'Scenes out of a Zombie film': Israel on beheading of babies by Hamas

As Thursday marks the sixth day of Israel Hamas conflict, Israel Defence Force spokesperson Lieutenant Col. Jonathan Conricus confirmed reports that the Hamas had beheaded babies in the Israeli......

Why Caste Violence Is On The Rise In Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu is the celebrated home of the 'social justice' movement in the country, yet caste differences and violence has only been increasing in numbers and becoming more brutal in recent years,......

One Party's Freebies Are Another's Welfare Schemes

As some BJP pollsters concede, the Modi leadership's sweeping success in elections 2019, especially across central India, owed not to Hindutva ideology, but to welfare schemes, all of them borrowed......

What Awaits Rajapaksas After Monday's Mayhem?

Gota has to decide if he could order elder brother Mahinda's arrest as the agent provocateur of Monday's violence.Then he has to prepare for an interim government, in which no one would now want to......

Chennai-born Dhivya S is GM's first female CFO

An Indian-American, Dhivya Suryadevara, has been named the chief finance officer of the US's largest automaker, General Motors.  Suryadevara, currently the vice president of corporate......

Must Read: The Great Diamond Heist

'If there is any industry that is unfit for modern corporate form it is the diamond trade.''But no one was asking the right questions.''The music was playing and so the game was on,' says S......

Microfinance is thriving, but...

Indian microfinance organisations are coming into big global funding, at a time when global credit is seizing up. This month, two leading names -- SKS Microfinance, the biggest in the country, and......

Bank welcomes India's poor

The tangled streets of Sunder Nagri, a slum in east Delhi, bustle with morning activity. Motorcycles buzz through the narrow lanes and vendors sell their wares from carts. Sunder Nagri lies across......

Injured Anwar Ali misses cut in Asian Cup probables

IMAGE: Indian defender Anwar Ali. Photograph: Mumbai City FC/X India will be missing its key central defender Anwar Ali because of his ankle injury in the upcoming AFC Asian Cup in Qatar starting......

Soccer Extras: Xhaka stripped of Arsenal captaincy and dropped

IMAGE: Xhaka said he got carried away and had reacted in a manner that 'disrespected the group of fans that support our club, our team and myself with positive energy. That has not been my......

Soccer Extras: AC Milan banned from Europa League

News of all that's transpired on and off the football field IMAGE: AC AC Milan's Fabio Borini celebrates with teammates after scoring against Bologna in their Serie A match (Image used for......

Sania-Monica shock Wimbledon champs in Cincinnati

Sania Mirza and Monica Niculescu stunned Wimbledon doubles champions Vania King and Yaroslava Shvedova to storm into the quarter-finals of the the Western and Southern Financial Group Women's Open......

Spotted: Sania Mirza in Cincinnati

Reader Brahmanandam Somanchi sent us this picture from Cincinnati. 'Here is my picture with Sania Mirza. I was volunteering at Western & Southern Financial Group Women's Open tournament held in......