WTF News: It's Weird, True and Funny

Here's your weekly digest of the craziest stories from around the world. 1) McDonald's goddess' becomes viral hit You've heard of Ronald McDonald and the Hamburglar, but what about the glorious......

Fandom 'suits up' for Comic-Con cosplay

From coolly crazy to affably awesome, Comic-Con is an abode for cosplayers (short for costume players) who go through considerable efforts to stand out in the crowd. From Batman to Wolverine......

If words could generate electricity in India...

For a country whose national capital has routine blackouts in its poshest colonies, not to mention the rest of the country, the debate on the advisability of nuclear power is bizarre, says Sanjaya......

Economic crisis chokes world's biggest economies

In the first week of the 16th year of the new millennium, the world seems to have caught severe pneumonia, or worse, as China had the flu, notes Shreekant Sambrani. "Sensex crosses 25,000." Indian......

Do public sector boards serve any purpose?

The English lexicon says conundrum is a paradoxical, insoluble, or difficult problem; a dilemma. Talking of conundrums, a celebrated example of a conundrum appears in Alice in Wonderland.When Alice......

The Indian hat trick

Hats are tricky to wear and talk about. Mention the word and all those tired hat phrases come tumbling out-- "hats off", "keep your hat on", "throw your hat in the ring', "pulling a rabbit out of......

10 problems that gold mining faces

More than 85 percent of gold mined today will end up as jewelry tomorrow. Gold mining is not an essential industry like the harvesting of food or even paper production. It is certainly not......

The Kishore Kumar NO ONE Knew!

When Pritish Nandy interviewed Kishore Kumar for The Illustrated Weekly Of India, Asia's oldest and most venerable magazine, it was a stunner. Posing with a skull on the Weekly's cover, the great......

PIX: Malaika-Arjun's love story

Ever since Malaika Arora and Arjun Kapoor made their relationship official on Arjun's 34th birthday, posting pictures from New York, the couple has not shied away from revealing what they are up......

The real Kishore Kumar no one knew

When Pritish Nandy interviewed Kishore Kumar for The Illustrated Weekly of India, Asia's oldest and most venerable magazine, it was a stunner. Posing with a skull on the Weekly's cover, the great......

Yeh kya hua, kaise hua, kyun hua...

To understand Rajesh Khanna's maniacal craze, one needed to have been born in the 1960s. What you see today in television re-runs is a mere rewind into shredded fading memories. It was sheer......

EPL PIX: Everton, Newcastle play out dramatic draws

IMAGES from the Premier League matches played on Saturday. IMAGE: Everton's Jarrad Branthwaite scores their second goal and the equaliser against Tottenham Hotspur at Goodison Park, Liverpool,......

EPL: Arsenal put pressure on Liverpool; Luton thrash Brighton

IMAGE: Nottingham Forest's Taiwo Awoniyi scores their first goal. Photograph: Carl Recine/Reuters Arsenal closed the gap on leaders Liverpool with a 2-1 Premier League victory at Nottingham......

PIX: Man City breathe a sigh of relief; In-form Everton beat Chelsea

IMAGE: Manchester City's Bernardo Silva celebrates scoring their first goal. Photograph: Matthew Childs/Reuters Bernardo Silva and Jack Grealish scored three minutes apart as Manchester City came......

PIX: Havertz sends Arsenal top; Liverpool hold Manchester City

A summary of Saturday's action in the English Premier League. IMAGE: Kai Havertz celebrates scoring the match-winner for Arsenal in the Premier League match against Brentford, at the Brentford......

PIX: Saka, Nketiah shine as Arsenal kicks off EPL with a bang

IMAGE: Arsenal's Kai Havertz in action. Photograph: John Sibley/Reuters Arsenal began their new Premier League campaign with a 2-1 home win over Nottingham Forest on Saturday thanks to......