Preet Sandhuu, Co-founder and Chairman, AVPL International. Image: Amit Verma Hisar, Haryana. Jyoti Malik was born an ‘idealistic’ person. She wanted to fly high, be independent—financially and emotionally—and start her venture. Schooling in Mumbai gave her wings, college from Chandigarh raised her hopes, and her determination to make it big stoked her passion. But then came … Read more
The daughter of one of the six Israeli hostages whose bodies were brought back from Gaza by Israel’s military on Tuesday has accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of putting “political priorities” ahead of a ceasefire and hostage release deal. Inbal Albini Peri told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that her 80-year-old father Chaim and his … Read more
Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!” roars Michael Corleone in The Godfather: Part III. He wants to put his life of crime behind him and go legit, but circumstances conspire against him. It’s a frustration shared by tyrants. Being one, Marcel Dirsus says, is “like being stuck on a … Read more
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Angela Rayner, the secretary of state for housing, communities and local government, and Louise Haigh, the transport secretary, announced on Monday that they had approved London City airport’s application to expand. The airport submitted a proposal to increase capacity from 6.5 … Read more
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Ollie Pope will captain England in this series but Ben Stokes will be there in spirit (and in the dressing room). Share “Talking of Graham Thorpe’s little acts of kindness, did you see Alison Kervin describing how he offered to look … Read more
Prime Minister Narendra Modi‘s Ukraine visit this week will see New Delhi and Kyiv “share perspectives” on the peaceful resolution of the ongoing Ukraine-Russia conflict. PM Modi departed for Poland on Wednesday and will visit Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, on Friday, marking the first visit to Ukraine by an Indian Prime Minister since diplomatic relations … Read more
A brilliant, imaginative woman; a mediocre man with too high an idea of himself, in need of a woman to destroy. It’s a dynamic that goes back to George Eliot’s Middlemarch or Henry James’s The Portrait of a Lady, novels that wreaked havoc with conventional ideas about to whom brilliance is meant to belong and forced … Read more
Michelle Obama mentions Donald Trump’s ‘black job’ comment Michelle and Barack Obama gave resounding endorsements of Kamala Harris on Tuesday night at the Democratic National Convention, exhorting party supporters across the US to turn out and vote to defeat Donald Trump in November. “Hope is making a comeback,” Mrs Obama told the crowd at the … Read more
Jason Kenny reckons standing on an Olympic podium is overrated. In fact, it was always his least favourite part of being an athlete. “It’s just a bit awkward, really,” says the man who did it nine times. “You have to suck it up – but it’s like forced fun, you know?” Apparently Britain’s greatest Olympian is not … Read more
“The first Premier League goal of the season came after 87 minutes,” tweets Daniel Hill. “What is the longest wait for the first goal from the start of a Premier League campaign?” The answer depends in part on whether you count minutes gone in the season or cumulative minutes played. Let us explain. Peter Beagrie … Read more