A red fox in a derelict schoolroom, a Bengal Tiger in the forests of Bhutan and walruses are just a few of animals featured in the photos shortlisted for this year's Wildlife Photographer of the Year. While we wait for the results to be announced, here are some of the contenders in the contest.
The best of India and the Middle East, now at the Dharamsala Film Festival.
They will grow at 5.8 per cent a year.
In India the routine cruelty is at a more basic level - the state of our abattoirs, and the animal trauma caused there.
It still isn't too late to plan your first trip of the year! Anita Rao-Kashi draws up this list.
The EU is likely to intensify sanctions if the situation remains tense.
Racing against time, rescuers on Sunday waded through tonnes of rubble of flattened homes and buildings in Nepal to look for survivors of the earthquake.
'We have nothing to gain by helping any other country to become a threat to India,' former Sri Lanka president Mahinda Rajapaksa, who is on the comeback trail, tells Rediff.com in an exclusive interview.
India's first indigenous nuclear-powered submarine is a considerable achievement -- and should have an impact on security strategy
T E Narasimhan/Business Standard reports from Chennai on how the Future group plans to shore up its small store network in the South.
An aggressive Pyongyang is likely to force Seoul and Tokyo to build nuclear deterrents and thus thwart Beijing's ambitions.
Data spanning the years 1951 to 2014 show that temperature and pressure conditions at specific locations in the Arctic region during the pre-monsoon period correlate with the Indian summer monsoon rainfall, points out Charu Bahri.
'The Pakistani military has encouraged and supported terrorist organisations, especially in Kashmir, as a means of waging proxy war against the Indian military and the country's superior economic resources.' 'The evidence is irrefutable with the recent killing of 46 paramilitary troops being just the latest example.'
'Islamist terror groups have never been challenged ideologically. As long as their ideology survives, like cancer, these groups will sprout somewhere else, says Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
Sarod brothers Amaan and Ayaan Ali Bangash are waiting to take their creation, the Erod, to the world.
The savings would be better spent and might actually reach the poor, says Rahul Khullar.
Come and check us, we're always open and law-abiding, says co-founder of US-based entity selling in India, after Delhi Police asks govt to track some e-commerce sites.
'There is nothing that Pakistan has done which deserves a resumption of dialogue. The assurances made in Ufa contain no commitment except a whole range of talks, which could take place without the paraphernalia associated with a joint statement of prime ministers.'
Mythological and historical shows are lapped up not just by the young, but equally by grown men and women.
The IMD attributed the projection to a weakening of El Nio and the Indian Ocean Dipole turning positive.
Kanika Datta visits the Cu Chi military tunnels -- a testimony to a plucky little country's 30-year war of resistance against, first, French colonisers and, then, the US.
These elections will be remembered for the AAP and Arvind Kejriwal, feels Neeta Kolhatkar.
The IMD on its part is sticking to its forecast of July rainfall.
'Only on two occasions has the RSS thrown itself completely on the side of the BJP.' 'In 1977 in the wake of the Emergency. And in 2014 with Modi.' 'Now, I've been told that this is not going to happen in 2019.'
In markets such as Mumbai, prices have gone beyond Rs 1.5 cr to Rs 2 cr which is beyond reach of most of the salaried class
India's Abhinandan Basu is among the 100 top tattoo artists in the world list.
India has undertaken a number of structural reforms.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday began summit-level talks.
India's IPR framework and enforcement were comparable to those in developed countries
'People beat their chests when the Babri Masjid was brought down, not realising that it was just one event in a chain going back centuries; to look at the last link or two in isolation is absurd.'
Aseem Chhabra lists the top 10 films at the recent Toronto International Film Festival.
Massive rescue and relief efforts were mounted by India and other neighbours in Nepal, as two powerful aftershocks today rattled the country, adding to the misery of Saturday's devastation in which the casualties soared to 2,400 people dead and over 6000 others injured.
Modi's irrigation push in the Budget is aimed at scoring on the political front along with achieving growth targets
'It has taken bombings in Beirut, bombing of a Russian airliner and now terror attacks in Paris for people to realise that we are not going to achieve our objectives of destroying ISIS if we drive in second gear. We need to get into top gear.'
Since 55 per cent of Indian trade passes through the South China Sea, and with over $5 billion investments in the energy sector in Vietnam, it is imperative India actively pursues its national interests in the region, says Srikanth Kondapalli.
"The RSS is trying to change the nature of India. Other parties haven't tried to capture India's institutions," he said.
Al Qaeda, which has announced the creation of a separate wing for India, wants to portray Prime Minister Narendra Modi as an enemy of Islam and as such India should take its threat "very seriously", a well-known American counter-terror expert said on Friday even as the United States tried to downplay the terrorist outfit's capabilities.
The PM's vision of a lean, agile, mobile and technology driven force requires more than 1.7 percent of GDP that it now gets.
Sahara has ploughed at least Rs 1,500 crore from two of its credit cooperatives into the Aamby Valley resort project
PE firm True North's investment model is to take 51% stake in mid-sized companies and make them large, says Niraj Bhatt.
