A Rainy Day Check-List for Chennaiites

If only you had thought ahead, you would have stocked snacks and biscuits, bread and cake, and vegetables suited for Amma or pondatti to make your favourite bajji and pakoda, observes N Sathiya......

Former IAF vice chief who reactivated Lakakh's DBO airstrip dies

Former vice chief of Indian Air Force Air Marshal P K Barbora (retd), known to be an outstanding air warrior who was instrumental in reactivation of the Daulat Beg Oldie (DBO) air strip in eastern......

Territorial Army inducts Mandarin language experts, to be part of border talks

India's Territorial Army which has served the nation in times of war and peace, has entered into the 75th year of its existence, and recruited a batch of Mandarin language experts. Image used for......

India, China hold Maj Gen-level talks at 2 locations ahead of Modi, Xi meet

In a major development ahead of a scheduled meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Chinese President Xi Jinping in South Africa, armies of India and China are holding Major General-level......

RECAP 2023: Here's What We Learnt

2023 witnessed a one-of-a-kind phenomenon called Barbenheimer. RRR won an Oscar. Twitter became X. India *almost* won the Cricket World Cup. The world lost a dear Friend. Alia Bhatt wore her......

The Archies Review: Return To Innocence

The Archies is an evergreen thought passed on from generation to generation. But Sukanya Verma wishes it had some of the comic's tee-hee humour and hyuk hyuk too. Long before there was cable TV,......

Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahani Review: Soch Nayi, Swad Wahi

Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahani packs in abundant entertainment and hat tips to the KJo brand, observes Sukanya Verma. Karan Johar has tried something new in Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahani. On the......

Gulmohar Review: Home Is Where The Heart Is

Delhi, daddy issues, drivers, domestic help, politics, patriarchy, sexuality, sexism, choices, compromises, community, religion, real estate, motherhood, marriage -- Gulmohar offers a loaded,......

Day 8: What's hot at the Beijing Winter Olympics

All the top action from Day 8 of the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing on Saturday. US golden oldies snatch victory in cross mixed team event IMAGE: Gold medallists Nick Baumgartner and Lindsey......

Thala Dhoni Is Back!

IPL 2020 saw CSK in unfamiliar territory -- way down in the points table and out of the play-offs. Much carping ensued -- about CSK having too many oldies in the side, about its captain having lost......

Golden oldie Federer through to 58th Grand Slam quarters

IMAGE: Switzerland's Roger Federer celebrates winning his Wimbledon fourth round match against Italy's Lorenzo Sonego on Monday. Photograph: Paul Childs/Reuters Roger Federer weathered a first-set......