Australian cricketers visited Yuwa, an NGO based in the city, that provides a platform through team sport for young women to gain confidence to make a change in their world.
'The prime minister bought spectacles from Germany to see the eclipse, but he cannot see that an eclipse has fallen on the country.'
It will be interesting to see whether India-China border tensions figure during the deliberations of PLA deputies to the NPC and CPPCC, notes Jayadeva Ranade, the distinguished China expert and retired RA&W officer.
Mindlogicx Infotech, an R&D-based technology firm at Whitefield in Bangalore has now for the first time launched an online finishing school which would help aspirants from any part of the country to nurture their dream of being industry-ready when they join the IT sector.
Categories such as lifestyle, food and electronics accounted for over 1,350 sellers across the country last year.
Amid rising coronavirus cases in India, the government has asked people not to panic, saying no community transmission of the virus has been observed and there has only been a few cases of local transmission so far and that it is "not a health emergency" in India at present.
No untoward incident has been reported since Sunday.
Forbes Asia on Thursday announced its 'Heroes of Philanthropy' list for the fourth year running, with four Indians among the top 48 philanthropists.
The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court will on Tuesday decide the fate of a Rs 9000-crore contract doled out by the Akhjilesh Yadav government to companies run by controversial liquor don Ponty Chaddha, for supply of 'readymade' nutritious food to poor children in government schools and to pregnant women in rural areas of the state.
"Getting the award in the year of Mahatma Gandhi's 150th birth anniversary is personally significant for me. When 130 crore people take a pledge, any challenge can be overcome," the prime minister said.
As Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to deliver his third Independence Day speech on August 15, he is inviting ideas from citizens on issues he should speak on
The economy of Jammu and Kashmir is largely based on agriculture and tourism. The state produced 19.56 lakh MT of fresh fruits in 2018-19.
Many Indians live under a comfortable, though wrong notion, that education is not a 'commercial' service and cannot be regulated.
Experts believe that under-reporting is likely to cause an underestimation of the spread of the disease.
Lucknow DIG of Police D K Thakur said there was no reason for villagers to be worried as the tiger had been around for many weeks and had not attacked human beings. Sharat Pradhan reports.
Internal strife and tribalism is endemic to Afghanistan, notes Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
A mother-daughter duo is working tirelessly to revive the art and empower rural artisans too.
'.. if the cost is its own survival,' says Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
After announcing that the properties of corrupt officials will be confiscated and turned into primary schools, Bihar government plans to upload videos of complaints against officials seeking bribes and any genuine grievances of corruption on YouTube.
'We cannot be naughty and expect the government to do good!' 'We have to behave ourselves and then we can expect the government to support us.' 'If we are able to protect ourselves well, then we should not be having deaths.' 'Unfortunately, people have gotten into this super scary event participation (mode) -- birthday parties, large gatherings.' 'Among the people who have attended those, 80 to 90 per cent of them have come down with COVID-19.'
Ajit Balakrishnan decodes the angst-ridden discourse of the day.
Md Jamil Khan, a member of the Anjuman Committee, said it has welcomed the court verdict.
Covid deaths at home, on the way to hospital or in private centres are not being counted in Bihar's official list of dead.
'After meeting the prime minister and Amit Shah, Yogi has come out with his position secure till the assembly election.'
On the eve of International Women's Day on March 8, Chitra Jeyakumar, teacher, Cathedral Vidya School, Lonavala feels that the battle for women's dignity in India is not over yet.
The reshuffle had politics at its heart, so the biggest complement of new ministers, both Cabinet rank and below, came from UP, which will see assembly elections in a few months.
As the teachers began gaining confidence, it also drew the attention of other women in the community, leading to greater demand for teaching jobs.
'With the largest number of malnourished people on the planet, India is poised to be a nation that significantly under-performs as an economy.'
Promising to do as much as he can for the rural talent of the state, injured India opener Virender Sehwag has said setting up a cricket academy of international standards was the dream of his father.
From the humble boxing ring of Dighwara village comes the amazing story of girl boxers who have started a revolution of sorts in Bihar's rural hinterland.
Aseem Chhabra brings you the Best of the Berlinale.
Santosh Kaveri, a young inventor from Karnataka, is a sterling example of the 'Made In India' initiative. Find out why his dreams of being an innovator-enterpreneur shattered.
Prof Pradip Narayan Ghosh, former Vice Chancellor of Jadavpur University, Kolkata tells us how the quota system has been unable to make higher education accessible to a large section of society.
All the essential services, schools and colleges have been excluded from the bandh.
'We know that there are new variants which are more transmissible. We know that human behaviour determines the spread of this virus. Therefore, it is not very relevant if we declare whether the second wave is over or not'
Professor Lajos Hanzo, chair of Telecommunications at the University's School of Electronics and Computer Science, and his team are working in a consortium with nine UK institutions and seven Indian Institutes of Technology to design the next generation of wireless systems across India.
The case related to alleged election code violation by Prime Minister Narendra Modi was in Tuesday transferred to the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate of Ahmedabad Rural court, from the court of Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate.
Dhruvraj Bhartia along-with Jyotirmoy Chatterji, co-founder of Project Chirag, singlehandedly set up 165 solar lamp units in the four villages
There can be no one answer to the question at the centre of an anxious debate across a world coping with COVID-19 and wondering what will happen if another one comes, but the global scientific community has been working on multiple tracks to ensure that humankind is better prepared.
