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AWESOME Images Of The Heavens!

The Royal Observatory Greenwich has announced the shortlisted images for the 2022 Astronomy Photographer of the Year! The Awe-Inspiring scenes of the Milky Way rising, galaxies colliding, stellar......

The Funniest Animals You Can Meet!

The funniest wildlife photography competition in the world set up by Paul Joynson-Hicks, Tom Sullam and Michelle Woods, has reached its 2021 awards conclusion and announced that the Overall Winner......

This is nature at its funniest, courtesy Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards

Some seem to be having a whale of a time. Others, grinning for the camera, or caught in "gotcha" embarrassing moment. These are the best entries so far in the Comedy Wildlife Photography......

Venezuela: Before the Implosion

As Venezuelans continue to flee the starvation, crime and the horrific inflation that continues to mark the worst crisis it has ever faced, Radha Roy Biswas looks back at a devastated country she......

Powerful winning images from the World Press Photo Awards

The best in international photojournalism was recently announced by World Press Photo’s Annual Photo Contest. Despite fierce competition, the jury was forced to select just a handful of......

Petro price hike deferred

Petro product prices may not be hiked until next week and consumers can thank visiting foreign dignitaries and Petroleum Minister Murli Deora for the reprieve. The meeting of a Group of Ministers......

Small nations open to junk Kyoto, India opposes

Opening a new front at climate talks, small island nations on Friday sought to junk the 1997 Kyoto protocol by floating their draft which India vowed to resist as it sees it as an attempt to......

Top-earning world leaders

When Gordon Brown took over from Tony Blair as British prime minister earlier this year, he got an overnight raise of about $100,000 a year, increasing the 136,677-pounds salary he earned as......

India to accept emission reduction target if...

Pushing for a legally binding substantive outcome at the Copenhagen climate change meet, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday said India is willing to sign on to an ambitious global target......

Why the G20 Summit in Pittsburgh is a step forward

The visit of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to the United States worked. On conclusion of his short trip to Pittsburgh to attend the G-20 Summit, he was in upbeat mood. His admirer and director of......

Elvis Hasn't Left The Building... He's In Cannes

Baz Luhrmann's Elvis got a 10-minute standing ovation at Cannes, making it a record of sorts at the famed French film festival where standing ovations are a genre by itself. We in India know Baz......

Review: Inferno is a dreadfully dull affair

Inferno is a yawn, warns Raja Sen. Tom Hanks is not Nicolas Cage. This, for the most part, is a good thing. Academy Award winners both, Hanks and Cage first made their bones with off-kilter......

More Angels Than Demons

Robert Langdon is back, in the first major Hollywood summer release to grace our shores since the designer adrenaline of Fast & Furious all those many weeks ago. This time around he is......

Of Ash and erotica in Chokher Bali

Aishwarya Rai had valid reasons to skip this year's Toronto International Film Festival.She was shooting for Gurinder Chadha's Bride And Prejudice in London. Had she been in Toronto, she might have......

India, Australia women renew Test rivalry after 15 years

IMAGE: India captain Mithali Raj with Australia skipper Meg Lanning pose during a media opportunity ahead of the women's pink ball Test match at Metricon Stadium in Gold Coast. Photograph: Matt......

PIX: Aus women score thrilling last-ball win over India

Aussies knock off target of 275 in third highest chase of all-time in women's cricket. IMAGE: Australia opener Beth Mooney celebrates scoring the winning runs in the second women's ODI against......

Lanning smashes ton in Australia's easy win

Australia recorded a comfortable seven-wicket victory over New Zealand after opener Meg Lanning smashed her way to a 104-ball 112 in their ICC Women's World Cup match in Cuttack. Chasing 228 after......

England women crush Kiwis to enter final

Skipper Charlotte Edwards anchored a comfortable chase as England sailed into the final of the Women's World Twenty20 with an emphatic seven-wicket victory over New Zealand in the first semi-final......

Australia women take Twenty20 crown

Medium pacer Ellyse Perry scalped three wickets for 18 as Australia emerged as the Women's World Twenty20 champions after defeating New Zealand by three runs in a thrilling summit clash in......

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