India

Wife of co-pilot killed in Kozhikode air crash gives birth to boy

07 Sep 2020 04:21 AM IST

There is finally something to smile about in the family of late Captain Akhilesh Kumar, the co-pilot of the Air India Express flight which crashed at Kozhikode International airport last month. The pilot’s wife Megha Shukla has given birth to a baby boy at Nayati Medicity, Mathura. Dr Preeti Bhadauria,

Yogi’s Uttar Pradesh shows the way: Curbing crime can cure all ills in the system

07 Sep 2020 04:20 AM IST

Whenever a common man faces injustice at the hands of the system, the root cause for that is the fault with politically controlled police, politicians who are in cahoots with criminals and, of course, the people who are tilting towards mobocracy. The latest incident of Bangalore violence shows the country

Fate of troubled minds during Covid-19

07 Sep 2020 04:18 AM IST

The death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput, who was allegedly on medicines for depression, in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic, has shaken us all. The tragic incident is a reminder for all of us to work on inner fitness as much as we do for physical wellbeing.

My brush with a political legend called Pranab Mukherjee

04 Sep 2020 17:10 PM IST

What can one say about a personality that loomed large on the Indian national life for half a century and impacted it in numerous ways? When I joined the IFS, he was a minister. And when I met him in the South Block on the last day of my service,

Skill training can make youth workplace-ready in digital era

04 Sep 2020 04:31 AM IST

Skill education or vocational training is typically the cornerstone of any economy. Ironically, although India is considered to be a melting pot of knowledge and skills, the vast majority of its educated youth lack what can be termed as the ‘employability quotient’. Experts even characterise the country’s employability problem as

Heal your cancer, don’t fight it

04 Sep 2020 04:29 AM IST

The moment the word ‘cancer’ is mentioned — whether in casual conversations or serious discussions — a pall of gloom invariably pervades the vicinity and such abject negativity is surrounding the disease. The play of individual destinies, the biology of tumour and also the grind of treatment ordeals have together

The gym is a coliseum of life

04 Sep 2020 04:25 AM IST

The ‘gym’ is not only an air-conditioned room for pumping iron—it is all those spaces in life where one can exercise their minds and bodies. And it is only after we sculpt ourselves into better human beings that we can see our planet change.

PUBG mobile top Twitter trend after govt decides to ban the app

03 Sep 2020 06:29 AM IST

PUBG has become the top Twitter trend globally after India banned the mobile video game on Wednesday along with 117 other Chinese apps amid ongoing standoff with China in eastern Ladakh. After the government’s decision to ban the game, which ranks among top five smartphone games in the world with

Adani Green ranked world’s top solar power generation company

03 Sep 2020 06:28 AM IST

Adani Group has been ranked number one global solar power generation asset owner in terms of operating solar projects by Mercom Capital. Adani’s renewable energy portfolio exceeds the total capacity installed by the entire United States solar industry in 2019 and will displace over 1.4 billion tons of carbon dioxide

For China, map is not the territory

03 Sep 2020 06:27 AM IST

Beijing has always valued actual control on ground more than legal and historical credentials of its frontiers. As a result of its militarised attitude, the India-China border could neither be delineated nor demarcated over the last 70 years.

President Kovind, VP Naidu, PM Modi pay floral tributes to Mukherjee

02 Sep 2020 07:20 AM IST

President Ram Nath Kovind, Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi along with other senior Cabinet ministers on Tuesday paid their last respect to former President Pranab Mukherjee at his residence in New Delhi. Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh also paid floral tribute to Mukherjee at his

How Pak altered demography of occupied Gilgit- Baltistan

02 Sep 2020 07:14 AM IST

New Delhi/Washington: Since it occupied Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B), the Shia-dominated region of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan has altered its demography, resulting in the massive reduction of the Shia population from 80 to 39 per cent. In a recent study conducted by the Law and Society Alliance, a