Meet Gopi Thotakura, India's 1st space tourist

Gopi Thotakura, an entrepreneur and a pilot, is set to become the first Indian to venture into space as a tourist on Amazon founder Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin's NS-25 mission. IMAGE: Gopi Thotakura.......

Lt Colonel, who lost a leg in operations, skydives from 14,000 ft

Lieutenant Colonel Avnish Bajpai, who lost a limb during an operation, skydived from 14,000 feet in Bhatinda with an artificial limb. Sharing the photos on X, the Additional Directorate General of......

Captured in Pakistan

'My relationship with the Pataudi family was to help me to survive in 1971.' IMAGE: Air Commodore Jawahar Lal Bhargava. All photographs: Kind courtesy Air Commodore Jawahar Lal Bhargava Meet Air......

'Humans have never learned from history'

'We need to retell this history from many different perspectives.' Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com   Writer Amitav Ghosh spent many of those strange, mind-numbing COVID-19 days of......

Padam wins Himachal mountain biking

Rider Padam from Nepal overcame the tough terrain and 70 fellow challengers to win the fourth edition of the Hercules MTB Himachal mountain biking race on Monday. The race was held in the scenic......

Anjali targets history at Athens

Anjali Vedpathak-Bhagwat's early interests were judo and karate -- she ended up as India's top rifle shooter almost by chance.Now 34, Bhagwat is a top contender in the 10-metre air rifle in Athens,......