Eleven people died during a havan at Beleshwar Mahadev Jhulelal temple in Madhya Pradesh's Indore after they fell into a well as its cover caved-in under the weight of a huge crowd, while three others got fatally electrocuted during a Ram Navami procession in Rajasthan's Kota.
He recalled PM Modi's message at the United Nations and hailed India's mission "to save the planet from conflict and violence" through the principles of Buddhism.
Krystle D'Souza turned showstopper for designer Shazia Naik
The longest and darkest total lunar eclipse of the century will occur on Wednesday night, giving sky enthusiasts all over the country an opportunity to witness the event.
Pay attention skywatchers! Five of the planets in our solar system will align diagonally in the predawn night sky starting Thursday morning.
The skies turned ember but the so-called "blood moon", when the Earth's natural satellite turns strikingly red, remained elusive. Enthusiasts anxiously waited until past midnight for clouds to give way to the spectacular event to become visible.
On the occasion of Chinese New Year today, we bring you a look at what 2012, the Year of the Dragon has in store for you!
Doctor G is outwardly all for women, but evidently has no interest in them, observes Sreehari Nair.
Amid heated debate on whether Makara jyoti of Lord Ayyappa shrine is celestial or manmade, the chief priest of Sabarimala temple on Sunday said the controversy was generated only to divert attention from the tragedy that killed 102 devotees.
The International Astronomical Union (IAU), an organisation which assigns official names and designations to celestial bodies, has recently confirmed the discovery of 18 new asteroids by Indian students as part of a global science programme.
Soha Ali Khan turned showstopper for Jigar and Nikita's Bindani.
The event will take place between 1046 IST and 1651 IST, according to Nehru Planetarium Director Piyush Pande.
A Mirage-2000 fighter jet and an AN-32 medium lift transport aircraft took to the skies early Wednesday morning with a team of astrophysicists and IAF personnel onboard who carried out some experiments and filmed the longest total solar eclipse of the century.
The Shree Jagannath Temple Administration (SJTA) said it will set up an exclusive healthcare centre for the families of servitors. Ahead of the Rath Yatra, a massive sample collection exercise was conducted on Monday night and one servitor had tested positive, Chief Secretary A K Tripathy said.
The elaborate rituals, which commenced early in the morning, concluded after the three wooden chariots of Lord Jagannath, his elder brother Lord Balabhadra and sister Goddess Subhadra reached their destination at Gundicha Temple from Sri Mandir well before evening.
He was accompanied by his daughter Isha and son Anant
Aditya-L1 is meant to observe the corona, which are the outer layers of the Sun, extending to thousands of kilometres.
February 18 is Chinese New Year and the year 2007 is the Year of the Pig.
Summer Solstice celebrations from around the world.
The story of Iceland is the story of life, notes Payal Singh Mohanka after a recent journey to that fascinating land.
The Ramayan offers important life lessons.
The moon took on an eerie blood-red hue on Tuesday during the first total lunar eclipse of 2014, a celestial sight that wowed potentially millions of stargazers across North and South America.
Count among The Light of Asia's many, many admirers over 132 years: Gandhi, Tagore, Vivekananda, Nehru and Ambedkar, Tolstoy and Kipling, Yeats and Eliot, Alfred Nobel, Dmitri Mendeleev and C V Raman. Jairam Ramesh reveals why he decided to write a book on Edwin Arnold, who wrote The Light of Asia.
Dressed in bold undertones of the monsoon, Bhumi Pednekar looked gorgeous as a showstopper for designer Reynu Taandon.
China on Tuesday said it will send its first-ever unmanned space probe to the Moon early next month to explore the lunar surface, a major milestone that would also be the Communist giant's maiden soft-landing on an extra-terrestrial celestial body.
The people of the southern part of the country could see a greater part of the partial solar eclipse because of the geometry of the eclipse path.
Celebrating the celestial wedding of Lord Shiva with Meenakshi.
Rediff.com brings for its readers some of the best images of the outer world provided by the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Amongst the many characters in the Mahabharata, the impetuous Ashwathama comes across as a warrior lacking maturity and forethought.
Lawsuit issue was a dispute over payment, with GE Capital Aviation Services and Celestial Aviation Trading.
This is a critical first step towards building the next generation of search, which taps into the collective intelligence of the web and understands the world a bit more like people do said Google to stay as the perfect search engine.
This year's last total lunar eclipse on Saturday presented a celestial spectacle for people all over the country, including those in the national capital, in the pre-dusk hours.
We have our own problems for sure and they are not trivial, but for now, our economy is in not too bad a shape, our politics is as personality-driven and authoritarian as that of most countries in the world. We must make the best of what we have and not be excessively unhappy looking at the grass on the other side of the septic tank which may not be greener after all!, observes Shreekant Sambrani.
Around 10 to 15 meteors per hour are expected to be seen on November 20 (as earth will encounter dust trails of 1400 AD passage of the parent comet 55P/Tempel Tuttle), as per the International Meteor Organisation (IMO).
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Read the story doing the rounds about a destructive asteroid smashing into earth next month? Well, NASA says it is not going to happen, FOR SURE!
In Asia, the last Blue Moon and a total lunar eclipse happened 35 years ago on December 30, 1982.
Karan Berry and Leon Vaz's collection drew inspiration from astrology.
