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'Sar pe laal topi Rusi...': Modi mentions Raj Kapoor, Mithun in Moscow

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday made a wholehearted endorsement of India's ties with Russia, describing the old ally as India's "all-weather friend" and lauding President Vladimir Putin for......

Why a translation sparked a Nehru-Harivansh Rai Bachchan verbal spat

Hindu, Urdu, or something in between. That was the kernel of an argument between first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru and Hindi poet Harivansh Rai Bachchan over the translation of a presidential......

IFS was upper caste service, more democratic now: Aiyar

Congress leader and former diplomat Mani Shankar Aiyar called the Indian Foreign Service (IFS) of yore an "upper caste" service, which he claimed is becoming more democratic now with the flavour of......

Gopi Thotakura becomes first Indian space tourist on Blue Origin

Gopi Thotakura, an entrepreneur and a pilot, on Sunday became the first Indian to venture into space as a tourist aboard Amazon founder Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin's NS-25 mission. IMAGE: Gopi......

The Star Gazer Stars At TIME Gala

At this year's TIME ball in New York City on Thursday, April 25, you would have run into a Coimbatore-born American scientist, looking lovely in Sabyasachi Mukherjee designer finery, who would most......

How to make India an electronic & semiconductor products nation

A task force set up by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (Meity) for transforming India into an “electronic and semiconductor products” nation is on the verge of......

Budget 2024: Wishlist of the pharma industry

There is a need to incentivise R&D investments, offer corporate tax concessions and establish an effective intellectual property rights regime in order to push the growth of domestic pharmaceutical......

'Unemployment Is Higher Among Educated Youth'

'The more educated a young person is, the higher the chances of him or her remaining unemployed.' IMAGE: Government job-seeking candidates stage a protest demanding immediate recruitment at......

Adani Praises Manmohan, Modi...

'If the period between 1991 and 2014 was about laying the foundations and building the runway, the period from 2014 to 2024 has been about the aircraft taking off.' IMAGE: Adani Group Chairman......

Tata ev's Punch, Nexon Scores 5 In Crash Test

The Punch.ev achieved the highest score point ever recorded by any vehicle to date, scoring 31.46 out of 32 for adult occupant protection and 45 out of 49 for child occupant protection. IMAGE:......

Ranveer-Kriti's Day Out In Varanasi

Ranveer Singh, Kriti Sanon and Manish Malhotra visited the Kashi Vishwanath temple in Varanasi to offer prayers over the weekend. Dressed in traditional attire, they visited the Dashashwamedh ghat......

Can India Win Another Oscar This Year?

'We're not looking at the importance of men standing up for women. And that, to me, is the power of the film.' IMAGE: A scene from To Kill A Tiger. Delhi-born Nisha Pahuja's film To Kill a Tiger......

Does Rocky Aur Rani Bring Out Karan Johar 2.0?

Rocky Aur Rani is definitely Karan Johar's most subversive project, discovers Aseem Chhabra. There is a moment nearly towards the end of Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani. There is a Durga Puja......

Nita Ambani re-elected to IOC unanimously

Photograph: Kind Courtesy Reliance Industries Limited/X Indian sports administrator Nita Amabani was on Wednesday re-elected unanimously as member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC),......

T20 WC PIX: India crush England to storm into final

IMAGES from the semi-final match between India and England, played at the Providence Stadium, in Georgetown, Guyana, on Thursday. SCORECARD IMAGE: Axar Patel celebrates the wicket of Moeen......

McGrath urges 'ageing' Shami to take cue from Anderson

IMAGE: While Glenn McGrath said the current Indian pace attack still has some time left, he added that Mohammed Shami should take a cue from James Anderson. Photograph: Andrew Boyers/Reuters The......

How India quelled New Zealand challenge in semis

SCORECARD IMAGE: Mohammed Shami celebrates with captain Rohit Sharma after taking the wicket of New Zealand's Tom Latham during the World Cup 2023 semi-final in Mumbai on Wednesday. Photograph:......

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