Wah, there's a Taj Mahal in Kashmir

The Taj journeys to Kashmir. Three talented Kashmiri artists have carved an awesome-looking Taj Mahal-shaped igloo out of snow. Zubair Ahmed, one of the artists with ice scrapers as powerful as......

Gaganyaan astronauts trained at Rakesh Sharma's Russian center

The four astronauts who will be part of India's first human space flight program, Gaganyaan, were trained at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut training center in Russia, the same center where Rakesh......

What If Trump Wins A Second Term?

Although India-US relations have strengthened significantly in recent years, partly because of the security situation in the region, the Indian policy establishment would have to be prepared to......

2024 May Witness More Natural Disasters

'The Weather Channel argues that India faces the gravest challenge: Climate change-induced health vulnerability.' 'This is an issue often neglected, alerts Claude Arpi: "Prolonged summers,......

India Inc braces for fallout of Russia-Ukraine crisis

Stocks of Indian companies with exposure to Europe fell on Tuesday amid concerns about the impact on their sales in case the Russia-Ukraine crisis worsens and the US and its allies impose economic......

What is India's top risk stemming from Covid?

'The climate crisis remains the biggest long-term threat facing humanity. Failure to act on climate change could shrink global GDP by one-sixth.' A fracture of interstate relations could be......

Bharti's OneWeb to bring satellite broadband to India in 2022

Bharti Group-backed OneWeb on Monday said it has entered an arrangement with the commercial arm of ISRO, NewSpace India Limited (NSIL), to launch its satellite in India from 2022. The arrangement......

Bharti to invest Rs 3,700 cr more into OneWeb

Bharti will invest an additional $500 million (over Rs 3,700 crore) into OneWeb, to become the largest shareholder in the satellite communications company that billionaire Sunil Mittal-run Bharti......

Are Ananya-Aditya The Newest Couple In Town?

Photograph: Hitesh Harisinghani/ Rediff.com Are Ananya Panday and Aditya Roy Kapur the latest couple in tinseltown? Social media seems to think so. The actors reportedly attended a concert in......

The BEST International Films of 2021

2021 may go down in the history of world cinema as having produced the largest number of good quality films from across the world. What is remarkable is that practically all of these films were......

11 BEAUTIFUL STORIES From Around The World

Aseem Chhabra lists his favourite films from the recent Toronto International Film Festival. As the pandemic situation began to improve and movie theatres opened up in North America, the Toronto......

Can you watch 309 films in a year?

On planes, on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hotstar, Zee5, Hulu, MUBI, Kanopy, film festivals... Aseem Chhabra tell us how he watched 309 films in 365 days. IMAGE: Joanne Froggatt in Downton Abbey. I......

Injured Sindhu out of action for 'few weeks'

IMAGE: P V Sindhu was forced to concede her second round match against Thailand's Supanida Katethong due to a knee injury at the French Open Super 750 event. Photograph: P V Sindhu/Instagram......

Angry P V Sindhu loses to Marin in ill-tempered semis

IMAGE: This was P V Sindhu's fifth loss on the trot against Carolina Marin. Photograph: Anushree Fadnavis/Reuters Struggling India shuttler P V Sindhu lost to her old nemesis Carolina Marin of......

Sindhu storms into Denmark Open semis

IMAGE: With this win, PV Sindhu has made a second semi-final in two weeks. Photograph: Yong Teck Lim/Getty Images from the Rediff Archives  Star Indian shuttler PV Sindhu showed glimpses of......

Denmark Open: Sindhu rallies to move into quarters

IMAGE: PV Sindhu fought back from a game down to down Indonesia's Gregoria Mariska Tunjung and enter the last 8 of the tournament. Photograph: BWF/X Double Olympic medallist P V Sindhu fought her......

Denmark Open: Sindhu, Aakarshi advance; Srikanth, Lakshya out

IMAGE: P V Sindhu struggled past World No 28 Kirsty Gilmour of Scotland in a 56-minute opening round match at the Denmark Open. Photograph: BWF/Twitter India's shuttlers P V Sindhu and Aakarshi......