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TERI Executive Vice Chairman, R K Pachauri (Photo: AFP)
World

‘R K Pachauri kissed me on my face,’ another TERI ex-staffer claims

DC CORRESPONDANT | PTI
Soon after I joined TERI, Pachauri renamed me with a sexually suggestive nickname, said the complainant.
Specialised rescue teams carry out the operations to search for the bodies of the soldiers hit by an avalanche, in Siachen
World

Siachen miracle: Doctor recounts daring operation to save jawan

DC CORRESPONDANT | PTI
Experts say rescue of Hanumanthappa Koppad is the toughest operations of such nature ever carried out by the Army.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg
World

Andreessen's comments about India deeply upsetting: Mark Zuckerberg

DC CORRESPONDANT | PTI
As controversy refused to die Zuckerberg tried to distance himself from the comments made by his board member.
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj called on Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan (Photo: Twitter)

Sushma meets Abu Dhabi's Crown Prince, discusses IS threat, radicalism
Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the Concluding Session of Governors Conference at Rashtrapati Bhawan in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

To spruce up govt’s image, PMO tells all ministries to counter ‘negative’ image
Bollywood actor Salman Khan (Photo: PTI)

2002 hit-and-run case: Victim’s family moves SC against Salman’s acquittal
Odd-even scheme aimed at curbing air pollution in the metropolis, was implemented from January 1-15 in its first phase with Sundays being exempted from it. (Photo: PTI)

'Odd-even' set to return; Arvind Kejriwal to announce dates tomorrow
Telangana TD MLA Errabelli Dayakar Rao who defected to TRS.

Telangana TDP gets biggest shock yet; floor leader and MLA join TRS
While playing with his sister’s children on the evening of December 31, he had lost his balance and fallen from the balcony of the seventh floor to the parking lot below.

25-year-old survives fall from 7th floor in Hyderabad
Armin Meiwes has become one of the most dreaded cannibals in history after he came clean about the killing and consuming a 43-year-old computer technician. (Photo: YouTube Screen grab)

German cannibal had sex with gay lover, ate him alive
Shiv Sena renamed the western Indian city after the goddess Mumbadevi, the protector of fisherman who were the area's original inhabitants (Photo: PTI)

British daily takes stand against ‘Hindu nationalists’, reverts to using Bombay
The 50-minute film takes its name from Trump's 1987 best-selling advice book and pretends to be a TV special. (Photo: YouTube Screen grab)

Watch: Johnny Depp plays Donald Trump in spoof that goes viral
Zika has been linked to severe birth defects in thousands of babies in Brazil. (Photo: AP)

Catholic group urges Pope to allow contraception to fight Zika
PM Narendra Modi has backed an export-focused 'Make in India' drive as the path to prosperity for Asia's third-largest economy,

With TPP advancing, India pins hopes on China-backed trade bloc
If RM Lodha Panel recommendation, which wants the advertisements only during

BCCI revenue may dip from Rs 2000 crore to Rs 400 crore
Last year, Huma was signed as the brand ambassador of Sohail's franchise Mumbai Heroes but was soon replaced by Kriti Sanon.

Putting rumours to rest, Salman sends Being Human goodies to Huma
PTSD can negatively affect women's ability to bond with their newborn and raises risk of post-partum depression. (Photo: Pixabay)

Pregnancy may help women at post traumatic stress disorder risk
The locally-made slingshots are the latest in a series of unconventional measures adopted by security forces in the country, which sees daily protests on a myriad of issues (Photo: PTI)

Haryana police eyes new weapon: chilli-loaded slingshots
Lance Naik Hanumanthappa's family Hubli : Lance Naik Hanumanthappa Koppad's mother at their home in Betadoor village in Hubli on Tuesday. (Photo Credit: PTI)

Siachen miracle: Braveheart Lance Naik Hanamanthappa still very critical
Recent research supports the important idea that changes to your lifestyle choices are the key to improving cardiovascular risk status. (Photo: Pixabay)

Better diet tied to less severe metabolic syndrome in teens
BCCI secretary Anurag Thakur on Wednesday said

Pak needs to decide if they want to play World T20: Anurag Thakur
The baby, Suhani Sultana, was rushed to the government-run hospital on Wednesday with acute respiratory distress.

Newborn dies as ambulance driver bargains over fare in West Bengal

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Australian opener Usman Khawaja welcomed debutant Adam Zampa in a special manner before the second ODI against New Zealand in Wellington. (Photo: Screengrab)
 

US WWII veteran reunites with wartime girlfriend in Australia

Norwood Thomas and 88-year-old Joyce Morris laughed as they wrapped their arms around each other after Thomas flew from Virginia to Adelaide to reconnect with his long-lost love. (Photo: Twitter)
 

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Watch: A bowling ball and a feather fall at the same speed

A bowling ball and a feather being dropped at the same time
 

Russian Opposition leader attacked with cake

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A HACK A DAY: How to make an Iron Man arc-reactor at home

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The curriculum of the school is very interesting. (Photo: Facebook/ greatbigstory)
 

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Fossils of two new giant-mouthed fish species discovered

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Columns

Parity & prosperity
Patralekha Chatterjee
Budget 2016-17 should provide more financial incentives to industries that increase job opportunities for women.
Patralekha Chatterjee

The INA and Independence
S K Sinha
Netaji and the INA made a tremendous contribution towards getting our Independence in 1947.
S K Sinha

The strange behaviour of gravity
Jayant V Narlikar
Imagine our Sun suddenly losing all its pressures.
Jayant V Narlikar

Constituting a crisis
Bhopinder Singh
Political battles can await political opportunities and domains.
Bhopinder Singh

Gallery

India lost the first T20 against Sri Lanka in Pune on Tuesday. (Photos: BCCI/ AP)
Green top throttle, taste of WACA in India
Green top throttle, taste of WACA in India

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Entertainment

Sohail hopped, skipped and jumped off the barricade with his son at the airport. Photo: Sohail Khan's Fan Club

Jumping the fence: Sohail Khan jumps over barricade to escape paparazzi
Deadpool which features Ryan Reynolds has been directed by Tim Miller.

Censor Board demands 7 cuts, passes Deadpool with A certificate
“I am not proud of the manner in which my industry portrays the LGBTQ community”, says Imran Khan

B-Town’s queer side: Fraternity reacts to Imran Khan's comment on LGBT
Vanessa Hudgens

Vanessa Hudgens bids late dad farewell
Vidya Balan admits that she loves sarees and will continue wearing them.

Ban on women's entry in some temples unfair, says Vidya Balan
Kanye West

Kanye West tweets to defend Bill Cosby

Technology

A sold-out crowd of about 30,000 engineers, entrepreneurs and pop-culture connoisseurs is expected to swarm into the Silicon Valley event

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak brings an even nerdier 'Comic Con'
Twitter, which has never earned a profit, said its loss in the past quarter narrowed to $90.2 million from $125 million a year earlier, but the market was focused more on its user growth

Twitter woes deepen as user base fails to grow
Twitter is planning to modify the way it displays tweets on its homepage. (Representational image)

Twitter plans homepage revamp for personalized tweet display

Sports

With the majority of the selected 15-man squad for ICC World Twenty20 no longer members of West Indies Players Association, reflecting the deteriorating relationship between prominent players and the representative organisation, skipper Darren Sammy has questioned the validity of the agreement that the WICB maintains is the basis upon which any contractual arrangements are formulated. (Photo: AFP)

West Indies lurch towards ICC World Twenty20 crisis

Shah Rukh Khan

SRK’s Trinidad & Tobago team now Trinbago Knight Riders

Rising star Ruthvika Shivani created the biggest upset stunning P.V. Sindhu.

South Asian Games: Ruthvika Shivani stuns PV Sindhu

Shane Watson

India will be the toughest to defeat at World T20: Watson

Lifestyle

The crocodiles were being transported to the

124 crocodiles suffocate in Mexico truck trip

People with heart disease or at risk for heart disease were more likely to have brain shrinkage. (Photo: File photo)

Obesity in middle age may mean a smaller brain later

Men and women are sprucing up their dates with a bit of adventure and fun on Valentine's Day. (Representational image)

Valentine's Day: Set your heart racing

A couple have a candlelight dinner on a tiny barge on the River Krishna organised by a private event managememt firm in Vijayawada. (Photo: DC)

Valentine's Day: Wave parties proposed on river

South Entertainment

A still from Miruthan

Who was behind Jayam Ravi's zombie makeup?
Ram Gopal Varma winds up from tollywood.

Ram Gopal Varma to direct last Telugu film of his career
Adivi Sesh, Samantha and Mahesh Babu at the launch.

Mahesh babu, Samantha launch Kshanam promo
Actor Allu Arjun visited the sets of Okka Ammayi Thappa that stars Sundeep Kishan and Nithya Menen.

Surprise visit: Allu Arjun visits Sundeep’s film sets
Jeethu Joseph

Oozham a revenge drama: Jeethu Joseph
Samantha lifted an epic 102.25 kilos — almost double her body weight.

Deadlift!: Samantha lifts 100 kilos during her weight training exercise

Nation

Ramsewak Paikra's SUV collided with the pick-up van coming from the opposite direction. (Photo: ANI/Twitter)

Chhattisgarh minister Ramsewak Paikra injured in road accident
Chowdhary and his friend took turns raping her and later the duo dropped her by motorcycle. (Photo: PTI)

Woman raped by lover and his friend in Uttar Pradesh
Zika, suspected of causing brain defects in more than 4,000 newborns in Brazil

India, China race to make Zika test kit, but lack of live sample a challenge

World

An aerial image shows what it says is a column of heavy trucks carrying ammunition hit by a Russian air strike near Aleppo in Syria. (Photo: AP)

Russian air strikes in Syria 'directly enabling' Islamic State: US

Islamic State fighters. (Photo: AFP)

Pakistan facing growing threat of Islamic State: IB chief

The Bataclan (Photo: AP)

Bataclan theatre, Paris music hall where 89 were killed, all set to reopen this year

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj led an all-party delegation here yesterday to pay homage to Koirala saying India had lost a true friend (Photo: PTI)

Former Nepal PM Sushil Koirala cremated with full state honours

Business

Yahoo Chief Executive Officer Marissa Mayer

Yahoo announces first round of layoffs as it trims 15 percent of workforce

ONGC's plan to slash costs, a final decision on which is still to be taken, would come about a year and half after crude prices first started to decline

ONGC aims for new drilling contracts in cost-saving drive: Sources

Mukesh Bansal, Head of Commerce Platform, is leaving the company, ending his two-year stint.

Mukesh Bansal quits as Flipkart's head of commerce platform

Member of Facebook's board of Director Marc Andreessen.

FB board member’s ‘colonial’ tweet on India sets off storm

Science

The study also found that coastal submersion could displace as many as 1.3 billion people worldwide (Photo: Pixabay)

Climate change likely to extend for next 10,000 years: study
A bowling ball and a feather being dropped at the same time

Watch: A bowling ball and a feather fall at the same speed
The rock slammed into the ground at an engineering college over the weekend. (Representative image)

Scientists study whether meteorite killed man in south India

Coffee Break

Author Karanveer Singh Pannu hopes the book can help other Sikh-American children who have experienced bullying. (Photo: Pixabay)

Teen pens book on bullying of Sikh kids in US

The 'Happy Birthday' tune, written in 1893 by Patty Smith Hill and her sister Mildred J. Hill was originally titled

'Happy Birthday' song soon to be in public domain

The John Singer Sargent portrait of married socialite Amelie Gautreau showed her in a black dress with one of her jewelled straps slipping off her right shoulder. (Screen grab)

Scandalous painting inspires new London ballet 'Strapless'

Sarah Ingle has splurged around £10,000 on the 17 gorgeous custom-made outfits of popular Disney princesses. (Picture Courtesy: YouTube)

Woman spends £10,000 on Disney Princess makeovers

GOKUL

Counter Point

Opinion

In a family, a woman who bears a girl child is not treated well as compared to a woman who gives birth to a baby boy.

DC Debate: Save the girl and woman
We may find other creative ways to manage our time and devote it to empowering our soul. By doing so, we can enjoy inner bliss, peace and love.

Mystic Mantra: Set spiritual goals
IAF's fighter planes flying past during a full dress rehearsal for the Republic Day Parade at Rajpath in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

The high cost of air power

Editors' Picks

It’s not just the poor parts of the city that see stray dogs on their streets but the posh ones too as garbage has invaded every nook and corner of Bengaluru.

It’s a dog’s life In Bengaluru!

Lance Naik Hanumanthappa Koppad's mother and wife at their home in Betadoor village in Hubli. (Photo: PTI)

Will, not miracle, in Siachen

The INA had managed to do well and it was a proud moment for them when it planted the tricolour on Indian soil. (Representational Image)

The INA and Independence

Facebook will rethink its approach to devise ways to make its plans work for connectivity. (Representational image)

India morally right on Net neutrality

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