Oxford jabs effective against severe Covid: US trial

A large trial in the United States and two South American countries of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine has shown 79 per cent efficacy rate at preventing symptomatic COVID-19 and 100 per cent......

Ansuya Dutt had rare courage

Ansuya Dutt, who never stopped fighting for women's rights, can be an inspiration to us never to lose sight of our basic beliefs, never mind peer pressure.Jyoti Punwani salutes the incomparable......

Serum Institute ready to roll out Covid vaccine

With the government approving two COVID-19 vaccines for emergency use, Serum Institute on Sunday said it is ready to roll out Covishield vaccine in India in the coming weeks, while Bharat Biotech......

Pfizer, BioNTech claim their Covid vaccine over 90% effective

Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE on Monday said their vaccine candidate was found to be more than 90 per cent effective in preventing COVID-19.   "Today is a great day for science and humanity. The......

PSBs to Explore AI Collaboration

'There is a need for an innovation sandbox where the PSBs can collaborate and then they can do their own innovation on top of it.' Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com   In a first, the......

Do top execs of PSBs need a pay overhaul?

“It is unsustainable for such (pay) differentials to continue without a major adverse impact on the recruitment and retention of talented managers in public sector banks” - P J Nayak......

A Week In The Life Of A PSU Banker

'The CM kept his cool, but his adviser was liberal with filthy language.'Tamal Bandyopadhyay recreates the diary of a general manager in a public sector bank, providing a glimpse of how they......

'No shell company in Mauritius; Hindenburg allegations false, baseless'

In a boost to the embattled Adani Group, Mauritian Financial Services Minister Mahen Kumar Seeruttun has told the nation's Parliament that Hindenburg Research's allegations of the presence of......

The BEST OTT SHOWS of 2021

Once upon a time, we were so starved for entertainment that anything from documentaries on agriculture to hours of classical music was happily lapped up. But in the day and age of streaming,......

Gully Boy Review: You'll cry for Ranveer

Gully Boy is a glorious blend of hip-hop and assured film-making, applauds Sukanya Verma. There is a two-second scene in Gully Boy when Ranveer Singh gets out of the car he is chauffeuring and......

Review: Azhar is a bland, badly-set souffl of Bollywood tropes without a soul

Who was Mohammad Azharuddin? More crucially, *what* was he? Those are precisely the questions that, as the end credits roll after 132 minutes of run-time, remain unanswered, feels......

25 directors, 13 countries, 1 film: How did they pull it off?

Around the time stars were sashaying down the red carpet at Cannes, cinematic history was being made elsewhere. On May 25, places as far apart as Bogota and Bangalore hosted the worldwide premier......

Virat Kohli has done the right thing

Is Kohli not a great captain in spite of so many wins? My answer is, yes, declares Dr Sudhir Bisht. IMAGE: Virat Kohli. Photograph: BCCI. Virat Kohli called up the secretary, BCCI, on Saturday and......

IOC to start discussions on possible Tokyo 2020 postponement

IMAGE: The Olympics has never been postponed or cancelled during peacetime but the IOC's decision to even consider postponement was met with relief from several major stakeholders,. Photograph:......

Australian cricketers' strike prospects fade

The prospects of Australia's cricketers going on strike in England have eased after negotiations between the players and Cricket Australia over their ongoing pay dispute seemed to be going on right......

I see the IPL becoming bigger than NFL, NBA: Modi

The Indian Premier League (IPL) has become an emblem of India's aspiration to be a recognised world power in most, if not, all spheres. In a country of 1.2 billion people, most of whom are bonkers......

Dubai feared fans' boycott if Peer had played

Local tennis fans would have boycotted the Dubai women's championships if Israeli player Shahar Peer had been allowed to compete this week, organisers said on Tuesday. The United Arab Emirates......