India’s Test captain Virat Kohli took the field along with team mates for a light session at Green Park, in Kanpur, on Sunday. The Indian players arrived in batches on Saturday for the Test match. The first ones to reach were Wriddhiman Saha, Cheteshwar Pujara and Ravindra Jadeja. The New Zealand team will arrive on Monday. The three-match Test series between Read More

India’s two leading software services companies, TCS and Infosys, have announced their first-quarter results for the current financial year. The results indicate that they are cruising along at a pace commensurate with a global economic environment that continues to be sluggish and problematic. This challenge has been made a little more daunting with the addition of two new uncertainties. Foremost Read More

The government has slashed prices of 10 more drugs while bringing eight new medicines, including paracetamol, under price control for the first time in its bid to cap cost of over 800 plus formulations to make them affordable. Drug price regulator NPPA has reduced the prices of ten drugs, including of anti-coagulant enoxaparin and anti- epilepsy drug carbamazepine, in the Read More

India has emerged as one of the world’s fastest growing import markets for Scotch whisky, a trade body said, on Friday, while seeking urgent help from the UK government to bring down India’s “exorbitant” 150 per cent customs duty on liquor. The Scotch Whisky Association (SWA) revealed the amount of Scotch whisky sold overseas increased for the first time since Read More

Former India captain Sourav Ganguly reckons that New Zealand are technically better-equipped to handle spinners than their much fancied Trans-Tasman rivals Australia. “New Zealand are aware of the fact that it would be hard to beat India in India. But if you compare them with England and Australia, New Zealand would be second best side after England. The conditions will Read More

Wholesale inflation soared to a two-year high of 3.74 per cent in August mainly on account of uptick in prices of pulses and some manufactured items, prompting the industry to step up its demand for structural reforms to deal with the price situation. Experts, however, attributed the rise in WPI inflation during the month to low base effect saying it Read More

Employees in India are getting ready for automated workplace as 63 per cent of workforce believes that machines will replace people for repetitive work. According to a study by ADP, a leader in Human Capital solutions, nearly two thirds (63 per cent) of employees in India believe automation, smart machines and artificial intelligence will replace people for repetitive work, and Read More

My family loves to do both — show off and test my movie knowledge from time to time. So I am not entirely taken aback on receiving an SMS from the husband inquiring, ‘Which Aamir Khan movie had the mention of Raman Raghav in it?’ Dil Hai Ki Manta Nahi, I text him back with a conviction that’s more reflexive Read More

Fans tuning in to the 2016 World Chess Championship from home may well have the best seats in the house, with the tournament set to be broadcast live in 360-degree Virtual Reality (VR) — a first in any sport, organisers say. Norway’s defending champion Magnus Carlsen will battle Russian challenger Sergey Karjakin — the winner of the candidates’ tournament — Read More

The BCCI’s ‘be present in person for interview’ clause for picking selectors has been borne out of a strong desire to avoid a Ravi Shastri-like fiasco in the future. – Shastri slams ‘disrespectful’ Ganguly over interview snub Clause 11 of selection criteria put up by the Indian Cricket Board states: “Candidates should be willing to appear for personal interview”, indicating that Read More