Author Sunjeev Sahota among Booker's 13 contenders this year

Indian-origin British author Sunjeev Sahota is among the 13 authors longlisted for the prestigious 2021 Booker Prize for fiction for his novel China Room, alongside Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro......

Remembering Diana: The life of a princess

On July 1, 2021, Britain's Princess Diana would have turned 60 and two decades after her tragic death in a car accident near the end of summer 1997, she still holds an exalted place on the altar of......

Modi has done India proud

‘If there was any restraint in praising Prime Minister Modi’s US trip, it was only for fear of being labelled a “Sanghi.” ‘Many who came to scorn, knelt to pray.......

UK pays tributes to Diana on 20th death anniversary

Thousands of admirers of Princess Diana paid tributes with flowers, posters and images at the gates of Kensington Palace as the United Kingdom on Thursday marked the 20th death anniversary of the......

Modiji, this is your last chance

'The most important thing to do is to stop taxing citizens so brutally,' recommends T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan.Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com   Now that practically every economy in......

Specialty teas become popular with Assam's growers

Sale of India's specialty tea varieties from exclusive estates in Assam and Arunachal Pradesh are on the rise in the domestic market, and sought after in overseas markets too. Mokalbari Tea......

Priced tea falls prey to Darjeeling unrest

Being a victim of recurring political unrest over three decades, low productivity and escalating production cost, the Darjeeling tea industry has not been in good financial health over a long time.......

The intricate route from Yojana to NITI

The NITI Aayog ought to concentrate on interventions cutting across states There once was a time when the belief prevailed that the economy was some intricate Rube Goldberg contraption of connected......

Janhvi, Girl In A Pearl Sari

Pooja prances in Dubai... Aahana's advice...Neha and Aisha in Thailand... Photograph: Kind courtesy Janhvi Kapoor/Instagram Janhvi Kapoor promotes her movie Devara Part I in a pearl sari in......

The Crown Has Lost Its Way

Was descending into the telling of only Diana's tale in four long, slightly-draggy soap-opera-ish episodes of the last season the original premise of The Crown? asks Vaihayasi Pande Daniel. IMAGE:......

What's Jacqueline Watching?

Hina flirts in purple... Radhika spends Sunday in bed...Jennifer celebrates in Phuket...   Photograph: Kind courtesy Jacqueline Fernandez/Instagram Is Jacqueline Fernandez watching a......

'Vidya Balan is astounding as my mummy!'

'My mother had a vivacious personality and it had to come out, and Vidya was our only choice.''She is mummy on screen!' IMAGE: Vidya Balan, who plays Shakuntala Devi, and Sanya Malhotra, who plays......

WSH to have goalposts to be used in London Olympics

The upcoming World Series Hockey (WSH) starting from December 17, will feature international standard goalposts that will be used in the London Olympics in 2012. The goalposts have been......

Al-Fayed may sell Fulham

Mohamed al-Fayed, owner of Harrods, is planning to sell Fulham F.C., the football club he owns in the capital, sources familiar with the situation said. In 1997, Egyptian-born Al-Fayed, whose son......

Henman must raise his game: McEnroe

Tim Henman must lift his game if he is to stand any chance of ending Britain's 68-year wait for a home-grown Wimbledon men's singles champion, three-times winner John McEnroe says.The American......

Thai PM eyes Liverpool

Billionaire Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is eyeing a bid for English Premier league club Liverpool after Fulham spurned his advances last year, an advisor said on Monday."I believe the......

Thai PM shows interest in Fulham

Billionaire Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has asked one of his country's top soccer experts to do some research into premier league club Fulham as he pursues a serious interest in buying......