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Pilots Fume as DGCA Moves to Ban Perfumes

DGCA's move seeks to ban perfumes for pilots as they have alcohol and can affect the results of breathanalyser tests. Kindly note the image has only been published for representational purposes.......

'We don't have a strategy to fight the war'

'On a daily basis you are saying, you do this, you do that, but where is the blueprint of the war?''How many isolations actually we need per hundred thousand people?' 'How many ventilators will we......

Gandhi, Bombay, Jalandhar in Pak's election

The Pakistani election on July 25 has a strong Indian flavour and connection, says Vivek Shukla. IMAGE: Cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan, chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, is a......

Why did the British suck up to the Chinese?

'The "Hollandisation" of British policy may not bring the expected gains as the future may show,' says Claude Arpi. IMAGE: Chinese President Xi Jinping and Britain's Queen Elizabeth toast each......

The different moods of Obamas @ Rajpath

At the grand Republic Day parade at Rajpath on Monday, Chief Guest Barack Obama was caught on camera bobbing his head to music as floats passed by, chewing gum, showing the thumbs up and watching......

How Aditya Puri 'built' the HDFC Bank

Puri gave up the comforts of Citibank to set up a new-age bank from a rat-infested room in the Kamala Mills Compound in Worli, Mumbai and turned it into a marquee brand. Raghu Mohan takes a look at......

Reliance Infrastructure looks at domestic banks

Close to clinching second phase of Mumbai Metro project. Reliance Infrastructure (R-Infra) CEO Lalit Jalan is a man in a hurry. The Anil Dhirubhai Ambanigroup company hasn't yet got the contract......

'Dollar's holed up in a hotel shooting neat Vodka'

The dollar's holed up in a hotel shooting neat vodka, whatever its 'people' are telling the press. . . It is a cold and bitter truth that the world's investment markets rarely act as sober as......

How Warren Buffet made his billions

Warren Buffett is a man who has made millions but he also started working at his father's brokerage when he was 11 years old, that's an age when most other kids were playing hide-n-seek and didn't......

Off-patent drugs to get lease of life

SPI Pharma, the fully-owned subsidiary of the UK's Associated British Foods, which opened its India development and testing centre in Bangalore is working on platforms to revive some of the......

The Night Manager Review: Thrilling, And Yet...

The Night Manager has no surprises, observes Deepa Gahlot. For those who may have read the book by spy thriller maestro John Le Carré and watched the 2016 series, The Night Manager based on......

'Basuda was a Master'

Shabana Azmi regards Basu Chatterjee as the true father of Middle Of The Road cinema. IMAGE: Shabana Azmi in Swami. "I loved the lines he wrote for his characters. They were so close to real life,......

Indian Cinema gets its finest love story

... And it's written with tears, blood and unspoken lines, notes Sreehari Nair. IMAGE: The beauty of Mayaanadhi is that it shows the guts to be a love story of two people who have exhausted the......

How about Alia and Bhumi together in a movie?

Savouring Spielberg's fierce, fine, movie; salivating over MAMI 2017's line-up; gobbling a Shrek cake; visualising a desi Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants with Alia, Bhumi and more in Sukanya......

Review: Captain America: Civil War is the stuff of comic-book dreams

A Marvel film so good it makes all the others feel like a prologue, gushes Raja Sen. (Also, stay for the two end-credit scenes.) “War, what is it good for?” Despite the......

No more 'N-word': Scrabble players look to bar racist or homophobic slurs

IMAGE: Professional sportpersons including Lewis Hamilton and Raheem Sterling have become leading voices in the anti-racism movement amid protests over the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black......

Nehra, Bhajji feel saliva is must to shine ball

Where will the line be drawn if external substances are used to shine ball, asks Aakash Chopra. Saliva and sweat are components that cannot be entirely done away with, insist a few distinguished......

Djokovic-Murray lockdown 'knockabout' has fans in awe

'When you see the end coming you think... I shuld have enjoyed the wins or even the losses that were great matches.' IMAGE: World number one Novak Djokovic has never won the Olympic gold medal, a......

My Daughter Mithali Raj

'From the beginning (I have told her) "Whatever it may be -- you are losing or winning -- on the ground you're not going to cry!" She never cried.''"I don't want you to project that you are a......

Not extinct, but odds stacked against serve and volleyers

IMAGE: Dustin Brown of Germany serves against Andy Murray of Great Britain. Photograph: Clive Brunskill/Getty Images Dustin Brown's audacious attempt to unseat defending Wimbledon champion......

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