'Afghanistan is a beautiful country but has no luck as far as lasting peace is concerned' IMAGE: Evacuees board a C-17 Globemaster III during an evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport,......
President Rajapaksa and Prime Minister Rajapaksa will transform Sri Lanka's political landscape after Thursday's electoral triumph, predicts N Sathiya Moorthy, veteran Colombo watcher. IMAGE:......
Humans rarely get to glimpse the animal kingdom up-close. But, the Wildlife Photographer of the Year contest, which is developed and produced by the Natural History Museum in London, offers a peek......
Wheeling round, a look of utter shock on its face, a marmot jumps in fright after a young fox sneaks up behind it. The split-second encounter between prey and predator -- called the Moment -- has......
After going through more than 78,000 photographs from over 4,700 photographers, the expert judges of the World Press Photo contest have announced the finalists of the 2019 competition. The......
Within the first month of the Obama administration, a nervous Timothy Geithner announced the Treasury's four-part Financial Stability Plan to shore up American banks and capital markets. The plan......
'It (the thought about retirement) probably hit home after we lost against India' IMAGE: Matthew Wade blames World Cup loss to India for retirement. Photograph: From Rediff Archives......
National champion Chetan Anand won the Men's Singles of the Toulouse Open Badminton Championship in Cahors, France, beating Kasper Oedum of Denmark in a three setter.Chetan prevailed over high......
A disciplined Namdhari XI, Ludhiana, sent fancied Air India crashing to a 4-2 defeat in a pre-quarter-final match in the 42nd Bombay Gold Cup Hockey Tournament, sponsored by Union Bank, Punjab......
Indian Oil, playing without their star forward Deepak Thakur, managed to derail Western Railway 2-1 in the second leg semi-final of the 41st Bombay Gold Cup hockey tournament at the Mahindra......