'They say 'a picture paints a thousand words', so seeing Rishi Sunak PM at the door of Number 10 can never be taken from us.''It is a symbol that will go down in the history books.''It is the very......
Mark Tully on the India he loves.Vaihayasi Pande Daniel listens in.Photographs and videos: Hitesh Harisinghani/Rediff.com Seven words have always lived in the back of my head, never to be......
The Mumbai Press Club has announced the winners of its “prestigious” ‘Ouch’ Awards, which celebrate the craziest and most embarrassing moments in Indian media. Seen as......
Filmmaker Roman Polanski has refused to get extradited from Switzerland to the United States where he is wanted on charges of unlawful sex with a minor, even as the issue snowballed into an......
My mom is a rockstarOften think had I been a girl I would have been better human being. The only reason that makes me contemplate this preposterous idea is that I simply adore my mother so much......
Use of composites offers the possibility of bringing down the numbers of parts in a big way and, therefore, costs as well. As the slugfest is to continue between aluminium and steel over which of......
Al Gore is a funny guy. And, for his $175,000 speaking fee, he tells this story: after leaving the White House and heading back to Tennessee sans motorcade -- "in a rented Ford Taurus," he sniffs......
"The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from the shore." That's Dale Carnegie (1888-1955), failed farmer, teacher,......
Non-Resident Indian steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal has won this year's Asian Achievers Award for entrepreneurship for his outstanding achievement in the global steel industry where his company has......
'I will always cherish the fact that I received the first big award of my life, actually two, in the company of legends for an incredible collaboration.' Photograph: Kind courtesy Rakesh Chaurasia......
Legendary Scottish star Sean Connery, who became a global sensation as the first James Bond and featured in a string of cult hits in his five-decade-long career, has died. He was 90. IMAGE:......
His songs were the anchor, the substratum, if you will, upon which life unfolded day after day, decade after decade -- across villages, towns, cities, and regions.Siva Sankar pays a tribute to S P......
The contrast in the fates of Arthur Conan Doyle's and Satyajit Ray's super sleuths is a study in despair, says Sumit Bhattacharya.Sherlock Holmes is an Internet phenomenon-- thanks to a blog Dr......
This year's Grammy Awards will feature a 3D film earlier supposed to be part of Michael Jackson's comeback O2 gigs. More specifically, it would have been used for the performance of Earth Song. The......
IMAGE: Weightlifter Mirabai Chanu won the BBC Indian Sportswoman of the Year Award. Photograph: Photograph: Clive Brunskill/Getty Images Tokyo Olympic Games silver-medallist weightlifter Mirabai......
IMAGE: PV Sindhu claimed her second Olympic medal on winning the bronze at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Photograph: Lintao Zhang/Getty Images Two-time Olympic medallist badminton star P V Sindhu and......
Photograph: Kind Courtesy, Koneru Humpy/Twitter Koneru Humpy, the reigning world chess champion in the rapid format, was on Monday won the second edition of the BBC Indian Sportswoman of the Year......
Vinesh, Dutee, Bhaker also among nominees for 'BBC Indian Sportswoman of the Year'. IMAGE: India hockey captain Rani Rampal. Photograph: Hockey India India hockey team skipper Rani......
IMAGE: India's Pusarla Sindhu in action at the Badminton World Championships, in St. Jakobshalle Basel, Switzerland. Photograph: Vincent Kessle/Reuters India's champion shuttler P V Sindhu feels......