If gender disparities are eroded with more women being better-educated, that pool also becomes smaller.
'If someone is consistently horrible to you, for me, I would ask myself, what am I doing?' 'Why am I continuously putting myself as a target for this?'
Locked down in his Abbottabad hideout which he never left in six years, Osama bin Laden followed 'absolutely phenomenal operations security', and was taken by surprise when attacked by the United States forces, a top American counter-terrorism official has said.
Biju Menon tells Divya Nair/Rediff.com how he transformed himself to play a 73 year old character, one of his most challenging and satisfying roles as an actor.
Thakur said the minister told him a CBI inquiry would take minimum one year to conclude and that he should trust the state police's investigation.
Under the red alert, which is the highest in the four-tier emergency response system created in 2013, all schools have been ordered to be closed, and outdoor construction halted.
Over 5,000 volunteers from 120 corporates, NGOs, schools, colleges, running groups, social organisations and individuals participated in the massive Chennai Coastal Cleanup drive held on June 7 morning. S Saraswathi reports.
Cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and apprised him of his contribution to the Swachh Bharat campaign.
If foreigners need reasonable taxes, why offer citizens something else? If foreign businessmen look for assurance on the rule of law, so do citizens, argues T N Ninan.
The United Nations Children's Emergency Fund on Thursday said the deaths in mid-day meals in Bihar could have been prevented with strict adherence to protocols for preparing the meal.
US President Donald Trump identified New York, California and Washington as the three major coronavirus hot spots.
The National Innovation Foundation India (NIF), Ahmedabad shared the ideas that shined at the IGNITE 2015.
Adityanath also asked the the staff to make the atmosphere in the building healthy and clean by avoiding the use plastic.
Try to focus on the task at hand completely without worrying about what you have to do next, or what has already been done. Be in the moment, advises psychologist and spiritual coach Modmonk Anshul.
Tokyo marathon which last year saw close to 38,000 amateur participants, was scaled back to just a few hundred professional athletes, with the public strongly discouraged from lining the route. In past years the event attracted more than 1 million roadside spectators.
Even in ruin, Jet retained its one essential brand quality: Dignity, says brand guru Sandeep Goyal.
Over the years India's governments have turned several public goods into private ones, says T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan.
AFI President Adille Sumariwalla raised the possibility of more athletes outside the national camp taking to banned drugs and laid a lot of blame on the district and state level coaches.
While aid pours in at various relief camps close to cities, those operating in remote areas are reportedly facing difficulty in getting essential supplies.
'The timing of the lockdown was such that Kriti was at home after more than a month of shooting.' 'So we are getting good family time.'
How did Smriti Irani go from being a graduate in 2004 to an undergraduate in 2014?
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In his bid to make 'Swachh Bharat' a people's movement, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday initiated a chain by inviting nine eminent personalities including cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar, Congress leader Shashi Tharoor, industrialist Anil Ambani along with several actors to spread awareness on cleanliness.
Women should stop being ashamed of their periods. They should start celebrating it, feels Nishant Bangera.
Gaurav Mehta, one of 100 'Young Global Leaders', is tapping entrepreneurs inside rural Indians.
An informal group of volunteers from the same school in Ahmednagar come together to pool resources, prepare food, serve the needy.
'The larger number of patients, who are being affected by COVID-19, are essentially people who have a history of heart disease to begin with, and then experience a more severe form of the infection with COVID-19, because of the existing risk factor.'
'Chinese experts estimate that the new US administration is 'at the crossroads of how to re-manage and control' Sino-American differences and strategic divergences and Biden's bottom line is that the US would have 'extreme competition with China, but won't allow competition to develop into conflict',' notes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
Load of particulates and nitrous oxides from cars reduced by about 40%.
Jaw-dropping entries for the 2019 National Geographic Travel Photo Contest keep on coming. Here are 10 more that have impressed the judges -- and it's clear they've got their work cut out. The grand prize winner will win $7,500 (Rs 5.2 lakh) and will be featured on the @natgeotravel Instagram account which boasts 30 million followers.
Hippocampus Learning Centres bridges urban-rural gap through affordable, quality pre-schooling for kids.
Even the most positive change can inflict collateral damage, discovers Geetanjali Krishna.
As many as 30 students of Hyderabad-based Indian School of Business (ISB), seem to be bitten by the entrepreneurial bug and are likely to skip the ongoing placement drive. Most of them are eyeing opportunities in areas like travel, education and use of clean technologies.
On Friday, India marked the first anniversary of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's pet project Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan. Various programmes were held across the country to mark the event, which coincides with the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.
Author Natasha Badhwar explains her love-hate relationship with writing in her latest book Immortal for a Moment.
The ministry had last week announced that the re-examination of the CBSE Class 12 economics paper would be held on April 25.
'Can anyone honestly say with hand on heart that our streets and office buildings, railways and other public spaces are any cleaner?'
'I may not indulge in chest thumping to express my patriotism every day.' 'I may be cynical about many things happening in our country.' 'I may not roar Bharat Mata Ki Jai at the top of my voice. But I still love my country, just as one loves one's parents with all their weaknesses.' 'Does that make me any less of a patriot?' asks Shobha Warrier.
'What if this was my child?' 'My 3 year old, my 8 year old, my 17 year old?' Would I be insular, silent?' 'Would I protect those who I so actively protect now?' asks Preeti D'Mello.
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