100 Indian Elephants March To New York

Photograph: Kind courtesy The Great Elephant Migration A huge herd of elephants -- 100 of them -- are arriving in Manhattan on Friday, which is also auspiciously the eve of Ganesh Chaturthi. Nope,......

Dadra And Nagar Haveli: How The Portuguese Were Defeated

They realised that the Portuguese were better prepared to defend Daman than Dadra and Nagar Haveli. If reinforcements from Daman were to reach Silvassa, there was no chance of defeating the......

Modi's Muslim League, tukde tukde dig at Cong manifesto

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday launched a blistering attack on the opposition Congress, charging that its poll manifesto bore the imprint of Muslim League and utterances of its leaders......

Tension in Bihar after missing temple staff's mutilated body found in village

Tension erupted in Gopalganj district of Bihar on Sunday after the body of a local temple staff, who went missing a week ago, was found in a mutilated condition on the outskirts of a village, the......

Jungle Ventures, Google's Anandan may invest in startup firm Appknox

Mobile application vulnerability detection start-up, Appknox is in talks to raise funds from Singapore-based Jungle Ventures, along with a slew of angel investors including Google India head Rajan......

Ratan Tata invests in baby care platform FirstCry

FirstCry is omni-channel player with presence across desktop, mobile and offline routes offering baby and maternity products in India.     Top industrialist Ratan Tata has invested in......

Ratan Tata invests in specialty tea firm Teabox

The Tata Sons' chairman emeritus has been aggressively investing in start-ups, ranging from e-commerce firms to cab aggregators Top industrialist Ratan Tata has invested in specialty tea firm......

Ratan Tata invests in telecom carrier Sabse Technologies

  This is among 17 startups, where Tata has made strategic investments over the past two years. Global telecom carrier Sabse Technologies Inc, started by Hotmail founder Sabeer Bhatia, on......

Coming in October: Freida Pinto in Mowgli

Mowgli is a darker take on Rudyard's famous story. IMAGE: Freida Pinto plays Messua in Mowgli. Another version of the Kipling classic, The Jungle Book, is on the way. This one is called Mowgli,......

Review: Annayum Rasoolum is worth a watch

Paresh C Palicha says cinematographer Rajeev Ravi's directorial debut Annayum Rasoolum is worth an applauding. Annayum Rasoolum, the first directorial venture by acclaimed cinematographer Rajeev......

Aamir Khan and the man cub

Urvi Malvania reports on Disney India's year of ups and downs and the films that saved the studio. IMAGE: Not only is Dangal the highest collecting Bollywood film ever, it is also......

Wild Karnataka, India's first natural history film

After four years in the making, a band of 20 film-makers were left with 400 hours of footage for what is now India's first blue chip natural history film.Nikitta Puri reports. All Photographs:......

Before They Parted...Saina-Kashyap's Love Journeys

Saina Nehwal and Parupalli Kashyap stunned India with news of their separation after a seven-year marriage.Indian badminton's star couple looked inseparable as they spent more than two decades......

Watch: Sublime Federer's entertaining exchange with comedian Will Ferrell

  Defending champion Roger Federer was quickly into his majestic stride with a straight-sets victory over Slovenian Aljaz Bedene in his opening match at the Australian Open on Tuesday. The......

How Narang plans to produce Olympic medallists for India

'I have walked down the path and I hope that others who are following that path do not come empty-handed. I am hoping that the right kind of support is given to the academy and we are able to......

Ashes: Where are the players of the 2005 series now?

England won the Ashes for the first time since 1987 in 2005. It was the greatest series in the history of the game, but what has become of those Australian and English players a decade on? Read on......