So, what's the problem if our present is screwed up when the future promises to be profitable? It's an Indian habit, notes Shyam G Menon.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India believes that it will be able to 'pull something off' towards the end of June as the body discusses resumption of training for the top Indian cricketers.
If the Western Ghats aren't magical enough already, they take a new life altogether during the monsoons. Anita Rao Kashi travelled through them in possibly the best mode of transport -- the railways.
How many more do you (MCGM) want to eliminate (kill) before next monsoon? asks the court.
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This divisiveness is upsetting social cohesion and can throw the bright young people thronging to Bengaluru with billion dollar ideas in their creative minds off balance, warns Shekhar Gupta.
On an average, there are 970 flight arrivals and departures at the Mumbai airport every day.
Thackeray said lockdown has been partially eased because economic activities need to continue as 'now we have to learn to live with the virus'.
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Among all Joshi's other portfolios -- he is also minister for coal and mines -- it is parliamentary affairs that is politically the most crucial. But to make a success of his job, he may have to hone his people skills a bit more, reports Aditi Phadnis.
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14-year-old Vinisha Umashankar has been creating a buzz with her solar-powered ironing cart. The youngest finalist of the Duke of Cambridge's The Earthshot Prize 2021, she is a shining example of why one is never too young to help the environment.
Scindia, who is now with the BJP and took oath as a member from Madhya Pradesh, greeted his bete noire before taking oath. Scindia and Singh had differences that led to Scindia quitting the Congress. Scindia also greeted Congress leaders Mallikarjun Kharge and Ghulam Nabi Azad.
'Coronavirus is not the only emergency, and it is certainly not the only illness people can suffer from'
'Unlike the Shah Rukh Khan in Darr, Baazigar, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai and Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge, there's an amazing child-like vulnerability and honesty in the Shah Rukh of Devdas.'
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said in Parliament that there was not a shred of evidence that showed she helped the former cricket boss to get travel papers
With the arrival of the monsoon, many schools across the country, began the June term. And for the first time in their lives your children began to experience online school. Love it, like it or hate it?
A BJP source admitted that a census will inevitably reconfirm the numerical majority of the OBCs. 'That will overturn social equations and consign the upper castes to a twilight zone of marginalisation. The RSS won't accept it.' Radhika Ramaseshan reports.
No masks, no sanitisers, and many rules of COVID-19 are not in place and every human activity, including marriages and public gatherings continue, thanks to strict standard operating procedure that bars easy entry of people to the island in the Arabian sea.
Joining the low-fare war triggered by its rival airline, AirAsia, Malaysia's flag air-carrier, Malaysia Airlines on Monday announced all-inclusive fares as low as Rs 5,742 for one-way travel to Kuala Lumpur as a part of its special monsoon fares.
JL50 is an ambitious thriller that progresses smoothly until it starts answering all the questions it has raised, notes Sukanya Verma.
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If their resignations are accepted, they may even go back to Bengaluru, they added.
Strict lockdown-like restrictions are already in place in the southern stateand the Pinarayi Vijayan government decided to clamp the complete shutdown in the wake of severe spike in the positive cases.
Congress on Wednesday sought to demolish Sushma Swaraj's claim of helping Lalit Modi on humanitarian grounds in Lok Sabha, saying she could have done it under a legal framework and demanded response from Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Rajasthan is beautiful in the monsoons. The desert blooms with patches of green, the blues and yellows become more pronounced and the water bodies fill up to the brim.
In remarks which can create controversy, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Wednesday said a Congress leader had pressed her to give diplomatic passport to coal scam accused Santosh Bagrodia.
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A red alert has been sounded in three districts of Idukki, Thrissur and Palakkad in Kerala.
Under attack from the opposition over the Comptroller and Auditor General report on coal blocks allocation, the government is all set to counter it through a nation-wide campaign by key ministers and partymen.
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Goyal said India has been recognised as brightest spot in the world in last five years.
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'At the first sign of rain, Mumbai's infrastructure begins crumbling.' 'The monsoon is the true test of the durability and effectiveness of any system.' 'What most don't realise is that the city is dead,' mourns N Suresh.
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