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As El Nino returns with hotter summer, India braces for impact on monsoon

Several global models are predicting El Niño to appear around the second half of the year, which are the crucial rain-bearing months. IMAGE: Just another hot summer day at Rajpath, New......

Top moments from the week gone by

Here are the best images from across the world from the previous week. A rider goes through flames during the annual "Luminarias" celebration on the eve of Saint Anthony's day, Spain's......

India to receive 98% monsoon, forecasts IMD

The monsoon is likely to be better than earlier expected, according to the Met department which revised its initial forecast today, upgrading it marginally. The India Meteorological Department......

WTF News! It's Weird, True and Funny

Here's your weekly digest of the craziest stories from around the world. This girl's tongue is so long she can lick her eye A teenager from Michigan wants to be the new record world record holder......

Postcards from Earth: The planet's most breathtaking locales

‘The poetry of the earth is never dead,’ John Keats once wrote. But when Keats wrote these lines, man had no way of reaching up to the hem of the sky and gaze down upon earth. That has......

Get ready for warmer summer this year

Scientists said that every one-degree rise in temperature could pull down wheat yield by 10%. Daily temperatures across the country are expected to be up to one degree Celsius above normal this......

Is the era of commodity mega-projects over? Hmm...looks like

Projects in other developed countries, such as Canada, and even in developing nations like Mozambique and Indonesia are also in limbo Threat to the Great Barrier Reef sealed the fate of Adani's......

Adani awaits nod for its mega rail project in Australia

The proposed AUD 16.5 billion mine and rail project of Indian mining major Adani Mining Pty Ltd in Queensland is awaiting the final nod from federal environment minister Greg Hunt and is expected......

OIL to float foreign arm in 4 months, sets sight on Lanka

Oil India Ltd is set to float a foreign arm in four months for exploration and acquisition of hydrocarbon assets abroad, thereby becoming the third state-run oil company to have a dedicated......

'Leverites learning fast to climb mountains'

Just a month earlier, he referred to Hindustan Unilever as an underperformer while announcing parent Unilever's results for 2009. However, the Anglo-Dutch company's global CEO, Paul Polman, was......

Can You Watch 384 Films In A Year?

Aseem Chhabra watched some great films and some huge disappointments in 2021. IMAGE: Aditya Rao Hydari and Konkona Sensharma in Ajeeb Daastaans. Year two of the pandemic was a challenge in so many......

'My mom was not ill'

'We were shocked to know about her death.''We couldn't believe it because she was not sick or in a bad condition.' IMAGE: Saroj Khan with daughter Sukaina Nagpal. "Growing up, I was aware that my......

354 films in 365 days

How many of the 354 films Aseem Chhabra watched in 2017 have you seen? IMAGE: Vin Diesel and Deepika Padukone in xXx: Return of Xander Cage. For some people, watching films is a social experience,......

Shiney Ahuja arrives in court

Shiney Ahuja was produced at the magistrate's court in Andheri, northwest Mumbai, on charges that he had allegedly raped a maid who worked in his home. The actor's head was......

Nicole Kidman, Sean Penn and the UN!

Sydney Pollack, the Oscar-winning director of Out Of Africa, thought he knew New York very well. The 71-year-old filmmaker, whose hits include The Firm and Three Days In A Condor, was convinced he......

Tokyo 2020 chief rules out delay despite pandemic fears

IMAGE: Security personnel stand guard near the Olympic rings monument during a rally by anti-Olympics protesters outside the Japanese Olympic Committee headquarters. Photograph: Issei......

Will Tokyo Olympics happen in 2021?

Japan ruling party heavyweight calls for $239-billion extra budget IMAGE: An athlete competes in the men's hammer throw event during the morning session of the Athletics test......

Football Extras: Sala's body arrives in Argentina for weekend funeral

News of all that's transpired on and off the football field IMAGE: Tributes left outside the Stade de la Beaujoire stadium in Louis Fonteneau, Nantes, in France for Emiliano Sala. ......

PHOTOS: Football fever hits Team India after nets washed out

'When rain forces you to move inside, you can still devise your own game using the space that is available.' IMAGE: Mahendra Singh Dhoni, left, and Virat Kohli play football. Photograph: PTI......

Inclement weather forces Team India to cancel practice

IMAGE: Virat Kohli and his teammates share a light moment as they wait indoors at the Eden Gardens for the weather to improve. Photograph: BCCI. The Indian team was forced to cancel its training......

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