Sathya Sai Baba laid to rest

Sathya Sai Baba was laid to rest at Sai Kulwant hall this morning. Baba’s nephew RJ Ratnakar performed the last rites amid chanting of Vedic hymns by 15 priests.

Sony unveils first tablet PCs

 Sony has come up with its first tablet PCs S1 and S2. The PCs were unveiled in Tokyo. The tablets will work on an operating system based on Google’s Android 3.0

Priyanka Chopra in Ajmer

Priyanka Chopra at the shrine of saint Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti in Ajmer.

Shivamani pays tribute to Baba

Dharmendra felicitates Lata Mangeshkar

 

Lata Mangeshkar being felicitated by Dharmendra at the Shiv Gaurav Puraskar in Thane, Maharashtra.  

Salman Khan@ Ready audio function

Salman Khan and Asin at the audio launch function of the film ‘Ready’ in Mumbai. Anees Bazmi is the director.

Charak Festival

A young boy at the Charak festival at Illambazar in Birbhum district, West Bengal

Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster: 25 years

Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster: Candles and flowers are placed in remembrance of those who lost their lives at a ceremony to pay respects to Chernobyl firefighters in the city of Slavutich in Ukraine.  

Manmohan, Sonia pay tributes to Baba

Man throws footwear on Suresh Kalmadi

 

 

A man hurling footwear on Suresh Kalmadi while he was being taken to the Patiala Court house in New Delhi in connection with the CWG scam.

Swamy Nityananda pays last respects to Baba

The infamous god man Swamy Nithyananda pays his last respects to Sathya Sai Baba.

John James Audubon: Birds of America

Bald Eagle

Roseate Spoonbill

Little Blue Heron

Oyster Catcher: From Audbon’s paintings ‘Birds of America’.

Today is John James Audubon’s 226^th birthday. (April 26, 1785-January 27, 1851). Audubon was a French-American Orinthologist and naturalist.

Below: Google paid its tributes to Audubon with its logo designed in his style of painting.