'The economy is in a free fall.''And it's been declining for so long, so consistently, that the promise of growth and better days now looks a fantasy.''A mid-1970s kind of pessimism, even......
'My age? It keeps changing every year. I can't remember it. I don't like ageing at all,' the legendary dancer Mrinalini Sarabhai, who passed into the ages on Thursday, told Jasmine Shah Verma in......
The government and our officers who have been talking to the media do notrealisethe importance of keeping the Pakistani intelligence guessing as to what Madhuri Gupta has been telling her......
Legendary thriller writer Dick Francis, famous for his horse racing-based crime novels, is no more. He breathed his last on Sunday in his home in the Cayman Islands. The winner of over 350 races,......
Writer Dick Francis, famous for his horse racing-based crime novels, is dead. He was 89. He breathed his last on Sunday in his home in the Cayman Islands. In a statement, the writer's son, Felix......
When trains and stations become desirable again, we might have a murder mystery with the Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train as a setting, says Bibek Debroy. Image: The origin of railways in India is......
When you're a features writer, you end up having to make up lists. Of greatest this and worst that. Of gangster movies. Of soundtracks. Of cricketers. Of Michael Schumacher's finest overtaking......
Harry Kane of Spurs shoots at goal during the Barclays Premier League match against Leicester City. Photograph: Clive Rose/Getty Images Harry Kane's magical season continued on Saturday as he......
As long as athletes have sought to run faster, jump higher or throw further than their opponents the more unscrupulous have resorted to dubious means.Greek athletes at the ancient Olympics ate......