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Can Navy Counter China In Indian Ocean?

New Delhi's regional partners in restraining a belligerent China -- primarily the US, Japan, Australia and Singapore -- would like the Indian Navy to lock down the Indian Ocean Region, while the......

When A Child 'Shot' Putin

Ukrainians have found a way to vent their anger on Vladimir Putin for his gruesome destruction of their country and the barbaric way his soldiers have murdered civilians in cold blood. In Lviv,......

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......

COVID 19: Is the NITI Aayog right?

On May 27, the NITI Aayog issued a statement whose aim was to bust myths floating around the COVID-19 pandemic. Seven myths were addressed by Dr Vinod Paul, who leads the health, nutrition and HRD......

Celebrating the life of Britain's Queen Victoria

Buckingham Palace, one of the world’s most iconic buildings and a focal point for British national life, is celebrating the 200th anniversary of Queen Victoria's birth with a......

ER&D sails get trimmed amid FY25 outlook fog

Indian engineering research and development (ER&D) players, such as Tata Technologies, Tata Elxsi, and Cyient, among others, had a subdued January-March quarter of 2023-24. Photograph: Dan......

Expect Another Rate Hike In December

Probably 35 bps.There could be even an encore in February 2023 to take the policy rate to 6.5% before the financial year ends, predicts Tamal Bandyopadhyay. IMAGE: Finance Minister Nirmala......

Who will win the Super App race in India?

A super app is the golden key to the customer for any company selling products or services at the retail level. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com Unlike the race to buy airwaves by telecom......

How COVID-19 has impacted private equity firms

Investors say they see large companies going through the grind, as their promoters struggle with liquidity because they are levered up at the holding company level and are starting to get margin......

Can India grow at 9-10% in 2022-23?

Niti Aayog's plan to create a New India' in less than four years should invite scepticism, argues T N Ninan.Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com One of the features of the Modi government is its......

The Best Actresses in Hindi cinema, 2014

Take a bow, ladies.It is truly a thrilling and liberating time to be an (established) actress in Hindi cinema, a time when risks are smiled upon and when roles are pushing various envelopes. The 10......

Zeenat Aman in Indo-Pak Gay Love Story

Zeenat Aman makes a comeback to the movies with the sequel to Dunno Y Na Jaane Kyun, a 2010 film based on a gay couple. She will play a Pakistani woman.While the film’s writer and main......

Enter the hero from Kashmir

In 1987, a little boy was running around his home in Srinagar, when his family members told him he to run around the television cameras that were rolling nearby instead.A Doordarshan serial,Gul......

Veer-Zaara: A class of its own!

On September 18, when the music of Yash Chopra's latest film Veer-Zaara was launched, I went over to meet an old man who owns a music store near my house. I don't know his name; I call him Uncle.......

What it took to make Sanju hug Sunil Dutt

Rajkumar aka Raju Hirani's father wanted him to get into medical school. But this Nagpur native wanted to try his hands at films. Hirani specialised in the field of editing and also experimented......

Wawrinka gets mixed reviews for 'challenging' photoshoot

Swiss tennis star Stanislas Wawrinka in ESPN the Magazine's 'The Body issue'. Photograph: Stanislas Wawrinka/Twitter Swiss man Stanislas Wawrinka was once a ‘heavy’ man. He was not......

Wawrinka doesn't want Big Four to become Fab Five

Stan Wawrinka of Switzerland. Photograph: Matthew Stockman/Getty Images Being a member of tennis' Big Four might be the burning ambition of many players but Stan Wawrinka is in no rush to join the......

Movie on Hansie Cronje nears completion

For Hansie Cronje, the lure oflucre proved fatal. From beinghero one day tovillain the next,itall wentwrong for the late South Africa cricket captain. Now his brother Frans Cronje isset to bring......

England to avoid Ashes sickbay

It always seems to happen about now. Roused from his slumber, the England cricket team physiotherapist answers a knock at his door to find himself facing a glum crowd.First in the queue, a bowler......

'I could see nothing else but the target'

Ace Indian shooter Rajyavardhan Singh Rathorebecame a national hero when he finished second in the men's double-trap shooting event at the28th Olympic Games in Athens on Tuesday.The 34 year-old......

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