India is free, certainly, and has been so for 70 years. But are Indians free-spirited? asks Shreekant Sambrani.
Caught in the devastating floods in Srinagar, a social worker refuses to leave his autistic students behind and swim to safety.
Due to the continuous activity of the protesters, the site has virtually become hell for the residents, the Tribunal said.
India's Kailash Satyarthi received the Nobel Peace Prize for 2014 on Wednesday, sharing it with Pakistan's Malala Yousafzai, the youngest ever Nobel laureate, for their work on promoting child rights in the troubled sub-continent, where millions are deprived of their childhood and education.
Arjun Sarja's Jai Hind 2 is a trite and uninspiring action drama that advocates free education for children.
Hundreds of thousands of people have flooded the American capital on Saturday for the "March for Our Lives" to support tougher gun controls and protest Congress's refusal to consider them. The event is being led by the student survivors of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting on February 14 when 17 were slaughtered by a teenage gunman carrying a legally-purchased AR-15.
The first priority for the new Tibetan administration in Dharamsala should be to look at Tibetan recruitment in the PLA, suggests Claude Arpi.
'A recent compromise by the state government is accepting NEET exams for medical entrance.'
Hamilton said he would still be "incredibly proud" to pull level with "an icon like Michael" and seven was way beyond his wildest dreams, but numbers and titles maybe meant more to those on the outside.
The real battle for NEET abolition can take much more time and energy, observes N Sathiya Moorthy.
Here are 10 important quotes from the PM's televised address:
Have skin concerns? Send in your questions to Dr Dinesh Jain.
'Even today, I am like a kid in a candy land -- I look at my airplane with as much excitement as an eight year old.'
Rescued from slavery at age 7 by Kailash Satyarthi's Bachpan Bachao Andolan, Om Prakash Gurjar is today one of the world's 7 top influential youngsters.
From India's fight against COVID-19 to China face-off, Kovind spoke on several issues during the televised address.
'The Afghans used to say that if there is any person whose name should be taken after Allah, it is Hindustani.'
'The economy is in a free fall.'
'And it's been declining for so long, so consistently, that the promise of growth and better days now looks a fantasy.' 'A mid-1970s kind of pessimism, even hopelessness, is growing among the young.' 'This isn't what Mr Modi promised them.' 'Their aspirations and needs are clear and present, and not being fulfilled,' notes Shekhar Gupta.
So far as entitlements and privileges of a PM's wife are concerned, the rules, though, are not as clear.
Why Jemimah Marak set up a library in the Garo Hills in Meghalaya.
Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has promised to provide free MRI and CT scan to patients if brought back to power. Shahnawaz Akhtar reports
It will allow states to detain students in class 5 and class 8 if they fail in the year-end exam.
'Younger children don't really distinguish based on class, gender, income and so on.'
On legal front, Wankhede, who the NCB asserted has an impeccable service record, failed to get any relief related to an affidavit on the sensational extortion claims made by the independent witness, Prabhakar Sail, with a special court saying it cannot pass a blanket order barring courts from taking cognisance of the document.
After 'Operation Calm down' in South Kashmir, Army is now focussing on another operation -- 'School Chalo', under which it identifies areas and provides students with free coaching and make them participate in extra-curricular activities.
This 14-year-old schoolboy's invention can save lives.
In March, he had said that China is responsible for the spread of the novel coronavirus and called the COVID-19 as the "Chinese Virus".
Or a brief stop on the way to better times, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
The kind of freedom Kashmir is enjoying today is not there even in Islamic countries like Afghanistan, Syria, Turkey and Pakistanis, Mufti said.
The proposed changes to the child labour law to allow children and adolescents to work for their families would be most retrograde and regressive, say Shinzani Jain and Paranjoy Guha Thakurta.
Aseem Chhabra lists his favourite films from the recent Toronto International Film Festival.
'It is my duty to tell them about the brave soldiers who gave their lives for our land.' 'The free air of freedom that we breathe is because of men like them.'
Princess Sheikha Latifa is the daughter of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, the ruler of Dubai and the prime minister of the UAE.
It said 'content-based prohibitions, enforced by severe criminal penalties, have the constant potential to be a repressive force in the lives and thoughts of a free people'.
Omkeshwar Singh, Head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
'Free India turns 70 this year.' But 'freedom from whom and freedom for what?' asks Rajendran Narayanan.
'Coupled with e-filing procedures it would really enhance the ability of the judiciary to provide speedier justice.'
Raking up the Kashmir issue at the United Nations, Pakistan repeated its call for Security Council resolutions to be implemented in the state and said fulfilling promise of self-determination to the Kashmiri people is "indispensable" to establishing lasting peace and stability in South Asia.
"For any reason, if one is not able to vote, it should pain one," he said.
Despite receiving so much love from Gujarat, Modi didn't bother to visit the bereaved parents of those 22 children who lost their lives in Surat, points out Jyoti Punwani.
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