Ambani's holding group launched the Indian Super League, an elite competition of newly created teams, in 2014 with the aim of attracting investment and big global names, much like the Indian Premier League has in cricket. 'It was 100% a wasted opportunity'.
This is mostly a bloated, highly undistinguished bit of mythmaking, stuffed to the gills with cliched characters and motivations, says Raja Sen.
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Zlatan Ibrahimovic was back to his irrepressible, boastful best on Sunday as he joked about the landmark 25,000th Premier League goal that signalled a change in his fortunes.
'The government wants foreign companies to capture the insurance market.'
Board of Control for Cricket in India president Sourav Ganguly revealed on Friday that India skipper Virat Kohli is open to the idea of playing day-night Tests. His comments come following a meeting with Kohli, in Mumbai on Thursday, during which the idea was floated.
Andy Murray devoured Latvian Ernests Gulbis 6-2, 7-5, 6-3 to clear another hurdle towards becoming Britain's first men's singles champion in 73 years. He was joined in the third round by dogged Australian Lleyton Hewitt, the 2002 champion, who produced a vintage display to dispatch fifth seed Juan Martin del Potro in straight sets.
Mukesh Ambani gave a fascinating account of how the company, which will soon account for around 40 per cent of the country's oil & gas production, can change the energy landscape of the country. It can also potentially lead to a new gas-based economy, he said. Terming natural gas as the 21st century fuel, Ambani said India now has the opportunity to leapfrog the use of clean energy and directly benefit the people.
His season has been 10 out of 10 and there is no reason to break the contract, says Josep Maria Bartomeu.
Jose Mourinho will forget what has gone on for the last three disappointing seasons at Manchester United, he said in his first interview after being installed as manager on Friday.
'We might have been better prepared to deal with the pandemic had so much time, attention and money not gone into welcoming one of the stupidest men on the planet.'
Lionel Messi scored twice in the second half to help Barcelona to a 2-0 win over Arsenal in their UEFA Champions League round of 16, first leg match at the Emirates Stadium in London on Tuesday.
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It has been a half-century since Neil Armstrong stepped out of a lunar module and onto the surface of the moon on July 20, 1969 and declared, "That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind." The moment heralded a golden age of space exploration that was set in motion just eight years earlier in 1961, when United States President John F Kennedy promised before Congress to put a man on the moon before the decade was out. Here are some lesser-known facts about the historic first mission:
Like many families with the means to do so, the Ambanis wanted to build a custom home.
A supertide turned France's famed Mont Saint-Michel into an island and then retreated out of sight, delighting thousands of visitors who came to see the rare phenomenon.
According to official details unveiled by Downing Street on Friday, Trump will arrive for the two-day "working visit" next Thursday afternoon straight from a NATO summit in Brussels, Belgium.
If Indian storytelling can deliver, it can make the entertainment industry an engine of economic growth and a substantial contributor to GDP, says Vanita Kohli-Khandekar.
The New York Giants achieved one of the biggest upsets in NFL history, scoring a 17-14 victory over the previously undefeated New England Patriots in the Super Bowl on Sunday.
British data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica is at the centre of a controversy in India, the United States and Britain after two newspapers reported on Sunday that the company harvested personal data about Facebook users beginning in 2014. How does that matter, what does it entail and should you be worried? All these answers and more, explained right here.
'Congratulations @sundarpichai. My best wishes for the new role at @google, Modi had tweeted.
Pete's Dragon feels like a rare breath of clean air in the cluttered, loud blockbuster universe, says Raja Sen.
Pakistan cruised to a seven-wicket victory over Zimbabwe in the four-nation Canada Twenty20 tournament on Sunday. In the final they will face Sri Lanka, who edged past Canada by 15 runs.
"We can celebrate technology, but if it doesn't truly empower every Indian and every Indian organisation to achieve more...we would have achieved nothing," the Microsoft CEO said in Mumbai.
New Delhi's Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Narayan hospital is the ground zero of COVID-19 treatment in India. It's an exclusive Covid-dedicated hospital with 2,000 beds. Nowhere in India are so many coronavirus patients being treated under one roof.
Sanmay Ved, in a post on LinkedIn, had said he chose his award to be donated to the Art of Living's education programme.
Luciano Pavarotti, perhaps the most famous opera singer ever, died on Thursday morning, aged 71.
He said a landslide victory in the region's disputed October 1 referendum on independence gives his government grounds to implement its long-held desire to break century-old ties with Spain.
On a day when four seeds tumbled, top seed Karan Rastogi and giant killer Treta Bhattacharya moved into semi-finals after epic battles at the National Grasscourts Championships in Kolkata on Thursday.
Bloomberg's data notes that since last year, Bill Gates's net worth has decreased by $1.1 billion, while Ortega's has increased by an impressive $10.4 billion.
Every day a Party unfolds on social media where armchair activists, politically charged influencers, trend pundits, gyaan givers and troll armies change the world in their heads but remain clueless about the nation's grassroots reality, feels Sukanya Verma.
Sukanya Verma gives you a lot of inspiration from Priyanka and Nick for your big day!
The 2019 National Geographic Travel Photo contest is now in its fifth week of accepting entries. The best entries this week include a close-up of a lioness and two bears giving high-fives to one another. The contest is open until May 3.
China, the global trading giant, is transforming its key northern port in Tianjin into the world's largest man-made deep water port.
With fast food giants using cartoon heroes to grab kids' attention towards their products, worried parents are now calling for a ban on this trend.
'You are not going to find success all the time and you will feel insecure when your film fails at the box office, but that's a part of the game.' 'You just deal with it and move on.; 'Maybe the problem was something else and not so much about his career.'
If you think the film is gutsy, you are simply being blind to the truth that the whole men-are-worthless slant is saleable right now, argues Sreehari Nair.
There's no head or tails to anything that happens in Saaho, says Sukanya Verma.
People who can adapt their skill set to different sectors always remain relevant, irrespective of the job scenario
Edmilson Marques scored twice as former champions East Bengal beat JCT 2-1.
