Pakistan's army on Thursday used helicopters and boats to rescue thousands of stranded people as the country grapples with the deadliest floods in its history that have killed over 260 people and affected over a million others in Punjab and PoK.
BJP activist Remith was hacked to death in the home town of Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Wednesday.
What makes Nagaraj's achievement significant is the fact that there have been only about 80 Intel Fellows globally in the 50 years of the company's operation.
Here's the full text of President Ram Nath Kovind's customary address to the joining sitting of Parliament on the first day of the budget session.
In an era when the misguided youth of today are trying to build political careers by subscribing to divisive ideologies, they need to look to independent thinking icons such as Acharya Kripalani, says Mohammad Sajjad.
'The most difficult thing in the world is to convince someone to put Rs 20 crore on your movie script.'
"Our arrest is against the law as no written order was shown to us," Yadav said.
He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the country's highest civilian honour, in 2012.
She lived for two-thirds of her life in India, adopted its national cause and customs, and took an Indian passport. She served a prison sentence in Lahore as part of Gandhi's protests against an Imperial power which happened to be her motherland. Freda Bedi delighted in confounding accepted definitions of identity.
A breakthrough will come from what we teach and how, says Ajit Balakrishnan.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will undertake a day-long tour of his Lok Sabha constituency on Friday.
An elderly Italian priest was shot at on Wednesday by unidentified motorbike-borne assailants in Bangladesh, wounding him in the neck and skull.
India's foremost architect and town planner was renowned as much for his 'breathing' spaces as for his irascible personality
Ram V Sutar, 89, has already created more than 200 distinct statues, many of them massive. Now, he is a leading contender for the commission to produce the world's largest statue: A 597-foot tall rendering of Sardar Patel, an independence leader who played a crucial role in uniting India's fractious states.
The top posts on social media from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
Ved Prakash who has been working in the field of recyclable raw materials for 29 years aims to 'create value' every day.
Stunning images celebrate the best in wedding photography From intimate portraits to breathtaking landscapes, these stunning images represent the very best in wedding photography from around the world. With kind permission from International Wedding Photographer of the Year, these are some of the best in the contest.
Gujarat govt will set up a Tribal university in the Narmada district, over 100 smart Ashram shalas, 10 new hostels for tribal girl students
The spectacular Milky Way over the picturesque Bavarian mountain, Herzogstand, the remarkable Horsehead Nebula and the Flame Nebula, a vast cloud of gas and dust where new stars are being born; the Royal Observatory's Insight Investment Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2019 has once more received thousands of outstanding images. The competition, which is run by the Royal Observatory Greenwich, sponsored by Insight Investment and in association with BBC Sky at Night Magazine, is now in its eleventh year and has broken the record number of entries once more, receiving over 4,600 entries from enthusiastic amateurs and professional photographers, taken from 90 countries across the globe. The winners will be announced on September 12, and an exhibition of the winning images from the past years of the contest will be on show at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich from September 13.
Sujatha Baliga won America's most prestigious fellowship for her work on the journey to forgiveness and restorative justice.
'What is the purpose of your visit?' the immigration officer at London Heathrow asked Deborah Das.
At a time when the Kashmir valley has been shut down, it is perhaps appropriate that we remember Lal Ded, Kashmir's best known spiritual and literary figure, someone remembered with divine adoration both by Hindus and Muslims in Kashmir. A fascinating excerpt from Sandhya Mulchandani's For The Love Of God: Women Poet Saints Of The Bhakti Movement.
Rediff.com takes a look at some of the most prominent politicians across the world as they get jiggy with it.
The US president met the teen when he visited Humayun's Tomb in 2010.
Brick buildings, drainage system excavated in Keezhadi village are on par with those found in Harappa.
Explained: The intimacy of celebrity deaths.
The government's negligence towards this 'treasure house of knowledge' can be seen from the fact that monkeys roam about freely in the reading rooms, disturbing the calm of the library, as well as putting the lives of the readers in danger, writes Sajad Ahmad Dar.
In October 2007 Raja Sen visited Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal's village in Punjab to find out how its residents, and relatives, feel about their oddest export. His report was published in India Abroad, a weekly newspaper published in the US and owned by Rediff.com.
Muslims need to get out of their Isolation Syndrome, argues Mohammad Sajjad.
'We spoke of everything but politics.' 'She was well-versed in the Eng. Lit. canon of Dickens and Austen, but had also read Oscar Wilde's famous epistolary tract from jail, De Profundis.' Sunil Sethi recalls his memorable encounters with Jayalalithaa.
Here's your weekly digest of the craziest and funniest stories from around the world.
The party's performance in the assembly polls in the state -- which is the most populous and hence sends maximum number of MPs to the Lok Sabha -- will have a bearing on its future prospects on the national level.
September 12 marked the 122th anniversary of one of the most incredible battles in Indian history.
A secular blogger in Bangladesh has been hacked to death in north-eastern Bangladesh in the third such deadly attack since the start of the year, police say.
The top posts on social media from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
Here are Aseem Chhabra's picks -- 'films that mattered to me, entertained me and will stay with me through the year.'
Bhagwat said a sense of idealism is good and described himself not as 'anti-modern', but as 'pro-future'.
A 'beef party' and a bandh greeted Bharatiya Janata Party president Amit Shah who visited the state on Wednesday as part of his north-east tour seeking to strengthen party base and urging workers to make public the alleged corruption by ruling Congress party in Meghalaya.
Projecting the mining operations as part of China's move to take over Arunachal Pradesh, the report said 'people familiar with the project say the mines are part of an ambitious plan by Beijing to reclaim South Tibet'.
Similar flags were also unfurled at about 24 other places across the Vidarbha region.
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