Shrina Kurani Is Running For Congress

Indian-American engineer-entrepreneur Shrina Kurani challenges a 30-year Republican veteran in a US Congressional race in a district that is predominantly white. IMAGE: Can Shrina Kurani become......

US Wants To Be Friends With Taliban?

The regional States will be worried that the US's nascent engagement with the Taliban behind the fig leaf of humanitarian aid enables the return of US intelligence personnel to Afghanistan,......

Targeting Taliban: Does US Want India's Help?

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken was asked by US Congressmen if the US had explore the possibility of northwest India for counter terrorism capabilities in Afghanistan.Blinken's remarks on......

What is Biden trying to tell India?

It is difficult to recall an Indian minister in modern times pushing back at the US publicly, observes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar. IMAGE: External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar with......

Why Steve Jobs is bigger than Bill Gates

He was there at the birth of the personal computer. He has had his second coming. He has healed one very sick company. And along the way he has changed the way we think about music and movies,......

Why Indians are US's best immigrants

They have funny accents, occasionally dress in strange outfits, and some wear turbans and grow beards, yet Indians have been able to overcome stereotypes to become the U.S.'s most successful......

Credit cards invite disaster

The envelope delivered by Royal Mail -- this is being written in London -- was marked PRIVATE. But since it was from a financial company and addressed to my son who is a student and has no means of......

US divided over outsourcing of jobs

American experts are divided over the issue of outsourcing white collar jobs from the country with some being of the opinion that it may slow down the nation's job growth, while others stating that......

'Irrfan's not going to die'

Varun Gautam, Irrfan's friend from his Jaipur days, learned about Irrfan's illness when he received a phone call from Sutapa. This was sometime before Irrfan officially announced his illness.He......

Batman grew up eating Indian food!

Christian Bale on India, Mowgli and choices. IMAGE: Christian Bale with his wife Sibi Blazic at the Mowgli premiere in Mumbai. Photograph: Hitesh Harisinghani/Rediff.com He was only 13 when he......

'Television has become mindless trash'

'Movie tickets cost Rs 500, 600 on weekends. Why would someone want to watch Ananth Mahadevan and Saurabh Shukla in Staying Alive instead of Shah Rukh Khan for Rs 300 in Happy New Year?' 'It's a......

Review: La La Land IS the film of the year

Raja Sen confesses to not being able to stop raving about the spectacular La La Land.  Twenty Decembers ago, Woody Allen’s underrated Everyone Says I Love You had the director dance with......

Miami Open: Alcaraz dumps Fritz; Rybakina reaches final

Alcaraz dumps Fritz to reach Miami semis, Medvedev advances IMAGE: Carlos Alcaraz reacts after winning against Taylor Fritz. Photograph: Geoff Burke-USA TODAY Sports/Reuters Top seed Carlos......

FIFA WC: Netherlands, Ecuador draw ends it for Qatar

IMAGE: Ecuador's Enner Valencia battles for possession with Netherlands' Jurrien Timber during the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 Group A match Photograph: Phil Noble/Reuters Ecuador's "Superman"......

Philosophical Tsitsipas calls for annual lockdowns

'I think it will be environmentally very beneficial. Life is such a hustle, and you never get the time to spend with your family and connect with them' IMAGE: With professional tennis unlikely to......

Wimbledon PIX: Big Three, Serena in quarters; Barty ousted

Images from the matches played at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, in Wimbledon, London, on Monday. Nadal bursts Sousa's bubble to reach quarters IMAGE: Spain's Rafael Nadal......

Czech Republic beat US.to clinch sixth Fed Cup in eight years

IMAGE: Czech Republic's Katerina Siniakova celebrates with Petra Kvitova and Barbora Krejcikova after winning her match against Sofia Kenin of the US to win the Fed Cup final at 02 Arena in Prague......