Tackling Heatwaves In Cities

As Singapore, New York and Melbourne have shown, cities can mitigate the impact of heatwaves if they have the will to create green infrastructure, explain Amit Kapoor & Bibek Debroy. IMAGE:......

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Who else do we know who meditated so with such impeccable timing (much of the Lok Sabha elections over and with only the last phase to go) and hordes for unsolicited defence of the grand meditation......

Modi to embark on meditation at Kanyakumari rock memorial today

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on Thursday embark on a near two-day meditation exercise at the famed Vivekananda Rock Memorial in Kanyakumari, and the district has come under a thick security......

Doval moots interoperability among central police forces

National security advisor Ajit Doval on Friday suggested that various central armed police forces of the country should have "jointness" and interoperability among themselves like the ongoing plan......

Breath analyser tests: DGCA's diktat for pilots

Pilots might soon be asked not to use perfume, mouthwash and tooth gel as that may result in positive breath analyser test. Photograph: Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters The Directorate General of Civil......

India Needs Foxconn And Vice Versa

Clearly, Foxconn Chairman Young Liu and his team are looking to raise their game in India. IMAGE: Prime Minister Narendra D Modi meets Foxconn Chairman Young Liu in Gandhinagar, July 28, 2023.......

As food prices spiral, fight against inflation not over: RBI report

The spike in food prices at the onset of the monsoon season has corroborated the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI’s) view that the fight against inflation is far from over, the State of the......

The Big Mac Inflation Index

The ever-astute Ravi Matthai, Director of Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad in 1971, offered me a basic salary of Rs 1,000 per month on my return from the United States.I doubt if IIMA......

Ranneeti: Balakot And Beyond Review: India Shines Again

Ranneeti: Balakot And Beyond veers between intriguing and boring, observes Deepa Gahlot. Had Ranneeti: Balakot And Beyond been a film running in a theatre, some of the Pak-bashing dialogue would......

How Saira Banu, Dilip Kumar Celebrated Eid

'The air would be filled with the aroma of biryani and kheer getting ready in the kitchen, and the visitors would overflow from the lobby and drawing room into the garden.' Photograph: Kind......

'I was the highest paid actress'

'I never had any nakhras, never threw tantrums, so I got along with all my heroes.' IMAGE: Jeetendra and Mumtaz in Roop Tera Mastana. Jeetendra and Mumtaz were both excellent dancers, so it was......

Looking At 1999: 25 Years Ago In Bollywood...

1999 in Hindi movies marked the end of a vibrant young decade and a gentle promise of electrifying new things to come in the new millennium. Where madcap masala still reigned supreme, morally......

Shastri's innovative suggestion to retain interest in Tests

'In cricket, money is seen as a dirty word but it shouldn't be because it is the only way to sustain the game.' IMAGE: Former India Head Coach Ravi Shastri suggested there be only six teams to......

'God's Plan': SKY downplays role in iconic catch

Photograph: Kind Courtesy BCCI/X 'It was god's plan,' Suryakumar Yadav said on Monday as he reminisced his incredible match-defining catch in the T20 World Cup final against South Africa, which is......

The captain behind Kuldeep's sensational comeback

IMAGE: Kuldeep Yadav celebrates after dismissing Zak Crawley on Day 1 of the fifth and final Test in Dharamsala. Photograph: BCCI As soon as the last wicket fell, Kuldeep Yadav tossed the......

Having won a billion hearts, Rohit the skipper deserves this World Cup

IMAGE: November 19th will be the Red Letter Day for Rohit Sharma’s career as his teammates will look to win it for the selfless leader. Photograph: Andrew Boyers/Reuters How many......

'There will never be another Bishan Bedi'

'He was a cricketer who come once in a lifetime...' Cricket legend Bishan Singh Bedi passed away into the ages on October 23, 2023.Regarded as one of the greatest spinners to have played the game,......