A study by an international team of researchers had warned two year ago that the South Lhonak lake in Sikkim may burst in the future and significantly impact the downstream region. IMAGE: Mud and......
These eight images show that we live in a crazy, mad world! Members of a Vespa Fan Club dressed as Santa Claus ride on their scooters in Zurich, Switzerland. Photograph: Arnd Wiegmann/Reuters......
Here's your weekly digest of photographs that prove that it's a mad, mad, mad world! A participant holds flowers as she takes part in the Color Run in the Andalusian capital of Seville. The Color......
Born and abandoned in Mumbai, reborn in Sweden, Erika Sandberg says she is Indian on the outside, but feels Swedish on the inside.Rediff.com's Vaihayasi Pande Daniel narrates her tale.Illustration:......
Researchers at the Global Challenges Foundation in Stockholm have released a thorough scientific assessment of what threatens human civilisation, or even possibly, all human life. The assessment is......
India features among the top ten destinations for expats in terms of 'family aspects of living' in the adopted country and 58 per cent of them believe the country is getting better as a place to......
Image: A woman removes stalks from chillies at a farm in Ahmedabad. Photograph: Amit Dave/Reuters Farmers in India like to adorn their rusty ploughs with chillies and limes. Hanging by......
The 2009/10 Railways Budget is a competent job, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Friday. The Railway Budget speech underscored the Congress party-led government's focus on......
Image: Five-month old African elephant calf Tuluba and its mother Numbi eat some snow in their enclosure at Schoenbrunn zoo in Vienna. Photograph: Reuters Vienna is the......
The report found that 28 per cent of people over 65 in India are receiving a pension. Around 30 per cent of men and 72 per cent of women over 60 are fully dependent on others. Image: A view of......
Bollywood stars go for the loveliest holidays -- exotic locations with a lot of adventure thrown in. So we decided to document their travels with a special series. 'Monkeys' Bipasha Basu and Karan......
There was a time when Yash Chopra was a bigger ambassador for Switzerland than perhaps its biggest tennis export, Roger Federer. Yashji liked shooting his films in scenic Switzerland. These days,......
After completing her successful television serial, Naagin 3, actress Surbhi Jyoti went to Paris and Switzerland for a long holiday. She posted a lot of fun pictures on Instagram and......
'In 2015 I watched films in so many places. I attended several film festivals around the world -- Berlin, Tribeca (New York), Telluride, Toronto, Zurich, Mumbai, Dharamsala and Goa,' says Aseem......
Scandal-hit Blatter named 'Swiss of the Year' IMAGE: Suspended FIFA president Joseph S. Blatter. Photograph: Philipp Schmidli/Getty Images Suspended world soccer chief Sepp Blatter was named......
A combination photo shows eight of the nine football officials indicted for corruption charges in these file photos. Photograph: Reuters Almost exactly four years to the day since former FIFA......
Francois Carrard. Photograph: John Kolesidis/Reuters Scandal-plagued FIFA have turned to the man who helped the International Olympic Committee (IOC) out of their corruption crisis, appointing......
- 'We can only encourage FIFA to continue (with) the reforms which have been initiated, we cannot give detailed advice of what to do but we appreciate there is a readiness for reforms' - 'One of......
IMAGE: Flags are pictured in front of the headquarters of soccer's international governing body FIFA in Zurich. Photograph: Ruben Sprich/Reuters The Swiss lawyer heading up a committee charged......