Life From A Hospital Room

Thanks to a close one's illness, I have seen quite a few hospital rooms in the past half a year or so.They have revived my respect for life reinterpreted via its essentials, notes Shyam G Menon.......

SC raps judge, cop for ignoring bail order

Accusing a Gujarat judge of "bias" and acting in a "high-handed manner" while granting police custody, the Supreme Court on Wednesday held her and a police officer guilty of its contempt for......

Dadra And Nagar Haveli: How The Portuguese Were Defeated

They realised that the Portuguese were better prepared to defend Daman than Dadra and Nagar Haveli. If reinforcements from Daman were to reach Silvassa, there was no chance of defeating the......

'Entire Ayodhya has become 'Rammay'

The devotion to the deity is such that even commerce is not untouched by the spiritual feel in the holy city. Images of the grand temple is finding places even on visiting cards, posters, calendars......

10 arguments on demonetisation I am fed up of

In all the time he has spent in bank and ATM queues, these 10 arguments were being thrown at him constantly by those supporting demonetisation, says Syed Firdaus Ashraf.Illustration: Uttam......

Investors be warned: Aping FPIs can be painful

Investors who play follow-the-leader and invest wherever Foreign Portfolio Investors are going may face painful losses, warns Devangshu Datta.Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com Western......

'GST is likely to disrupt a lot of people's lives'

'I expect a global financial problem in the latter half of the current financial year or in 2018, especially in the US.' 'The next time we have an economic slowdown, it’s going to be very,......

Why boycott calls against China, India's largest trade partner, will fail

Apart from cotton, copper, petroleum and industrial machinery, India does not export much to China. This means that India buys six times the merchandise it sells to China, points out Abhishek......

The Royals Review: When Luxury Collides With Lameness

Be it as a source of fire, secret or endgame, everything is seen through the prism of sex and good looks in The Royals, observes Sukanya Verma. When a prince of a dippy, strapped-for-cash royal......

All We Imagine As Poetry

'Did anyone else get the feeling that AWIAL -- despite being ostensibly based in the Mumbai of today -- is actually set in a Neverland of Solemnity?' asks Sreehari Nair. IMAGE: Kani Kusruti and......

OTT's 10 Best Male Performances of 2024

Actors get enviably good roles in series and films on streaming platforms. Many of them get a fan following without even doing a feature film. That is the reason why movie stars are gravitating......

Sports Gets Sexy On OTT This Week!

From tennis love to Tudor queens, Sukanya Verma lists everything you can catch on OTT this week.    ChallengersWhere to watch? Rent on Amazon Prime VideoLanguage: English Luca......

Russian hackers compromised athletes' medical records says IAAF

IMAGE: The attack by Fancy Bear, also known as APT28, was detected during a proactive investigation carried out by cyber incident response (CIR) firm Context Information Security," the IAAF said.......

Williams sisters, other US athletes let off by WADA despite positive dope test?

Claiming to have accessed WADA's database, a Russian hack team, known as Fancy Bear, said they have leaked dozens of files allegedly relating to United States athletes on the internet,......

Nadal, Farah speak out after hackers leak more WADA records

'When you ask permission to take something for therapeutic reasons and they give it to you, you're not taking anything prohibited' IMAGE: Spain's Rafael Nadal wants sport to be transparent,......

WADA urges athletes to check accuracy of hacked data

IMAGE: Serena Williams. Photograph: Reuters The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) said on Wednesday that some of the athlete data leaked by a Russian cyber espionage group has been changed from its......

Mo Farah coach used prohibited drug infusions, says newspaper

Mo Farah, who last year became only the second man to retain the Olympic 5,000 and 10,000-metre titles, said in a statement that he is "a clean athlete who has never broken the rules in regards to......