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'Welcome home', Biden tells Trump at White House

US President Joe Biden greeted his successor Donald Trump at the White House Monday morning with the message 'welcome home' as his motorcade arrived at the official presidential residence. IMAGE:......

Pilots Fume as DGCA Moves to Ban Perfumes

DGCA's move seeks to ban perfumes for pilots as they have alcohol and can affect the results of breathanalyser tests. Kindly note the image has only been published for representational purposes.......

'We don't have a strategy to fight the war'

'On a daily basis you are saying, you do this, you do that, but where is the blueprint of the war?''How many isolations actually we need per hundred thousand people?' 'How many ventilators will we......

Gandhi, Bombay, Jalandhar in Pak's election

The Pakistani election on July 25 has a strong Indian flavour and connection, says Vivek Shukla. IMAGE: Cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan, chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, is a......

The different moods of Obamas @ Rajpath

At the grand Republic Day parade at Rajpath on Monday, Chief Guest Barack Obama was caught on camera bobbing his head to music as floats passed by, chewing gum, showing the thumbs up and watching......

How Aditya Puri 'built' the HDFC Bank

Puri gave up the comforts of Citibank to set up a new-age bank from a rat-infested room in the Kamala Mills Compound in Worli, Mumbai and turned it into a marquee brand. Raghu Mohan takes a look at......

Off-patent drugs to get lease of life

SPI Pharma, the fully-owned subsidiary of the UK's Associated British Foods, which opened its India development and testing centre in Bangalore is working on platforms to revive some of the......

O&M India arm is an offshore hotspot

Ogilvy and Mather (O&M) India, the advertising agency, is fast emerging as the offshoring hotspot for O&Ms across the globe.O&M, one of India's top ad shops, has been offering O&M outfits worldwide......

Reliance Infrastructure looks at domestic banks

Close to clinching second phase of Mumbai Metro project. Reliance Infrastructure (R-Infra) CEO Lalit Jalan is a man in a hurry. The Anil Dhirubhai Ambanigroup company hasn't yet got the contract......

'Dollar's holed up in a hotel shooting neat Vodka'

The dollar's holed up in a hotel shooting neat vodka, whatever its 'people' are telling the press. . . It is a cold and bitter truth that the world's investment markets rarely act as sober as......

Guruvayoorambala Nadayil Review: Prithviraj, Basil Elevate Bromance

Guruvayoorambala Nadayil is a no-holds-barred, silly comedy that will keep you glued to the screen even when the going gets tough towards the end but the smile on your face will not leave, observes......

The Night Manager Review: Thrilling, And Yet...

The Night Manager has no surprises, observes Deepa Gahlot. For those who may have read the book by spy thriller maestro John Le Carré and watched the 2016 series, The Night Manager based on......

'Basuda was a Master'

Shabana Azmi regards Basu Chatterjee as the true father of Middle Of The Road cinema. IMAGE: Shabana Azmi in Swami. "I loved the lines he wrote for his characters. They were so close to real life,......

How about Alia and Bhumi together in a movie?

Savouring Spielberg's fierce, fine, movie; salivating over MAMI 2017's line-up; gobbling a Shrek cake; visualising a desi Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants with Alia, Bhumi and more in Sukanya......

Looking at the FANTASTIC cast of Wasseypur-II

Just like the first part, Gangs of Wasseypur II has some brilliant performances from its supporting cast as well. We decided to look at some of the lesser known faces on the big screen, who left a......

No more 'N-word': Scrabble players look to bar racist or homophobic slurs

IMAGE: Professional sportpersons including Lewis Hamilton and Raheem Sterling have become leading voices in the anti-racism movement amid protests over the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black......

Nehra, Bhajji feel saliva is must to shine ball

Where will the line be drawn if external substances are used to shine ball, asks Aakash Chopra. Saliva and sweat are components that cannot be entirely done away with, insist a few distinguished......

Djokovic-Murray lockdown 'knockabout' has fans in awe

'When you see the end coming you think... I shuld have enjoyed the wins or even the losses that were great matches.' IMAGE: World number one Novak Djokovic has never won the Olympic gold medal, a......

Not extinct, but odds stacked against serve and volleyers

IMAGE: Dustin Brown of Germany serves against Andy Murray of Great Britain. Photograph: Clive Brunskill/Getty Images Dustin Brown's audacious attempt to unseat defending Wimbledon champion......

Serve-and-volley a lost art as grass loses its menace

So are the days gone when grasscourt tennis was truly a different ball game? Are the likes of Spain's Feliciano Lopez, Croatian Ivo Karlovic, Luxembourg's Gilles Muller and Germany's Mischa Zverev,......

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