ISRO's smallest rocket completes final test flight

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully launched its third and final developmental flight of Small Satellite Launch Vehicle here on Friday whose payloads can be used in......

Neighbourhood First At Modi's Swearing-In

Engagement with neighbours is a strategic imperative, and not an option, asserts Rup Narayan Das. IMAGE: Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina arrives to attend Prime Minister designate Narendra......

India Gains Upper Hand In China Port Rivalry

The Sittwe deal is more significant than Chabahar in Iran, where India has rights to operate only two terminals and not the port itself. IMAGE: A view of Sittwe port in Myanmar. Photograph: Press......

Muizzu strikes reconciliatory tone, says India closest ally, seeks debt relief

After his anti-India rhetoric, Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu has struck a reconciliatory tone, saying India will continue to remain his country's “closest ally” and urged New Delhi......

Adani's Sri Lanka port JV gets $553 mn from US

The US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) will be investing funds to the tune of $553 million in Colombo West International Terminal Pvt Ltd – a consortium of India's largest......

What A380's failure can teach the shipping industry

As a model of transport, the A380 strikes a parallel -- a shared fragility -- with giant container ships, observes Shyam G Menon. IMAGE: A container ship is loaded at a container terminal in......

Energy is India's key challenge in 2019

The country must get its act on global alliances right in order to feed its fuel-hungry economy, points out Subhomoy Bhattacharjee.   Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com Trend spotting on a......

Will Vizhinjam port fulfill India's maritime dream?

The success story of Adani's Mundra Port in Gujarat, in terms of efficiency, technology and management, should be replicated at Vizhinjam to ensure that this ambitious project does not fail,......

S P Balasubrahmanyam's TOP 75 Songs

Siva Sankar looks at S P Balasubrahmanyam's fantastic repertoire. S P Balasubrahmanyam passed away in his 75th year, and so we celebrate the singer with 75 of his top songs, in a multi-part......

On the sets of The Sky is Pink

Shonali Bose's The Sky Is Pink will have its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September. Starring Priyanka Chopra, Farhan Akhtar, Zaira Wasim, Rohit Saraf, The Sky Is......

Review: Avatar is a MUST watch

There are people-- film critics, indie filmmakers, and audience members -- who are averse to the idea of technology overshadowing the dramatic content of films.I have often found myself in that......

Watch Anthony Yaar? at your own peril

Just when you think Tamil cinema has entered a new phase where logic and reason have a slight edge over the proceedings, comes a movie like Annam Films' Anthony-Yaar? (Who is Anthony? And......

Bishan Singh Bedi: The Sardar of Spin who conquered hearts

IMAGE: Bishan Singh Bedi with Ravichandran Ashwin and Erapalli Prasanna during the BCCI Annual Awards in Bengaluru on March 8, 2017. Photograph: BCCI He could mess with a batter's mind with his......

Cricketer who announced the arrival of a New India

M P Anil Kumar recalls a momentous Indian victory and recounts the trials and tribulations of a forgotten star of that triumph. The first cricket match that I watched live on television had......