What will Indian cities do about its growing mountains of waste?
With mind and body both more willing now, the only way for the World No 3 is up, says Dhruv Munjal.
One should not time the market before investing
Shashi Tharoor says the British Museum should change its name to Chor Bazaar because whatever it has within its portals is the result of 200 years of theft. The museum is once again in the eye of a storm for the possession of a statue of a god Hindus, across the world, worship as the Supreme Being.
Rohingyas settled in Jammu tells how they are facing a battle for survival
The Intern is an easy, breezy office space confection that makes for a lighthearted viewing, feels Sukanya Verma.
A promising start to their World Cup campaign will raise hopes of a quarter-final berth.
Five-times European champions Barca, with their trident of Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez and Neymar subdued, have not exited in the last 16 since going out to Liverpool in the 2006/07 season and the score equalled their worst Champions league loss.
'Thugs is smarter than a lot of 'nationalistic' movies,' notes Rohit Sathish Nair.
India's Anirban Lahiri got off to a flying start on his tournament-debut, firing eight birdies in a blemish-free opening round to grab a share of the lead at the PGA Tour's Career Builder Challenge in partnership with Clinton Foundation in La Quinta.
Subhash K Jha remembers conversations with the legendary actor who the world lost on Friday.
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday assured the mother of the deceased student who was allegedly locked inside a toilet by her seniors last week, that she would look into the matter.
Runaway leaders Bayern Munich survived a torrid opening against Nuremberg, who hit the bar and had two players carried off injured in the first half hour, before hitting back for a 2-0 win in the Bundesliga on Saturday.
The Gujarat Lions team members and supporting staff came wearing orange turbans to the reception.
More than 25 years after the Babri Masjid was destroyed, another generation proclaims its commitment to building a Ram temple.
Martand Singh, the master of weaves, took India to the world.
Stinking politics will only sink the party which practices it, feels Vikas Khanna
Gopal Subramanium would have been a plus to the apex bench, aver many, who point to his record and speak for his integrity
Women, here are 10 things that you need to stop doing to each other right now.
The socio-economic and caste census 2011 painted a grim picture of rural India, indicating that one out of three families living in villages is landless and depends on manual labour for livelihood.
Real Madrid tore apart Bayern Munich's ragged defence with a ruthless first-half display as they thrashed the defending champions 4-0 in their own stadium to reach their first Champions League final for 12 years.
The million dollar question that begs for an answer is: Why is it that an amateurish attempt to convert a handful of Muslims by fringe Hindu elements garners so much attention while large scale systematic attempts to subvert Hinduism go unnoticed or are deliberately overlooked? If this is not double standards then what is, asks Vivek Gumaste.
'One afternoon, I spotted Karan Johar and film critic Rajeev Masand having tea with Nina Gupta, the head of NFDC, and barged into their meeting.' Aseem Chhabra's IFFI diaries...
After hearing the narration, I couldn't say no to the film, says Karthi.
Reigning World Champion Magnus Carlsen outwitted India's Viswanathan Anand to win the sixth game of the World Chess Championship in Sochi on Saturday.
There is such a thing as too much sugar, says Raja Sen
The announcement declaring New Delhi Municipal Council a winner of the smart city challenge came when the rest of Delhi was drowning in urban waste.
'Parts of Pad Man look like a Vicco Turmeric commercial, parts of it look like a Tourism Ad and parts of it like a commercial for Etihad Airlines. But almost all of it, unmistakably, sounds like one big town-hall message,' says Sreehari Nair.
Rahul Gandhi has the potential to grow into a good, effective, leader of the Opposition provided he puts his heart and soul into it, with a willingness to learn, says B S Raghavan, the distinguished civil servant who worked closely with India's first three prime ministers.
The lanky wild card kissed the Montreal court after completing a rousing 3-6, 6-4, 7-6(4) triumph as the 18-year-old became the youngest player to ever reach the quarter-finals of an ATP Masters 1000 event.
Pakistani Foreign Office said they have come to the conclusion that the proposed NSA-level talks between the two countries would not serve any purpose, if conducted on the basis of the two conditions laid down by External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj.
The Czech Republic retained their Davis Cup title after Radek Stepanek ruthlessly exploited the inexperience of Dusan Lajovic in the decisive rubber to seal a 3-2 final victory over Novak Djokovic's Serbia on Sunday.
The Serb easily beat the Spaniard 6-3, 6-4 at the O2 Arena.
The problem with addictive TV box sets is that when the credits roll on the final episode it leaves a void.
Do not try to clean the soap bathed sponge with water but squeeze the sponge and get that mud and other impurities out in a more accurate manner.
The party is counting on women voters and caste calculus, among others, to swing the crucial polls in its favour
Om Puri was that rare actor who could carry a film on sheer power and versatility of his performance
'Any Muslim who shows even the slightest hint of revolutionary thought is marked as 'infected'.' 'At that point, he is taken to the nearest Detention Centre where a procedure called Reconditioning awaits him.' 'Areas with a high Muslim population have been designated as Scheduled Religion Zones.' 'To be an active participant in this social cleansing ritual, there is only one prerequisite: You have to be an undying patriot whose friend and family is his country.'
He had no airs about his talent, he did not intellectualise it, he just lived and breathed acting.
The 39-year-old, the fifth child of an illiterate labourer couple and only the second of their eight to be educated, now helms various ventures that bring in a turnover of between Rs 75 crore and Rs 90 crore.
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