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Biden refuses to back down despite Atlanta fiasco

Following a disastrous performance at the debate stage in Atlanta, there is a growing clamour within the ruling Democratic party and the mainstream American media for President Joe Biden to step......

Delhiites to lose 11.9 years of their lives to pollution

Delhi has emerged as the world's most polluted city in a new study which has also found that its residents are on track to lose 11.9 years of life if the current levels of pollution continue to be......

Debate on no-confidence motion replete with poetry

From Indian poet and philosopher Thiruvalluvar to English great William Shakespeare, Lok Sabha members quoted extensively from literature to put across their arguments as they raised the Manipur......

Astronomy Photographs of the Year

Astronomy Photographer of the Year, an annual exhibition that showcases the world's finest space photography, now in its 13th year, has announced its 2021 winners. The competition attracted over......

How will Biden deal with Iran?

The reversal of Trump's policy with regard to Iran, like the withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, may not be a matter of just turning the clock back, but one of patient negotiations, with uncertain......

Indian economy is like a super highway, says Friedman

Comparing the Indian economy to a super highway, noted economist Thomas Friedman has said he is optimistic about the growth potential of the country, which remains a true democracy. Friedman, also......

Should RBI print money and finance govt's fiscal deficit?

Experts disagree with the idea and the RBI, which has the sole right to print money, is not comfortable with it as well. IMAGE: RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das. Photograph: PTI Photo Nobel......

Globalisation is making way for 'slowbalisation': Birla

'While the march of globalisation is perhaps inevitable, what is certain is that the world is no longer flat as, the emerging pattern of trade is more regional. 'This new trend of......

Economist Milton Friedman dead

Milton Friedman, winner of the 1976 Nobel Prize for economics passed away on Thursday. The 94-year-old economist was a senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University from......

US, 'huge beneficiary' of BPO: Friedman

Notwithstanding the recent uproar over the UK data theft, a well-known US author has said that America is a huge beneficiary of outsourcing. "The issue of outsourcing is easy to demonise but what......

The tragedy of the Friedmans

Andrew Jarecki is the very young, very rich founder of Moviefone.When he set out to make his first film, he chose as his subject New York's number one birthday clown, Silly Billy. Also known as......

Slumdog races past $ 100 million in box office

The flavour of the season,Slumdog Millionaire, raced beyond the $100 million benchmark worldwide over the weekend. For a film that cost a mere $15 million and which is also substantially in Hindi,......

007 will come early to India

Once upon a time, long, long ago, decades before Thomas Friedman wrote the The World Is Flat, only the choicest Hollywood's hits trickled into the Indian subcontinent, usually months after the......

Aus Open PHOTOS: Djokovic wins marathon battle; Serena, Sharapova to face-off in last eight

Photos from matches played Day 7 of the Australian Open at Melbourne Park on Sunday IMAGE: Serbia's Novak Djokovic celebrates a point in his fourth round match against France's Gilles Simon at the......

Mask-wearing US athletes were cyclists

The US athletes who arrived at the Beijing airport wearing face masks were identified on Wednesday as four track cyclists. A USA Cycling spokesman confirmed the identity of the four as Jennie......

Tendulkar's surgery successful

Sachin Tendulkar underwent surgery on his injured left hand on Tuesday.He was treated at the Sinai Hospital in Baltimore, theUnited States,by orthopaedic surgeons Dror Paley and Steven Friedman,......

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