In PHOTOS: A scintillating garden of glass
A museum dedicated to renowned glass artist Dale Chihuly opened on Monday at the foot of Seattle's iconic Space Needle.

UPA @ 3: Sonia should be PM, make Pranab the president
On the third anniversary of UPA 2 the government lacks energy. Sonia Gandhi can no longer afford to continue with the fiction that someone else can do the job and should take over from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

UPA @ 3: The people are fed up... want PM to go
A survey carried out by television channel CNN-IBN has revealed that an overwhelming number of voters believe that the government has lost the faith of the public.

I am ALWAYS outspoken, that's my minus point: Mamata
In an interview with CNN-IBN, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee seemed reluctant to embrace Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee as her party's choice for the post of the President of India.

The soft war against the Naxals in Chhattisgarh
The Chhattisgarh government has unleashed a "soft" tactic in its war against the Naxals - residential schools for poor children. Devjyot Ghoshal travels to Dantewada, Bastar and Sukma to see for himself

In PHOTOS: First Oz cat cafe, 'super cool bra' and more!
First Oz cat cafe, 'super cool bra' and more

I will fight for my husband's honour: Vinita Kamte
For Vinita Kamte, wife of the late Additional Commissioner of police Ashok Kamte who was gunned down during the 26/11 Mumbai attack, the battle has been a long one. Rediff.com's Vicky Nanjappa talks to Vinita, who in her book 'To the Last Bullet', has pieced together information about the sequence of events that preceded her husband's death at the hands of the Lashkar-e-Tayiba terrorists

DON'T MISS: Rare 'Ring of Fire' wows skygazers
A helicopter passes in front of the solar eclipse over Payson, Arizona, May 20, 2012. The sun and moon aligned over the earth in a rare astronomical event on Sunday.

'Chandrashekhar blamed press for Rajiv Gandhi's death'
I Ramamohan Rao was working as the principal information officer of the government of India on the fateful night of May 21, 1991 when Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated in Sriperumbudur. Rao was entrusted with the crucial task of announcing the news of Gandhi's death to the entire world in the absence of then prime minister Chandrashekhar from New Delhi. Rao recollects the happenings of that tense night.

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IN PICTURES: Mumbai that is and could be
In a recent exhibition in Mumbai's National Gallery of Modern Art, architect PK Das put forth several ideas on how the problem of shrinking public spaces in Mumbai can be resolved. Abhishek Mande takes a look

India among 10 nations on doomsday asteroid target
Observations from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer have led to the best assessment yet of our solar system's population of potentially hazardous asteroids. The results reveal new information about their total numbers, origins and the possible dangers they may pose.

India tops in rate of maternal deaths WORLDWIDE
India and Nigeria together accounted for a third of the deaths of pregnant women globally in 2010, latest UN figures said, even as maternal deaths declined by nearly half in the past two decades due to improvement in health systems and increased female education.

BEWARE: By 2030 even 2 earths WON'T suffice!
Mankind is draining the earth's resources so quickly that the globe would be bled dry before the end of the century at this rate, a new report has revealed.

Why India's futuristic fighter won't fly till 2019
Seven years before its scheduled completion, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has already announced a two-year delay in the Fifth Generation Fighter Aircraft (FGFA) India and Russia are to jointly develop, says Ajai Shukla

When Michelle wanted divorce & Obama became suicidal
Michelle Obama contemplated divorcing Barack Obama in 2000 after he ignored her advice not to run for a House seat in Chicago, making him so "depressed" that friends feared he might commit suicide, says a new book.

'There's NO need of NCTC if laws are implemented'
Julio Ribeiro, the Mumbai police chief who sprang to superstardom after leading the Punjab Police during the Khalistan insurgency, has experience with both state-level and counterterrorism policing. And he is doubtful whether the National Counter-Terrorism Centre is really needed.

In PHOTOS: Mexico's simmering volcano
Rediff.com brings you a few scintillating pictures of the Popocatepetl.

Licence to chill: UK 'babus' take OLYMPIC break
While the whole world is waiting for the London Olympics -- the biggest sporting extravaganza on the planet -- civil servants in Britain may be awaiting the Games a tad more eagerly than others.

In PHOTOS: Meet France's new power couple
Interesting bits of trivia about France's new power couple.

No place to go, Myanmarese seek refugee status in India
Living in tattered tents in Delhi, Myanmarese refugees from the Rohingyas community have been demanding refugee status in India, as they seek jobs and education for their children. Priyanka reports