Is Faith Above Science?

Against the backdrop of Kerala's appetite for commonsense, it was assumed that this controversy would pass.Respect for rationalism and scientific outlook is strong in the state despite political......

With Anand win, Amul land back in BJP stable

Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Yogesh Patel on Thursday wrested the Anand assembly constituency in Gujarat from the Congress with a comfortable margin of 41,623 votes, bringing the prestigious......

Why Modi Campaigned So Hard In Gujarat

The BJP hopes that any vote AAP gets should only be from the Congress.At the same time, it does not want AAP to get too much of it.Because, a declining old opponent is a blessing as much as a......

Who Says Gujarat Is A BJP Bastion?

The Congress won 77 seats or 42% of seats in the 2017 polls. How then can Gujarat be called a BJP bastion, asks Sanjeev Nayyar. IMAGE: Bharatiya Janata Party supremo and Prime Minister Narendra......

Avenue Supermarts regains Rs 3-trillion m-cap; stock zooms 23% in 1 month

Shares of Avenue Supermarts, which owns and operates the DMart stores, hit a two-year high of Rs 4,710.15 as they surged nearly 6 per cent on the BSE in Thursday’s (April 4) intraday trade......

'Banking system has learnt lessons from 2008 crisis'

'They have since only tried to improve systems. Also, with regulatory guidance from time to time, we are in a position to assess a situation and react in time.' Photograph: Rupak De......

Byju's Spectacular Meltdown

The edtech major promised a learning revolution, offering hope to millions of under-educated youth. Now, those dreams are shattered, observes Devangshu Datta. Illustration: Dominic......

Paytm Crisis: StartUp Founders Take Note

Startup founders need to sit up and think about how not to take stardom for granted and how not to disappoint their fans who have stood in long queues for those precious selfies with popular......

Om Puri: The Chronicler Of Cities On The Boil

'If it weren't for Om Puri, a whole range of our big city experiences wouldn't have found their honest representations on the screen,' notes Sreehari Nair on the legendary actor's birthday. IMAGE:......

800 Review: Watch Out For The Spin

800 gets so lost in celebrating its grand subject that it forgets something pretty elementary: Cricket is a team sport!, notes Sreehari Nair. In 800, Director M S Sripathy creates a world of......

Why Pepsi Roped In Ranveer Singh

 Photograph: Kind courtesy RanveerSingh/Instagram Pepsi has signed up Ranveer Singh as its new brand ambassador as it switches to a new tagline -- 'Rise Up, Baby!' The change in tagline......

The Official Timekeeper Of Beating Hearts

If Irrfan could have been our finest professor of empirical philosophy, and Nawaz is our foremost poet of that space halfway between the gutter and the stars, then Jaideep Ahlawat has to be our......

SA fightback after Ravindra's strikes in Hamilton

IMAGE: South Africa put up a fight despite Rachin Ravindra’s three-wicket haul . Photograph: BlackCaps/X All-rounder Rachin Ravindra continued to bolster his reputation with three for 33 as......

In World Cup season, 'bat men' of J&K swamped by demand

'With the World Cup around the corner and being hosted by India, the demand has risen manifold. We manufacture around three million bats annually but the demand for this month and the previous one......

South Africa shatters gender pay gap in cricket

Cricket South Africa take step towards pay parity, announce equal match fees for genders Photograph: Kind Courtesy Cricket South Africa/Twitter South Africa became the latest country to provide......

Financial gap persists despite Women's World Cup success

Spain's captain Olga Carmona -- the scorer of Sunday's deciding goal -- plays for Real Madrid, where the women's team generated revenues of 1.4 million euros in the 2021/22 season, according to......

Qatari consortium to buy Manchester United?

IMAGE: Record 20-time English champions, Manchester United has over 650 million fans worldwide, according to market research firm Kantar. A large number of them have been clamouring for a change......