Why Great Men Worship Light of Asia

Count among The Light of Asia's many, many admirers over 132 years: Gandhi, Tagore, Vivekananda, Nehru and Ambedkar, Tolstoy and Kipling, Yeats and Eliot, Alfred Nobel, Dmitri Mendeleev and C V......

15 must-know facts about the Nobel Prize

Image: Nobel Peace Prize laureates Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai hold a news conference in Oslo. Photograph: Suzanne Plunkett/Reuters India's Kailash Satyarthi and Pakistan's Malala......

Young or old... age no bar for THESE Nobel winners

At the tender age of 17, Malala Yousafzai has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, making her the youngest ever Nobel Laureate. The 17-year-old girl was shot because she......

US House passes resolution on Mahatma's influence

The United States House of Representative on Wednesday unanimously passed a resolution recognising the influence Mahatma Gandhi had on Martin Luther King Jr, the great civil rights leader of......

'We need to reinvent the Pay Commission to link salaries with performance'

The problem in India, is not unemployment because people need to work to feed themselves, but widespread under-employment. Image: Workers pull a cart laden with metal sheets at an industrial area......

CEO pay: How about $6.5 mn a year for life?

Fat cat chief executives are almost always used as Exhibit A in the national debate about the rich getting richer. Bolstering that case is a growing body of evidence showing that a burgeoning......

Does the American's job have a future?

In 1973, a book appeared that would define the conversation about the American workplace for the next generation. Work in America was an unlikely hit, the report of a task force commissioned by......

The 400 Richest Americans

For the third consecutive year the rich got richer. In this, the 24th annual edition of The Forbes 400, the collective net worth of America's wealthiest climbed $125 billion, to $1.13 trillion.All......

Emmys 2018: Scarlett Johansson, Padma Lakshmi look stunning

Who are the big winners of the night? We tell you! The 70th annual Emmy Awards saw red carpet magic at the Microsoft Theatre in Los Angeles, California, on September 17. But we sure missed our desi......

Oscars 2018: Nicole Kidman, Salma Hayek on the red carpet

Looking at the glamorous Oscar red carpet! The 90th Annual Academy awards is unfolding at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles.   Unlike the Golden Globes, black does not dominate the......

The Revenant, Mad Max, Star Wars sweep Oscar nominations

The nominations for the 88th Annual Academy awards were announced by Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs, directors Guillermo del Toro and Ang Lee, and actor John Krasinski at the Academy's......

No man on screen was ever quite as magnificent as Peter O'Toole

'He was the manliest of them all, a true man's man. Warrior, King, Pioneer, Thespian, Womaniser, Drunkard, Scoundrel -- he made it all look grander than ever, and he did so with fluent......

2nd Test: New Zealand in driving seat

Images from Day 3 of the 2nd Test between England and New Zealand played at Edgbaston on Saturday • Scorecard IMAGE: New Zealand’s Matt Henry appeals with success for the wicket of......

2nd Test: Conway, Young put NZ in charge against England

Images from Day 2 of the 2nd Test between England and New Zealand played at Edgbaston on Friday • Scorecard IMAGE: New Zealand’s Devon Conway sees the ball land short of Zak Crawley of......

2nd Test: Burns, Lawrence keep England afloat against NZ

Images from Day 1 of the 2nd Test between England and New Zealand played at Edgbaston on Thursday • Scorecard IMAGE: England batsman Rory Burns reaches his half century during day one of the......

ICC Test rankings: Kohli records lowest points since Nov 2017

Pant climbs seven places for in career-best Test rank. IMAGE: Virat Kohli is at the 5th spot in the ICC Test rankings. Photograph: BCCI Following his breath-taking century in the fourth Test......

Buzz: Ex-BCCI umpire translates Laws of Cricket into Hindi

IMAGE: Rajiv Risodkar, 58, served as the BCCI umpire from 1997-2016. Photograph: Kind courtesy BCCI/Twitter Former BCCI umpire Rajiv Risodkar has translated the Laws of Cricket into Hindi, which......