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Nepal Floods: Over 70 Dead, 380 Travellers Missing as India Sends Aid and Gandak Threat Grows
Nepal Floods: Over 70 Dead, 380 Travellers Missing as India Sends Aid and Gandak Threat Grows
6 min read
The Bhotekoshi flash flood has buried settlements, swept away bridges and trapped workers inside a hydropower tunnel near the Tibet border. Over 100 Indians are among those out of contact, while Bihar ...
Cockroaches, Expired Food, Rotten Fruit: How FSSAI is Putting India's Kitchens Under the Scanner
5 min read
Two luxury hotels in Delhi's Aerocity are under scrutiny after Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) inspections reportedly uncovered expired food, pest infestations and dozens of hygie ...
Dolly Parton's Smartest Business Move Was Saying No to Elvis: How the Country Legend Built a $450 Million Empire
4 min read
Dolly Parton is being remembered as the Queen of Country Music. But behind the rhinestones, wigs and chart-topping hits was one of the sharpest business minds in entertainment—an entrepreneur whose bo ...
Starc Reality vs Boom Boom Bumrah: Who is Test Cricket’s Real No. 1?
6 min read
At 36, Mitchell Starc has reached the top of the ICC Test bowling rankings for the first time after 107 Tests, 445 wickets and a 10-wicket demolition of Bangladesh. Jasprit Bumrah has slipped while in ...
Aashirvaad’s Fit Maveli: When Advertising Gave Onam a Metabolic Makeover
6 min read
Aashirvaad replaced Onam’s familiar pot-bellied king with a fitter Maveli who recommends balanced meals and exercise. The health message is playful. But the commercial mission is heavier: can atta bor ...
Before Rohit Shetty, there was Kuku Kohli: The filmmaker behind Ajay Devgn's debut and Bollywood's mass-market era
3 min read
The filmmaker who launched Ajay Devgn with Phool Aur Kaante and delivered some of the biggest commercial entertainers of the 1990s has died at 77. But why does his influence extend far beyond a single ...
A Broken Shoulder, a Local Train and a Pistol: How Suruchi Phogat Shot Her Way into the Indian Jersey
8 min read
Her father wanted her to wrestle. A shattered shoulder ended that dream before it had properly begun. At 13, Suruchi Phogat picked up a pistol and started travelling nearly 100 kilometres by train to ...
Beyond the LAC: Why India and China Are Talking About Drawing the Border, Not Just Managing It
3 min read
At a key meeting in Beijing, India and China moved the conversation beyond troop disengagement and border stability to something far more ambitious: boundary delimitation. What exactly does that mean, ...
GIVA Hired Kriti Sanon. Kangana Ranaut Got Final Cut: Welcome to Outrage-Era Advertising
6 min read
GIVA withdrew its Raksha Bandhan advertisement after criticism of Kriti Sanon’s outfit, even as the actor defended it. The episode reveals advertising’s newest production hierarchy: the brand funds th ...