Uber chic but at what cost?

High-end luxury brands are beginning to recognise the untapped potential in India. Import duties, however, are playing spoilsport. Step out of your home and smell the smoke. No, it's not a......

The Jaguar XJ50 is more like a Gulfstream jet than limousine

This car doesn't roll in, it sweeps in and turns heads like no other. At over 15 feet long, the Jaguar XJ50 will have admirers doing neck rotation exercises when it arrives, says Pavan Lall.......

Coming soon: India's first branded chocolate chain

Unlike global majors like Lindt and Godiva no standalone Indian chocolate boutiques have expanded into a national chain yet. ITC plans to change that with its luxury chocolate brand Fabelle, says......

Gold smugglers switching over to cigarettes, currencies

In the past 18 months, the department of revenue intelligence has seized 50 containers of cigarettes, valued at nearly Rs 200 crore With the channel set three years ago to import gold illegally......

Olympics: Why Bopanna-Balaji cannot be written off

  IMAGE: At Paris Olympics, it will be Bopanna, who has to do the heavy lifting while partnering Sriram Balaji. Photograph: Antonio Bronic/Reuters Aging like fine wine, Rohan Bopanna is all......

How Bopanna beat weak knees to reach US Open final

The Indian has won five ATP Masters 1000 titles with five different partners, although he has never won a major championship in men's doubles. Not bad for someone whose knees lack cartilage.......

Paes-Dlouhy fall in Basel quarters

Third seeds Leander Paes and Lukas Dlouhy were brushed aside by Germans Christopher Kas and Philipp Kohlschreiber in the quarter-finals of the Davidoff Swiss Indoors in Basel on Thursday.......

What Rohan Bopanna is up to in quarantine

Trapped in Australian Open 'hard quarantine', Bopanna waiting for 'freedom day' IMAGE: Rohan Bopanna's build-up to the season-opening Australian Open has been far from ideal. Photograph: Kind......

Arjun Singh joins Kamps at the top

India's Arjun Singh produced a stunning shot in a thrilling third round at the season-ending Volvo Masters of Asia to join Craig Kamps of South Africa at the top of the leaderboard on......