India's cancer cases likely to jump to 15.7 lakh by 2025

The number of cancer cases in the country is projected to go up from 14.6 lakh in 2022 to 15.7 lakh in 2025, according to the Indian Council of Medical Research-National Cancer Registry Programme,......

The Best Wildlife Photographs, 2022!

The winners of the Natural History Museum's prestigious Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition were announced at an awards ceremony in London recently. American Photographer Karine Aigner......

PIO woman cancer-free after experimental drug trial in UK

An Indian-origin woman who was given just months to live a few years ago is celebrating on Monday after doctors say she is showing no evidence of breast cancer following a clinical trial at a UK......

Holding hand, opening pant zip not sexual assault under POCSO: HC

A Bombay high court judge, who faced flak for acquitting a man of groping a 12-year old girls breast because he did not make skin-to-skin contact, had ruled four days earlier that holding the hands......

What makes these 10 companies the best to work for in India

Image: RMSI is India’s best company to work for. Photograph, courtesy: RMSI     Companies come in all kinds. There are some who keep a hawkish eye over its employees, banning......

What's the big idea, Mr Modi?

What is the central idea, not policy, that will underpin India’s efforts during the 21st century, says T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan.The first year of Narendra Modi’s government is......

Review: Ki & Ka is clueless & caricatured

In this film the Ka -- as in the Ka-poors, who act in the film -- are okay, it is the Ki -- as in Bal-Ki, who directs it -- who stumbles rather badly, feels Raja Sen. As a Bengali, I have......

Review: The Dark Knight Rises impresses and depresses

The Dark Knight Rises flirts with potentially fantastic ideas, but shies away from taking them to the next level, writes Raja SenComics gave up on the thought-bubble a while back. Superhero comics......

Review: The Dirty Picture is Vidya Balan's show all the way

The Dirty Picture forsakes much potential nuancein its urge to please crowds but is still far more engaging thanmost Bollywood produce, Raja Sen writes.Breasts make the world a better place.From......

Kenya's Jepchirchir wins women's marathon with late burst

IMAGE: Kenya's Peres Jepchirchir celebrates as she breasts the tape first in the Olympics women's marathon, at Sapporo Odori Park, in Sapporo, Japan, on Saturday. Photograph: Feline Lim/Reuters......

Abebe Bikila: Emperor of the Marathon

Prakash Bhandari salutes the spirit of Abebe Bikila who twice won the Olympic Marathon in record times. IMAGE: Abebe Bikila of Ethiopia, running barefoot, draws away from Abdesselem Rhadi of......

PHOTOS: J-Lo, Shakira project power of women at Super Bowl

The 12-minute halftime show, along with commercials, has become a popular feature of the Super Bowl spectacle on par with the game itself, which draws some 100 million television viewers in the......

The One and Only Mary Kom

'I am actually quicker now than before,' Boxing legend Mary Kom tells Pavan Lall. IMAGE: Mary Kom in action against Ukraine's Hanna Okhota during the AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships 48kg......

'Door not closed on Ashwin, Jadeja'

‘They could still be (included) into the team’ IMAGE: Ravichandran Ashwin, left, and Ravindra Jadeja. Photograph: BCCI. Indian bowling coach Bharat Arun, on Friday, said the door is......