Is Obama backing India's UNSC bid merely symbolic?

The announcement by United States President Barack Obama that his administration endorses India's bid for a permanent seat at United Nations Security Council is more of 'symbolic' in nature and......

Rice's visit will be symbolic, says ex-CIA man

Robert Hathaway, a former Central Inelligence Agency analyst and erstwhile senior US Congressional staffer on the House Foreign Affairs Committee for nearly two decades, has said Secretary of State......

China has a greater role in South Asia: US

In controversial remarks more than likely to raise New Delhi's ire less than two months before President Barack Obama India tour, a top United States' State Department official strongly defended a......

Kerala Boatrace

Congress president Sonia Gandhi will inaugurate the 57th edition of Nehru Trophy boat race, the country's biggest and popular water sporting event at Alappuzha in Kerala on August...

Ambani case: Clean chit for ADAG officials

Railway police on Friday gave a clean chit to three officials of Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group whose statements were recorded in connection with the death of Airworks technician Bharat Borge. These......

Nooyi, Nadella among world's highest paid CEOs

8 CEOs on the list are female, and they far outpace the median pay for the Equilar 100 as a whole As many as three Indian origin persons have been named among 100 highest-paid CEOs globally with......

Nadella No.1, Nooyi No. 19 in top paid US CEOs' list

Image: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. Photograph: Kind Courtesy, Microsoft With a pay package of $84.3 million (Rs 525 crore) a year, technology firm Microsoft's Indian-origin chief Satya Nadella......

Aditya Puri in Barron's list of 30 best CEOs

HDFC Bank Managing Director Aditya Puri has featured in the list of 30 best CEOs, published by America's financial magazine Barron's. "Of the 30 CEOs in our original feature, seven have kept their......

Review: De Niro and Hathaway hit all the right notes in The Intern

The Intern is an easy, breezy office space confection that makes for a lighthearted viewing, feels Sukanya Verma. As I sat down to write about Nancy Meyers' The Intern, I thought how if I......

Who will replace Rishi in The Intern remake?

And why is Nawaz getting serious?Subhash K Jha finds out. Photograph: Kind courtesy Deepika Padukone/Instagram With Rishi Kapoor's passing, the remake of the Hollywood rom-com The Intern, where......

Can Coolie No 1 revive Varun's career?

Bollywood seems to be in remake mode. From old Hindi movies to blockbusters from tjhe south, 2020 has a line-up of films we have seen before, but presented in its new-age version. Joginder Tuteja......

Miranda Kerr, Ellen, Bruce Willis: The GLAM Oscar after party

Vanity Fair's annual Oscar after party had Hollywood A-listers queuing up to celebrate the big night.After the 86th Academy awards wrapped up, guests at the awards show headed to the high profile......

Newsmaker Johnson edges out Woods in 2002

Tiger Woods and Annika Sorenstam were the dominant figures in global golf during 2002 but it is doubtful if either has managed to generate more column inches of publicity than Augusta National......