Up to 700 migrants, including 40 children, are feared to have died this week while crossing the Mediterranean, based on the accounts that survivors told aid workers once they reached safety.
Images from Tuesday, Day 8 of the 2021 Wimbledon Championships, in London.
'We have been telling the government that we need handholding.' So, we sent a series of recommendations to the government, but nothing happened.' 'And the condition of industry became worse.'
Uproar over coal block allocation issue paralysed proceedings of Parliament for the 12th consecutive day today, drowning most of the Monsoon Session which ends on Friday. As soon as Parliament met for the day, Bharatiya Janata Party members were on their feet in both Houses and raised slogans demanding Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's resignation over the coal block allocation issue.
Embattled internet firm Yahoo! has reportedly fired its Washington bureau chief after he made a joke about United States presidential contender Mitt Romney and his wife and Ann being "happy to have a party when black people drown." David Chalian's comments were caught on a microphone while he was discussing Hurricane Isaac, which hit Louisiana with the Republican convention under way
The city's experience offers a lesson to all major urban centres in the country, which will come to grief if they do not follow the right policies.
Saturday will be the last time the Mumbai Mirror will hit newsstands as a daily. Two Saturdays ago, its owners, the Times of India group, shocked the city by deciding to convert the Mirror into a weekly newspaper. Jyoti Punwani salutes the Mirror and its editor, Meenal Baghel, for its pathbreaking journalism.
Priyanka catches up with India's little champions on the eve of Republic Day as they narrate their stories.
Cyclone Nilam is still over the southwest Bay of Bengal, gaining momentum.
About 40 houses have been damaged in the flash floods in Pullorampara where the heavy downpour also triggered four landslips resulting in road blocks.
"This is Narendra Modi government, nobody can dilute the AFSPA as we are standing like a rock behind the security forces, protecting (our) border," Shah asserted.
Sukanya Verma offers some amazing opening scenes in Hindi films that fuels an excitement for what happens next.
Tragedy was in store for five children who were riding on boats braving the flood waters to their school to appear for the on-going examination. Their boats capsized killing them.
Ten pilgrims died en route to the holy cave shrine of Amarnath in south Kashmir Himalayas since Monday night, taking the toll during this year's pilgrimage to 61, officials said.
A study reveals that 259 people have died trying to take an extreme selfie since 2011.
'It was one of the greatest learnings in my life to see someone like the great Amitabh Bachchan go through such a tough phase.' 'He had been there, done it all and really didn't need to prove himself.' 'Yet, he channelised it all and came out with one of his best performances,' Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra tells Savera R Someshwar/Rediff.com in a fascinating conversation about the films he has made and the actors he has worked with.
The film works despite too many characters.
In a cruel twist of fate, a 25-year-old labourer who won a Rs 1 crore bumper lottery prize drowned in an irrigation pool before he could get the money.
1.4 mn songs are getting downloaded through the Nokia Music Store every day.
Sena said many banking frauds have come to fore during the Modi regime.
There had been few signs of social distancing as thousands of farmers from Punjab and Haryana began their protest last week against the three new agro-marketing laws, setting off on a march to the national capital.
'I truly believe that Durga resides in us, women,' says Rani Mukerji. 'If a woman believes that and she chanalises that energy, she will be able to ward off a lot of things.'
At least 30 people were injured, six of them seriously, when a wooden bridge on the Dal Lake collapsed during a protest demonstration in downtown Srinagar on Saturday.
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In a show strength, he was joined by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and other senior Bharatiya Janata Party leaders.
It is, thus, a good idea to get all your doubts clarified right from the beginning to avoid unpleasant surprises later.
Chief Minister Stalin seems to have drawn a line between his personal beliefs and those of others in the family, beginning with wife Durga Stalin, observes N Sathiya Moorthy.
'I don't trust these days. Like now, everyone likes Mimi and my phone is constantly ringing. But tomorrow if I make a flop, the opposite will happen.'
'Good shot, yaar; but why are you batting so aggressively, almost angrily?' Amarnath wants to know. 'Jimmy pa, you don't know, he swore at me in Madras. I have been waiting for an opportunity to give it back!' Yashpal responds.
The flood situation in Assam continued to be grim with four more deaths in different areas of the state taking the toll to 35 even as the water level in some of the rivers have started receding, official sources said.
One Indian student has died after he nearly drowned in a swollen lake in Texas.
The first two hours barely reflect any 3D and the concluding one hour is unfairly mingy on technology that plays up its re-release.
The former cricketer reiterated his love for his state, saying he would choose it over any party or family.
'Super Cop', K P S Gill has stirred the proverbial hornet's nest with his comment that the first martyr of the Assam agitation against illegal migrants, Khargeswar Talukdar, was not killed because of police action but drowned in a pond.
The flood situation in Bihar remained grim on Monday with more than 10 lakh people affected and thousands forced to flee their homes and take shelter on highrise embankments, national highways, railway lines and in schools and other buildings
The disaster management department said that the state government has urged the Indian Air Force to send a helicopter for air-dropping of food packets and other relief material in marooned areas.
What works, what doesn't?
An Indian ship sank off the coast of southern Oman, drowning five Indian sailors and leaving nine others missing.
India will surely fancy their chances of an encore, at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium.
