Navy controversy: What is US telling India?

The USS John Paul Jones acted like a dog marking the lamp post, observes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar. IMAGE: The USS John Paul Jones, which was prowling waters near the Lakshadweep islands last......

President, PM Modi review naval fleet

President Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday embarked on Presidential Yacht ‘INS Sumitra’ and reviewed the imposing international parade of fleet at IFR-2016 where 50 countries across the......

Odd-even: No exemption to women, says NGT; govt files fresh plea

Hours after the National Green Tribunal refused to exempt women and two-wheelers and ordered that diesel vehicles over 10 years old be taken off the roads immediately on Tuesday, the Delhi......

Indian Navy acquires new strike ability

Two navy destroyers, the INS Kochi and INS Chennai, fired MR-SAMs simultaneously at two simulated incoming missiles.Ajai Shukla reports. The eponymous Medium Range Surface to Air Missile (MR-SAM),......

Tata SIA Airlines flights likely by May-June

A day after FIPB cleared the Tata-Singapore Airlines' (SIA) airline venture, Tata group Chairman Emeritus Ratan Tata and SIA chief Goh Choon Phong on Friday met Civil Aviation Minister Ajit......

Kingfisher to join oneworld airlines alliance from Feb 10

Kingfisher Airlines will become part of the global airlines' alliance 'oneworld' with effect from February 10 next year.The Vijay Mallya-owned carrier would become the first airline from the......

Will Rs 1 lakh-car be a 'green' nightmare

With the transport sector responsible for a fourth of greenhouse gas emissions, the debate over the impact of cars such as the Tata one is going to get more strident. Here are two views on the......

Travel in space @ $200K

A lot has changed since the first man ventured into space in 1961: Pluto is no longer a planet, space tourism is slowly becoming a reality, and NASA just announced it's reviving its mission to......

Doctor G Review: Must Watch!

Doctor G blends mirth and meaning, observes Sukanya Verma. 'Kuch cheezein ladkon ko suit nahi karti' is why Uday Gupta (Ayushmann Khurrana) wants to specialise in orthopaedics, not gynaecology.......

Meet the men who want to marry Rakhi Sawant

Rakhi Sawant has men pouring in from all over India, wanting to marry her live on television, in her upcoming show, Rakhi Ka Swayamvara. And Rakhi has quite a varied choice -- from a policeman in......

Review: MS Dhoni is a high-scoring success

The film doesn't challenge our perception as much as amiably pat it into place, yet -- thanks largely to a remarkably committed performance by the leading man -- the film scores like a champ, feels......

Anushka wins Ae Dil Hai Mushkil hands down!

Romance died, came alive and lives on forever, off screen or on it, in Sukanya Verma's fabulously filmi week. Monday Photograph: Frazer Harrison / Staff Getty Images Hardly the idiot box junkie......

Is he the greatest Marathoner of all time?

Eliud Kipchoge's story is unusual because when he came into competitive running it was not in the marathon.Fortunately for himself and the rest of us, he then turned to the marathon.Aakar Patel......

An honest letter to Tiger Woods

Change your game. You should play with a new game of shorter drives and enter tournaments where length off the tees is not so critical, writes Siddharth Shriram in a note to the golfing great.......

An honest letter to Tiger Woods

Change your game. You should play with a new game of shorter drives and enter tournaments where length off the tees is not so critical, writes Siddharth Shriram in a note to the golfing great.......

Windies crush India

Scorecard| ImagesThe West Indies completed a 4-1 rout of India, winning the fifth and final One-Day International by 19 runs at the Queen's Park Oval in Port of Spain, Trinidad, on Sunday.Set a......