Sheena Bora Trial: This Witness is No Pushover

The lesson Waghmare sternly received on Monday from CBI Investigating Officer K K Singh and CBI Prosecutor Bharat Badami about the way a witness must answer questions from the defence seemed to......

India's coming conflict with China in the Indian Ocean

'Despite the current tension at Doklam, it is the Indian Ocean we need to worry about more,' says Nitin Pai. As complex as the standoff between Indian and Chinese troops at Doklam is, we in India......

WTF News: It's Weird, True and Funny

This week’s collection of stories that prove we live in a truly mad, mad world. Harry Potter-themed sex education class Two students at Boston University decided to put the spark back into......

A requiem for the Girgaum I knew

Girgaum in South Mumbai, once a thriving neighbourhood of Maharashtrians who loved their seafood and meat, has slowly been taken over by the vegetarians, forcing eateries serving......

How to make unsmart cities smart

A Report on Intelligent Urbanization, prepared in 2010 for the Confederation of Indian Industry by Booz & Co and Cisco, offers some bold and comprehensive ideas, notes Subir Roy The country is to......

Happy hour in Asia as global booze makers eye deals

The biggest global alcohol companies are sizing up buyout and tie-up opportunities in China, India, South Korea and Vietnam, keen to profit from a $258 billion Asian market that is growing twice as......

Meet Cornell's new B-school dean

Professor Soumitra Dutta, founder and faculty director of a new media and technology innovation lab at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France, has been named dean of the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate......

IIM-B placement season takes off

Amid the economic blues shaping up in the West there is something to cheer for students in the Indian Institute of Management-Bangalore.IIMB, a premier management school in the south, said its......

Mumbai Diaries 26/11 review

What was the need to fictionalise a series on real events that were far more horrific because they were real? asks Vaihayasi Pande Daniel. Why did one of the 26/11 terrorists, who died, come......

Sanju: Meet the people in Baba's life

We know Ranbir plays Sanjay Dutt. But who else stars in the biopic? There are more twists and turns in Sanjay Dutt's life than on the road from Coimbatore to Ooty that it makes for one intriguing......

The girl who steals Kapil Sharma's heart

In reel life, folks.Meet bubbly Ishita Dutta. Photograph: Kind courtesy Ishita Dutta/Instagram It's been a big week for Ishita Dutta. First, she wed her Rishton Ka Saudagar: Baazigar co-star......

Brad Pitt: No one wins in court

'I was boozing too much. It's just become a problem.' 'I mean, we have a winery. I enjoy wine very, very much, but I just ran it to the ground. I had to step away for a minute. And......

Warne's life has been a bad-boy adventure

Shane Warne's tell-all autobiography is every bit as controversial and engrossing as his cricketing career, notes Dhruv Munjal. Photograph: Reuters One of the more enjoyable bits in Shane Warne's......

Interview: Martina Navratilova

November 17, 2003 | 16:50 IST Football Interview - Alan Smith [newsoftheworld.co.uk] Beckham tells FA to stop the 'silliness' [guardian.co.uk] Red faces all round [guardian.co.uk] Kluivert......

It's goody two boots

August 8, 2003 | 22:55 IST18m Eto'o is nextChelsea are poised to land striker Samuel Eto'o in an 18million raid on Real Mallorca. [thesun.co.uk]It's goody two bootsDavid Beckham stayed sober and......