Why Megacities Are Not Cooling Down

The heat index in major metro cities in the country has majorly risen since 2010 compared to a decade earlier. IMAGE: Students shield from the scorching sun on a hot summer afternoon in New Delhi,......

Ram Teri Ganga Maili

Six decades and more later, we are now captives of our identities. Every poll is based on elaborate calculations of electability of candidates on the basis of their castes and other narrow......

'Dharavi Will Be An Important Address In Mumbai'

'A slum free Mumbai cannot happen with Dharavi at the centre of the city.' IMAGE: A scene from Dharavi. Photograph: Arko Datta/Reuters "I don't think we need to romanticise life in Dharavi... I......

Aye Watan Tere Liye, Promise Jawans

The Top Videos of the Week, listed by Shailajanand Mishra. IMAGE: Jawans at the Auli Military Station in Chamoli, Uttarakhand, sang Aye Watan Tere Liye for the Raksha Mantri, left, and General......

Petrol, diesel prices cut by Rs 2 each

Petrol and diesel prices were cut by Rs 2 per litre each as state-owned oil companies ended a nearly two-year-long hiatus in rate revision, just hours before the general election schedule is......

Chinese trains for Mumbai Metro

The first metro rail corridor project inMumbaimoves forward with a Chinese company bagging the Rs 604 crore (Rs 6.04 billion) contract to supply 16 trains. The 11.4-km Versova-Andheri-Ghatkopar......

Mumbai to get its first Metro in April

Mumbaikars would get a glimpse of the city's first Metro train, due to arrive from China in mid-April. The first of the 16 trains has already been moved to Shanghai by the manufacturer of the......

How Meta Is Supersizing WhatsApp

WhatsApp's advantage is that it is the first app millions of Indian check first thing in the morning and innumerable times during the day and night. IMAGE: Kindly note the image has been posted......

A Slumdog Millionaire in Cannes

The success of Slumdog Millionaire has far-reaching for its cast, especially the children who play young Jamal, Salim and Latika. The latest to ride the Slumdog wave is Ayush Mahesh Khedekar [he......

Dharmendra charms the Big Apple

Over the years many movie stars have attended the annual fund-raising for the Nargis Dutt Memorial Foundation's in New York. But it is difficult to imagine any of them creating the stir the......

365 days. 319 films

How many of the 319 films Aseem Chhabra watched in 2018 have you seen? IMAGE: Deepika Padukone in Padmaavat. I watch many films in a year -- for work and pleasure, and I keep a record of them. In......

2036 Olympics: Coming Out Party For India

If Ahmedabad is India's preferred candidate, as seems likely, hosting Olympics 2036 should give it a leg up: A bigger airport, a better metro network, more hotels, flyovers and so on, observes T N......

Double delight for Ethiopia but elite runners slam Mumbai marathon

IMAGE: Elite marathon runners cross the Bandra-Worli sealink. Photograph: Sahil Salvi Solomon Deksisa and Amane Gobena made it a double delight for Ethiopia in the $ 405,000 Tata Mumbai Marathon......

Sports Shorts: Vijender to defend title against African Champion

A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Monday IMAGE: Vijender Singh during a training session. Photograph courtesy: Vijender Singh/Twitter Indian boxing star Vijender......

Mind-blowing Bolt lights up worlds

Olympic champion Usain Bolt thundered to victory and a world championship gold medal in a mind-blowing 9.58 seconds, slashing 0.11 seconds off the mark he set at last year's Beijing Olympics. He......

Team India: Performance appraisal

There are just three matches left in the second edition of the ICC T20 World Cup. And India's campaign has ended with a humiliating 12-run defeat against South Africa on Tuesday. Actually the......