In the foreword to the imaginatively titled Net Flicks: India’s Smashing Affair with the Shuttle, a history of Indian badminton, the legendary former player Pullela Gopi Chand writes of the “remarkable journey for Indian badminton” from the early years characterised by a lack of facilities to the current era when our players have “access to
New Delhi: India plans to take away the power of state drug regulators to grant approvals to manufacture antibiotics as the country faces the world’s worst public health threat from antimicrobial resistance developed by overuse and abuse of medicines. Antimicrobial medicines used to treat infections from pathogens—including bacteria, viruses and fungi—will now be categorized “new
India-Bangladesh ties should not be “regime-specific”, Bangladesh Foreign Affairs Adviser Touhid Hossain said. After holding talks with External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar at the 8th Indian Ocean Conference organised in Muscat, Mr. Hossain said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bangladesh Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus may finally meet on the sidelines of the BIMSTEC Summit
London-based Sotheby’s, the world’s oldest auction house, emerged as a top performer in the Indian art market in 2024, more than doubling its sales to ₹304 crore or $35.1 million by auctioning artworks from the portfolio of contemporary south Asian art. Representatives of the gallery said that growth is promising, with paintings of Raza, Gaitonde
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Relatives of Pinky Devi, 38, who died at the New Delhi Railway Station stampede. At least 18 people were killed and more than a dozen injured in the crowd rush, in New Delhi on February 15. | Photo Credit: PTI A confluence of poor railway safety measures and a frenzy of devotees rushing to board
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DOGE cancels $21M India voter fund: Billionaire Elon Musk-led US government’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) announced on February 16 that it has cancelled $21 million ‘taxpayer’ money intended for increasing ‘voter turnout in India’. The move is part of DOGE’s ongoing crackdown on United States Agency for International Development (USAID) – funded projects. Why
Stand-up comedian Saikiran Rayaprolu, known simply as Saikiran, doesn’t believe in gimmicks. In a stand-up scene where hyper-local jokes and viral soundbites often dictate success, he is a bit different. His comedy is not peppered with city-specific jabs or risqué punchlines — it is observational, universally relatable, and, notably, clean. “I perform completely in English,
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An artisan sells his handcrafted wooden products in Surajkund Mela. | Photo Credit: ASHOK KUMAR Engaged in wood craft work, Mohammad Shoaib and his brother Rehan Ahmed, belonging to Uttar Pradesh’s Saharanpur, are regulars to the Surajkund International Crafts Mela for the last two decades. Both brothers earn well from the fair, which is held
The statue of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar adjacent to Golden Temple after a vandalisation attempt by a man, in Amritsar, on January 27, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI On Republic Day, a man attempted to vandalise a life-sized statue of B.R. Ambedkar, adjacent to the Golden Temple, in Amritsar, Punjab. When images were circulated showing him
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With IPL 2025 streaming behind a paywall (with limited hours of free viewing), JioHotstar aims to reassure advertisers by offering independent, real-time campaign performance data, a long-standing demand in the industry. Under the collaboration, Nielsen will establish a dedicated data pipeline to track ad effectiveness on JioHotstar, leveraging its audience analytics expertise and first-party data
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