I’ve always been too awkward, too self-conscious, to laugh out loud in theatres. But there were parts in Steven Spielberg’s The BFG that blew all reticence into smithereens, that inspired the sort of wide-eyed wonder and unabashed laughter we all promised our childhood selves we’d safeguard into adulthood. For those ... Read More »

Fresh violence, including attacks on Army camps, on Friday left 65 people injured in Kashmir as protesters defied curfew and restrictions in 10 districts on a day when separatists had called for a protest march towards the Jamia Masjid here. A Srinagar-based police spokesman said 70 incidents of stone-pelting were ... Read More »

The Islamic State has executed at least 24 civilians after seizing a village in northern Syria from a US-backed Kurdish-Arab alliance, a monitor said on Friday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said IS executed 24 civilians “in the last 24 hours” after taking Buyir from the Syrian Democratic Forces. ... Read More »

Controversial former BJP leader Dayashankar Singh, who made derogatory remarks against the former Chief Minister Mayawati, was arrested by the UP police with the help of the Bihar police. Mr. Singh was arrested at Sugar Mill Colony in Buxar. Mr. Singh, who originally hails from Buxar district, spent his childhood ... Read More »

Sruthi Palaniappan, whose parents immigrated to the United States in 1992 from Chennai, was the youngest delegate to attend to the Democratic National Convention (DNC) that ended on Thursday night. The 18-year-old high school graduate is set to join the Harvard University to study government.  She also spoke on behalf ... Read More »

Keeping the guessing game going, SBI Chairperson Arundhati Bhattacharya on Friday stated that her name being considered for RBI’s Governor’s position is media speculation as she is “not saying anything” on it. Responding to a media query on the most talked about succession race to the Mint Street corner office, ... Read More »

Figures submitted by State governments to the National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) have led the monitoring body to observe that while “many States have generally allocated funds to the Scheduled Caste Sub-Plan (SCSP) on a par with the Scheduled Castes (SC) population of the States, the actual expenditures under ... Read More »

Declared a proclaimed offender by the Indian authorities and now living in London, liquor baron Vijay Mallya failed to get any relief from the Delhi High Court which on Friday asked him to appear before the trial court in a number of cheque-bounce cases filed against him by Delhi International ... Read More »

It’s a barren plot on the outskirts of Istanbul, its stony ground baking under the merciless summer sun. A single sign gives a macabre clue as to the intended use of the arid patch. “Traitors’ graveyard,” say the white capital letters on the black sign, planted on two stakes into ... Read More »

In the worst case of flooding the city has witnessed in a decade, large parts of south eastern part of Bengaluru, home to the city’s IT hub with large residential areas and garment factories, was left inundated as three lakes overflowed on Friday. The first flood reports came from Madiwala ... Read More »

China and Russia are underscoring their military partnership, by holding a joint naval exercise in the South China Sea (SCS), following a ruling, by an international tribunal at The Hague, which did not go in Beijing’s favour. The drill will “enhance the capabilities of the two navies to jointly deal ... Read More »

Most self-respecting tea aficionados, who take their cuppa a tad too seriously, have a pet peeve: a brew called masala chai. “There’s no real flavour of tea leaves”, “overwhelming spices”, “too much milk”: the complaints against it can go on and on. Yet, for most of us aam aurat and ... Read More »