1. India defeats Sri Lanka. Kashyap is Man of the Match

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    Parupalli Kashyap played with an assured authority and confidence for the third day running to reach the quarter-finals of the Olympics, the first Indian men’s singles player to do so. Niluka Karunaratne made a valiant effort to discover a way past the Indian, but he could only take Kashyap the...
  2. No AIADMK, no DMK in Indian delegation to Lanka

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    DMK chief M Karunanidhi has pulled out his party representative out of the Parliamentary delegation scheduled to visit Sri Lanka from 16-22 April to assess the resettlement and political process in the island nation. There was no use of such visits and therefore DMK would not be part of the...
  3. `The Burning Train’ starring Mamata Banerjee

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    The Sun rises in the East. Dinesh Trivedi discovered yesterday that `his sun’ also set in the East. Over one hundred years after the capital of India shifted from Kolkata (then Calcutta) to Delhi, Mamata Banerjee’s Indianised version of the East India Company is threatening to gain control once again....
  4. The Cup that cheers, is finally ours

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    By Vijaya Nadar   What a night ! A night to beat all nights hollow. A night when the men in blue took centrestage, with a performance, none can find flaws in. Incredible to see the team which was faltering all along the World Cup, gain momentum and produce a...
  5. Will India Lord it over Mumbai?

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    My colleague in Bangalore, Vasanthi Hariprakash, a self-confessed cricket-hater posted this on Facebook the morning after the Mohali clash : “Now I realise, I should have gone to Tirupati yesterday. I am sure there would have been no soul, no queue either for darshan or for the world-famous laddoo !”...

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