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King Charles III proclaimed Britain's new monarch in historic ceremony

King Charles III pledged to follow the "inspiring example" of his mother, late Queen Elizabeth II, as he was proclaimed Britain's new monarch on Saturday in a ceremony, steeped in ancient tradition......

Aero India takes off on Wednesday amid Covid, buzz around 'Aatmanirbhar Bharat'

The country's premier aerospace and defence exhibition, Aero India 2021 takes off in Bengaluru on Wednesday amidst the COVID-19 pandemic with buzz around "AatmaNirbhar Bharat Abhiyaan" and......

Indian-origin victims of July 7 terror attack honoured in London

Gill Hicks (second from right), a survivor of the July 7, 2005 London bombings, lays a flower as she attends a memorial event with her daughter Amelie to victims of the July 7, 2005 London......

PHOTOS: Modi touches down in power capital of the world

After charming his fans and US lawmakers in New York, Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Washington. US deputy secretary of state William Burns received Modi at the Andrews Air......

What Modi and the BJP can learn from America

'You can fight to win leadership of a party, yet join party rivals to win a general election in the US. The fact that dissent is not rebellion is not really appreciated in India, where we are used......

Paying bills becomes iPhones' biggest attraction

The addition of a mobile payments service to Apple Inc's next iPhone could help to boost sales of the larger-screen phones and claw back market share lost to mobiles running on Google Inc's Android......

Warburg Pincus to sell stake in WNS for $192 mn

Warburg Pincus on Wednesday said it plans to sell its entire holding of over 14.5 million American depositary shares (ADS) in BPO firm WNS, through which the private equity firm expects to raise......

The 400 richest Americans

One billion dollars is no longer enough. The price of admission to this, the 25th anniversary edition of the Forbes 400, is $1.3 billion (53.1 billion rupees), up $300 million (RS 12.3 billion)......

The Crown Review: Appropriate Finale

After the debacle of the first episodes of Season 6, the latter half give an even-handed treatment to intriguing not-so-well-known events of Queen Elizabeth II's reign, observes Vaihayasi Pande......

The Crown Season 5 Review

The new season of The Crown is a bit of a dreary watch, observes Deepa Gehlot. Coming out as it does a few weeks after the death of Queen Elizabeth II (and some months after Prince Philip's......

Will Paranormal Activity 2 be world's No 1 film?

Come Friday the seventh chapter of gore filmSaw 3 D could push out from the top position fellow horror film Paranormal Activity 2. But there is still a good possibility that Paranormal 2,which is......

When Dennis Quaid became Bill Clinton

When filmmaker Peter Morgan approached veteran actor Dennis Quaid to play Bill Clinton in upcoming HBO special The Special Relationship, the third and final film of Morgan's Tony Blair trilogy,......

Termination Salvaged

Unique moniker-sporting movie director McG isn't really reputed for helming bleak and dramatic projects like the Terminator movies. Best known for his work on the re-imagination of Charlie's Angels......

Serena crowned Sportsperson of Year, eyes more slams

IMAGE: Serena Williams of the U.S.A. celebrates a point. Photograph: Clive Brunskill/Getty Images Serena Williams added to one of the longest resumes in sports by collecting the Sportsperson of......

Complete list of Sports Illustrated's 'Sportsperson of the Year' winners

Women's tennis star Serena Williams was named the 2015 winner on Monday. Williams is the first woman to be recognized with the honor as an individual since Mary Decker in 1983, and the magazine......

Milestones to Test match #2000

As India and England prepare to square off in the first Test of the four-match series at Lord's, Rajneesh Gupta presents the many landmarks on the road to the 2000th match of cricket's longest......

CWG update, Day 1: Sukhen gives India 2nd silver

Hamizan Amirul Ibrahim won the men's 56-kg weightlifting event to claim Malaysia's first gold medal at the Commonwealth Games on Monday. Ibrahim set a new Games mark of 116 kg in the snatch to......

Jones leads Australian swimming team for CWG

Olympic champion Leisel Jones and former world champion Geoff Huegill will lead a 52-strong Australian swimming contingent, including 31 debutants, in the Delhi Commonwealth Games this October.......

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