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......

President meets bravery award winners

Twenty children, selected for this years bravery awards, today had a lifetime experience at the Rashtrapati Bhavan with President Pranab Mukherjee interacting with them and posing for a photograph.......

'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!......

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......

Lloyds TSB to bailout HBOS for 12.2 bn pounds

British banking major Lloyds TSB has announced that it has reached an agreement for acquiring UK's troubled mortgage lender HBOS for a consideration of 12.2 billion pounds. The offer values HBOS at......

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.......

And you thought money can't buy happiness!

They say 'money can't buy you happiness,' but a new study has proved the opposite. Researchers at Wharton Business School, who carried out the study, found that inhabitants of richer nations are......

Murders! Ghosts! Lust! Your OTT Menu

The pilot of Vishal Bhardwaj's much-anticipated adaptation of Agatha Christie's The Sittaford Mystery is here. Aditya Roy Kapur's hotel manager takes on Anil Kapoor's all-powerful arms dealer.......

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: Transporter Refueled: Steer clear of this mechanical junk!

Transporter Refueled is mostly a shabby hand-me-down, a moronic piece of filmmaking that fails to deliver on any front, says Sukanya Verma. If there's one thing The Transporter Refueled does is it......

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......

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.......

Cuba says goodbye to boxing great Teofilo Stevenson

Cuba said goodbye on Tuesday to heavyweight boxing great Teofilo Stevenson, who won three Olympic gold medals and became a symbol of communist pride when he refused to fight for money. A day after......

Cuban boxing great Teofilo Stevenson dead

Cuban heavyweight boxing great Teofilo Stevenson, who won three Olympic gold medals but turned down a chance to fight Muhammad Ali for $5 million, has died of a heart attack at the age of 60, Cuban......