Why Hollande spoke out

French sources say Hollande was motivated to speak out after an Indian media report revealed that the Reliance Group had part-funded a film venture by his domestic partner, French actress Julie......

Absolutely convinced that PM is corrupt: Rahul

IMAGE: Congress president Rahul Gandhi addresses a press conference in New Delhi on Saturday. Photograph: Courtesy @INCIndia/Twitter In a stinging attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress......

Dassault says Reliance their choice; Not involved, says French govt

The French government has said it was in no manner involved in the choice of Indian industrial partners for the multi-billion dollar Rafale fighter jet deal as former French president Francois......

India proposed Reliance Defence as partner in Rafale: Ex-French Prez

Defence Ministry says the report is being verified, maintaining that neither Indian nor French government had any say in the decision. The Indian government proposed Anil Ambani's Reliance Defence......

Was Adani at CEOs Forum in Paris? Or not?

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is currently in Berlin on a State visit from where he will fly to Canada on the last leg of his tri-nation tour, held a successful CEOs forum meeting in Paris on......

Is Modi able to appease the climate gods?

When Mr Modi returned home from Paris with the Rig Veda’s solar incantation on his lips, he might have needed a face mask to re-enter Delhi, notes Sunil Sethi World leaders congregating at......

Speak Asia mastermind held

Thirty months after Singapore-registered Speak Asia Pte first came under the lens of investigative agencies for allegedly raising money from a large number of people, under the garb of running an......

COLUMN: Some light at the end of the 2012 tunnel?

Whichever way you look at it, from a global perspective 2012 has not been a good year, writes Claude Smadja. The euro zone has been sinking deeper in the last 12 months.The debt-to-GDP ratio......

Hero, Mr Jones, Star Wars... OTT Treats!

Life, history, adventure, Sukanya Verma offers a rather feverish schedule on OTT this week. NayattuWhere to watch: NetflixLanguage: Malayalam (with subtitles) Three cops on the run after they are......

Meet Bollywood's Showmen!

Looking at Bollywood's GRAND scheme of things. Steven Spielberg once said he dreams for a living. Quite a few film-makers back in Bollywood do too. Cinema's magical ability to transport a viewer......

Odd, curious, heartwarming: What Bollywood tweeted in 2014

From odd to heartwarming, the best of Twitter conversations in 2014.From Supreme Court allowing women to work as make-up artists in Bollywood to Mallika Sherawat talking about women's......

Kamal Khan: People think I fight all the time

Unlike the weekly evictionsin Bigg Boss, Kamal Rashid Khan was thrown out of the house last week when he fought violently with the rest of the housemates. Of course, Kamal, who had earlier......

Ratan Tata: A lifelong champion of Indian sports

IMAGE: Ratan Tata with former Jamshedpur FC coach Steve Coppell during launch of the football club in 2017. Photograph: Jamshedpur FC Fans/Instagram From the time Sir Dorabji Tata sponsored a......

Jugraj ready for int'l hockey: Coach

Jugraj Singh's much-awaited comeback may be just on the anvil.The ace drag flicker looked in fine nick as he went through the paces at the coaching camp in New Delhi under national junior hockey......

I will quit after reviving hockey: Gill

India's shock failure to qualify for the Olympics may have raised a hue and cry in the country but a combative IHF chief K P S Gill says the debacle has thrown a "real challenge" at him and he......

Australia's best 30 ODI players

Australia's best 30 One-Day International players were on Wednesday revealed in the first process of elimination to identify Australia's greatest ODI team of all time. The final team of 12 will be......

'Cricket is at a stage all sports go through'

As chief executive officer of cricket's governing body, Malcolm Speed believes transparency is the key to effective functioning for any organisation.The 55 year-old former chief executive of the......