About a third of the world's population has access to Internet.
The WWE says that India is its biggest market globally in terms of television viewership -- around 350 million unique viewers annually -- social media engagement and YouTube consumption, even claiming that it is the second-most watched sport in the country behind cricket.
The group is among the 40 largest defaulters identified by the Reserve Bank's first list for insolvency in late 2016.
Joginder Tuteja looks at the Top 10 movies of 2000.
What made them so special and worth owning despite the premium price tags some of them have
A day after interacting with grassroot workers from western and southern Odisha, Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday held talks with leaders from other regions to discuss strategies to pull the party out of morass in Odisha ahead of the next general elections.
Xi Jinping is winning the war without firing a shot in Sri Lanka, observes Colonel R Hariharan (retd).
Images from Day 4 of the second Test between Australia and India, at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, on Tuesday.
'One of R&AW's greatest achievements is in projecting itself as benign.' 'This work -- done in tandem with the Diaspora and the MEA -- sells a story of India as mostly the victim.'
'I reached Bhopal the day after the gas tragedy; the smell was still in the air. It was a professional hazard but I was not scared.'
'Around the dawn of the millennium, it seemed that the sun was finally setting on these elaborate home weddings.' 'As the clamour for 'live' counters of grilled fish, pasta and khao suey grew, without even realising it, Gopal Pandey slowly started going out of fashion,' says Geetanjali Krishna.
'Where are the funny writers on Indian television and OTT platforms?' 'Where are the sitcoms?' asks Vanita Kohli Khandekar.
'Anyone can string together a few alliterative words, but are they a substitute for serious thought?' 'And do they make for a strategy or plan for coherent action?' asks T N Ninan.
Joginder Tuteja looks at 10 film-makers who returned to direction after a long time.
Was romance invented so that Sanjay Leela Bhansali would one day make Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam, which released on June 18, 1999, asks Subhash K Jha.
Reader Tirthankar Bhattacharjee has sent us a photograph
'The news couldn't have come at a better time. Devdas completes 10 momentous years,' says Bhansali.
Joginder Tuteja looks at the top 10 flops of 2000.
Development issues of vital interest to India are expected to receive focused attention at the G20 Summit beginning in Cannes on Wednesday, a Ficci Paper on the B20 Working Group on Development said.
India on Tuesday announced a $5 million contribution to a joint initiative with a US agency to identify and invest in innovation by civil society, and bring them to scale.
According to sources, the central bank is keen on such a scheme to attract foreign exchange, as the country's reserves have seen a depletion in the wake of a weakening domestic currency.
Various artists perform at the tribute concert that was held over the weekend in Cardiff, United Kingdom.
Former United Kingdom Prime Minister Gordon Brown has been appointed as the United Nations' special envoy for global education.
These core values can guide humanity on the path of peace and prosperity in the new millennium.
Almost half of the two billion people who have gained access to drinking water since 1990 live in China and India.
Attlee said Great Britain had concluded that the Indian element of the army was no longer reliable and that Netaji's Indian National Army had demonstrated that. That had shaken the foundation on which Britain's Indian empire rested, argues Lieutenant General Ashok Joshi (retd).
The Asian Development Bank (ADB), on Wednesday said it has approved $17.51 billion in financing operations last year to assist its developing member countries achieve their Millennium Development Goals.
The Mayawati government on Tuesday withdrew permission granted for a grand show to promote Big 'B' starrer 'Aarakshan', for which the millennium star Amitabh Bachchan and his co stars Deepika Padukone, Manoj Bajpai and Prateek Babbar were to arrive in Lucknow on Wednesday.
Inspirational manager Juergen Klopp has rekindled the Anfield flame though and delivered the club's 19th top-flight title, one behind arch-rivals United's record of 20, after finishing runners-up to City in a thrilling race last season.
Chief Minister Stalin seems to have drawn a line between his personal beliefs and those of others in the family, beginning with wife Durga Stalin, observes N Sathiya Moorthy.
Every day dozens of vehicles carrying tourists make a stopover at Drass War Memorial - a grim reminder to what happened in this region in the last year of the previous millennium.
Mileage derived from the test drive was 12.4 km.
Former United States first daughter Chelsea Clinton got married to her long time boyfriend Marc Mezvinsky in what was being billed as the 'wedding of the millennium' in a beautiful ceremony in the quaint town of Rhinebeck in New York.
For over two decades, Wajid Khan, one half of the composer duo Sajid-Wajid, regaled listeners with infectious compositions and eclectic range.
The $100 million film is poised to become a box office hit.
The Fifth World Telecommunication Development Conference of International Telecommunication Union got underway in Hyderabad with a resolve to push the world community for faster rolling out of broadband connectivity to bridge the digital divide between the developed and developing countries and achieve the millennium development goals of the United Nations.
For the new millennium generation, slowly and at an accelerating pace, it is attractive to harbour a start-up ambition, says R Gopalakrishnan.
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