Peacocks often wander outside their sanctuary at the Kasu Brahmananda Reddy National Park in Hyderabad. In a city that’s rapidly losing its green cover, this park is one of the few large, surviving lung spaces. The park isn’t without a threat. When the state government announced its ambitious Strategic Road Development Plan to be carried out in two phases, which would require felling or replacement of nearly 2000 trees on the walkway and the National Park’s buffer zone, it was met with wide protests in 2016.
A milestone
In a major milestone, the Brahmos supersonic cruise missile was today test fired for the first time from a Sukhoi-30MKI fighter jet of the Indian Air Force. The missile hit a sea-based target in the Bay of Bengal from the combat jet.
BrahMos, a joint venture between the India's DRDOand Russia's NPOM, is the world's fastest supersonic cruise missile with a multi-platform, multi-mission role. It is now capable of being launched from land, sea and air, completing the tactical cruise missile triad for India. Read more
MGR Centenary celebrations
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami, flanked by Deputy CM O. Pannerselvam, Lok Sabha deputy speaker K. Thambidurai, TN Assembly Speaker P. Dhanapal, Ministers Dindigul Srinivasan and Sengottaiyan during the MGR centenary celebration function in Thoothukudi on Wednesday.
A giant-size balloon was released for the MGR centenary celebration at the venue last week. The centenary celebration, which began in Madurai on June 30, was continuing in a grand manner in various districts across the State.
Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav turns 79
Samajwadi Party founder Mulayam Singh Yadav offers cake to his son and party president Akhilesh Yadav during his 79th birthday celebrations in Lucknow on Wednesday
With a message that all was well in the faction-hit Samajwadi Party, former Chief Minister and party founder Mulayam Singh Yadav said he had blessed his son Akhilesh Yadav, and would continue to do so. “He is a son first and leader later,” said the veteran leader.
The father and son shared the dais in the party headquarters here after a long spell, as workers gathered to wish the SP founder on his 79th birthday.
Return of the Ashes
Australia captain Steve Smith and England captain Joe Root hold the replica of the Ashes urn ahead of the opening Test in Brisbane, Australia.
Australia announced its playing eleven against England ahead of the first Ashes. Despite a neck injury, David Warner's name figures in the list. Fast bowlers Chadd Sayers and Jackson Bird have been left out of the team.
Goddess Padmavathi rides the chariot
The deity of goddess Padmavathi being taken in chariot around the Tiruchanur temple during Kartheeka Rathotsavam.
Goddess Padmavathi rode the chariot as part of the annual Karthika Brahmotsavam at Tiruchanur temple. The nine-day Brahmotsavam celebrations began last week with the Gajadhwajarohana mahotsavam.
Winter is here
A boy gets warmth from fire by burning garbage at Sant Ravidas Nagar, in New Delhi. Sushil Kumar Verma
A week after the partial lifting of 'emergency measures' to curb air pollution in Delhi, the capital is grappling with fog and the poor are the worst-affected.
The Presidential pardon
Tiffany Trump, daughter of U.S. President Donald Trump, second left, pets the National Thanksgiving Turkey, Drumstick, after being pardoned next to Ivanka Trump, assistant to President Trump, during a ceremony in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2017. This years pardoned turkeys, Wishbone and Drumstick, will join last years turkeys at Virginia Techs Gobblers Rest exhibit, where students and veterinarians care for the turkeys, and the public can visit and learn about the universitys teaching, research, and outreach programs in animal and poultry sciences and veterinary medicine. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg
Ahead of this year’s Thanksgiving, U.S. President Donald Trump pardoned two turkeys as part of a Thanksgiving ritual.
The pardoned turkeys, Drumstick and Wishbone, will join Tater and Tot, the two turkeys pardoned last year by Mr. Trump’s predecessor Barack Obama.
Thanksgiving is a public holiday in the US, originating as the harvest festival. It is celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November, so this year it will be on November 23.
Dramatic escape, caught on camera
A CCTV footage shows a North Korean soldier crossing the white Military Demarcation Line during a United Nations Command (UNC) briefing on the investigation results of the soldierÕs defection, at the South Korean defence ministry in Seoul in this still image taken from a Reuters TV video, November 22, 2017. REUTERS/Reuters TV TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
A North Korean soldier made a desperate dash to freedom in a jeep and then on foot, being shot at least five times as he limped across the border and was rescued by South Korean soldiers, according to dramatic video released by the U.S.-led U.N. command.
Robby fetches millions
Robbie the Robot, the prop robot used in the 1956 science fiction movie Forbidden Planet, is pictured in this undated handout photo obtained by Reuters November 21, 2017. Bonhams/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. NO ARCHIVES/NO RESALES
“Robby the Robot,” the seven-foot tall creature featured in the 1956 science fiction film “Forbidden Planet,” was sold at auction for $5.375 million, a record for a movie prop.
Bonhams, which conducted the auction, said the price beat the previous prop record of $4 million for the 12-inch falcon statue in the Humphrey Bogart classic “The Maltese Falcon” and topped the $4.6 million for the white dress worn by Marilyn Monroe in “The Seven Year Itch.”
