George Floyd lost his life as the white policeman, Derek Chauvin, caught hold of him and p...
Rahm Emmanuel, the former mayor of Chicago, was once quoted as saying ‘never let a good crisis go to wasteâ€. It appears that China is operating on the same axiom leveraging the Coronavirus crisis - thanks to either their deliberate mismanagement or severe dereliction of duty - by virtue of which the world has been b...
Those who work in the kitchen can find solace in the fact that standing next to a gas cooker can keep their blood pressure in check. According to a unique research, exposure to gas cooker can lower blood pressure and partially offset the adverse cardiovascular effects of air pollution....
In 1946, when I was about 11, like the rest of India, Rupar also witnessed mass marches, demonstrations and strikes against oppression by the foreign rulers. Hord ...
India is a plural country with many religions. While the majority religion is Hinduism, Islam and Christianity are the major religious minorities. W...
The standoff in Ladakh takes the mind back to then External Affairs Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee's 1979 visit to Beijing...
The Athirapally Hydro Electric Project has a history from the 1980s. ...
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has expressed concern over the child casualties in Kashmir but noted a decline in the recruitment of children by Maoists in Jharkhand due to the government's efforts in his annual report on Children and Armed Conflict....
Memories are photographs in the mind’s album. Some fresh and upfront while others hidden deep inside but able to come up on call. Every day we go on pasting new pictures, but most soon become pale, disintegrate and finally disappear altogether. A few remain, to become permanently etched. Which are those, the memories that become the deeply inscr...
Hindus did not associate with low-caste people, because they were engaged in “dirty†occupations. And they kept away from Muslims, because they consumed meat. A couple of Muslim family we did have, on Diwali gave us sweets they had purchased from a Hindu sweets shop....
