Noodles can now be a healthier option
By Rajneesh Bhasin Asians for ages have been in love with noodles — for the fun, taste and a “full-up feeling” which makes it a complete meal in itself. From being an integral part of…
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RERA: Real estate sector poised for urban renaissance
By Sudhir Pai Come May 1 and the much-awaited Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act (RERA) is expected to usher in an urban renaissance in India. There is a certain palpable sense of excitement among…
Literary ‘links’: A round of golf through popular literature
By Vikas Datta Involving traversing fairways bounded by roughs and hazards for the unwary, a progressive set of goals to achieve through varying levels of difficulty, and performers of varying calibre and skill, golf might…
Kejriwal a dangerous idea: No establishment will let him survive
By Saeed Naqvi The wag has a point. The 2017 Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) elections, we are being persistently reminded, were won by the BJP handsomely because of a single factor: a Modi wave….
Who will stop the BJP? No one in sight
By Amulya Ganguli After the resounding victories of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the UP assembly and Delhi municipal elections, the party increasingly appears to be politically invincible. The three parties which offered some…
‘High Noon’ and more cinematic heights: Hollywood’s realistic director
By Vikas Datta As a story goes, this director, who was behind some of Hollywood’s most path-breaking films across genres, helmed debuts of many who would become its biggest stars, and won Oscars galore in…
Sam Smith might make comeback with Clean Bandit
London, April 28 (IANS) Grammy Award-winning singer Sam Smith is reportedly working with British electronic music group Clean Bandit. According to dailystar.co.uk, Smith is teaming up with the “Rockabye” hitmakers on a follow up to…
Emerging trend of ‘Build & Sell’ model in housing
By Vinod Behl Three years ago, when Manav Singh, an aviation entrepreneur from Shimla, forayed into real estate with the launch of a mega 100-acre luxury township in the picturesque Auramah Valley, next to popular…
From angry young man to angry father: Vinod Khanna’s cinematic voyage
Veteran Bollywood actor Vinod Khanna, who died in a Mumbai hospital after a prolonged illness on April 27, 2017. (File Photo: IANS) By Vikas Datta He came into prominence playing an angry young man in…
India can bolster Snapchat’s prospects as Facebook goes after it
By Nishant Arora New Delhi, April 26 (IANS) Founded in 2004, Facebook — on track to hit two billion active monthly users this year — is now the fifth-largest US firm by market capitalisation (exceeding…
Is it Cold War-II already?
By Gulshan Luthra The April 13 Mother of All Bombs (MOAB) strike by the United States on ISIS terrorists in Afghanistan has triggered suggestions that a second round of the Cold War is set to…
As Mallya’s custody sought, India’s extradition success rate is 36 per cent
By Rakesh Dubbudu The government has sought custody of liquor baron Vijay Mallya from the UK, but Indias success rate at extradition has been no more than 36 per cent over 15 years, according to…
Media shouldn’t sensationalise earthquakes
By Arun Bapat Most educated people are used to sipping tea and reading a newspaper in the morning. If other family members are sitting in the same room, they sometimes exchange news. Disaster-related news is…
Afghanistan, Africa new priorities, but a small monarchy remains India’s top foreign-aid priority
By Vipul Vivek The monarchy of Bhutan has remained the biggest beneficiary — by amount and share — of Indian foreign aid for 17 years, but over the last nine years, Afghanistan has made it…
Of Oppenheimer and the Bhagwat Gita
🔊 Listen to this By Mayank Chhaya In the midst of heightened posturing by North Korea over a potential thermonuclear war Saturday April 22 is the 113th birth anniversary of Julius Robert Oppenheimer, a father…
Turning Ataturk’s Turkey upside down, Erdogan to visit Delhi
🔊 Listen to this By Saeed Naqvi When Turkish strongman Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrives in New Delhi on April 30, he will find in his host, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, something of a kindred spirit….
Babri demolition case may bring out skeletons in BJP’s closet
🔊 Listen to this By Amulya Ganguli Just when the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was hoping for success across the board from panchayats to parliament, the revival of the case against some of its leaders…
India reports significant reductions in neglected tropical diseases
By IndiaSpend Team India has achieved the target for eliminating visceral leishmaniasis (kala azar), a neglected tropical disease (NTD), in 82 per cent sub-districts, according to the fourth World Health Organization (WHO) report on NTDs…
Beard war intensifies, as official punished for not smoking
By Nury Vittachi An atheist friend got in my car the other day and I snapped him into prayer mode with a single line: “Put on your seat belt, I want to try something.” Heh…
Stem cells and the art of giving
By Madhu Srivastava Our health scenario has undergone drastic changes over the past few decades. Is it not fair to say that given today’s lifestyles, finding someone who is completely fit and healthy is quite…