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When Some Speak For All

...close to the 2024 general election. The BJP calling the Congress 'seasonal Hindu' is as laughable as the saffron party sparing itself the title of 'seasonal extreme Hindu.' How else should one......

Has Modi run out of gas?

Other strong men have stopped Modi and his hordes in states before, but none of them with a footprint or battle cry to shake up New Delhi, observes Saisuresh Sivaswamy. IMAGE: Narendra Damodardas......

Tsunami Memories: How we rebuilt the IAF's CarNic airbase

'Wanting to see the bright side of things, we always told ourselves, 'It could have been worse!', when the situation got tough.'Air Commodore Nitin Sathe (retd), who helped rebuild the IAF's Car......

We are all Americans!

'What Kamala Harris' rise and rise underscores is that our old ways of identifying the Indian-American Diaspora need to change...''None of this detracts from her Indian-American identity, which......

From Mont Blanc to Patek Phillipe - Jaitley's love for high-end brands

Watches, pens, shawls, shirts or even shoes, the former finance minister had a penchant for all of them and his collection consisted of the choicest of brands ranging from "Patek Phillipe (in......

India can grow at 10% if reforms continue to kick in: Mark Mobius

'Modi government's emphasis on empowerment rather than hand-outs is very good.' 'In the global banking world Rajan has probably been the best.' Termed as "the pied piper of emerging markets", Mark......

A test of RIL's core competence

The formidable technological challenges of building a broadband wireless network, spread across 5,000 cities and towns, will test even Reliance, notes Indrajit Gupta. It may not be long before......

Paytm's gameplan to replicate China's biggest ecom in India

Late last week, digital payments company Paytm held a press conference in New Delhi. Its chairman and managing director, Vijay Shekhar Sharma, chose the occasion to announce several new......

Why senior MNC execs are jumping ships

They are calling Vishwavir Ahuja the pied piper of Ratnakar Bank. Ever since he took the top job at the sleepy Kohlapur-based rural bank to morph it into a major financial institution, in 2010,......

Investing: Watch out for the game changers!

Come a new year, and the guy with some cash to spare invariably wonders how to avoid repeating the investing mistakes of the past year. That explains the spate of analyses over the past week,......

Shaitaan Review: Wicked Without Warning

Shaitaan's wickedness may be its calling card but relies on age-old formulas to do the trick, observes Sukanya Verma. A despot seeking complete control by hypnotising blind followers into......

'Salman's career as a hero is over'

'He's the biggest crowd-puller we have.''He still has the power, talent and most importantly, a mind-boggling fan base.''He is a darling of the masses, but he has to match the content.' IMAGE:......

Applauding Superman on screen...

...And Jennifer Aniston off it, in Sukanya Verma's super filmi week! This week I woke up to tragic world news with frightening frequency, got trolled by a bunch of humourless Hrithik fans too......

Zoe Saldana shares first pix of twin sons

Here's what's happening in Hollywood! Photograph: Instagram Several months after giving birth to twin sons Cy and Bowie, Star Trek actress Zoe Saldana took to Instagram to share the first......

Review: One By Two is a drag

Abhay Deol shoots himself in the foot by acting in (and, inexplicably, producing) this monstrosity called One By Two that sucks all the goodwill out of an actor we usually like, writes Raja Sen.......

Shane Warne: He took the world for a spin and world loved him back

He was an artist and the cricket world was a connoisseur of his art form, which was dying till he breathed life into it much like a magician who decided to caste his spell on a generation for a......

Football Extras: India slips out of top 100 in latest charts

News of all that's transpired on and off the football field IMAGE: Skipper Sunil Chhetri and Co. slumped six places to be ranked 103. Photograph: AIFF Media/Twitter The Indian football team......

Don't try to take advantage of BCCI's current mess, warns Shastri

‘This state of flux will not last for long. BCCI will be back where they belong very soon’ IMAGE: Ravi Shastri has backed BCCI . Photograph: PTI. A few nations are making a big......

Venus descends with first round Wimbledon defeat

Looking as though she could barely be bothered to get off her chair, five-times former champion Venus Williams went out of Wimbledon's opening round on Monday, thrashed 6-1, 6-3 by Russian Elena......

I wish I didn't cry after losses: Federer

Roger Federer has not won a Grand Slam title for almost 30 months and is no longer the world's top-ranked player, yet when it comes to pulling power he remains the number one attraction at......

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