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Inside the world's largest aircraft carrier

It weighs over 100,000 tonnes, is nearly as long as the 102-storey Empire State Building in Manhattan and serves 18,150 meals a day to over 3,200 sailors and 2,480 airmen. Welcome to the USS......

Who will become the next Pope?

Monday's announcement that Pope Benedict XVI, 85, will resign from his ministry on February 28 due to failing health has stunned the world. The 265th Pope who was elected on 24 April, 2005, and......

David Cameron on 3-day visit to India from today

Prime Minister of United Kingdom David Cameron will be paying a three-day state visit to India from Tuesday. David Cameron will begin his official visit from Bengaluru, where he will visit......

Is India still the 'slumdog' for the West?

SlumDog Millionaire has won over the Western audiences with its 'fairy tale in a Mumbai slum' storyline but back home the film has opened up a heated debate about the stereotyped representation of......

Salman Rushdie out of race for Whitbread Award

Controversial India-born novelist Salman Rushdie has been knocked out of the race for the 25,000Whitbread Book award this year as five relatively unknown writers were pushed into the ring for the......

The 400 richest Americans

The nine-figure fortune won't get you much mention these days, at least not on these pages. This year, for the first time, everyone in The Forbes 400 has at least $1 billion. The collective net......

Cheap Revolution is here! It may kill tech giants

Free Software. Bargain chips. The always-on Internet. Today's tech giants are in danger. The Next Big Thing has already begun. William Coleman doesn't need to make another fortune in high-tech. He......

How India can produce big-bang innovations

Part I: Can India produce billion-dollar innovations? In the second of this 4-part series, Arindam Banerji discusses what will it take Indian scientists and technologists to start producing......

The Day I Directed Amitabh Bachchan

'This man changed the mindset of a generation.' IMAGE: Nikkhil Advani and John Abraham feature in an episode of Kaun Banega Crorepati, the quiz show Amitabh Bachchan has hosted for over 20 years.......

Shantaram Review: Too Verbose

If future episodes are as verbose and unwieldy, it might be difficult to keep from switching channels, points out Deepa Gahlot. When the book Shantaram came out in 2003, it became a bestseller and......

Why Netflix Hasn't Made An Impact in India

Netflix is reminiscent of Star TV in the 1990s: Very Western in its gaze, very expensive, and clueless, notes Vanita Kohli-Khandekar. Photograph: Kind courtesy Tumisu/Pixabay It began innocuously.......

Roger Moore's life in pictures

What a life he led! Roger Moore, who memorably played James Bond, lost a short battle to cancer and passed away on Tuesday, May 23, at his home in Switzerland. Looking back at a glorious life:......

50 years of Oscar glory: 10 things you didn't know about My Fair Lady

Celebrating 50 years of a timeless Hollywood classic. Some lessons are impossible to forget. Particularly when rendered in the delightful form of Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison. It’s been a......

STUNNING Sports Pix from 2018!

Amazing Action Ahead! 2018 was a big year in the sporting calendar -- the FIFA World Cup, the Commonwealth Games, the Asian Games and some hard-fought cricket tournaments featuring Virat Kohli's No......

Isle of Man Chess: Anand beats Fridman, Abhijeet runs out of steam in sixth round

IMAGE: V Anand. Photograph: Photograph, Courtesy: Sinquefield Cup 2017/Grand Chess Tour Having taken a bye in the last round, a fresh Viswanathan Anand outclassed Daniel Fridman of Germany but......

PHOTOS: EXCITING Moments from Day 3 of the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games

The Gold Coast Commonwealth Games gets more and more interesting and action-packed as the days go by. The events on Day 1 and Day 2 of the Games were well captured and here we document all the......

Six GREAT comebacks in Test cricket

Teams emerging from the brink of defeat to win an improbable victory. Rajneesh Gupta highlights six memorable Tests. Sri Lanka were down and out on the first three days of the first Test at Galle......

ISL: Kolkata prevail over FC Goa in tie-breaker, advance to final

Atletico de Kolkata got their act right in the nick of time to humble crowd favourites FC Goa 4-2 in tie-breaker and advance to the final of the inauguralIndian Super League. Atletico de......

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