

Slowdown skips IIMs

Joel Xavier, chairperson of placements at the Indian Institute of Management Udaipur, is upbeat.His institute will be conducting its maiden summer placements this year and the score card is 100 per......

New IIMs to synchronise placement process

The new Indian Institutes of Management plan to join hands to beat competition from their older peers.The institutes told Business Standard they planned to synchronise their placements on the lines......

Happi Review

'Surely a person like Happi deserves to be treated with dignity.''But does he deserve a two hour movie dedicated to his daftness, and to the failure of the rest of the world to come round to the......

Tripping on Rahman, and Unicorn-like horns!

Sultan, Mohanjo Daro, and Pankaj Nihalani... Sukanya Verma shares her exciting filmi week with us! Ring out the old, ring in the new, recommends Lord Alfred Tennyson. But this week’s shiny......

Review: Skyfall is the best Bond film in decades

Skyfall is fabulously refreshing, writes Raja Sen.Pop goes the weasel. Literally. The new James Bond villain-- played by an alarmingly bleached Javier Bardem-- is a man given to both dramatic......

Russell Crowe splits from wife?

Hollywood star Russell Crowe and his wife Danielle Spencer have reportedly split after nine years of marriage.The Oscar-winner and his musician wife are said to be parting ways amicably but the......

Noteworthy statistics from first-class and Ranji Trophy

Maharashtra’s Swapnil Gugale and Ankit Bawane set a new record in the Ranji Trophy championship against Delhi, by adding 594 runs for the third wicket without being separated. This is now the......

EXPOSED! FIFA scandal stinks up the Caribbean

‘There is a Jack Warner or two in every Caribbean parliament today’ Activists from advocacy group Avaaz demonstrate near the Hallenstadion, in Zurich. Photograph: Arnd Wiegmann/Reuters......

He scored India's first Test 100 overseas

'Syed Mushtaq Ali was like a lion, not a labourer, at the crease. Attack was his defence and he would show no mercy on the bowlers' Haresh Pandya salutes the swashbuckling batsman who would have......

Test cricket returns to Brabourne stadium

Test cricket is all set to return after a long gap of 35 years to the Cricket Club of India's Brabourne Stadium, which is expected to play host to the Platinum Jubilee Test match against England at......

It's Showtime again at Brabourne!

Big time cricket returns to Mumbai's Brabourne stadium after nearly 11 years. Used for parties and tennis events of late, the once hallowed venue will host four ICC Champions Trophy matches later......