Virat Kohli’s Faith Kept Me From Retiring, Says Yuvraj Singh
Yuvraj Singh revealed post his match-winning knock on Thursday that he could have retired from the game had skipper Virat Kohli not shown faith in him. The southpaw smashed a career-best 150 to power India to a formidable score of 381/6 after the team was reeling at 25/3. A 256-run partnership with veteran Mahendra Singh […]
Maha episode: Mohini to die in Zee TV’s Brahmarakshas
Gear up for a maha episode in Zee TV’s Brahmarakshas (Balaji Telefilms). The upcoming episode will mark the exit of Rakshanda Khan aka Mohini in the above thriller drama. As per the plot, the supernatural powers of the stone in the forest will make Rishab (Aham Sharma) and Raina (Krystle Dsouza) unconscious. Later, when Raina will […]
Vin Diesel, Deepika Padukone at xXx promotion: When superstars wowed Mumbai
Vin Diesel and Deepika Padukone charmed all at the premier of their new film, xXx: Return of Xander Cage, at PVR Cinema, High Street Phoenix, Lower Parel, Mumbai on January 12, 2017. (Prodip Guha/HT PHOTO) Click here to read more… Credit: www.hindustantimes.com
Priyanka Chopra wins second People’s Choice Award for Quantico, watch her acceptance speech
Trust Priyanka Chopra to always come back with a vengeance. After she had us all worried with her on-set injury last week, Priyanka was seen in action once again at the People’s Choice Awards 2017. And she not only won the red carpet — obviously, she won her second People’s Choice Award for Quantico as […]
India’s online spend to touch Rs875,600 crore by 2018: Report
New Delhi: Indian shoppers are likely to spend almost 85% more on global online marketplaces in 2017 across categories, said a report jointly published by digital payments platform PayPal and market research firm Ipsos. The report titled PayPal Cross-Border Consumer Research 2016 projected that the overall online spending in the country (including domestic and cross-border) […]
Why oil can spoil India’s budget math
Mumbai: One of the biggest drivers of India’s superlative macro-economic performance in the recent past has been a relatively under-appreciated element: oil. Since 2014, the dramatic fall in crude oil prices has helped India contain her twin deficits, and tame inflation. But with oil exporting countries planning to curtail oil supply, raising the possibility of […]
N. Chandrasekaran begins long road to restoring Tata group’s image
Bangalore/Mumbai: Amid the carnage on Wall Street in 2008, as Bank of America Corp. was trying to forge its rushed merger with Merrill Lynch & Co., Natarajan Chandrasekaran boarded a plane for New York to try to reassure the two financial behemoths that an Indian IT company could make the systems of their strikingly different […]
Brexit trade deal with India ‘at risk’ without visa reform
One of Britain’s most important post-Brexit trade partnerships+ could be at risk due to Theresa May’s refusal to reform visa restrictions for Indian citizens. The British Prime Minister has insisted leaving the EU would allow Britain to find other partners abroad and India, the world’s fastest growing major economy, was the first country she visited, […]
Indian Outsourcing Firms Prep for Curbs on H-1B Visa Workers Under Trump
NEW DELHI—President-elect Donald Trump doesn’t take office in Washington until Friday, but he is already forcing firms in India’s mammoth $108 billion technology-outsourcing industry to rethink their hiring practices in the U.S., their largest market. While Mr. Trump has chastised U.S. firms for offshoring American jobs, Indian outsourcing firms could be set to see renewed […]
Indian investor jailed in insider trading case in US
NEW YORK: An Indian-origin ex-private equity investor has been jailed for 20 months for tipping off two friends about the proposed 2013 acquisition of Cooper Tire & Rubber Company by India-based Apollo Tyre, an insider trading scheme that netted over $1 million in illegal profits. Amit Kanodia,, 49, of Brookline, was sentenced yesterday by US […]
‘Haley to embody vibrant parts of American society before UN’
WASHINGTON: As a “proud daughter” of Indian-American immigrants, Nikki Haley, tapped by US President-elect Donald Trump to be the ambassador of US to the United nations, will embody vibrant parts of the American society before the world forum, the Trump Transition team has said. South Carolina Governor Haley, whose Sikh parents immigrated from Punjab, is […]
After Indian flag doormat, Amazon withdraws offensive flip-flops
After Amazon withdrew a Tri-coloured doormat offensive to Indian sensitivities from its Canadian platform in the face of warnings by external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj, the e-commerce major has now also pulled out flip-flops bearing the picture of Mahatma Gandhi, a senior official said on Thursday. “We have been in touch with Amazon both in […]
Barack Obama calls Narendra Modi, PM thanks him for boosting strategic ties
NEW DELHI: Just ahead of Donald Trump’s inauguration as the President of the United States, President Barack Obama called up Prime Minister Narendra Modi to review “all round progress” in the relations between US and India. As he wished the outgoing US President well for his future endeavours, Modi thanked Obama for strengthening the strategic […]
Kashmir an ‘unfinished agenda’ of partition: Raheel Sharif
Asked whether peace and economic prosperity could be achieved in South Asia without the resolution of Kashmir dispute, Raheel was quoted by the Express Tribune as saying, “There are three words to explain how to move forward and these are Kashmir, Kashmir and Kashmir.” Raheel termed Kashmir as the “unfinished agenda” of the partition, saying […]
Jallikattu protests continue to rock TN; AR Rahman, Rajinikanth show support
Top Tamil Nadu celebrities Rajinikanth, Kamal Haasan, AR Rahman and Viswanathan Anand came out in support of Jallikattu on Thursday, as protests against a court ban on the traditional and popular bull-taming sport continued to rock the southern state. Oscar-winning music composer Rahman tweeted he would fast on Friday to “support the spirit” of […]
