India's New Trilemma

...Kids, jobs, emigration, notes Ajit Balakrishnan. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com   "Aren't you kids going to have children?" I asked one of my nieces who had come for a one-week......

Wealthy Indian-origin couple, daughter found dead in US

A wealthy Indian-origin couple and their teenage daughter were found dead in their USD 5 million mansion in the US state of Massachusetts in an apparent domestic violence incident, according to......

How Urban Flooding Affects Lives

Year by year, our cities remain defeated in the face of weather conditions, costing us time, money, resources and often lives, observe Amit Kapoor and Bibek Debroy. IMAGE: Parked vehicles......

The A-W Of Desi Guests At the White House Dinner

The dinner Jill Biden and her husband US President Joe Biden hosted for Prime Minister Narendra D Modi, June 22, at the White House brought together, Indians and Americans from so many firmaments,......

Former Barclays banker Ashok Vaswani to head Kotak Mahindra Bank

Ashok Vaswani, a banker with more than three-and-half decades experience in building and scaling up businesses across consumer and corporate banking and payments, will be the next managing director......

No salary for Akash, Isha and Anant Ambani; fee for attending board meetings

Billionaire Mukesh Ambani's three children as directors of Reliance Industries Ltd will be paid only a fee for attending board and committee meetings, the company said in a resolution seeking......

'Whatever we do, we have to make an impact'

'Professors can teach even when they are 90 because they don't lose their skill with words. Go deeper and there's spirituality in it,' Dr Swati Piramal tells Pavan Lall. Illustrations: Dominic......

How a Kanpur-born Indian-origin CEO is a chip off the old block

In the technology (tech) world, especially storage, Sanjay Mehrotra is a well-known name. Co-founder of SanDisk, a flash memory storage company in 1988, it was eventually acquired by Western......

The science of Game of Thrones

'When so many noted universities -- including the likes of Harvard and the University of California -- are spending their resources on studying the world of GoT, it is fun to assess whether this......

Day 4: What's hot at the Beijing Winter Olympics

Freestyle skiing- China's Gu wins Bir Air gold IMAGE: Gu Ailing Eileen of China reacts after her run during the Freestyle skiing Women's Freeski Big Air final Run 2 at the Big Air Shougang,......

US Open PIX: Nadal cruises; Osaka, Zverev shocked

Schwartzman upsets misfiring Zverev IMAGE: Rafael Nadal after winning a point against Marin Cilic in the fourth round on Day 8 of the US Open. Photograph: Robert Deutsch-USA TODAY Sports Rafael......

IAAF has used me as human guinea pig: Semenya

'Even though the hormonal drugs made me feel constantly sick, the IAAF now wants to enforce even stricter thresholds with unknown health consequences. I will not allow the IAAF to use me and my......

PIX: Zverev crashes out; injured Serena withdraws

IMAGE: Matteo Berrettini celebrates a point during his second round match against Alexander Zverev. Photograph: Clive Brunskill/Getty Images World number five Alexander Zverev continued his poor......

Sports Shorts: Cueist O'Sullivan blasts new snooker record

Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Monday IMAGE: Englishman Ronnie O'Sullivan became the first player to compile 1,000 career century breaks. Photograph: Alex Pantling/Getty......