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The Star Gazer Stars At TIME Gala

At this year's TIME ball in New York City on Thursday, April 25, you would have run into a Coimbatore-born American scientist, looking lovely in Sabyasachi Mukherjee designer finery, who would most......

WhatsApp Would Cease To Exist If...

'As a platform, we are saying, if we are told to break encryption, then WhatsApp goes.' IMAGE: Kindly note the image has been posted only for representational purposes. Photograph: Kind courtesy......

'What can the BJP do if our opponents ran away from the Surat battlefield?'

'Can we force somebody to contest and fight an election when they don't want to contest an election?' IMAGE: The Bharatiya Janata Party's Narendra D Modi with the BJP's Sagar candidate Lata......

How Dropped Candidates Keep Busy

Cricket climate change to medical practice, dropped candidates have their non-political life sorted. IMAGE: Gautam Gambhir, the former Kolkata Knight Riders skipper, is back as the team's mentor.......

High Drama As Campaign Ends In TVM!

As the curtain falls on the campaign for the Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha seat on Wednesday, April 24, a ringside view of the closing ceremonies. IMAGE: A gallery of Shashi Tharoor cutouts on the......

India-made chips may soon power iPhones

Micron Technology, a global leader in memory and storage, is considering supplying Made-in-India chips from its Gujarat plant to one of its key global clients, Apple, whose vendors assemble iPhones......

IndiGo, Air India plan to buy 170 wide-body planes

In little over a year, Air India and IndiGo have announced plans to purchase up to 170 wide-body planes as they bet on ambitious expansion and efforts also continue to make India a global aviation......

The RBI Story: 90 Years And Going Strong

Of the eight RBI governors who have held office since the 1991 economic liberalisation, Bimal Jalan had the longest stint and S Venkitaramanan, the shortest. Current Governor Shaktikanta Das will......

Iran-Israel Flare-Up Tests India's Oil Reserves

'Any escalation that may hit the oil production of Iran or affect the oil transit through the Strait can result in a spike in oil prices.' IMAGE: The apparent remains of a ballistic missile in the......

Why are gold prices rising? Chris Wood of Jefferies explains

China's official gold reserves, Wood said, have increased by 314 tonnes, or 16.1 per cent, from 1,948 tonnes at the end of October 2022 to 2,262 tonnes at the end of March 2024 Photograph:......

Laapataa Ladies Found On OTT!

From Vijay Devarakonda to Kung Fu Panda, Sukanya Verma lists everything you can watch on OTT this week. Laapataa LadiesWhere to watch? NetflixLanguage: Hindi One of the best films of the......

'I Didn't Expect To Be Away For 12 Years'

'Personal reasons required me to take some time off.' IMAGE: Fardeen Khan in Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar "When you've been away for so long, you have all these fears and insecurities of whether......

Bollywood's Most Mesmerising Tawaif? VOTE!

Dazzling, dancing and decked to the hilt, courtesans in Hindi films are a breathtaking mix of shiny fantasy and flirtatious poetry to behold. Under those resplendent adas and thumkas though, often......

Aavesham: The Psycho As Self-Designated Guardian

Watching Aavesham is like sprinting through the whole history of our mass-masala movies and seeing it in a new light, notes Sreehari Nair.And this, incidentally, is the story of Fahadh Faasil's......

'I broke my mother's heart a little when I eloped'

Photograph: Kind courtesy Zeenat Aman/Instagram Zeenat Aman dedicated her latest post on Instagram to her mother, and shared the kind of relationship they had. The actor posted two pictures of her......

Surya, Bumrah key to India's prospects in T20 World Cup: Yuvraj

IMAGE: Yuvraj Singh backed Suryakumar Yadav and Jasprit Bumrah as India’s key players. Photograph: Adnan Abidi/Reuters Former India star Yuvraj Singh has identified the swashbuckling......

World Cup: Deepika ousts Korean rival to enter semis

IMAGE: Deepika Kumari marched into the semifinals. Photograph: Geoff Burke-USA TODAY Sports/Reuters Continuing her spirited progress post motherhood, former world number one Deepika Kumari......

Have every bat that I scored an international ton with: Ponting

Photograph: BCCI Ricky Ponting was not just into amassing hundreds in his heydays as a player, the two-time World Cup winning former Australia captain has revealed that he also meticulously......

PIX: Man City hammer Brighton to keep pressure on leaders Arsenal

IMAGE: Manchester City's Phil Foden celebrates scoring their second goal with Bernardo Silva, Rodri and Nathan Ake. Photograph: Peter Cziborra/Reuters Phil Foden struck twice as Manchester City......

Nehra, not Hardik, built GT legacy? Gill's admission

IMAGE: Shubman Gill with Ashish Nehra. Photograph: BCCI There is no bigger honour than representing India in the T20 World Cup but as Gujarat Titans' skipper, Shubman Gill feels that he will......

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