Images from Day 5 of the Wimbledon tennis championships played in London, on Friday.
'Try to get in 30 to 60 minutes of a brisk walk every day, like my grandparents would do in the village -- twice a day they would go for morning walks and they would go after dinner.'
'The COVID-19 virus has the power to quietly enter your body, without causing pain via symptoms, because it craftily manipulates your pain response.'
'The vast majority of people are going to get better.' 'And the small fraction, who are not going to get better, unfortunately, there's no drug that we have that can that can alter the trajectory.'
India's rampant inflation remains a hotly debated puzzle.
Thank God for the United Progressive Alliance. Without its comic blundering, hiss-worthy arrogance and world-class smugness, we would really be gloomy. A parade of errors and puzzling decisions keeps us angered and entertained -- but most importantly, distracted. Or we would notice our economy's problems are less to do with this or any conceivable government, and more a set of principles and circumstances that aren't being questioned and addressed.
The aviation ministry's seat-sharing deal with Abu Dhabi reflects a puzzling and selective generosity.
Celebrated physicist Stephen Hawking may have solved the 40-year-old information paradox -- which continues to puzzle scientists -- saying one could simply pop up in another universe after being sucked into a black hole, in a new theory about where lost information ends up.
Most MNCs do not deliver their lofty 'customer service' promises in India.
Uttam Ghosh's tongue-in-cheek take on the on-going Coalgate scam.
The profitability of industry is under stress and needs to be addressed by encouraging investments in the supply side infrastructure.
'We pulled out 2 ministers from the Union cabinet and then quit the NDA. We also moved a no-confidence motion against the Modi government. Yet, the Centre remains unmoved'
On an important governance measure, there is a Nitish Kumar effect, a Naveen Patnaik effect, but no Modi effect.
'Any normal human being, even if he is the American president, will find it hard, at least in the initial stages, to get over the gnawing feeling that Modi is Trump's man.' 'Modi should not be surprised if India and its requirements are treated as of low priority by Joe Biden,' warns B S Raghavan, the distinguished civil servant.
Six parameters to help you to find the winners.
Karunanidhi was convinced that using the 2G cases against the DMK and reopening the fodder case against Lalu Prasad Yadav were products of the Congress leadership's short-sightedness. A revealing excerpt from A S Panneerselvan's Karunanidhi: A Life.
Can the finance minister manage our expectations, asks A K Bhattacharya.
If Manchester United are to claim a seventh successive Premier League victory and condemn leaders Chelsea to a first home league defeat of the season their manager Louis van Gaal must solve another complex injury puzzle.
On the advice of his medical team, he will not be returning to work immediately, with UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab to continue deputising as he recuperates.
Here are the very best in tablets that will ease your reading, entertainment and also provide you enough computing support.
Located in Titan's stratosphere, the cloud is made of a compound of carbon and nitrogen known as dicyanoacetylene (C4N2), an ingredient in the chemical cocktail that colours the giant moon's hazy, brownish-orange atmosphere.
India have never lost to their neighbours, having beaten them in the previous five World Cup matches they have played -- in 1992, 1996, 1999, 2003 and 2011.
'Here is hoping that the entirely unintended and unforeseen victims of the coronavirus, the printed papers, emerge safe and unscathed from the affliction,' says Shreekant Sambrani.
The film could have been more light- hearted rather than being preachy.
The UPA's big slip-up. Rashtrapati Bhavan's Bangla puzzle. Rajiv Shukla's mini-crisis. All this and more in this week's Dilli Gupshup.
Shameem Akthar, yogacharya trained with the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center, Kerala, shows you five simple ways to tackle cholesterol.
Is the focus on 'saffron terror' a deranged attempt at politically counterbalancing Hindus and Muslims with little regard for ethical impropriety? asks Vivek Gumaste.
Senator Saxby Chambliss, member on the Senate Select Intelligence Committee asked America's top intelligence chief how any reconciliation with the Taliban was possible considering the group was resilient and continued to enjoy sanctuary in Pakistan. Aziz Haniffa reports.
Congress young guns take offence over old guard's utterances.
The country should not banish 'non-alignment' from its foreign-policy dictionary, says Shyam Saran
With use on the rise, it's important to uncover the truth behind steroids.
Railway authorities are still puzzled about the cause of the fire that had broken out in bogie number 99480 of the Falanuma passenger train at Gulbarga station on October 15. While they have ruled out sabotage as a likely reason, they are now probing the possibility of the fire being caused by a man and his girl friend who tried to immolate themselves.
The newly discovered glass dune fields on Mars may be hotspots for life, as they are likely to have formed from interactions between magma and ice, or water, scientists have claimed.
These games of skill with a large social component have managed the transition to a new online avatar.
'An explanation perhaps lies in the culture of revisions that has grown deep roots in the government data collection system,' notes A K Bhattacharya.
Answer these questions and find out just how good you are with the use of tenses in English!
Company indicates estimates of reserves needed to be cut.
The 29-year-old man in the US ruptured a tendon in his thumb after playing Candy Crush on his smartphone non-stop for over a month.
The movies name when translated in English means a new, youthful and a pleasant love story in the cyber age.
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