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Weaker Nations Get Used. Warning For India

'Trump does have a master plan in mind to put pressure on India with the additional tariff of 25 per cent to get Modi to persuade Russian President Vladimir Putin to freeze the Ukraine war.''It has...

Biden refuses to back down despite Atlanta fiasco

Following a disastrous performance at the debate stage in Atlanta, there is a growing clamour within the ruling Democratic party and the mainstream American media for President Joe Biden to step...

Debate on no-confidence motion replete with poetry

From Indian poet and philosopher Thiruvalluvar to English great William Shakespeare, Lok Sabha members quoted extensively from literature to put across their arguments as they raised the Manipur...

Delhiites to lose 11.9 years of their lives to pollution

Delhi has emerged as the world's most polluted city in a new study which has also found that its residents are on track to lose 11.9 years of life if the current levels of pollution continue to be...

Nurse famous for iconic World War II kiss photo dies at 92

Greta Friedman, the woman kissed passionately by an American sailor in the iconic black and white picture taken in Times Square here after the World War II ended in 1945, has died. Friedman, 92,...

Economist Milton Friedman dead

Milton Friedman, winner of the 1976 Nobel Prize for economics passed away on Thursday. The 94-year-old economist was a senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University from...

When Aiyar upstaged Friedman

It was an evening when Union Minister for Petroleum Mani Shankar Aiyar stole the show from three-time Pulitzer Prize winner and The New York Times columnist Thomas L Friedman, and how! The event...

US, 'huge beneficiary' of BPO: Friedman

Notwithstanding the recent uproar over the UK data theft, a well-known US author has said that America is a huge beneficiary of outsourcing. "The issue of outsourcing is easy to demonise but what...

Indian economy is like a super highway, says Friedman

Comparing the Indian economy to a super highway, noted economist Thomas Friedman has said he is optimistic about the growth potential of the country, which remains a true democracy. Friedman, also...

Hagel urges India Inc to move faster

John Hagel envisages a world with no boundaries like Thomas Friedman. He believesconnectivity transcends barriers and borders, enabling corporates to increasingly tap opportunities from across the...

The tragedy of the Friedmans

Andrew Jarecki is the very young, very rich founder of Moviefone.When he set out to make his first film, he chose as his subject New York's number one birthday clown, Silly Billy. Also known as...

007 will come early to India

Once upon a time, long, long ago, decades before Thomas Friedman wrote the The World Is Flat, only the choicest Hollywood's hits trickled into the Indian subcontinent, usually months after the...

Tendulkar's surgery successful

Sachin Tendulkar underwent surgery on his injured left hand on Tuesday.He was treated at the Sinai Hospital in Baltimore, theUnited States,by orthopaedic surgeons Dror Paley and Steven Friedman,...

Mask-wearing US athletes were cyclists

The US athletes who arrived at the Beijing airport wearing face masks were identified on Wednesday as four track cyclists. A USA Cycling spokesman confirmed the identity of the four as Jennie...

Tendulkar's hand is pain-free

Tendulkar's hand is pain-free followingsurgeryMaster blaster Sachin Tendulkar has nopain in his left hand, his doctor has said. "I can press on that area and it's gone," said Dror Paley, an...

Aus Open PHOTOS: Djokovic wins marathon battle; Serena, Sharapova to face-off in last eight

Photos from matches played Day 7 of the Australian Open at Melbourne Park on Sunday IMAGE: Serbia's Novak Djokovic celebrates a point in his fourth round match against France's Gilles Simon at the...

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