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A "land based explosion" rather than a meteorite is more likely to have killed a man and injured three others in a mysterious blast in Tamil Nadu last week, NASA scientists said on Wednesday.
While star gazers in north-eastern, eastern and southern parts of the country will witness a partial eclipse of the sun, those in southern parts of Africa, Antarctica, South East Asia and Australia will be treated to a rare annular solar eclipse.
Rare photographs, paintings, sketches, posters... celebrate the superstar's journey...
In this weekly self-help series, mental health and life coach Anu Krishna tells you how to take control of your life.
'It will be normal, regular, everyday politics whether you like it or not.' That's what this country needs,' a New Yorker tells Payal Singh Mohanka.
Satyajit Ray would have been a hundred years old on May 2. To mark the legendary film-maker's birth centenary, Rediff.com bring you a treasure trove of features from our archives.
Bhutanese brewery Serbhum is behind Kati Patang, a beer sold by Delhi-based Empyrean Spirits. Launched in Zesty Amber and Snappy Wheat variants in 2018, Kati Patang prides itself on being "brewed with the happiest water on earth".
Images from Day 9 of the 2022 Australian Open, at Melbourne Park, on Tuesday.
Reader Rama Krishna caught up with the star in a shopping mall.
Viswanathan Anand on how he conqured the world in Mexico.
A rare look into the life of the most controversial US president, author Robert Draper captures Bush's candid moments in Dead Certain: The Presidency of George Bus, a book that was released on Tuesday
BJP CMs promote a lawless culture, one where groups backed by the State are encouraged to attack fellow citizens, where being trigger-happy is the official police policy, notes Jyoti Punwani.
'The politics of Goa is moving around a sole entity, which is land.'
He said the country now possesses the capability to strike satellites in outer space with centimetre-level accuracy and precision.
On December 10, Kissinger began to encourage the Chinese to take action against India: 'If the People's Republic were to consider the situation on the Indian subcontinent a threat to security, and if it took measures to protect its security, the US would oppose efforts of others to interfere with the People's Republic.' On the 50th anniversary of India's greatest military victory, Claude Arpi recalls how the US suggested that China intervene militarily on Pakistan's side.
'I was shocked by the kidnapping episode. I could have lost my life.'
The sun is out. The flood waters have receded. Keralites have spent crores in quickly cleaning up the state and making it visitor ready. Go to Kerala folks!
Both have been robustly muscular leaders who began as immensely charismatic politicians conveying an impression that they were makers of history, raring to go. Both have been hyperactive on the world stage. But in the final analysis, Abe is departing on a sombre note, unceremoniously and apologetically, observes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
The planet will transit across the face of the Sun between 10:46am and 4:51pm.
'I broke into Hindi cinema with Tere Mere Sapne and the song Aankh Mare become a big hit.' 'And now that song has become a rage again in Simmba.'
The event has not been witnessed in the last 122 years.
After the Ladakh fiasco where Xi Jinping did not expect the Indian Army to resist his land-grabbing tactics, he has to save face before his colleagues in the Communist party.' To bring the threat of a mega-dam to the northern Indian border is a clever move, observes Claude Arpi.
During his 37 year rule, the nation's lush fields became wastelands, disease and hunger became rampant and the economy registered a negative growth of six per cent.
Astronomers have imaged in unprecedented detail a distant galaxy near the edge of the universe and found that it is forming stars hundreds to thousands of times faster than the Milky Way.
The Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer or Ladee spacecraft, which is charged with studying the lunar atmosphere and dust, soared aboard an unmanned Minotaur rocket a little before midnight from from Wallops Island.
Sukanya Verma lists significant memories in our 1996 recap.
'When there is a change in the wind speed or the stress exerted on the surface, it will change the ocean currents.'
One perk of being a pilot, apart from travelling the world, is a front-row seat to the Earth's natural wonders -- from jaw-dropping sunrises to silver slivers of lightning against ink coloured-clouds. One among them is Ecuador-based Santiago Borja who is known as "The Storm Pilot" because of the images he's taken. Borja, who lives in Quito, Ecuador, was kind enough to grant us permission to show some off his work.
'Here is hoping that the entirely unintended and unforeseen victims of the coronavirus, the printed papers, emerge safe and unscathed from the affliction,' says Shreekant Sambrani.
'...that has plants and flowers of all colours and hues in it.' 'Do you think a garden with just one plant or one type of flower will be appealing?' 'No. It will look drab, uninteresting and lustreless because a garden would be captivating only if it had many flowers of different colours.'
Between phony philosophical musings and Abbas-Mustan level of believe-it-or-not twists, Sadak 2 dodders towards its dead end destination, notes Sukanya Verma.
'Is this man crazy?' the postmaster asked. 'Yes, who? Ali, na? Yes, saheb. Five years have passed and, no matter the weather, he comes to collect a letter. It's very rare for him to receive a letter,' the clerk replied.
'This is the only place on earth where Elephas maximus climbs to these heights.'
Hubble spotted for the first time a distant supernova split into four images by cosmic lens
'Everybody spies on their friends as well as their enemies. That's the way the world works these days'
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