Lunchbreaks are when Anjali Mehta, a 29-year-old schoolteacher in Kanpur, finds time to think about her investments. She checks the latest options on her cell phone and recently earmarked Rs 5,000 for her fifth contribution to a mutual fund this year. The amount was small. But the decision was anything but casual. “I consider these…
Kitu Gidwani has bagged the Best Actress Award for her role in the film Dance of the Wind at the prestigious Festival of Three Continents in Nantes, France. It’s a rare honour, it’s also her first international award. ISSUE DATE: Dec 29, 1997 | UPDATED: May 22, 2013 11:52 IST Source link
When Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla floated into the International Space Station (ISS) from the Crew Dragon capsule that had docked with it on June 26, he wasn’t feeling too good. Despite being a test pilot in the Indian Air Force, like most astronauts on their maiden flight into orbit, Shukla admitted that his head felt…
Just 10 days before the London Gatwick-bound Air India flight AI 171 crashed within seconds of takeoff in Ahmedabad on June 12, the airline had been busy staging its most high-profile media blitz since privatisation. On the sidelines of the International Air Transport Association’s (IATA) annual general meeting in New Delhi from June 1-3, Air…
In 2021, Aria was Gauthami, a dorky teenager on a year-long break from studies. Then she decided to audition online to be a K-Pop idol. “When I first introduced my dream to my family over dinner, everybody laughed and felt it was one of my crazy obsessions,” she says. Today, she’s a member of the…
An unusual ARMY of 80 assembled in a studio in Mumbai on July 13. All clad in purple, they screamed what seemed to be the names of their deities: “Kim Namjoon! Kim Seokjin! Min Yoongi! Jung Hoseok! Park Jimin! Kim Taehyung! Jeon Jungkook! BTS!” They were chanting the names of the seven members of the…
