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WTF News! It's Weird, True and Funny

 Here's your weekly digest of the craziest stories from around the world. Daredevils try the longest swing ever The Red Bull Skydive Team pushed themselves to new limits last week as they attempted......

Your job is to govern, not to become our parents

 'What adult citizens do in the privacy of their home, what they eat or drink or watch, is not the government's concern.' 'Instead of #SwacchBharat and #SwacchInternet, it is time to clean your own......

WTF News! It's Weird, True and Funny

 Here's your weekly digest of the craziest stories from around the world. 1) The shorter your skirt, the more discount this Chinese eatery will offer you Love wearing short skirts? A Chinese......

Why Omar Abdullah has failed as chief minister

 He was supposed to be the wonder boy of Indian politics. Neerja Chowdhury finds out why Omar Abdullah has failed as Jammu and Kashmir chief minister. It was Atal Bihari Vajpayee's dream to leave......

Fun and golf on Obama's holiday

 United States President Barack Obama, his wife Michelle and his daughters Sasha and Malia are enjoying their first vacation after occupying the White House in January this year. Far from the......

'Ramdev is a symptom of today's India'

 Ramdev's Patanjali is a low-cost, low-margin business that gets away with pretty much what it wants because wily old Ramdev knows how to get around all politicians, says Vir Sanghvi.   IMAGE:......

Pranab the priest performs Puja!

 To his colleagues in the Congress party, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee is known as a man of all seasons, a man of punctuality and precision. We saw the finance minister in a new avatar,......

Accept pay cut to avoid jobloss, Air India to staff

 Faced with a grim scenario, Air India management has asked its employees to consider the financial crisis facing the company and accept proposals to cut wages and other costs in order to avoid job......

Meet one of Playboy's sexiest CEOs

 Think Playboy, and you think of lingerie, R-rated films and all things adult -- definitely not a PhD from an Ivy League university. But Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh-born Rashmi Sinha, who did her......

Entrepreneurs who rose from the ashes

 A word of encouragement for all the entrepreneurs (and every other working stiff, for that matter) scrapping it out in the latest downturn: Recessions--for all the havoc they wreak--can also sow......

2023 At The Movies: A Double Take

 It was a year of so many contradictions and contrasts that it became dangerous to talk about movies, people lost their heads discussing Friday releases, psychiatrists began dabbling in film......

Bollywood's Ticket To Hollywood

 It's a small world. Desi sightings in Western fare are no longer a rarity. Be it Farhan Akhtar in Ms. Marvel, Shabana Azmi in Halo or Nimrit Kaur in Homeland, it's great to see our stars in......

Guilty Minds Review

 Guilty Minds has too much going on to wolf down it all in one big binge watch session, notes Sukanya Verma. A pair of yin and yang Delhi lawyers clash and collaborate to seek justice for their......

12 Films by Rajinikanth: The Actor, Not Superstar

 If you'd like to know more about Rajini the actor, Saisuresh Sivaswamy offers a wide selection. Everybody knows Rajinikanth's fabled rise from the bottom of the rung to superstardom. And even if......

Jawaani Jaaneman review

 Saif is a hoot, applauds Sukanya Verma. While admiring Saif Ali Khan in my review of Baazaar I wrote, 'I see a self-possessed actor whose progressing potential overshadows the conventional......

Remember The Titans!

 As has been the case all season long, Captain Pandya led from the front and really matured following his first stint in a leadership role -- a shadow of the old arrogant, flamboyant, playboy of......

The Muhammad Ali tribute you MUST read!

 'Every Ali obituary I read made the point that he 'transcended his sport' -- a reference to the many battles he fought with America even as he fought in America.''What the obituaries leave out is......

Spotted: Team India in Jamaica

 Reader Lloyd sent us these photographs from Jamaica. 'Hi all. Here are a few photographs of the Indian cricket team players, who were spotted in Jamaica on the eve of the recent one-day......

Formula One can wait, says Danica

 Although flattered by talk of a future in Formula One, Danica Patrick is in no rush to give up her creature comforts just yet.Last season she became the first woman to win Rookie of the Year......

Belfast bids farewell to George Best

 Belfast gave football great George Best a hero's send-off on Saturday when tens of thousands turned out to pay their final respects to their local legend, who died last week after losing a highly......

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World Test Championship 2023

 India held the top position in the ICC Men's Test Team Rankings while Australia secured the...

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