Villages To Safeguard India's Borders

In underlining the role of border villages as custodians of India's frontiers, New Delhi is following China's example in Tibet. IMAGE: Army Chief General Upendra Dwivedi presents a memento to......

Restoring India's Botanic Heritage

With over 3,000 species of plants, 26 interconnected lakes and the 250-year-old Great Banyan Tree -- the largest in the world -- the Indian Botanic Garden is a veritable treasure, discovers Payal......

India Counters China, Focus On Border Villages

'We are developing infrastructure on the mountains and deploying the troops on hill borders in such a way that it is ensuring the safety of the people there.' IMAGE: A Border Roads Organisation......

Where's This Man Going?

We live in an Odd, Odd, World!   IMAGE: Hungarian artist Laszlo Simet Jr walks from one bank to the other across the Danube river in Budapest on a wire rope 30 metres above the river on World......

Securing the Future of India's Internet Economy

'Google and Facebook need to be tamed, their garb of 'Investing in India's future' need to be pulled off,' observes Vibhu Arya. Part 1: The Sale and Leaseback of India's Digital Future......

Desi medical devices firms fight global cos with aggressive pricing

Welcome to India's medical devices companies which are successfully locking horns with global giants, whether in India or abroad. Surajeet Das Gupta reports. Photograph: Robert Pratta/Reuters.......

The Great Property Crash

'In many parts of the country, the empty nest-and-empty-nest egg story is a painful boom-to-bust saga.''Among the old and young, it is hitting pockets hard, in a linked chain of debt-laden banks,......

Decks cleared for export of Indian mangoes to Australia

For the first time, India may export mangoes to Australia that meet biosecurity standards of the country after Canberra revised phyto-sanitary protocols for the ‘king of fruits’. Robert......

10 STUNNING Films I Watched In Cannes

With the mad rush of celebrities, paparazzi, official photographers and influencers on red carpets and parties, people almost forget that the Cannes Film Festival is firstly, a celebration of world......

THE ABBA Paradox

Ageing is a funny process.After rebelling and exploring, the human being drifts to the ordered arrangement, he/she once left.As a youngster I outgrew ABBA while my mother continued to like them.In......

What is about MJ and Indians?

'Michael Jackson was the first international pop singer that many Indians heard,' Jaggu and Tarana, the well-known Mumbai radio jockeys, said on their farewell morning show on Friday morning. MJ......

Led Zeppelin live, again!

Hold on to your seat, dear rock fan, because one of the biggest bands in the history of music will play a reunion concert in London on November 26. The three surviving members of the iconic heavy......

EPL PIX: Arsenal rally to beat West Ham; Spurs held

A round-up of the action in the English Premier League on Monday. IMAGE: Eddie Nketiah celebrates scoring Arsenal's third goal against West Ham United during the English Premier League match at......

Schumacher documentary is headed to Cannes

IMAGE: Former Ferrari Formula One World Champion Michael Schumacher of Germany. Photograph: Clive Mason/Getty Images Former Formula One world champion Michael Schumacher will be the subject of a......

Soccer: Leicester held; Leipzig in German cup final

Leicester held by 10-man Southampton IMAGE: Leicester City's Jonny Evans scores their first goal. Photograph: Kirsty Wigglesworth/Reuters Third-placed Leicester City suffered a frustrating......

Why Formula One turns me on

Love lies in the sound. That symphonic bellow of engineering excellence squeezed, by a man in a helmet using a foot and two thumbs, into a flawless note of phenomenal precision. That deafening roar......

Champions League PIX: Sterling, Mbappe net hat-tricks

Late Dybala goals earn Juventus victory over Lokomotiv IMAGE: Raheem Sterling celebrates scoring Manchester City's third goal during Tuesday's Champions League Group C match against Atalanta, at......