Sheena Bora Trial: Why does Indrani now want a lie detector test?

Happy with her latest move, Indrani departed from Courtroom 51 with a spring in her step.The woman who hopped up into the jail truck was a cheerful one.Vaihayasi Pande Daniel reports from the......

Sheena Bora Trial: When Mekhail last met Sheena

After the wedding, Sheena and Mekhail did not meet again.Four or five months later she met her death.Mekhail referred to their last meeting without overt emotion, clear-eyed.Vaihayasi Pande Daniel......

Sheena Bora Trial: What Mekhail Bora Said

Throughout, Mekhail spoke calmly, with hardly an inflection making even the barest attempt to hijack his tone. His tone was so empty it made his narrative all the more touching.And ugly and grey,......

Mitra, the robot, steals the show from NaMo, Ivanka

Ivanka spoke for a good 15 minutes, gracefully, looking straight at her audience, her face wreathed often in winning smiles.She is an articulate, striking, woman who charmed her audience.Vaihayasi......

The chequered flight path of Jet Airways

An overriding ambition to rule the domestic skies prevented Jet Airways from becoming a strong and formidable player in the international market. The Sahara buy added to the complexity of its......

Can the Mercedes Benz S-Class Maybach S650 be made better?

The Maybach S650's focus on luxury would make a private jet's interiors appear pedestrian, says Pavan Lall. Does it mean it has no room for improvement? The story goes that, before he left India,......

How Air India expects to double its revenue

Air India signed a code-share pact with Air Canada last September. Air India has witnessed a significant rise in international travellers in its first year as member of Star Alliance. Air India had......

Minimum government? It starts right here!

The Modi government is committed to the same path of maximum government that all previous governments had taken, illustrated well by the strongman approach it has taken to 'fixing' loss-making PSUs......

Who bumped off Payal Rohatgi?

Banjara Hills in Hyderabad is what Malabar Hills is to Mumbai -- a very rich locality. That is where Payal Rohatgi was born. She graduated as a Computer Engineer from Ahmedabad and would have......

SRK wants to marry Megan Fox!

On Thursday Fox Star Studios announced its decision to distribute Shah Rukh Khan's latest film My Name Is Khan, directed by Karan Johar. The deal is one of the biggest of our times......

Polish airlines refuses boarding to Russian player; Lufthansa denies ticket

IMAGE: Russian tennis player Vitalia Diatchenko was denied boarding by Polish Airlines LOT. Photograph: Matthew Childs/Reuters A Russian tennis player was refused boarding to a flight operated by......

Olympics: Belarus sprinter heads for Austria in fresh twist

Masked and wearing blue jeans, a blue blouse and sunglasses with "I RUN CLEAN" written on them, Tsimanouskaya had arrived in a police-escorted van at Narita airport east of the Japanese capital.......

Olympics: Poland grant Belarus athlete humanitarian visa

'The head coach came over to me and said there had been an order from above to remove me.' A Belarusian opposition politician said Belarus officials had told Tsimanouskaya's mother that her......

Of one man armies

Point To Ponder: India boasts of having the best batsman in the world in its team, Sachin but yet India has never been able to win a single test series abroad since last 15 years.Now consider this......