The 24 brave children will participate in the Republic Day parade riding caparisoned elephants.
'InSight will study the interior of Mars and will teach us valuable science as we prepare to send astronauts to the Moon and later to Mars.'
The blast occurred in the centre of Davao, close to one of the city's top hotels and a major university.
There's worse traffic in more cities in India than any other country, and the problem is only growing.
Uttarakhand's Kumaon hills are setting new standards in dirt and poor solid waste management, sys Anjuli Bhargava.
Authorities have blamed local tribesmen for carrying out similarly bombing gas pipelines and railroads, as well as rocket attacks targeting security forces.
Hold your breath as Rediff.com brings to you some of the picturesque places that the cyclists race through at the Tour.
The boat, whose capacity was 100 people, was overloaded.
The 24-year-old Punjab athlete clocked 1 hour 36 minute and 41 seconds, more than two minutes outside her season best of 1 hour 34 minute and one second, to finish 42nd out of 52 competitors who finished the race.
It is thought the crash was due to either a signalling error or a mistake by one of the drivers.
'In a part of the world where the government tells people what not to eat and what slogans to shout and not shout, it is beneficial to develop a mentality that is science minded and therefore open-minded.' 'That is possibly why the space programme has always had support from all sides of the political divide,' says Aakar Patel.
'Listing Masood Azhar as a 'global terrorist' was done with Islamabad and Imran Khan's concurrence.' 'It was not prompted by the so-called 'Wuhan spirit'.' 'The relationship between the two 'iron brothers' has not been dented,' points out former RA&W officer and China expert Jayadeva Ranade.
China has not limited the 'battle' to the diplomatic field alone; the People's Liberation Army has become aggressive on the ground too. The recent 'fights' in Northern Sikkim and Ladakh are part of the pattern, asserts Claude Arpi.
VSNL has agreed to acquire Tyco Global Network, one of the world's most advanced and extensive submarine cable systems for $130 million.
The explosions took place within minutes of each other.
With the green cover gone, the bald roads to Puri are now reigned by lorries laden with electric poles, ambulances, fire service vehicles and cranes, signalling the rebuilding effort is in the works.
No one had been caught in the trap until Thursday, when police were informed that the body of the young monk in his saffron-coloured robe was discovered near the bathroom and an autopsy found that he had been electrocuted.
An earthquake struck off the coast in eastern Indonesia on Tuesday, seismologists said. \n\n
Scientists have recorded haunting sounds cast by Jupiter's auroras, captured by NASA's solar-powered Juno spacecraft during its first full orbit around the king of planets.
A taxi hit the landmine said to have been planted by Taliban rebels on a remote road.
The Air Force has been plagued by frequent crashes, particularly among its aging Soviet-made MiGs.
The missile test was conducted on the same day India and Pakistan signed an agreement in Islamabad formalizing their long-standing practice of notifying each other of plans for ballistic missile tests.
The new photo was taken on April 9 from a distance of about 115 million kilometres.
At least one person was killed and over 40 other devotees of a Muslim saint were injured in a series of bomb blasts at a shrine in southeast Bangladesh early on Saturday, witnesses and media reports said.\n\n
Ather Energy would set up 30 charging points across Bengaluru by the end of May and the number would go up to 60 by the end of the year.
The primary goal of HysIS, whose mission life is five years, is to study the earth's surface in visible near infrared and shortwave infrared regions of the electromagnetic spectrum.
Bollywood pays their respects to the veteran actor.
Mars, which is already bright, will be more brighter on the eastern sky -- the brightest light in the midnight sky other than moon.
Suspected militants from the outlawed National Democratic Front of Bodoland (Sangbijit) killed more two persons and injured three others in two separate incidents of shootouts on Saturday in Bodoland Territorial Autonomous District Council areas in Assam.
At least 29 people have died so far in the fast-moving wildfire which began in California on November 8. The numbers are expected to rise.
Pollution levels in Delhi and satellite towns shot up again on Sunday morning, with the air quality bordering the 'severe plus' category at several places.
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