First Covid case may have emerged in China in Oct 2019: Study

The SARS-CoV-2 virus, that causes COVID-19, may have started spreading in China as early as October 2019, two months before the first case was identified in Wuhan, according to a modelling study.......

Pfizer jab produces less antibodies against Delta variant: Study

People fully vaccinated with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine are likely to have more than five times lower levels of neutralising antibodies against the Delta variant first identified in India compared......

Art 370: 'Who will suffer more? It's the security forces!'

'Sardar Patel was completely on board in the process for Kashmir as well as the final decisions taken. The fact is that Sardar Patel was willing to trade Kashmir for Hyderabad. This is......

The music of Ishiguro's words

'Did the Nobel committee, reviled for awarding Mr Dylan, play a little inside joke this time around, by awarding another lyricist who was once an aspiring musician?' asks Uttaran Das......

IIT alumnus named Dean of Cornell's business school

IIT-Delhi alumnus Soumitra Dutta has been named the new Dean of the Ivy league Cornell University's business school, joining a growing list of noted Indian-origin academicians assuming leaderships......

Email can be 'extinct within a decade'

With more and more teenagers switching to instant messaging and social networking sites for speedy communication, email could be extinct within a decade, says a new report. The electronic form of......

The art of effective communication

You are what you communicate. Good communication matters because your ideas are as good as your ability to communicate them. Robert Kent, former dean of Harvard Business School, said, "In......

Ten truly amazing robberies

In 1950, when a gang of thieves broke into the heavily guarded offices of the Brinks Mat's armored car company in Boston, the headlines heralded it the crime of the century. The building was......

'The world still needs Superman'

At one point, Warner Brother constructed an enormous storage room to stock the many scripts commissioned, revised, rejected since 1995, when producer Jon Peters got out of 'what if' mode and began......

The making of Superman Returns

Much of the principal photography for Superman Returns was done on location near Breeza, Australia, on a rural piece of farmland that had been transformed into a working back lot.Six miles of road,......

Team bowled out for 0 in Kent indoor game!

A cricket team bowled out for 0 off just 20 balls! Surprised? Yes. It happened in an English county six-a-side indoor championship match in Canterbury. Chasing 121 for victory against Christ Church......

Sehwag, Muralitharan to lead MCC sides in Middle East

Out-of-favour India batsman Virender Sehwag and Sri Lankan spin legend Muttiah Muralitharan will lead two MCC sides in a series of matches in the Middle East to help launch the new county season.......

Sehwag to lead MCC in four-day match against Durham

India Test discard Virender Sehwag will captain the Marylebone Cricket Club in a four-day Champion County match against Durham, starting March 23, in Abu Dhabi. "Virender Sehwag and Muttiah......

Former England fast bowler Dilley dies at 52

Former England fast bowler Graham Dilleydied after a short illness at the age of 52, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) said on Wednesday. Dilley played 41 Tests and appeared in 36 one-day......

Wright meets Team India in NZ

The Indian team was about to wind up a four-hour training-cum-net session at the Lincoln University campus in Christchurch when a tall, confident figure sauntered into the practice area. Former......