Who is ‘Merchant Of Death’ Viktor Bout, the Russian arms dealer exchanged for US basketball star Brittney Griner?In an exchange to secure US basketball star Brittney Griner’s release, the US has handed over the imprisoned arms dealer to Russia.
Who is Viktor Bout, arms dealer linked to swap for Americans held by Moscow?Variously dubbed "the merchant of death" and "the sanctions buster" for his ability to get around arms embargoes, Bout, 55, was one of the ...
'Borat' star Sacha Baron Cohen in talks for Alfonso Cuaron's Apple series 'Disclaimer'Based on the novel of the same name by Renee Knight, 'Disclaimer' will star Cate Blanchett.
An emoji is worth a thousand wordsThe only people who can grumble about its popularity are purists and pedants.
'Roma' director Alfonso Cuarón signs a deal with Apple, will now produce projects for TV PlusThe pact spans five years and is a state-of-the-art deal.
It’s time for a new name for englishEurenglish, Scandlish, franglais or Deutschlish would be merely part of a hoary tradition of localised English.
If fungi are talking to bacterium, do we smell a new medium of communication?So much so that a group of scientists avers that the most spoken language in the world is terpene —which it is not a tongue at all but a so...
Sunday ET: Why Marxists retain some relevance in the subcontinent culturally, if not politicallyMarxists, Maoists, Leninists, Trotskyists all are welcome under the broad Incredible India umbrella.
- Brevity is the soul of GenText but SMSing has wider applications
As text messaging heads out of its teens, the language it fosters would not abjure vowels altogether in favour of speed.