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China launched 11 missiles towards Taiwan overnight: US

Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin on Thursday directed that the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan and the ships in her strike group will remain on station in the general area to monitor the......

2 top US senators ask Blinken to raise farmers' issue with India

Two top Democratic senators have urged United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken to raise with the Indian leaders the issue of treatment of peaceful farmer protesters and journalists even as......

Biden ready to reset US-Pak ties

US-Pakistan relations are poised to touch a qualitatively new level under the Biden administration, notes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar. IMAGE: Then US vice president Joe Biden, centre, plays host to......

The finalists of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year have been unveiled

It's a wild, wild world! A cheeky Arctic fox slinking through the stark white landscape after stealing an egg from a snow goose nest to a seahorse clutching an earbud, these are the finalists of......

Anti-war activists set for showdown with Blair

The only Indian whose name appears in a published list of more than 300 London luminaries opposed to the war against Iraq says he has a passion to change the world 'by creating a better world' for......

UK banking crisis: Lord Paul for intensive probe

NRI industrialist Lord Swraj Paul has demanded an intensive probe into the raging banking crisis in Britain, saying the Libor fixing has hurt the reputation not only of the financial services but......

3 Indian-origin men among 25 highest paid CEOs

Sanjay Jha (left) of Motorola and Vikram Pandit (below) of Citigroup are among the three Indian-origin men who have made it to the league of top 25 highest paid men in the world. According to the......

'Markets are cyclical: No need to panic'

Sensex sinks in global financial tsunami. The Indian investor is being slaughtered at the stock markets. The benchmark Sensex on Wednesday breached the 11,000 level for the first time since August......

Which stocks to buy, sell, hold now

The markets have been extremely volatile. The Sensex on Wednesday opened with a negative gap of 250 points at 13,856, and soon touched a low of 13,731. However, it recovered the lost ground in......

Business missing 2012 bonanza

Businesses have yet to wake up to the21bn pounds ($42 bn) worth of commercial opportunities offered by the London 2012 Olympics, according to research from Lloyds TSB. Almost three-quarters of......

The Gray Man Review

The Gray Man is mindless fun, worth your monthly Netflix subscription, notes Aseem Chhabra. We all know Netflix is in trouble having lost nearly a million subscribers in the last quarter. But the......

What Ryan Gosling LOVES About The Gray Man

Growing up, Ryan Gosling says he loved characters that helped him face his own obstacles in life. Only fitting therefore that his first action film has him playing a 'never give up' fun spy......

Like Dhanush's Hollywood Look?

Dhanush's latest Hollywood film has him rubbing shoulders with Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans, Ana De Arma, Regé-Jean Page and Billy Bob Thornton. A Netflix film, The Gray Man is directed by the......

Review: Beware of Thugs of Hindostan

'Neither Aamir's hard-at-work whimsicality nor Amitabh Bachchan's stoic presence can salvage a second of this bloated, blundering bore,' fumes Sukanya Verma. Looks like Aamir Khan forgot his......

Review: Fire In Babylon is explosive stuff

Fire In Babylon is a riveting documentary, writes Raja SenIt was in 1976 that England's charismatic cricket captain stupidly and suicidally claimed that their team would make the West Indies......

There Will Surely Never Be Another Bishan Singh Bedi

One of cricket's greatest players passed into the ages on Monday.Rediff.com salutes the legend. IMAGE: Bedi in action, August 2, 1971. Photograph: Dennis Oulds/Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty......

Lloyd retires from commentary in backdrop of racism claims

IMAGE: Commentator David Lloyd apologised last month when Rafiq said the 74-year-old was a "closet racist" after he made disparaging comments about Asian cricketers in 2020. Sky had said they......

Game over for sports betting on coronavirus insurance

IMAGE: General view of Court 3 at the All England Lawn Tennis Club. Photograph: Bob Martin/Reuters Major sports events working to get back up and running after the coronavirus crisis are......

Rajneesh's Believe It Or Not in Cricket!

Rajneesh Gupta lists some more amazing coincidences in cricket -- a feature guaranteed to amuse you in these anxious times. IMAGE: The Lord's cricket ground, owned by the Marylebone Cricket Club,......

Ball tampering incidents that rocked cricket

Factbox on major ball-tampering incidents in cricket after in the wake of the ongoing probe into the Australian team for attempting to alter the state of the ball during the third day of the third......

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