Why Jyotiraditya fell out with the Gandhis

In some ways, Jyotiraditya parting ways with the Gandhis was similar to the saga of the Gandhis and the Bachchans, largely a story of friendship that turned sour.A fascinating excerpt from Rasheed......

Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2020 -- first pictures released

  Naturally the best!   Possums, primates and disappearing habitats all feature among the first images to be released from the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2020 awards.   The......

Why he wants to track humankind's journey around the world

Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Paul Salopek is on an intercontinental journey of 24,000 miles, tracing humankind's movement out of Africa right down to South America.Nikita Puri traces his passage......

Rain toll in North reaches 37; floods in Haryana, Punjab

Rains in the northern states took at least 38 lives, triggering landslides that stranded hundreds of people in Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh and left several areas in Punjab, Haryana and Jammu......

River linking plan on the move

The much awaited Rs 1,85,000 crore (Rs 1,850 billion) river-linking programme is likely to begin with Ken-Betwa and Parbati Kalisindh-Chambal links covering Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and......

Two river links this year

The task force on the interlinking of rivers has completed the assessment of eight river link projects, and work on two of these is expected to start by the end of this year. "The National Water......

Why you must watch Sonchiriya

Sonchiriya is that rare Bollywood film, one that soars wildly above others in its genre, notes Ritwik Sharma Hindi films set in the fabled Chambal valley are replete with legends of Robin Hood......