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:......

History Unfolds At Rashtrapati Bhavan

With the strain and anxiety of the longest Lok Sabha polls now behind the leaders, governance, with consensus, is the next step. IMAGE: Narendra D Modi bows to the guests before he was sworn in as......

15 dead, many hospitalised as north India reels under punishing heatwave

Swathes of northern and eastern India remained in the grip of a punishingly long heatwave on Wednesday, increasing heat stroke casualties and prompting the Centre to issue advisory to hospitals to......

Ban on polygamy, child marriage: U'khand UCC draft

A complete ban on polygamy and child marriage, a common marriageable age for girls across all faiths and enforcing similar grounds and procedures for divorce are understood to be among the major......

'Raj Kapoor Lost His Cool Most Of The Time'

'Anybody who works in this industry is slightly eccentric.''Once, he took pav, put butter and put a jalebi in between.''I asked what he was doing.''"Why, is it written somewhere that I can't eat it......

Sharmila Tagore Is 80!

Photograph: Kind courtesy Soha Ali Khan/Instagram Sharmila Tagore's 80th birthday saw her family rally around her and celebrate the big day with good food, lots of pictures and even more cake!......

Citadel: Honey Bunny: Samantha's Here To Slay!

Citadel: Honey Bunny is a decent watch with an average story, sharp stunts and brilliant music, observes Divya Nair. "Is Varun Dhawan really naked in Citadel: Honey Bunny?" a friend, who has zero......

Kriti, Rashmika, Malaika Rock Desi Girl Look

August saw a lot of B-town ladies channelling their inner desi girl and coming out with amazing results. From Kriti Sanon to Malaika Arora, Namrata Thakker looks at actresses who rocked the fashion......

Can New Zealand's spin-taming skills triumph in Pune?

New Zealand must adapt quickly, says Daryl Mitchell as spin-friendly surface beckons at Pune IMAGE: New Zealand beat India for the first time in 36 years in the opponent's backyard to take a 1-0......

Eye of the tiger: Sabalenka roars back to win US Open!

IMAGE: Aryna Sabalenka won her first US Open title a year after coming up short in the final.. Photograph: Mike Frey-Imagn Images/Reuters Tenacious tiger-tattooed Aryna Sabalenka embodied the......

Olympics: Teenage skateboarders steal the show in Paris

IMAGE: Arisa Trew of Australia won the gold medal in the women's park skateboarding competition at the Paris Games on Tuesday. Photograph: Rob Schumacher-USA TODAY Sports/Reuters Fourteen-year-old......

Paris Olympics: 11 YO skater to 61 YO rider to compete

From 11-year-old to 60-plus, Olympics is playground for all Age is just a number, goes the old adage. And it seems particularly true for the Olympics where none is too old or too young to compete.......

Can Nikhat finally step out of Mary Kom's shadow?

Photograph: Kind courtesy Nikhat Zareen/Instagram Former Indian men's boxing coach Blas Iglesias Fernandez has backed world champion Nikhat Zareen (50kg) to bag a medal at this year's Paris......