Olympic bronze medallist India began their FIH Pro League Hockey campaign with a bang as they thrashed France 5-0 in a thoroughly dominant display in Potchefstroom, South Africa, on Tuesday.
Candy is worth binge-watching because it offers a good mix of drama, mystery and intrigue, observes Namrata Thakker.
It's Pratik. It's drama. Why are we not surprised as the Bigg Boss house erupts yet again?
Subhash K Jha looks at the most prominent pairings coming up on our screens.
Even after five decades of use, the telescope at Ooty that Dr Govind Swarup designed and built continues to be the largest single frequency radio telescope in the world.
Will Manushi Chillar be cast in the Satte Pe Satta remake?
The index opened with a positive gap of 447 points at 8,957 on the back of positive cues from the global markets. The Sensex moved in a range of 9,057 to 8,909, and finally ended with a gain of 499 points at 9,008.
After lying low for a while markets came back strongly and breached the 6,000 points mark. The BSE Sensex posted a growth of 3.91 per cent to close at 6,012 points while the S&P CNX Nifty rose by 4.36 per cent to end at 1,914
Senior England pacer James Anderson hinted that Jasprit Bumrah was not trying to get him out during the Lord's Test in which the Indian fast bowler rattled him with a barrage of bouncers. Bumrah bowled a 10-ball over mostly comprising bouncers and one of them hit Anderson on the helmet. Words were exchanged following that incident and Anderson was not pleased about the Indian's tactics.
With three of the four Grand Slam titles and a record six Masters Series crowns scooped up in a year of domination, Novak Djokovic could be forgiven for using the ATP Tour Finals in London as a well-earned lap of honour.
The Karnataka girl, participating in the Nationals after a five-year haitus, won the women's 400m freestyle with a national record.
The 28 year old fashion model sports an unbottoned denim jacket with matching bottoms flaunting her envious bod.
Only a couple of specialty wire services in the US picked up this news; the mainstream press ignored what appears to be a marked -- and dramatic shift -- in the approach to drug discovery. What we are seeing is the first big bang contribution to open source drug discovery, an initiative to rope in researchers, universities and companies to make drug breakthroughs less expensive and time-consuming.
The declaration may have come a tad too late owing to the team management's assessment of the Green Park pitch as unresponsive but debutant Shreyas Iyer backed his spinners to secure an Indian victory on the final day of the opening Test.
At Hollywood's most glamorous night -- the 93rd Academy Awards -- celebrities put their best fashion foot forward.
Manoj Bajpayee and Samantha live up to all the expectations in the season 2 trailer, notes Namrata Thakker.
The five day long fashion extravaganza concluded with a glitzy fashion show by ace couturier Manish Arora.
Both shot rounds of shot rounds of four-under 67 on the opening day of the Hero Honda Open West golf tournament.
More than two decades after economic liberalisation, the government continues to play such a massive role in the economy and industry that the Budget has become a big-bang revenue-earning exercise for the media.
With India lagging behind on several human development indices including healthcare and education, the Union government's decision to up the spending on these sectors is a step in the right direction. However, much more needs to be done in the way of increasing accountability and arresting corruption if headway is to be made on these fronts, says Devanik Saha.
'I'm usually pretty chilled and cool, but there are random moments when the brain doesn't compute and I don't stop to think.'
The concluding part of the A to Z guide to a year that will soon become history.
Popcorn entertainment returns to your living rooms with quite a bang on OTT this week.
The government liberalised FDI policy in sectors, including multi-brand retail, single-brand retail, commodity exchanges, power exchanges, broadcasting, non-banking financial institutions and asset reconstruction companies.
The BJP has less than five months to straighten things out to taken on the Lingayat strongman in the May 2013 elections, says Aditi Phadnis
'When people would tell me that any actor would give his left arm to be seen in a single frame of a Marvel project without even a single line of dialogue, I would laugh them off.'
Kevin Pietersen is likely to come out with all guns blazing when he returns to the England squad for next month's Test series in India, former team mate Andrew Flintoff said on Friday.
India will next play arch-rivals Pakistan in the round-robin stage on Friday.
The CRPF team was manning a checkpoint when the grenade attack took place.
While HDFC Bank has vowed to recoup its lost market share in the credit card segment in three to four quarters by aggressively sourcing new cards, brokerages believe it is a little hard to come by, given how competitive the landscape has become, with other players in the market becoming equally aggressive to gain market share. Kotak Institutional Equities in its report on Monday said, "We would like to believe that the recovery in market share is likely to be gradual, if any. "All the key players, including Axis Bank, are now willing to expand their credit card portfolios as they have tested quite well against Covid-19."
'That is the difficulty at the moment, trying to assess what the conditions are at three different grounds. There was no lack of intent. We had to stabilise after a couple of mistakes. Delhi bowled well in the last five overs, they were really smart.'
The move points to a growing need to cater to a younger customer base, one that wants designer clothes not just for big occasions but also wishes to make them a part of their day-to-day lives by interpreting individual pieces in individualistic manners.
Title hopes already shattered, defending champions India even failed to finish on the podium as they lost 1-3 to France in the bronze-medal play-off match of the FIH Junior Hockey World Cup, in Bhubaneswar, on Sunday.
Ending a long wait, monsoon showers lashed the capital on Friday after a delay of eight days, bringing relief from the scorching heat but creating chaos. The evening rains exposed the claims of city government and civic bodies about desilting the drains as water-logging was reported from across the city and officials sought to put the blame on each other.
The world's first state-licensed marijuana retailers legally permitted to sell pot for recreational use to the general public opened for business in Colorado on Wednesday with long lines of customers, marking a new chapter in America's drug culture.
Given the Indian batting line-up's weakness against swinging deliveries, New Zealand could go in with an all-pace attack with the pitch likely to offer pace and bounce.
India's men's hockey team slumped to its second defeat in the FIH Pro League, beaten 3-5 by Spain in the second match of their two-legged tie, at the Kalinga stadium, in Bhubaneswar, on Sunday.
Kolkata giants Mohun Bagan beat Mohammedan Sporting 4-1, while Goa's Churchill Brothers routed HAL, Bangalore, 3-0 in the opening matches of the Federation Cup football tournament.
Deputy Speaker Ranbir Gangwa had told reporters on Tuesday that those who pelted his vehicle with stones on Sunday cannot be called farmers.
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