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The Man Who Changed India Forever

IMAGE: Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao: Would India be what it is had he not backed liberalisation? 25 years ago today -- June 21, 1991 -- P V Narasimha Rao became prime......

Meteor shower to peak on Tuesday night

A celestial Diwali is in store for star-gazers who can look forward to see fireworks in the sky in the form of meteor showers tomorrow night. Around 10 to 15 meteors per hour are expected to be......

Harold Pinter wins Literature Nobel

British playwright Harold Pinter, whose juxtaposition of the brutal and the banal dubbed an adjective that bears his name, won the 2005 Nobel Prize in literature Thursday.The Swedish Academy said......

Rajeev Srinivasan on the Ayodhya issue

The debate on Ayodhya has reached center-stage again. While there are political moves afoot, aimed at reaching some kind of satisfactory via media, the court-ordered digs have generated much news,......

Rule your bank, or it will rule you

If poet Horace had been alive today, he might have written: "Rule your bank, or it will rule you." Most of us pay tidy sums to our banks as interest and fees even when most of it is avoidable.......

Accenture's next champion of waffle words

When one door closes, another one opens. On Thursday the prison gates clanked shut behind Martin Lukes in Florida but, in London, the door of an office inside Accentureswung ajar, revealing Mark......

Infosys: Its secret potion

The most important and authentic source of information about a company's financial performance is its annual report. But these reports serve many other important purposes as well, apart from just......

Review: Aurangzeb is VERY engaging

Performances -- especially of Rishi and Arjun Kapoor -- are the best thing about Aurangzeb, writes Sukanya Verma.Aurangzeb is primarily about inheritance of character from parent to child. And the......

Must Watch DVDs: Harry Potter 6, G-Force

With a heady mixture of romance, menace, darker events and dramatic thrills, Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince, the sixth film in the fabulouslysuccessful series, was a smash hit with the......

Review: Dark yet romantic Harry Potter saga

If you can't imagine a big budget summer film without seemingly endless adrenaline pumping scenes, the sixth Harry Potter film, being unleashed this week in about 10,000 theatres worldwide, could......

Cast gets ready for sixth Harry Potter film

Casting has been completed for Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince-- the much-anticipated sixth installment of the film franchise. Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson will reprise......

List of Australian Open men's singles champions

List of Australian Open men's singles champions since the event began in 1905 (Australian unless stated): IMAGE: Novak Djokovic poses with the championship trophy after winning his match against......

Here's a complete list of Aus Open men's champions

IMAGE: Is there any stopping this man? Photograph: Michael Dodge/Getty Images Roger Federer won his 20th Grand Slam title, defeating Marin Cilic 6-2, 6-7(5), 6-3, 3-6, 6-1 in the Australian......

World Athletics PHOTOS: Golden hat-trick for Poland's Fajdek

IMAGE: Pawel Fajdek celebrates winning the men's hammer throw gold. Photograph: Alexander Hassenstein/Getty Images - for IAAF Pawel Fajdek, the colourful hammer champion from Poland, became the......

EXPOSED! FIFA scandal stinks up the Caribbean

‘There is a Jack Warner or two in every Caribbean parliament today’ Activists from advocacy group Avaaz demonstrate near the Hallenstadion, in Zurich. Photograph: Arnd Wiegmann/Reuters......

NBA legends enthrall Mumbai's basketball fans

Basketball aficionados from Mumbai were taught basics of the game by NBA legends Horace Grant, Ron Harper and Peja Stojakovic at the NBA JAM Mumbai stop at St Stanislaus School ground in Bandra on......

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