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India-France Strategic Partnership To Bloom

India-France synergy is poised to open vistas of collaboration between the two countries, notes Rup Narayan Das. IMAGE: Prime Minister Narendra Damodardas Modi, French President Emmanuel Macron......

Avoid full meals, keep white flag: Dos/don'ts for Indians stuck in Kharkiv

The ministry of defence on Thursday issued a list of dos and don'ts for Indians stuck in war-torn Ukarine's Kharkiv as "potentially dangerous or difficult situations" are "to be expected" in the......

Do I Need To Be Hospitalised For COVID-19?

'There are no drugs to be given in the first week, if you have been hospitalised.' 'If you're getting any drug, that drug is likely to be unnecessary.' 'Or the hospitalisation is unnecessary.'......

Why Young India Thinks Old

'Three decades after liberalisation kicked off, my friend's son and niece -- both born well after that historic shift in economic policy -- find themselves newly off the beaten path for no fault......

Anil Dharker: Editor, bon vivant, mentor to many

Everywhere Anil Dharker went, he assembled teams of talented people, gave them opportunities, then got out of the way and allowed them to flourish.Meenakshi Shedde remembers a very special......

Weak discretionary spend likely to weigh on IT cos' revenue in Q1

Strong macroeconomic headwinds causing turbulence in the $245-billion Indian IT industry are yet to calm down. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com Top Indian IT services companies are likely......

Lunch and more with IT's marathon man

Whenever Ajit Balakrishnan is quoted in the press, it's usually in connection with wise pronouncements on information technology (IT) or higher education. But there had to be more to India's first......

Decline, recession, stagflation, crisis, crunch...

'Every slide in the power point presentation had a graph with years like 2006, 2008, 2010 on the X axis... Most lines seemed to lie inert horizontally and many seemed to dip despondently, except......

A low-profile successor to Ratan Tata?

Unlike his famous older half-brother, Noel Naval Tata's name figures only once in the Niira Radia tapes. But the conversation reveals more about the man than any official biography posted on the......

Skills to beat the depression

Switch on the TV, open a magazine, eavesdrop on a cocktail party conversation, and sooner or later you'll hear a self-professed expert tout either networking or resume buffing as the key to success......

When Bollywood took flight

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? It is a plane! Like there's no dearth of memorable bus scenes and train imagery in Hindi movies, planes are equally prolific on silver screen. From meet cutes to......

Love Aaj Kal Review

'A poorly conceived reboot that's overlong, overdramatic and overdone, Love Aaj Kal simply cannot differentiate between pyaar and parody,' says Sukanya Verma. Imtiaz Ali is a creature of......

It's Not That Simple: Foul-mouthed Soap Opera

What holds It's Not That Simple together is the cast; performers who frequently rise above their stodgy lines to bring something personal to the table, notes Sreehari Nair. In Voot's new show......

When women bond in Bollywood...

Sukanya Verma glances at the changing face of women bonding in Hindi movies. In Shashanka Ghosh's Veere Di Wedding, four friends at various junctures of romance and relationship bond and banter......

Raabta Review: Rom-com, Rebirth and Mr Right crisis

Watching Raabta possibly can't be anyone's idea of entertainment in this birth or last, feels Sukanya Verma. Reincarnation works best when an individual demonstrates an irrepressible desire to......

LBGT people in Qatar prepare cautiously for World Cup

IMAGE: Football fans are pictured at the Corniche ahead of the FIFA World Cup Qatar. Photograph: Stuart Franklin/Getty Images A group of Arab friends living in Qatar's capital Doha met up......

Is Yash Dhull the next big thing in Indian cricket?

IMAGE: India's Under-19 World Cup winning captain Yash Dhull started his journey from being among the boys with a muscular hundred -- 113 off 150 balls -- against a good Tamil Nadu side on the......

IPL is now the Big Bucks League

The IPL has the potential to make cricketers among the best paid athletes in the world if you look at what they will earn per hour.Surajeet Das Gupta reports. IMAGE: Mumbai Indians Owner Nita......

It's time to fix the IPL!

The IPL has produced more controversies in its short lifespan than any other sporting league in history, says legendary cricket writer Prem Panicker. IMAGE: IPL 3 saw drama around the Kochi......

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