#TrillionDollarBaby whizzes past Earth

Asteroid 2011 UW-158, an asteroid with 90 million tons of platinum core worth over five trillion dollars, hurtled past earth early Monday morning. The asteroid passed just 1.5 million miles from......

The A-W Of Desi Guests At the White House Dinner

The dinner Jill Biden and her husband US President Joe Biden hosted for Prime Minister Narendra D Modi, June 22, at the White House brought together, Indians and Americans from so many firmaments,......

Can Earth Avoid Killer Space Rocks?

An asteroid larger than Dubai's Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building, will pass within 1.2 million miles of Earth on Thursday, January 20.Stephen Hawking, in his final book Brief Answers to......

Crisis-hit Sri Lanka announces default on foreign debt

Faced with critically low forex reserves, Sri Lanka on Tuesday announced that the crisis-stricken country will default on its external debt pending a bailout package from the International Monetary......

'Can We In Our Businesses Set An Example?'

'I think some of us, like Mukesh Ambani, myself and those of us who head industrial units, ought to really focus on what we can really do to make the world a safer place, maybe 50 or 100 years from......

India's e-commerce awaits more billion dollar babies in 2015

The passing year saw big investors from India and abroad putting their money on various e-commerce ventures, which got funds to the tune of $3 billion from individuals, companies and private equity......

E-City banks on entertainment

E-City Ventures, part of the $5 billion Essel Group, has outlined plans to invest another Rs 250 crore (Rs 2.50 billion) in its real estate and entertainment businesses by 2008. It has so far......

GE Healthcare innovates in India

GE Healthcare, the $17 billion health solutions business of General Electric Co, is acquiring a dual focus in India which is both similar to what it has for other emerging markets and also......

Hollywood's biggest grossers don't make it to the Oscars!

If the latest study in Hollywood is any indication, there are two types of successful films. There are films that break box office records and others that reign supreme at the Oscars.......

Sonakshi, Priyanka, Rani: Sportswomen of celluloid!

Things might be radical in Hollywood but only marginally better when it comes to the subject of women in sports on screen. Sports are a neglected arena in Bollywood’s scheme of relentless......

Clint Eastwood's Million Dollar film!

The amazing Clint Eastwood has done something many veterans can't achieve -- he has followed one enduring film after another. He has delivered a dark but humanistic, sad, gripping and......

The Worst Films that Won the Oscars

Raja Sen lists the 10 truly undeserving Oscar winners through the years.   Listen, I know and you know the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences often gets it wrong. This isn't a......

Meet Kolkata's Million Dollar Babies

Every afternoon, veiled young women from a squalid Muslim quarter inKolkata walk to a public park where they swap their traditional attire for T-shirts, shorts and boxing gloves.For two hours, they......

Will IPL million-dollar baby Maxwell get Oz Test cap?

Australia's national selector John Inverarity hinted at all-rounder Glenn Maxwell, the only million-dollar buy at this year's IPL players' auction, could be picked for the first cricket Test......

From bad boy to leader, Tevez overshadows Real's million-dollar babies

Juventus's Carlos Tevez outruns Real Madrid's Gareth Bale as they vie for possesion during their UEFA Champions League semi-final first leg match at Juventus Arena in Turin on Tuesday. Photograph:......

Eventful year for Indian hockey as women outperform men

The launch of a much-hyped professional league on the lines of IPL, the rise and fall of colts, an overhaul of the coaching set-up and women overshadowing their male counterparts -- 2013 was an......

IPL: Morkel, Pietersen help Delhi thump holders Chennai

Scorecard: Delhi Daredevils put up a thorough professional performance as they thrashed defending champions Chennai Super Kings by eight wickets in a lopsided contest in the Indian Premier Leagueat......