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Sinking ferry passengers considered throwing kids into sea: CISF rescuers

A team of Central Industrial Security Force marine commandos rescued dozens of passengers from a sinking tourist ferry off the Mumbai coast, preventing panicked parents from throwing their children......

Boat carrying Union minister gets stuck in Odisha lake for 2 hrs

A boat carrying Union minister Parshottam Rupala got stuck in Odisha's Chilika Lake for around two hours on Sunday evening. IMAGE: Union Minister for Fisheries, Animal Husbandry & Dairying......

Passing out parade of first Agniveer batch graduates held at INS Chilika

As India's first batch of 2,585 Agniveers including 272 women celebrated their passing out parade at INS Chilika in Odisha, naval chief Admiral R Hari Kumar Tuesday expressed confidence that the......

Migratory birds stay put in Chilika despite heat

IMAGE: Gulls in Chilika Lake in Odisha. Photograph: @biswajitmohanty/ Twitter. Migratory birds including flamingoes and pelicans have stayed put at the famous Chilika Lake in Odisha despite......

Over 1,700 birds die in Chilika

Contamination of a portion of Chilika lake around Nalabana Birds Sanctuary in Orissa has resulted in the deaths of over 1,700 migratory birds within a span of 45 days, a senior official said, and......

Who is Prasanta Pattanaik, Padma Shri?

Had he not been a student, admirer and follower of Amartya Sen, TCA Srinivasa-Raghavan feels it might have been a Padma Bhushan.Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com The year was 1971.......

WB, ADB assure Odisha of $313-million aid for cyclone

International funding agencies, the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank, have assured a financial assistance of $313 million to Odisha government for restoration and rehabilitation activities......

Luxury train project finds suitor

The Orissa tourism department's plan to start a luxury train modeled on the famed Palace on Wheels has gained ground as a private player has evinced interest in investing in the project. "The state......

The Audi Q5, now in India

Following the success of the Audi Q7, Germany's luxury car manufacturer has now launched its new SUV, the Audi Q5, in India. It combines a sports sedan with a Quattro permanent......

Selfiee Moment For Akshay, Emraan

Kanika in London... Manoj takes Joram to Rotterdam... Aahana's puppy love... Photograph: Kind courtesy Akshay Kumar/Instagram Akshay Kumar and Emraan Hashmi groove to Main Khiladi Tu Anari from......

The Best Reader Tributes to Rafi

We had invited readers to send us videos of them singing Mohammad Rafi songs to pay tribute to the legend on his 29th death anniversary today. And we got quite a few......

Jaaved Jaffrey shows off his MJ moves

Michael Jackson was a big part of Jaaved Jaffrey's initial years, when the latter impersonated the legend in stage shows. But unlike many others influenced by Michael, Jaaved was......

'Mahesh Bhatt is a far better writer than director'

Mahesh Bhatt recently turned author with The Taste of Life: The Last Days of UG Krishnamurti. Bhatt was a longtime friend of the eminent thinker and philosopher, who was lovingly called UG.......

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