The Brutal Battle for Mariupol

Death. Devastation. Destruction: Scenes From Putin's Invasion Of Ukraine Please click on the images for glimpses of the battle for Mariupol. IMAGE: Destroyed trams in Mariupol where Russian......

Hamara Bajaj Kindled Pride in Being Indian

In 1989 when Bajaj came out with their legendary and elegant Hamara Bajaj campaign, that looked more at apna India, rather than the scooter, and at all hues of scootered Indians, it drew millions......

Rs 177 cr cash, 23 kg gold found from UP bizman

The finance ministry on Monday gave details of the recent searches on perfume trader Peeyush Jain's house in Kanpur from where GST officers had seized more than Rs 177 crore unaccounted cash from......

10 years later, Mamata discovers different Nandigram

She faced off against former disciple-turned-defector Suvendu Adhikari in a very different contest.It's not land acquisition, but an ego clash that has acquired, tragically, communal overtones,......

Pharma funds: 'Enter with a horizon of 5-7 years or more'

In contrast with their strong performance in 2020 and 2021, pharmaceutical and healthcare funds experienced a decline in 2022, with returns plummeting by an average 9.8 per cent. Photograph: Yves......

Major global brands finally return to Tiruppur after a long dry spell

Following a gap of several months, global brands like Walmart have started lifting orders from Tiruppur’s garment makers, leading to growth in knitwear exports in January after five months.......

GM, Ford switch off India ops but unable to exit

Both are finding it difficult to sell one each of their plants -- Chennai Maraimalai Nagar (Ford) and Talegaon near Pune (GM) -- and are finding the road blocked by employee severance snarl-ups,......

'PVR-INOX Merger In Final Stages'

Photograph: Kind courtesy PVR The National Company Law Tribunal on Thursday, January 12, 2023, approved the merger of multiplex operators PVR and Inox, the two chains said in separate filings to......

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.......

Kota Factory Season 2 review

Kota Factory finds success in a winsome cast as they lend heart to its moods and mundanity, nots Sukanya Verma. Most fictional takes on student goals opt for a comforting tone, a romanticised......

'I get comfortable with anything that is not me'

'As long as you are moving, it's all right.''You are going to fall, you are going to have to pick yourself up and sometimes, it will hurt.''Sometimes, you would just want to lie there and look at......

Dolly Kitty Aur Woh Chamakte Sitare review

'The women, warts and all, are fascinating and frustrating for their flaws.' 'As much director Alankrita Shrivastava wants them to chart their course on their own terms, she pauses much too......

Audi to enter Formula One in 2026

IMAGE: Virat Kohli and Alia Bhatt at the launch of Audi's sports car R8 V10 in 2019. Audi has been in talks with the Swiss-based Sauber Group, whose team competes under the Alfa Romeo name,......

Should Tokyo be the guinea pig for Olympics experiment?

In this pandemic, why can't we have multiple locations for various disciplines, all of it then merged into a virtual convergence called the Olympics instead of one massive event in one city, asks......

Why Army officer's son Suresh Raina took to cricket...

'It always felt that his principle in life was if you live - live for others. If you only live for yourself -- that's no living.' IMAGE: Suresh Raina is the first Indian cricketer to score an......

COVID-19: UK hires former Olympic chief to aid PPE production

IMAGE: Paul Deighton, who was chief executive of the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, was appointed by Health Secretary Matt Hancock on Sunday. Photograph: /Luke......

Japan wants to modernise its toilets for Tokyo Olympics

IMAGE: Toilets ready for shipment cover the floor of a Toto toilet factory in Kitakyushu, Japan. Photograph: Sakura Murakami/Reuters On southwestern Japan’s Miyajima island, a......