Modi to inaugurate Navi Mumbai airport, Mumbai Metro Line on Wednesday

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on Wednesday inaugurate the Navi Mumbai International Airport and a portion of the Mumbai Metro Line, considered as significant milestones in easing transportation......

Historic first: Indian NGO 'Educate Girls' wins Magsaysay award

'Educate Girls' was founded in 2007 by Safeena Husain, a graduate of the London School of Economics, then working in San Francisco, who decided to return home to India to take on the challenge of......

Israel-Iran: What Are Trump's Options?

Trump has a major decision to take in coming days -- specifically, how to rescue Israel from the attritional war that lies ahead, points out Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar. IMAGE: A drone photo shows......

Italian PM calls Modi for 'rapid, positive solution' on marines

Italian Premier Matteo Renzi on Monday spoke to his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi and sought a “rapid and positive solution” in the case of the two Italian marines being held in......

Cognizant Tech to acquire Belcan for $1.3 bn in cash and stock

Nasdaq-listed Cognizant Technology Solutions has signed a definitive agreement to acquire global engineering company Belcan for about $1.3 billion (Rs 10,853.7 crore) in cash and stock.......

India's Green Shoots for the Planet

Modi's unexpected announcement of achieving net zero by 2070 may have neatly deflected the pressures on India to sign up to an ambitious pledge but it does nothing to dispel the ecological......

Jugaad An Insult To Indian Innovation?

'When resources are few; when frugality demands repairing a broken thing rather than replacing it with a brand new and expensive option, enterprising commoners in rural and urban India improvise on......

5 Indians in WEF's Young Global Leaders list

Byju Classes' founder Byju Raveendran, Zomato co-founder Gaurav Gupta, CEO of Antara Senior Living, Tara Singh Vachani, Vinati Organics' MD & CEO Vinati Mutreja and Swapan Mehra, CEO of Iora......

The Issue With Looop Lapeta

The simplicity of the model that was the original, which allowed it to glide with grace, has been foregone, observes Rohit Sathish Nair. Looop Lapeta owes its existence to the 1998 German hit Run......

The Kishore Kumar NO ONE Knew!

When Pritish Nandy interviewed Kishore Kumar for The Illustrated Weekly Of India, Asia's oldest and most venerable magazine, it was a stunner. Posing with a skull on the Weekly's cover, the great......

The real Kishore Kumar no one knew

When Pritish Nandy interviewed Kishore Kumar for The Illustrated Weekly of India, Asia's oldest and most venerable magazine, it was a stunner. Posing with a skull on the Weekly's cover, the great......

PIX: Injury halts Dimitrov's charge on struggling Sinner

Bulgaria's Grigor Dimitrov throws in the towel after leading top seed Jannik Sinner by two sets and walks off to standing ovation from the Centre Court crowd. IMAGE: Bulgaria's Grigor Dimitrov......

Marin, Sindhu & Saina to go under hammer for PBL 2

IMAGE: India's P V Sindhu celebrates. Photograph: Clive Brunskill/Getty Images. Top shuttlers, including Olympic champion Carolina Marin of Spain and Rio silver medallists P V Sindhu, will be......

PBL: Marin tops price list, Saina unsold at player auction

Rio Games silver medallist P V Sindhu and London bronze winner Saina Nehwal went for low prices even as current Olympic champion Carolina Marin emerged as the costliest buy at the players’......

Nadal in French Open final after Zverev retires with ankle injury

IMAGE: Germany's Alexander Zverev receives medical attention after sustaining an injury as Spain's Rafael Nadal looks on. Photograph: Yves Herman/Reuters It was not the ending anyone expected......

Are you ready for Bolt the footballer?

A-League club confirm offer to Olympic champion Bolt IMAGE: Usain Bolt in action for  Central Coast Mariners. Photograph: David Gray/Reuters Olympic sprint champion Usain Bolt has......