We all know Miss Venezuela Stefania Fernandez bagged the crown at the Miss Universe Pageant 2009 yesterday. Here's a look at the newly-minted beauty queen and the competition's runners up.
Almost all culverts and small bridges in the district along with roads and irrigation facilities and micro-hydel projects have been badly damaged.
Rediff reader Gargi Biswas shared her pics of winged visitors.
At present, the Black Money (Undisclosed Foreign Income and Assets) and Imposition of Tax Act, 2015, covers only resident Indians. The Finance Bill has expanded the definition of assessees to include NRIs.
With its fleet of black-hulled houseboats, the backwaters of Kerala entice the tourists, both domestic and international, to God's Own Country.
Police in Pakistan's commercial hub of Karachi claimed to have nabbed a potential teenage suicide bomber, along with his Taliban handlers, who he said told him that he was promised paradise if he carries out a bombing. Muhammad Saleem, 16, was arrested by the CID along with two Taliban operatives, Sher Rehman and Zainullah from Sohrab Goth area on the outskirts of the city.
A little charm from the debuting actors and Notebook would actually be worthy of note.
In these times of Rs 2,000 notes and digital payment apps, Syed Firdaus Ashraf tries to book tickets for Dear Zindagi.
The world's largest coffee chain is opening the largest Starbucks in the world in the Windy City of Chicago on November 15. Starbucks Reserve Roastery Chicago, the company's sixth and final Reserve Roastery, housed inside Crate & Barrel's former flagship location on Michigan Avenue is 35,000 square feet large and five floors high. And we have got to say that it's a paradise for coffee lovers!
'One of R&AW's greatest achievements is in projecting itself as benign.' 'This work -- done in tandem with the Diaspora and the MEA -- sells a story of India as mostly the victim.'
This Tamil movie is a tedious exercise in vulgarity.
The Need for Speed series has been in the doldrums for years, only slightly managing to claw its way out with Shift last year. With Hot Pursuit it has got the desperately-needed reboot.
Images from Day 1 in the second Test between India and Sri Lanka in Colombo.
Angelina Jolie is giving the readers of Vanity Fair magazine a sexy treat by appearing in a raunchy photo spread in the upcoming issue of the magazine.
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The wealthy landowners who turned the picturesque Swat Valley into a tourist paradise and who are considered to be economic pillars of the region are still shunning away from their native place. The wealthy, who own resorts and hotel and are people with huge land and orchard holdings, are staying away as they are still not confident that the army and authorities would provide them adequate security.
The wicket at the SSC ground may be a batting paradise but Sri Lanka vice-captain Mahela Jayawardene is confident of ripping apart the strong Indian batting in the second Test in Colombo.
In what would come as music to the ears of swashbucklers like Virender Sehwag, curators at the Captain Roop Singh Stadium have promised a "batting paradise" for the second India-South Africa ODI Gwalior on Wednesday.
Italy is extremely popular with Indians.
From high-performance cars and customised bikes to accessories and in-car entertainment technology, the Autocar Performance Show 2014 held in Mumbai's Bandra Kurla Complex turned out to be paradise for car lovers.
Is there trouble brewing in Sonia Gandhi's paradise? And is there a clash of personalities between the two top leaders in the government, an echo of which is being heard in the corridors of the United Progressive Alliance?
Microsoft top boss Satya Nadella feels the increase in productivity has come at the price of burning the 'social capital' built up by companies over very many years, observes ad guru Sandeep Goyal.
'India has a genius called Mahendra Singh Dhoni in the team. He is the brain of cricket in the team. He understands the game so well and has experience of leading India in two WC wins. His experience will be vital for captain and coach and he can be their trump card'
>What happens when two teenagers -- one Israeli and one Palestinian -- discover that they were accidentally switched at birth? The Other Son is a wonderful vision of Israel and Palestine. There is no positive future for the region and its people without this vision, feels Aseem Chhabra.
South Africa opener Quinton de Kock hit a masterful 178 runs in a comfortable six-wicket victory over top-ranked Australia on Friday in the first one-day international of the five-match series. After Australia posted 294 for nine in their innings, South Africa reached their victory target with more than 13 overs remaining.
Images from Day 1 of the second Test between Australia and India, at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, on Saturday.
'It will be a double tragedy for Sri Lanka if making peace proves more difficult than making war,' says Brahma Chellaney.
Cinema Paradise's Tamil movie directed by Shakthi Chidambaram is a lust-filled wannabee action thriller aimed solely at the front-benchers.
After having geo-tagged all the birding hotspots, the true potential of Bhigwan hit me hard. It can easily be called the Bharatpur of Maharashtra, says nature photographer Nayan Khanolkar.
Only James Anderson, Muttiah Muralitharan and Imran Khan have taken more Test wickets against India, earning Nathan Lyon significant praise from Indian great Sachin Tendulkar.
Britain has granted refugee status to Mohamed Nasheed, the former president of the Maldives who was jailed in 2015 after a trial that drew international criticism.
It's 22 years since he retired, and India is still looking for a suitable replacement for the legendary Sunil Gavaskar.
During May, the airfare from New Delhi to Srinagar was between Rs 2,500 to Rs 3,500. June\nsaw the fares shoot up till Rs 14,000 to Rs 15,000.
The revival of the phytosanitary protocol with China is expected to boost tobacco exports to China and prove economically beneficial to Indian farmers.
The couples posed for adorable selfies.
Rediff Labs shows the number of both domestic and foreign tourists visiting each state in 2015 and its growth rate.
India-Maldives ties came under strain under Yameen who was perceived to be close to China.
The 38-year-old singer randomly walked in and gave an impromptu performance, without any heads up.
Switzerland and Caribbean islands? Sure. But Alaska and Nevada are getting in on the game.
