BOLSTERED by their best-ever show in the ranking rounds, Indian archers will look to end a 36-year-long wait for an Olympic medal with yet another good show in the medal rounds that will get underway with the women's finals here on Sunday. Indian archery fraternity can hope for multiple medals…
NEERAJ PANDEY, celebrated for directing thrillers like "A Wednesday" and "Special 26", has turned his attention to a love story with his latest film, "Auron Mein Kahan Dum Tha". This film, which stars Ajay Devgn and Tabu, represents Pandey’s long-held aspiration to direct a romance. Pandey has been in the…
MARKETS regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has barred fugitive businessman Vijay Mallya from the securities markets and restrained him from associating with any listed firm for three years. The market regulator took this step after it was found that Mallya routed funds into the Indian securities market…
AS IS the case with any Olympic Games host, Paris has become a melting pot right now and those who have made the effort to travel are liking the experience so far. Last night, even a heavy downpour did little to diminish the spirit of the spectators, thousands of them…
WEST BENGAL chief minister Mamata Banerjee walked out of the Niti Aayog meeting in New Delhi on Saturday as she said she was stopped from speaking "after just five minutes". She also slammed the Union Budget for 2024-25, calling it "biased". "I have come out boycotting the meeting. (Andhra Pradesh…
A TOTAL of 633 incidents of death of Indian students abroad were reported in the last five years due to various reasons, including natural causes, the government said in Lok Sabha on Friday. Canada tops the list with 172 cases, followed by the US (108), the UK (58), Australia (57)…
THE STAR of "Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar", Taha Shah Badussha, said turning showstopper for designers Abu Jani and Sandeep Khosla at the opening show of the India Couture Week 2024 is an honour. Badussha, 36, shot to fame with his role of Nawab Tajdar Baloch in the popular Netflix series…
ON MAY 2, 1999, a 30-something Tashi Namgyal stumbled through the snow in the upper reaches of Kargil's Batalik sector looking for his missing yak through binoculars. What he found instead was something that lives on as a grim marker in the subcontinent's volatile history. Twenty-five years later, as India…
FORMER US president Barack Obama and his wife Michelle endorsed Kamala Harris' bid for president on Friday in a roughly one-minute long video that captured a private phone call between the couple and the current vice president. "We called to say Michelle and I couldn't be prouder to endorse you…
THE SUPREME COURT on Friday extended its July 22 interim order staying the directives issued by the BJP-ruled Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, and Madhya Pradesh, asking eateries along the Kanwar Yatra routes to display the names of their owners, staff and other details. A large number of devotees travel from various…