The moments that shaped 2016

'The year in pictures' treks across the globe, looking back on the moments that shaped 2016. From the United States presidential race, to demonetisation in India to the refugee crisis, the news......

Gurudwara in Canada vandalised with 'racist' graffiti

A gurudwara in Canada has been spray-painted with “racist” graffiti and profanity by some unidentified persons, prompting police to probe the incident as a hate crime, a media report......

Canadian wildfires grow tenfold; rescuers pray for rain

In little over 24 hours, the wildfires, which erupted on Sunday and forced the evacuation of about 80,000 people from Fort McMurray in the Canadian province of Alberta, have grown tenfold. IMAGE:......

Indian American is president at Buffalo university

Satish K Tripathi, who as provost raised academic standards and spurred student development, has been appointed president of the University at Buffalo in Buffalo, New York. Tripathi, who maintains......

Interns need to file tax returns

An increasing number of management and engineering students from premier Indian institutes is bagging internship offers from institutions abroad. For instance, Indian Institute of Technology,......

India shining: Interns get over Rs 1 lakh a month

Neha Anand, an engineering student at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT-B), will be flying to the US for the first time this summer. The 21-year old student is on cloud nine, as she......

World's 10 greenest cities

The scourge of global warming has become the bane of modern man. Increasing pollution, utter disregard for or indiffernce to the ecosystem, and manic industrialisation are compounding an......

10 Indians in elite US engineering body

In his 30-year-plus career as a scientist, technologist and entrepreneur, Dr Kanti Jain has achieved many milestones, including developing fabrication technologies for microelectronics such as......

'A silly film, but SRK rocks'

There is a generation of Indian filmgoers who have never seen the original Don, and I happen to be part of that generation. I could've easily watched Amitabh Bachchan's Don before the updated......

Spotted: Azhar in 1988

Reader Anil Kukreja sent us this picture from Canada. 'This picture was taken way back in the summer of 1988 when Mohammad Azharuddin had come to Edmonton (Canada) for a couple of days en route to......