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SC bids adieu to 'Mr Dependable' Justice A S Bopanna

Chief Justice of India (CJI) D Y Chandrachud on Friday bid farewell to Supreme Court judge A S Bopanna, who will demit office on May 19, as he hailed the outgoing judge's "authentic sense of......

India should spend $1 bn annually to train school teachers: Narayana Murthy

Software icon NR Narayana Murthy on Wednesday called for spending $1 billion a year to train school teachers by 10,000 retired highly accomplished teachers from the developed world and from India......

America's largest Hindu temple inaugurated in New Jersey

BAPS Swaminarayan Akshardham, the largest Hindu temple in the United States spread over 185 acre, has been inaugurated in Robbinsville, with devotees underscoring the temple's message of unity,......

I will not die like Socrates: Amar Singh

Sulking Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh on Thursday made a veiled attack on Mulayam Singh Yadav claiming that the party supremo was present when he (Amar) was targetted by Ram Gopal Yadav. "It......

Dance of the hemlock drinkers

The title alludes to Socrates willingly drinking poisonous hemlock as his punishment after he was convicted of corrupting the minds of the young and impiety in ancient Athens. That same fierce......

NYC stops online tutoring from India

New York City investigators recommended legal action against Plano, Texas-based Socratic Learning Inc, a company that provides online tuition, for failing to conduct proper background checks of its......

Big question from the Greece crisis: Do history and geography trump economics?

How did Greece, the country of Archimedes and Socrates and Plato and Pythagoras, come to such dire straits, asks Ajit Balakrishnan. Like any Indian schoolboy, or should I say any schoolboy......

Embedded software unit set up for Toshiba products

Toshiba Corporation, the $40-billion global Japanese electronic major, has collaborated with the Singapore-based Future Technology Design Technology to set up an embedded software development......

Are we over-celebrating 'work from home'?

Microsoft top boss Satya Nadella feels the increase in productivity has come at the price of burning the 'social capital' built up by companies over very many years, observes ad guru Sandeep......

The man the Greeks hate the most

Wolfgang Schauble has done right by the Euro zone, but the Greeks believe that doesn't necessarily mean he has done right by them. Image: German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble (right) and his......

Why Satya Continues To Sting And Sing

While Satya's pleasures are palpable -- among them the poetry of the coarse language, the mercifully rough-hewn texture, the oh-so-familiar underdog story -- these pleasures hit you at a completely......

Indian Movies I Loved in 2022

In a year of overwrought spectacles that slavishly sucked up to the audience, I found refuge in a bunch of 'mainstream' Indian films that espoused such old-fashioned values as dedication to craft,......

Review: Bramman fails to impress

Director-turned-actor Sasikumar’s Bramman directed by debutant Socrates is an average film that revolves around two friends separated in childhood, who are deeply passionate about cinema,......

The Official Timekeeper Of Beating Hearts

If Irrfan could have been our finest professor of empirical philosophy, and Nawaz is our foremost poet of that space halfway between the gutter and the stars, then Jaideep Ahlawat has to be our......

Review: Kayal is compelling love story

Director Prabhu Solomon's Kayal is heartrending tale of love set in the backdrop of the brutal tsunami of 2004, says S Saraswathi. Though director Prabhu Solomon has been in the......

The legend of Socrates

How did how a reluctant, chain-smoking, beer-swigging footballer captain the greatest football nation in the world?Dhruv Munjal salutes the memories of Dr Socrates. IMAGE: Doctor Socrates:......

'Golden Heel' Socrates was Brazil's best

Brazil's 1982 World Cup captain Socrates, the 'Golden Heel', renowned as one of the great playmakers of his generation, died in hospital Sunday of septic shock at the age of 57. - Former Brazil......

Former Brazil captain Socrates dies at 57

Former Brazil World Cup captain Socrates died in hospital Sunday At the age of 57, Brazilian media reported citing hospital sources. Socrates had been in the Albert Einstein Israeli Hospital in Sao......

Socrates joins non-league Yorkshire team

Brazilian football ace Socrates is to pull on the famous yellow jersey once more, but this time it will not be for the five-times World Cup winners but for a non-league English team.The former......

Ballon d'Or: Meet The Winners!

IMAGE: Rodri and Aitana Bonmati celebrate with their trophies after winning the Ballon d'Or. All Photographs: Sarah Meyssonnier/Reuters It was double delight for Spain as their star players Rodri......