“Celebrate Freedom”. You will be reading these two words far too often this month. From weight loss clinics and neighbourhood bakeries to “boutiques” — anybody with any commercial interest will suddenly want to awaken the idea of freedom in you. The freedom here, mind you, is limited to ...
Nice attack: At least 84 dead as lorry rams into crowd
TERRORISM// At least 84 people were killed and 100 injured in the French city of Nice when a man deliberately drove a lorry into a crowd celebrating Bastille Day in France, the country’s main national holiday. The attacker behind the wheel drove at high speed along the famed Promenade des Anglai...
FOOTBALL// Portugual beat favourites France 1-0 last month to lift the Euro 2016 cup, their first major international trophy. And the amazing part was that they won this game without their captain and key player Cristiano Ronaldo. Ronaldo had to leave the field in the 23rd minute of the match aft...
INDIAN ATHLETES FAIL DOPE TEST
RIO OLYMPICS// With less than 10 days to go before the start of the Rio Olympics, two Indian sportsmen have failed dope tests. They are in danger of facing a ban and missing the Olympics altogether. The first to fail the test was wrestler Narsingh Yadav. Yadav was locked in a bitter fight with an...
TENNIS// The biggest moment of Serena Willliams’ career came last month as she lifted the Wimbledon trophy for the seventh time. It was also her 22nd Grand Slam win and with this, she has equaled Steffi Graf’s all-time record of 22 Grand Slams in the open era. This makes the 34-year old Americ...
Military aircraft goes missing over Bay of Bengal
IAF// A transport aircraft of the Indian Air Force (IAF) with 29 people on board went missing over the Bay of Bengal on July 24. A big search operation to find the aircraft has been launched but the plane is yet to be found. The aircraft which had IAF staff as well as people from the Indian Navy, ...
Floods Ravage North-East India
CALAMITY// Severe floods in India have affected more than 1.6 million people, buried hundreds of villages and almost submerged a national park, forcing wildlife to seek refuge on roads. With the weather office forecasting more rains, the situation is worst for the northeastern teagrowing state of ...
TERRORISM// Islamist terrorists launched a sudden attack on a posh restaurant in Dhaka's upmarket Gulshan diplomatic zone on July 1 killing 22 people, including 19-yearold Indian girl Tarishi Jain among 20 foreigners and two police officers while six suspected terrorists were gunned down in the co...
Expected Changes by Modi in Much Awaited Cabinet Reshuffle
POLITICS// Prime Minister Narendra Modi rejigged his council of ministers on July 5, inducting 19 new ministers in an exercise aimed both at pleasing voters in states headed for elections next year as well as speeding up efforts to boost economic growth. He also dropped five ministers. Smriti Iran...
Why wasn’t more done by the “Remain” camp to make sure the vote went in their favour? Was it arrogance? Or just being coconut in a sense of safety by choosing to only listen to the voices on social media? REFERENDUM DAY dawned and as far as London days go, it was a pleasant mid-20s. We Lond...
Salman Khan continues to be mired in controversies, but that hasn’t stopped his movies from being superhits. The latest, Sultan, is his tenth consecutive film to have crossed the Rs 100-crore business mark His wisecracks and his run-ins with the universally accepted norms of social demeanour no...
Nikon D500: The best DSLR camera for its price Would you like to own a digital camera that can not only capture astounding pictures at your home and surroundings, but also capture the sunset in the darkest of settings and even take pictures of the earth from outer space? Meet Nikon D500, probably...
Ethical fashion is about pursuing a socially and environmentally-responsible approach in sourcing, designing, manufacturing and marketing clothing WHILE THE POPULARITY of futuristic functional clothing is likely to be driven by its self-cleaning and self-warming/ cooling properties, or making ele...
BANKRUPTCY LAW: LOOKING FOR A BETTER CURE
While the government has taken a big leap with a creditor-friendly, time-bound bankruptcy law, it must also pay heed to the existing lacunas in the judicial process to ensure that the new insolvency law is indeed effective India is sitting on a ticking time bomb — the mounting non-performing as...
Image makeovers can transform your life. However, you need to look beyond a change in dressing style and makeup tips, and be the best you can be inside-out There is something so compelling about seeing how different someone can look — especially when it seems to happen by magic. Changing your i...
By giving the world a peek into Indian culture and tradition through his world-class theatre, Mohammed Ali Baig is simply following his heart and passion Aworld premiere of his 1857: Turrebaz Khan and a week-long run of Quli: Dilo ka Shahzaada, exclusively at the Edinburgh International Festival ...
India's space parable needs to be told by gospel singers AN INDIAN PSLV (Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle) rocket on June 22, 2016, delivered 20 satellites in orbit in one go. The launch vehicle had carried the Indian Cartosat-2C high-resolution optical Earth observation into a 507-km polar low Ear...
DISTRESSING THROUGH THE CURRENT UNREST IN JAMMU & KASHMIR IS, IT’S NOTHING NEW. BUT HOW AND WHEN WILL THERE BE A SOLUTION FOR THIS ALIENATION OF THE POPULACE OF THE STATE? SURYA GANGADHARAN// Some would see the recent government decision to not allow Indian children to study in Pakistani sc...
HARNESSING THE ENERGY OF NATURE
Set up with a vision to introduce cutting edge eco-friendly technologies to India, Greenassets.in, platform to promote sustainable investments in carbon reducing assets, is helping the world reduce the greenhouse gas emissions The goal isn’t to live forever; the goal is to create something that...
Syed Haider Raza’s art was meditative, emotional and personal “Bindu is a source of energy, source of life. Life begins here, attains infinity here.” —S H Raza, 1922-2016 When Raza sa’ab, one of the country’s foremost modern painters, also a founding member of the Progressive Artists...
GANESH SAILI’S book Gupp & Gossip from the hills, ‘is a wacky take-off about everyday things,’ says Saili, adding: ‘I am aware that humour isn’t the easiest thing to write. But living in a small town is like life lived in a fishbowl. Almost anyone knows your business or at least clai...
When Smita Patil died at the impossibly young age of 31, Smita Patil was indubitably one of Indian cinema’s biggest icons SMITA PATIL surmounted an actor’s biggest challenge — of acting without appearing to do so and total immersion in a role to an extent that viewers can nearly forget they...
GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK IS A VAST MAGICAL WONDER AND IS TRULY ‘GRAND’ IN EVERY SENSE OF THE WORD In awe of The Grand Canyon National Park, I must admit that it deserved much more time than was available. Listed as one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World and is thought to be somewhere...
Seeds such as pumpkin, sunflower, chia and sesame are loaded with protein and fibre, calcium and vitamin E, healthy fats and omega-3 fatty acids. And they taste wonderful! Dr Andrew Saul, in the movie Food Matters, had asked a question — “What would happen if everybody ate lots and lots of fr...