The International Pet Photographer of the Year Awards is an annual celebration of the artistry and skill of professional and emerging pet photographers from all around the globe by The Pet Photographers Club which began as a podcast in 2018.
Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi on Tuesday allocated portfolios to the new ministers, keeping 14 departments with himself and giving home affairs to deputy chief minister Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa and health to other deputy O P Soni.
'The Mount Everest Base Camp is at a height of 5,364 metres and no child with Down Syndrome has trekked till there at such a young age; Avnish is only seven years old.'
'There are a lot of really unhappy people out there.'
Aseem Chhabra lists his favourite films from the recent Toronto International Film Festival.
Spin's rather old-fashioned and vanilla depiction of the Indian American way is a bit of a bummer, feels Sukanya Verma.
Shut for nearly a year due to the pandemic, schools reopened in Bihar on March 1. Rediff.com's Archana Masih spoke to 10-11 year olds about their year away from school and what it feels like to be back.
Undeterred by the pandemic, Deep Narayan Nayak, a school teacher in a village in Bengal, changes countless lives for the better. Payal Singh Mohanka reports on this Extraordinary Indian.
After the outbreak of Nipah at a hamlet in Perambra last week, 16 people have tested positive, of whom 13 have died so far.
Raised in the slums, Ankita Singh's breakthrough came when she was crowned Miss Kolkata in 2018.
Sci-fi blockbusters, massy masala, poignant classics, playful cartoons, Sukanya Verma has something for every taste on OTT this week.
Over 40,000 villagers decided to leave their home along the India-Pakistan border
Nipah virus infection is a newly emerging zoonosis that causes severe disease in both animals and humans.
Hemant Shivsaran lists the number of projects the Modi government has announced since August to woo Gujarat voters.
Lilttle Tim celebrates his second birthday today, December 20.
Observing that the horse-drawn carriages, famously known as Victoria, plying in Mumbai were "illegal and it violated the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act", the Bombay high court on Monday directed the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation to completely ban them after a year.
Dietician Komal Jethmalani provides expert help.
Common symptoms of the novel coronavirus (nCoV) strain, which has infected more than 300 people since the outbreak in Wuhan in December, include respiratory symptoms such as fever, cough, shortness of breath and breathing difficulties, the WHO said
Ross and Rachel end their super long break. Kate Winslet solves Easttown's grimmest mystery. Huma Qureshi gets political in Bihar. All this and more on OTT this week notes Sukanya Verma.
A coconut octopus, a burning forest, a rare rhino's last moments and a pair of sleeping squirrels all feature in the shortlist for the Natural History Museum's Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2020 People's Choice Award. This year's competition attracted more than 50,000 entries from professionals and amateurs across the world. Voting for the The People's Choice Award is open until 2 pm February 2.
Subhash K Jha lists actors whom you may have missed this year.
'The BJP's problem is what rabbit can it pull out of the conjurer's hat?'
The massive flood in the Dhauli Ganga river triggered by a glacial burst in Uttarakhand's Chamoli district on Sunday came as a grim reminder of the Kedarnath deluge of 2013 which led to widespread devastation in the ecologically fragile Himalayan region.
An unlikely romance, a terrible tragedy, a search for a fairy tale, a witch in the making and a legally dead guy fighting to reclaim his life, Sukanya Verma recommends all this on OTT this week.
Mumbai terror attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed led Jamat-ud-Dawah has set up various new fronts and established camps all over Pakistan to collect donations and sacrificial animals in the name of helping Kashmiris in India.
Families who used to make a living out of driving the famed 'Victorias' in Mumbai struggle to make ends meet.
Love Hostel stays focused on the murky present and revelling in its increasingly dark outcome. Despite the reach of social media and technology, this isn't the cushy, liberal India of mainstream culture. It's a lawless, ruthless, endless minefield where uncertainty and bigotry go hand in hand and patriarchy is a foregone conclusion, observes Sukanya Verma.
The results for the People's Choice Award for the Wildlife Photographer Of The Year are in.
Variety is the spice of life and the greatest USP of OTT platforms. Sukanya Verma points out all the wonderful stuff to choose from this week's mix.
'I am a vegetarian and nobody can force me to eat meat.' 'It is my personal right to decide what I eat.' 'Similarly, telling a person who eats non-vegetarian food not to eat beef is a human rights violation.'
Does the "story" of a Mani Ratnam film come first or does its "spirit" asks Sreehari Nair.
Aseem Chhabra lists his favourite films, most of them shown at international film festivals held virtually (Berlinale and Rotterdam), hybrid (Toronto) or physical (Cannes and Venice).
The actress sings for the Hindi version, while Jennifer Lopez sings for the international version.
Pellissery's women continue to express the beauty in our common humanity. And often, these women go so far into expressing our hopes, desires, absurdities and follies that they end up acting at variance with the ethical prescriptions of our age. And this, I believe, is precisely why they remain "invisible" to a whole bunch of viewers, says Sreehari Nair.
'These villages have never seen a communal dispute, let alone communal violence.' 'Are attempts to create a communal divide acceptable to the MP administration?'
'Every day I am being made to work on menial things like 'Get me a glass of water', 'Put away your plate'...' 'This is not part of my job description as master of the house,' says Kishore Singh.
The spiritual head urged the government to legislate a special law and ban illegal slaughterhouses across the country.
The villagers have now kept firecrackers ready to hail a win for Kamala Harris, also a US Senator.
The government's largesse was widely expected after the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party lost power in the recent assembly polls in three Hindi heartland states, where rural distress was cited to be one of the reasons for the defeat of the saffron party.
