How B Saroja Devi became Kannada cinema’s female superstar
B. Saroja Devi in the 1977 Kannada film ‘Bhagyavantharu’, B Saroja Devi, who passed away at 87 on Monday (July 14, 2025), is a great example of a self-made star. Debuting…
How the Great Trigonometric Survey led to the mapping of India
Chennai, then Madras, 1819. Syed Mir Mohsin Husain, a jeweller from Arcot, was working in the store of his employer, George Gordon, when some British military officials stopped by with…
Brics+ could get the globe to work out a better-balanced world order
Brics+ is an eclectic grouping of countries. It owes its conception to a Wall Street report written a quarter of a century ago about the initial four ‘Bric’ countries and…
Statistics and Politics Are a Dangerous Mix
(Bloomberg Opinion) -- How much longer can we trust government statistics? After staffing shortages at the Bureau of Labor Statistics reportedly affected the agency’s ability to collect data for the…
Who is Varun Aaron? Meet Sunrisers Hyderabad’s new bowling coach, worked as commentator in IPL 2025
Former India pacer Varun Aaron, who worked as a commentator in the previous season of the Indian Premier League (IPL), has been roped in as bowling coach of Sunrisers Hyderabad.…
Sensex, Nifty fall for fourth day on selling in IT shares, foreign fund outflows
The 30-share BSE Sensex dropped by 247.01 points or 0.30%, to settle at 82,253.46 and the 50-share NSE Nifty settled lower by 67.55 points or 0.27%, at 25,082.30. File |…