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15 killed, 2 critical in mass shooting at pub in Johannesburg

At least 15 people were shot dead and nine others injured by unknown gunmen at a tavern in Johannesburg's Soweto township, police said on Sunday, the second such mass shooting incident in as many......

An Indian Dalai Lama

Tawang is very much a part of India, and if the present Dalai Lama decides one day to take rebirth in Tawang, the Indian government will openly welcome him and support him, notes Claude Arpi.......

COVID-19, China and climate dominates US VP debate

The much-awaited vice presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Mike Pence saw the duo sparring on United States President Donald Trump's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, jobs, China, racial......

Why recording the current period is necessary

What is a migrant going through today on the walk home? What is it like to be a Muslim and watch the news on television every night in India? Is there a bureaucrat who is noting down the......

Farewell, Floyd

Aseem Chhabra remembers Master Chef Floyd Cardoz who died of coronavirus in New York on Wednesday. IMAGE: Floyd Cardoz, the legendary chef, at work at his restaurant Tabla in the early 2000s. All......

Diageo stirs USL in bid to shake Indian market

Diageo may have got FMCG veteran Anand Kripalu to run United Spirits and appointed 3 directors on its board, but the road ahead is strewn with problems Diageo, the global spirits major, is on a......

How Diageo plans to leverage Mallya's brands

United Spirits sold a phenomenal 125 million cases of whisky, vodka, rum and gin during last year.A closer look at the numbers reveals that the growth in value is coming from a shade under 8......

Mallya's Four Seasons eyes wine tourism

Four Seasons,wine subsidiary of Vijay Mallya-owned United Spirits Ltd, plans to foray into the wine tourism space by April-end, by setting up a hotel at its winery in Baramati, Maharashtra. The......

Alcohol sales lose 'kick' on input cost, taxes

High input costs, coupled with labour taxes, state excise duties and the widening of the service tax network during the current financial year has left the alcohol industry high and dry -- whether......

Texan town sold for $2.06 million on eBay

An American town has been 'virtually' sold. Albert, a 13-acre historic town in the state of Texas, has been sold for almost 1.5 million ($2.06 million) on auction Web site eBay, The Daily Telegraph......

Revenge Of The Nepo Kid

Sikandar Kher's Nishikant Adhikari is a solitary poet by the corner, trying to remind us that the honest plans of honest people don't always come to respectable ends, observes Sreehari Nair.......

Amitabh@80: His Best May Be Yet To Come

'For an introduction to his career-spanning genius, watch just five of his movies: Anand, Saudagar, Abhiman, Black and Pink,' notes Kalyan Singhal, McCurdy Professor of Business at the University......

Hitch-hiking with Salman

The lasting influence of Amitabh Bachchan's Supremo, a taste of Tom Alter, Padmaavat's best scene and more in Sukanya Verma's Super-Filmi Week. Monday While searching for a file in the......

'I was too foreign looking for Bollywood'

'My children have seen clips of Sultanat and Loha. They laugh.'The gorgeous Karan Kapoor will be back in India soon. Very soon!Rediff.com's Ronjita Kulkarni speaks to the former actor and......

Review: A Million Ways to Die in the West is a Vanity Project

A Million Ways To Die In The West could have done better with more editing and less Seth McFarlane, says Paloma Sharma.'From the guy who brought you Ted,' reads the top of the poster.That's just......

'It will be the end of cricket in Ukraine if...'

'These refugee mothers are actually going to make the Ukrainian national team in a couple of years.' IMAGE: Ukraine is expected to get second-tier membership at ICC's board meeting this month,......

1900 Olympics: The only time cricket was played at Games

With the Tokyo Olympics set to start on July 23, here is some trivia from the first two editions of the modern Olympics held in 1896 and 1900. 1896, Greece Olympics: IMAGE: Greece's Spyridon Louis......

Brazil's answer to cricket bat shortage? Make their own!

IMAGE: Luiz Roberto Francisco works on a bat at Royal Bats factory in Pocos de Caldas, Minas Gerais state, Brazil. Photograph: Amanda Perobelli/Reuters When Brazil's rapidly growing cricket......

'Lack of Black players in county cricket not good enough'

Photograph: Gareth Copley/Getty Images The lack of Black players in county cricket is “clearly not good enough” according to former England captain Michael Atherton. A study......

Windies must draw on Headingley spirit, says Simmons

'We're trying to bring back memories of Headingley and get the psychology right.' IMAGE: West Indies players celebrate a wicket during Day 3 of their warm-up match at Old Trafford in Manchester,......

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