The ghost of colonial loot is coming back to haunt Britain

'It is clear that Britain is a country with a limited future,' says Rajeev Srinivasan.Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com I made a quick trip to Britain, on a sad errand: A death in the family of......

Restored! The Audi in which Netaji made his great escape

President Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday unveiled the restored German car in which Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose had made his great escape from his ancestral home in Kolkata in 1941 during his house......

Kolkata hit-and-run: Suspected co-passenger sent to 2-day remand

A Delhi court on Monday sent a youth, arrested in connection with the hit-and-run case in which an Indian Air Force corporal was killed during Republic Day rehearsal in Kolkata, to two days transit......

'Crook' Dr Desai goes into hiding; Investors lose $25 mn

Indian American physicians and entrepreneurs, who invested an estimated $25 million in Dr Akshay Desai’s Universal Health Care Group Inc, are seething in anger after the company filed for......

PNB is at it again! Buys 3 Audi cars for top management

PNB took the delivery of these high-end luxury cars worth approximately Rs 1.34 crore last month, unmindful of the coronavirus outbreak, subsequent nation-wide lockdown and its crippling effect on......

NGT asks Volkswagen India to deposit Rs 100 cr for flouting emission norms

However, the company has claimed its vehicles are ‘compliant’ with the country’s emission norms and that it will ‘challenge’ the tribunal’s order. German car......

Why premium car dealers are seeing an unprecedented churn

Higher costs of car inventories, missing sales targets and manufacturer expectations, and soaring rentals, are eating into dealers' margins. Photographs: Courtesy lexusindia.co.in Premium car......

Triumph Motorcycle might rethink India strategy

With 15% customs duty hike on locally assembled vehicles, it is cheaper to import from Thailand, says India MD Triumph Motorcycle might rethink its strategy of assembling two-wheelers in......

Audi, Porsche to join F1

IMAGE: Volkswagen Chief Executive Herbert Diess said Porsche's preparations for entering Fomula One were a little more concrete than Audi's. Photograph: Charles Coates/Getty Images Volkswagen's......

Captain Kohli on why Ganguly is perfect choice for BCCI chief

'He is someone who has played a lot of cricket before, who knows the situation we are in, what the team needs, and the requirements of Indian cricket.' IMAGE: Virat Kohli believes Sourav Ganguly's......

Soccer Extras: United's Bailly out for four months

News of all that's transpired on and off the football field IMAGE: Eric Bailly, 25, hurt his knee in last Thursday’s 2-1 win against Tottenham Hotspur in the International Champions Cup......

Kohli among world's highest-paid athletes; no women in top 100

American boxing champion Floyd Mayweather heads the world's highest-paid athletes for the fourth time in seven years followed by football stars Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. IMAGE:......

Is Virat better than Sachin?

'This was Kohli's veneration for his master: The man who had inspired him to pick up a cricket bat in the first place, the man he had grown up watching.''Just that now, he was exactly like him, or,......