Oxford University to honour New Zealand ex-PM Jacinda Ardern, Sir Mo Farah, 7 others with honorary degreesFormer New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, recognized for her leadership during the Covid-19 pandemic, will receive an honorary degr...
28 Apr, 2025, 09.32 AM IST
Welcome to the Bigg Boss world of doing business, where the 30-sec spectacle is kingDonald Trump's unconventional approach to diplomacy, illustrated by his confrontational meeting with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, signals a shift t...
08 Mar, 2025, 11.21 PM IST
Queen Elizabeth II left sealed death-bed letter for son Charles, claims new biographyQueen Elizabeth II, who passed away in September 2022 at the age of 96, reportedly left a sealed death-bed letter for her son and heir, Kin...
13 Jan, 2024, 04.51 PM IST
Six crypto investment lessons you can learn from Ranveer Singh starrer '83'Kabir Khan's directorial skills, a star-studded performance, and a story based on real-life events made a heady concoction on the big scree...
27 Dec, 2021, 10.19 PM IST
Test cricket and the English: Your Test for our cotton, natives!There’s something I’ve realised about Test cricket and the English. It is sacred to them. As sacred as The Empire, the Netflix show The Cro...
18 Sep, 2021, 11.33 PM IST
Spare a Thought for Mir Jafar TomorrowIndia isn’t the only country that reads a ‘bad guy’ from history unfairly.
13 Aug, 2021, 11.44 PM IST
UK imposes export bar on 1-million pound colonial era Mughal dagger, scabbard"This beautiful example of a Mughal dagger and scabbard has a lot to teach us about both the British in India and the nature of diplomatic ...
21 Jul, 2021, 06.55 AM IST
View: The Left must privilege national politics over the local in the upcoming assembly electionsThe upcoming round of assembly elections in Bengal, Assam and Kerala will have a large bearing on national politics, the outcome of the con...
16 Feb, 2021, 11.29 PM IST
Future of Gandhi's statue in Wales in question after slave trade reviewWales has a bronze sculpture of Gandhi at Cardiff Bay, unveiled in 2017 to mark the 148th birth anniversary of the leader of the Indian nat...
28 Nov, 2020, 07.28 PM IST
View: History is distorted by every group; setting that right is tougher than toppling statuesPulling down a statue is relatively easy. What’s far more difficult is presenting a historical counter-narrative to the one that has been f...
06 Jul, 2020, 10.45 AM IST
SCs of Veerashaiva/Lingayat sect to lose reservation if separate religion tag given: Union ministerYesterday, the Karnataka government accepted a proposal to grant a separate religion status to the Lingayat community.
20 Mar, 2018, 05.33 PM IST
India, UK in ugly spat over spot in International Court of JusticeWhat has angered India, which is actively working to thwart Britain’s move, is that the mechanism has never been used in ICJ history to bre...
19 Nov, 2017, 11.50 AM IST
Subramanian Swamy terms IDFC's Rs 550-crore loan to GST Network as 'loot'"Scandal: IDFC gives a loan of Rs 550 crore today to GSTN. Guarantor: GOI, not majority shareholders! Why? Looting India Robert Clive way,"...
09 Sep, 2016, 10.18 PM IST
Dear Shashi Tharoor, the fault was not in the Raj, but in ourselvesTharoor sought reparations for the Raj. These being mainly moral reparations, yes, but coming out of a conviction that the Raj was a very b...
26 Jul, 2015, 11.33 AM IST
Sony hackers reveal Hollywood stars' secret aliasesThe latest Sony hacking leak revealed aliases and fake names which were used by celebrities to protect their privacy during film shoots.
10 Dec, 2014, 04.10 PM IST
Meet book collector Alok Nanda who owns around 2,000 antiquarian booksAs founder of a design agency, his collection began as a work-related activity, but he now owns around 2,000 antiquarian books.
21 Nov, 2014, 01.49 PM IST
- KKR, Permira close in on German broadcaster
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co and Permira Advisers are close to winning the auction for ProSiebenSat.1 Media, Germany’s biggest broadcaster,...
15 Dec, 2006, 12.00 AM IST