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Two killed, 92 hurt as super Typhoon Yagi wreaks havoc in China

Two people were killed and 92 others injured as super Typhoon Yagi pounded south China's island province of Hainan with heavy rain and gusty winds, local authorities said Saturday. IMAGE: People......

The Most FANTASTIC Pix You Will See!

The World Photography Organisation has revealed the winners for the Sony World Photography Awards 2024. Here are the winning entries: A Colourful Dream by Bibek Kunwar I took this in a felt......

'Mughals had nothing to do with Mughal Gardens at Rashtrapati Bhavan'

'William Mustoe, the director of horticulture during British rule, named the Presidential Palace garden after the Mughals.' 'He simply kept the name because it was made on the pattern of a Mughal......

'Why and how did science in India stagnate?'

'The debate between mythology and "rational" science in India is at least as old as Aryabhata and Brahmagupta and, to this day, has not been resolved in the Indian popular thinking on science.'......

The Gandhi march is an astonishing sight

With a staff in one hand and the other on his granddaughter's shoulder, the old man briskly takes the lead as the sun breaks over the horizon. IMAGE: Mahatma Gandhi arrives at Simla to discuss the......

China to increase high-speed rail network to 30,000 km

At present, 4,000 electric multiple unit (EMU) trains are operated daily on China's HSR network, accounting for 63 per cent of the total passenger trains operated daily in the nation. China, which......

Bengaluru among world's top technology-rich cities

Image: Bangalore ranked among top tech-rich cities. Photograph: Reuters India’s Silicon Valley, Bengaluru has been ranked among top 20 technology-rich cities in the world......

HSBC to cut up to 50,000 jobs, slash investment bank

HSBC will cut almost 50,000 jobs from its payroll, take an axe to its investment bank and shrink its risk weighted assets by $290 billion in an effort to improve its sluggish performance, Europe's......

10 cities most threatened by natural disasters; Kolkata ranks 7

Photograph: Reuters First the Kashmir floods and then cyclone Hudhud in Visakhapatnam; India recently witnessed the fury of nature. But this is nothing. According to a recent research,......

5 economic lessons India can learn from China

Image: Modi's ‘Make in India’ campaign has won some early backers. Photograph: Reuters The biggest lesson China can teach India is that when it comes to sustaining a love affair with......

The HARD-HITTING RELEVANCE of Govind Nihalani's Party

Cinema entertains, exhilarates and enlightens. Its ability to relate and inform the viewer through universal, timeless emotions are what contributes to its legacy, now available more easily than......

Shape of Water Review: Spellbinding Ode to Impossible Love

'Del Toro hits a cinematic nerve in capturing an enduring love for the oddball, the beauty in the bizarre and, most importantly, reminding what it's like to have what one wished for since a kid --......

What inspired Rangoon?

Did the human drama provoked by the Japanese invasion of Burma and the Indian exodus from Rangoon inspire director Vishal Bhardwaj's forthcoming epic? IMAGE: Saif Ali Khan in Rangoon. The railway......

Australia Unveiled

Let's get this straight-- Baz Luhrmann's Australia is not a movie about foul-mouthed cricketers or overly tanned blondes who surf (the ocean, not the internet) a lot and go around slinging G'Day......

Brad Pitt plans to shoot in Varanasi

ImagineBrad Pitt chewing a Banarasi paan, relishing a frothing lassi on the majestic Ganga ghats in Varanasi. Well, this may actually happen. The 43-year old actor has serious plans of shooting a......

Gala show brings curtain down on Asian Games

The skies lit up with dazzling fireworks as an emotional China brought the curtains down on the biggest Asian Games in a riot of colour, foot-tapping music and a cultural extravaganza at the......

Unique acrobats, boat parades mark Asian Games opening

Two years after the spectacular success of Beijing Olympics, China dazzled the world once again by unveiling the 16th Asian Games with a spell-binding opening ceremony in which water was the......

Boat parade on Pearl River to showcase opening ceremony

A boat parade named "Setting Sail" on the famous Pearl River that passes through the length of the city will be one of the highlights of the 16th Asian Games opening ceremony to be held in......

'Japan will be cheered, not jeered at Asian Games'

Japan's athletes have little to fear from local fans at the Asian Games in Guangzhou, a senior Chinese official said on Wednesday, despite worsening relations between the Asian powers in recent......

Asian Games torch arrives in host city Guangzhou

The Asian Games torch has arrived in the host city Guangzhou after a nationwide tour, one week before the start of the world's second-largest sporting event after the Olympics. Torchbearers will......

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