It's hot to travel to blisteringly cold spotsLast year in August, we travelled to Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago between mainland Norway and the North Pole, where during the summer ...
China has started boring us to depth, with plans to drill to the Earth's coreBut we, having a suspicious disposition that has evolved over a long time of living next to the neighbours that we still have, believe ther...
Don’t see any large indiscriminate moves in rupee and rates market: Rahul Bajoria, Barclays“We continue to believe that we are in a back loaded rate hiking cycle. We do not expect rate hikes to commence at least from August onward...
Hot US inflation drives dollar to 2021 peaksThe dollar stood at its highest levels of the year against sterling and the euro on Thursday, while the yen was smarting from its sharpest ...
Dollar holds gains as investors adjust vaccine expectationsThe dollar's decline had been predicated on crumbling U.S. bond yields, as the Federal Reserve promises low rates for a long time, and hope...
Global markets drop as virus recovery begins to look distant"The path ahead is both highly uncertain and subject to significant downside risks," Powell said in a webcast speech.
Squeezed between two antipodal slices: Teenager from New Zealand makes 'earth sandwich'Accurate geopositioning is crucial to the making of a world-class sandwich.
When temper took the wing at India & Australia's second TestA bit of pre-Xmas lip’n’wind-up never hurt a ‘gentleman’s game’ hunter.
From GST to Aadhaar, economist Bibek Debroy sums up key events of 2017 in limericksDebroy has come up with 'The Book of Limericks' with a compilation of hilarious five-liners on economic issues.
Meet Abhishek Roy, the Indian designer who is giving wings to Charles Bombardier’s Antipode projectBombardier contacted Roy after studying his college project: a snowmobile which runs on compressed air, as an alternative to the two-stroke...
Why the Antipode is making headlinesThe Antipode will have rockets to launch it high into the atmosphere. Scramjet engines that use atmospheric oxygen take over from there.
Antipode, a hypersonic jet can take you from London to New York in 11 minutesLast year, the Canadian engineer designed the Skreemr, a four-winged scramjet that he claimed could carry 75 passengers at speeds of up to ...
Master blaster Sachin Tendulkar turns 42 todayHis emotional farewell at the Wankhede Stadium at the conclusion of the 2013 India-West Indies Test series is still fresh in his admirers' ...
Big IPL buys Yuvraj Singh, Dinesh Karthik struggling to get goingYuvraj - who was bought for Rs 16 crore by Delhi Daredevils - has managed 120 runs in five games with a top score of 54 that placed him in ...
The depth of property ritesThere’s something very sad and self-defeating about possessing things. Take land. Forget the bigger picture about how we’re all going to di...
A lesson for the birdsSo this novitiate goes up to the Master and asks, “Revered One, what is more important: origins or endings? The source or the destination? ...
- Sydney delights: Eat up, down under
“What would you like to drink? Semillon? Verdelho? Shiraz? Cabernet Sauvignon?” The dimpled Kristina was standing by my table in Sydney’s F...