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The Lessons of Katrina

The world was stunned by the searing images from New Orleans: tens of thousands of refugees in the Superdome and the Convention Center without food and water for four days with urine and excrement......

US emergency agency chief quits after Katrina

The director ofthe United States'Federal Emergency Management Agencyhas quit in the wake of severe criticism over the government's response to the Hurricane Katrina crisis. Michael Brown was......

Rita now Category 5 storm, 1.3 million evacuated

Gaining strength with frightening speed, Hurricane Rita swirled toward the Gulf Coast as a Category 5, 175-mph monster as more than 1.3 million people in Texas and Louisiana were sent packing on......

Katrina: Watershed for Bush

From late August till early September, I happened to be in the United States, when Hurricane Katrina hit the US Gulf coast and devastated the city of New Orleans.It was a horrifying, searing and......

India ranked ninth in world tree planting

India has been ranked ninth in the tree planting roll of honour in a campaign to plant a billion trees, which was launched by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in November 2006. The......

It is the script, not the star, stupid!

'Virat Kohli features in 25 campaigns, Ranveer Singh in 24, Akshay Kumar in 22, Deepika Padukone in 20, Ranbir Kapoor in 13, M S Dhoni in 12, Amitabh Bachchan in 12, Alia Bhatt in 11... but not one......

Lalu: My figures are not wrong

With his claims of the turnaround of the Railways coming under the scanner, former railway minister Lalu Prasad on Friday rejected the charge of juggling profit figures, insisting that he had......

Global slowdown hits IT scene in Andhra Pradesh

Rs 22 crore (Rs 220 million) -- that was the total value of exports of IT software from Andhra Pradesh in 1994-95. IT exports in the state have now crossed Rs 32,500 crore (Rs 325 billion) during......

India's ambitious solar power plans

India's Rs 4,800-crore (Rs 48 billion) solar power industry, which exports around 60 to 70 per cent of its wares to Europe, North America and China, seems to have taken a cue from the IT sector and......

1 cr jobs in textiles sector: Maran's promise

The UPA government will work on creating one crore (10 million) new jobs in the textiles sector and attract an investment of Rs 1.55 lakh crore in the next five years, Textiles Minister Dayanidhi......

'2024 Gave Me Some Of My Happiest Moments'

Film folk brought in the New Year with pretty posts and warm wishes on social media. Photograph: Kind courtesy Nushrrat Bharuccha/Instagram Nushrratt Bharuccha reflects, '2024 gave me some of my......

When Bollywood Slipped Into God Mode

Every now and then Bollywood finds itself in need of divine intervention. In the upcoming OMG 2, Akshay Kumar plays Lord Shiva -- correction: A messenger of Lord Shiva (as directed by the Central......

PIX: Fashion lessons from Katrina Kaif

Katrina Kaif has had a rather action-packed year so far and it's promising to get even more eventful as her film Ek Tha Tiger -- opposite Salman Khan -- gears up for release this Eid.......

Katrina Celebrates Mum's Birthday

Dulquer celebrates daughter's birthday... Tamannaah wraps up a film... Preity cooks... Please click on the images for a look at the stars.   IMAGE: Katrina Kaif's mum Suzanne Turquotte......

10 lessons to learn from Katrina Kaif

Photograph: Katrina Kaif/Instagram Katrina Kaif in 2003: I'm happy to sing and dance and run around trees. Katrina Kaif in 2019: Now that I have done the song and dance, lots of it, I find my......

Tendulkar wants top spot for India to mark 20 years

Sachin Tendulkar is hoping he can mark his 20 years in international cricket by leading India to become the world's top ranked one-day team. The premier batsman made his India debut as a......

'Dhoni is a very good One-day leader, an average-to-poor Test captain...'

It's a lump-in-the-throat moment for Indians to see their team knocked out in the semis by Australia, but clearly the better team on the day made it to the final.For India, it was a long and......

Agassi stands tall against Karlovic

Andre Agassi faced a tall order at the U.S. Open on Thursday and used all his 20 years of experience at Flushing Meadows to down lofty Croatian Ivo Karlovic in the second round.The 35-year-old,......

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