The wheel may well be coming full circle. It was another world when I first met Peter Mukerjea, CEO, Star TV in his Mumbai office. The year was 1997. I tried to interest him in journalism; he, talked of Boeing, Mercedes and Bajaj. The new buzzwords were “sales†and “ratingsÂâ€. He looked through me as...
Why do slim and curvy women attract most men the most? Learn it from a novel “evolutionary fitness†model that predicts why modern males scout for physically attractive and slim female partners....
.Book: Poison Spring: The Secret History of Pollution and the EPA; Author: E.G. Vallianatos with McKay Jenkins; Publisher: Bloomsbury Press; Pages: 284; Price: Rs. 399 ...
Roughly 32,000 new voters enrolled in each constituency for this year's assembly election in Bihar may play a decisive role in determining the ultimate poll result. The presence of these new voters becomes important in the light of the fact that during the last two assembly elections in the state, the victory margins of many of the winning candidates ranged between...
Dev Tamboli, a worker in Qatar, said his sister was held captive in Al Ain by a human trafficking gang last week, Xpress Abu Dhabi newspaper reported on Wednesday....
List of 98 cities and towns selected under the Smart Cities mission (population in brackets):...
Will the religious census released by the central government on Tuesday stir up India's political cauldron? Reports from two states with a sizeable Muslim population suggest that it just could....
Not only one of the best-known writers from the tense 1930s to the swinging 1960s, Dennis Yates Wheatley (1897-1977) was also extraordinarily well-read with a massive library of first editions and his writings betray a wealth of literary influences - Jules Verne, Bram Stoker, but particularly Alexandre Dumas and his iconic Musket...
Mary Kom, the only Indian boxer to have a bio-pic made on her, also said after her retirement post the Olympics, she wants to invest her experience in training talented youths to create boxers like herself....
We all love bold economic forecasts, especially contrarian ones. And every once in a while, they turn out to be correct. Economists who correctly called great market booms and busts, global recessions, identified green shoots before sharp cyclical recoveries and predicted black swan events correctly are given legendary status. Of course, to some ex...
