It's official, Biden vs Trump set for rematch

United States President Joe Biden and his predecessor Donald Trump secured their parties' presidential nominations with impressive wins in another round of key primaries, setting the stage for a......

UN chief Antonio Guterres receives COVID-19 vaccine

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has received his first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine and appealed to people to get vaccinated as soon as they can while stressing that nations must......

'My izzat is more important than the Rs 1,700 I stand to gain'

'My appeal to ex-servicemen,' says Colonel Anil A Athale (retd), 'is please do not demean yourself and bring our izzat down to the levels of militant trade unionism of the banks or airline variety!......

Indira Gandhi: Goddess and her terror turn

Forty years after the declaration of Emergency by Indira Gandhi, Sunanda K Datta-Ray recalls life when civil rights were suspended and press censorship was in force Silver-haired and baby-faced,......

China and India's alarming debt story

The two nations share a problem of corporate debt gone bad that is so large and so opaque that it is difficult to gauge how bad things are, notes Rahul Jacob. Do China and India have anything in......

COLUMN: Pirates of the modern world

Filtering of websites has now been introduced as a discussable topic. The current battle is about who will control the most visible and glamorous layer, the content layer, writes Ajit Balakrishnan.......

IITians gush over Nohria's appointment as HBS dean

The sense of pride and utter joy by some high profile Indian American alumni of the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, that one of their own Nitin Nohria, had been appointed the new dean of......

Women's unhappiness = Increased unemployment

Forget about global financial imbalances -- the G8, the IMF, China, the US, somebody will figure out something someday. But what are we to do with the imbalance that is building up in our homes?......

Rajamouli Mourns RRR Actor Ray Stevenson'

IMAGE: Ray Stevenson with S S Rajamouli on the sets of RRR. Photograph: Kind courtesy SS Rajamouli/Twitter Director S S Rajamouli remembered actor Ray Stevenson, who played the villainous British......

RRR Review

A copious amount of blood, beating, crying, saving, sacrificing, nationalism fills up its staggering three hours running time.Emotions run sky high, but you feel nothing, sighs Sukanya Verma.......

Review: Aiyaary feels like unending punishment

Aiyaary is a bloated, prolonged, mess of misplaced purpose that digresses from military misdeeds to animal cruelty, says Sukanya Verma. Aiyaary begins with a lengthy disclaimer stating it is a......

Review: Azhar is a bland, badly-set souffl of Bollywood tropes without a soul

Who was Mohammad Azharuddin? More crucially, *what* was he? Those are precisely the questions that, as the end credits roll after 132 minutes of run-time, remain unanswered, feels......

PIX: Medvedev outlasts Sinner; meets Alcaraz in semis

IMAGES from Day 9 of the Wimbledon Championships, at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, London, on Tuesday. IMAGE: Russia's Daniil Medvedev celebrates victory over Italy's Jannik Sinner......

Day 5: What's hot at the Beijing Winter Olympics

Jacobellis earns first US gold and long-awaited redemption IMAGE: Lindsey Jacobellis of the United States in action. Photograph: Mike Blake/Reuters Lindsey Jacobellis claimed the first gold......

French Open PIX: Nadal shows Sinner no mercy to enter semis

Images from Day 10 of the 2020 French Open, at Roland Garros, in Paris. IMAGE: Spain’s Rafael Nadal celebrates victory over Italy's Jannik Sinner in the quarter-finals of the French Open, at......

Vijender hopes to be back in the ring by October

'It will be outside India because it is unlikely that restrictions because of COVID-19 pandemic will ease by then.' IMAGE: Vijender Singh said plans are afoot for a fight at least by October.......

Vikas, Neeraj win pro circuit fights

IMAGE: India’s Vikas Krishan got a unanimous verdict in his super welterweight bout against Noah Kidd of the United States. Photograph: Vikas Krishan/Twitter Vikas Krishan and Neeraj Goyat......