Celebrating Heroes: Meet the IAF's first para rower

'Life has changed so much for me.''I have accepted this new normal and understood the power of positive thinking.''I am grateful to God that I am alive and he has made me differently-abled for a......

63rd Republic Day: The gallantry award winners

President Pratibha Patilon Thursday conferredawards of 368 Gallantry and other Defence decorations to Armed Forces personnel and others as part ofthe 63rd Republic Day Celebrations.This includes......

How Facebook, Twitter, YouTube can save lives

A Stanford professor spearheads an innovative campaign for bone marrow donations, discovers Arthur J Pais If Samir Pendse's parents had followed the usual route, they would have sought out......

Become a bone marrow donor!

Sameer Bhatia, a technology entrepreneur and a former staff member of the American India Foundation, has been diagnosed with Acute Myelogenous Leukemia, which is a cancer of the blood. He is in......

BlackBerry replenishes Z10 stock in India

Canadian smartphone maker BlackBerry on Wednesday replenished stocks of its Z10 touchscreen model that were sold out in India after a 60 per cent discount on the price. "BlackBerry Z10 has now been......

Goldman names 16 Indian-origin persons as MDs

Global financial services giant Goldman Sachs has promoted 266 persons, including at least 16 of Indian-origin as managing director, while three others of Indian origin have been named as Partners......

18 in finals of E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year Award

Eighteen industrialists have made it to the final round of the coveted Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award. An eight-member jury, chaired by M Damodaran, the former chairman of Sebi, IDBI......

Some credit card options

The modern credit card was the successor of a variety of merchant credit schemes. It was first used in the 1920s in the United States, specifically to sell fuel to a growing number of automobile......

'Being Karan Johar is both an advantage and a disadvantage'

"For me, cinema must be an escape route. I believe the characters in my film must laugh and cry, fall in love, suffer heartbreak, go through an entire gamut of emotions. That's my world, and I......

Saluting SPB: The Voice of Joy and Soul

S P Balasubrahmanyam sang songs about life and loss with enough soul to break your heart, notes Sukanya Verma. 'I don't know what you say...''Come soon, yaar''Heyyyy...' S P Balasubrahmanyam's......

Aamir Khan's TOP 55 SONGS!

What more can one say about Aamir Khan?  He's the A to Z of awesomeness whose perfectionist ways, enormous talent and eye for successful scripts has made him a darling of cinephiles for over......

The reinvention of Dia Mirza

If you thought Dia Mirza was down and out, you couldn't be more wrong."I have got many challenging roles," Dia said while shooting for Stop on Mumbai's Marine Drive. "Six of my filmswill hit the......

IPL 2024: How The 10 Teams Stack Up!

IMAGE: Delhi Capitals Captain Rishabh Pant -- the first active player at an IPL players auction -- holds up the paddle to make a bid during the IPL 2024 auction in Dubai on Tuesday, December 19,......

IPL Auction: Shami, Iyer for Rs 2 cr

IMAGE: Mohammed Shami celebrates taking a wicket for the Punjab Kings during IPL 2021. Photograph: BCCI The top Indian players, including Mohammed Shami, Shikhar Dhawan, Ravichandran Ashwin and......

Parthiban, Sandhu enter main draw

India's Parthiban Ayappan and Harinder Pal Sandhu endured strong challenges before making it to the main draw, in the PSA Otters Open Squash Tournament 2006, at the Otters Club, Bandra on......

Easy for Devendra Joshi

Devendra Joshi of Petroleum Sports Promotion Board fashioned a facile victory in his second round-robin tie to book a berth in the knock-out round, on a day of close encounters in the BPCL- ONGC......

Vidarbha, Jharkhand win easy

Vidarbha v/s Tripura in NagpurVidarbha defeated Tripura by six wickets just 15 minutes before lunch on the third day to record their second consecutive outright victory in the Plate `B' Group Ranji......