End is nigh: Are we ready for a Rafa-less tennis world?Rafael Nadal's absence from Wimbledon due to a tendon injury has sparked discussions about the fragility of athletes' bodies. Despite his a...
01 Jul, 2023, 11.40 PM IST
Rail against GoI, Rahul, but rail betterTweeting that India is 'going the Sri Lankan way' is also the kind of 'The end of the world is nigh' prognostication we have come to expect...
28 May, 2022, 12.25 AM IST
Cryptoverse: Is the end of the bitcoin winter nigh?Bitcoin is just not attractive to retail investors right now. Nobody really sees that potential for bitcoin to give out 10 times (return),"...
24 May, 2022, 11.35 AM IST
Drop off the Face (Book) of the cosmosThis disruption to network traffic had a cascading effect on the way our data centres communicate, bringing our services to a halt.' In non...
06 Oct, 2021, 12.06 AM IST
Bunking lessons from an SFH bunkerTo dodge online classes will require more than pretending to be a hacker
24 Aug, 2021, 11.31 PM IST
Noted journalist and author Anil Dharker deadDharker, who was in his mid-70s, was the editor of several publications including Mid-Day and The Independent and played a vital role in op...
26 Mar, 2021, 11.38 AM IST
View: It's the end of our wait for vaccine news, now a very different kind of wait beginsWith a coronavirus vaccine now around the proverbial corner, Indrajit Hazra notices a change in the nature of waiting - from a weariness fo...
04 Dec, 2020, 11.22 PM IST
MEA ready to assist repatriation even as Bengal drags it feetThe MEA on Thursday nigh tannounced that it is ready to facilitate flights if Bengal Govt announces quarantine facilities for evacuees. As ...
15 May, 2020, 10.42 PM IST
Assam industrial policy to check fly by night operatorsLocal industry body, Federation of Industry and Commerce of North East Region (FINER) has welcomed the new state industrial policy.
25 Jul, 2019, 11.50 AM IST
Shunning time will not stop the clockThe Norwegian village of Sommaroy have reportedly petitioned their parliament to declare their island a 'time-free zone'.
01 Jul, 2019, 09.33 AM IST
Yield curve shows US recession may be nighThe US yield curve has been flattening, or in some parts gone inverted.
19 Dec, 2018, 07.40 AM IST
Time-honoured ties that no longer bindThe British Parliament, that bastion of ritual and ceremony, has ditched ties as a mandatory male accessory in the House of Commons thanks ...
03 Jul, 2017, 11.18 PM IST
Growth opportunities in India 'compelling': DBS CEOBusiness leaders at the forum also highlighted potential opportunities in the conversion of the Indian economy into a digital less-cash eco...
30 Mar, 2017, 01.56 PM IST
The End (of the Year) is NighThe last day of the last month of the year becomes, of course, more palpable when it becomes the last night of the last month of the year.
31 Dec, 2016, 12.07 AM IST
The end of the world is not nigh. Surely not courtesy any rogue asteroidPartypooper Nasa has confirmed that our planet won’t be obliterated by any space debris now or any time soon.
22 Aug, 2015, 05.27 AM IST
Here is why Captain Kirk Star Trek mission was just rightThat the universe is expanding — fast — is accepted; surely, scientists can theorise colourfully about its implications if they stick to th...
23 Jun, 2015, 07.02 AM IST
Time to trigger desi-hued extraterrestrial imaginingsEven before the advent of the Space Age, this science fictional landscape was a romping ground in mostly American, Russian and British cult...
24 Sep, 2014, 04.00 AM IST