Here's how you can add a touch of tricolour to your celebrations.
Around 1.4 lakh buildings have been completely destroyed in Nepal due to the powerful temblor that flattened houses and uprooted electric poles and trees besides killing over 6,300 people.
Chinese rescuers raced against time to save hundreds of people buried under the rubble three days after the devastating earthquake flattened the remote Tibetan dominated Qinghai province as the toll mounted to 800.
A massive earthquake in a remote northwestern Chinese province killed 589 people and injured 10,000, as thousands still lay buried under flattened buildings, and soldiers and civilians joined efforts to save lives.
The aircraft C-130J landed in new Delhi with 55 Indian evacuees at around 10.45 pm.
'We need to have the courage to take a rational look at known facts and act accordingly,' advises Mohan Guruswamy.
Chitra R shares some traditional festive recipes from Tamil Nadu.
The Interop Mumbai 2009 conference was off to an innovative start, with Wim Elfrink, Chief Globalisation Officer and EVP, Cisco Services, showing an amazed enterprise IT audience on how the Internet will transform the way we work.
The global job scene has steadied somewhat. Here's what to consider before taking the plunge.
A powerful blast near the Mall Road in Lahore on Wednesday morning destroyed over 40 cars and completely razed some buildings. Several people have been injured in the blast. Rescue teams have been sent to the blast site and the injured have been rushed to the nearby hospitals.The area has been cordoned off by the police. There were unconfirmed reports about firing in the area after the blast. A car bomb was reportedly used to trigger the blast.
'If we cannot handle an epidemic of that strata, (causing that kind) of excessive calamity, then we really have to prevent it.' 'If we become complacent in even preventing it, then we are in for a disaster.'
This Tamil movie could have been a watchable film if the director had come up with an engaging, logical screenplay, instead of just playing to the front-benchers.
'People had said it will explode and everyone will die. Nothing of that sort has happened.' 'Our government has done a splendid job so far.'
China, it said, is projected to grow at 6.6 per cent in the current year which will moderate to 6.4 per cent next year.
A brief look at the strengths and weaknesses of the leading contenders for the men's title at Wimbledon which begins on Monday.
Chef Lokesh Jarodia, Executive Chef, The Deltin, Daman shares his special recipes.
Bhagyashree Zore shares a traditional recipe.
At least 16 people, including several children, were killed and 120 others injured on Monday when a powerful explosion in a small village in Pakistan's Punjab province flattened a madrassa, which was being used to make bombs, officials said. The blast, which occurred shortly before 10 am local time in the village near Mian Channu in southern Punjab, was caused by explosives stored in the home of madrasa teacher Riaz Ali, local residents said.
Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik said all families in Puri and in those parts of Khurda, which had been 'extremely severely affected' in the storm, will get 50 kg of rice, Rs 2,000 in cash and polythene sheets, if covered under the Food Security Act (FSA).
World number one Dinara Safina continued to bulldoze her way through the French Open draw when she flattened France's Aravane Rezai 6-1 6-0 to reach the quarter-finals on Sunday.
In Globality*, authors Harold L Sirkin, James W Hemerling and Arindam K Bhattacharya from Boston Consulting Group, show how, over the past two decades, a range of corporations from the developing world have begun to disrupt traditional paradigm of development and tilted the balance of competition in their favour with their predilection for 'rapid-fire innovation'.
Hima Das represents the generation of Naya Bharat athletes who are conscious of their responsibilities towards their society, state and country.
'Is India going to miss some more of its potential demographic dividend?' 'If so, it would be for two reasons: The demographic dividend can be fully exploited only if the people in the working age are actually working.' 'And second, if those working have proper education and skills, making them productive in the workplace.' 'On both counts, the country has fallen short,' points out T N Ninan.
The deadline for the commercial launch of the Navi Mumbai airport is set at 2021-end
Rediff reader Amal Nandy from Bhopal shares this recipe that you can't say no to.
'Predictions are that numbers will continue to rise till May end and maybe in the first half of June will be our peak.'
As India prepares for a calibrated exit from the lockdown by easing more restrictions, 'Unlock-1 -- the first of the three-phase plan for reopening of prohibited activities in non-containment zones with a stringent set of Standard Operating Procedures(SOPs) -- kicks in at a time when the country recorded a daily jump of COVID-19 cases by over 9,000 for the fifth straight day on Sunday.
In its morning update, the Union health ministry said the total number of positive cases has reached 2,16,919 with a record spike of 9,304 new cases since Wednesday 8 am across the country, while the death toll has increased to 6,075 with 260 more fatalities in this period. A PTI tally of figures announced by different states and union territories, as of 9.50 pm, showed a higher number of confirmed cases across the country at 2,17,389 and the death toll at 6,233.
368 of James Anderson's 575 Test wickets have come on home soil, where the Dukes ball has been the default during his long career.
For years, critics termed Tata's vehicle business as a millstone around the neck. But Group chairman Ratan Tata on Wednesday flattened their theory by taking the automobile venture to a new plane with the acquisition of British luxury brands Jaguar and Land Rover.
The 50.5-metre-high historic tower was reduced to just its base.
'Sport is cruel, as is life, which is why winning becomes sweet.'
'When bankers are hounded by investigative agencies for credit decisions going wrong and defaulters are treated like outcasts, who will borrow money and who will lend?' asks Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
Chef Kaleem Qurashi from ITC's Fortune Resort Heevan, Srinagar shares his special Ramzan recipes.
Anderson's performance, his first five-wicket haul in Australia, turned out be in vain in the end, though, as the hosts steadily chipped away at England on the fourth day when they were chasing 354 for victory.
Rescuers on Sunday struggled to reach out to thousands of survivors in the cyclone-hit southwestern coastlines of Bangladesh where the calamity left over 2,000 people dead besides flattening houses and snapping communication lines nationwide. Over 60 per cent of the crops in the affected areas have been completely destroyed due to the cyclone Sidr as the government deployed army helicopters, navy boats and thousands of troops in rescue operations.
Over 1,000 people were feared killed and thousands of others went missing in Bangladesh as one of the deadliest cyclones battered the country's south-western coast, flattening houses and disrupting power supply plunging almost the entire country into darkness.
Chef Ananya Banerjee shares five yummy Diwali treats with a healthy twist.
The floods have also damaged crops in 2 lakh hectares of land.
If the precautions are not taken and guidelines are not followed properly, there can be chances of spike in cases, the government said.
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