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.
Even in ruin, Jet retained its one essential brand quality: Dignity, says brand guru Sandeep Goyal.
While aid pours in at various relief camps close to cities, those operating in remote areas are reportedly facing difficulty in getting essential supplies.
'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?'
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.
Load of particulates and nitrous oxides from cars reduced by about 40%.
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.
Gaurav Mehta, one of 100 'Young Global Leaders', is tapping entrepreneurs inside rural Indians.
Women should stop being ashamed of their periods. They should start celebrating it, feels Nishant Bangera.
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.
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.
'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.'
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.
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.
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.
'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.
An informal group of volunteers from the same school in Ahmednagar come together to pool resources, prepare food, serve the needy.
Cess upto 2 per cent will be levied
The ministry had last week announced that the re-examination of the CBSE Class 12 economics paper would be held on April 25.
'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.'
Author Natasha Badhwar explains her love-hate relationship with writing in her latest book Immortal for a Moment.
Following Tanishaa Mukerji, as she goes on a vacation!
'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.
On his first official visit to a member country after assuming office in August, world athletics chief Sebastian Coe urged India to promote track and field at the school level if it wants to excel on the international stage.
'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.
The left-hander nominated nine people, including his Uttar Pradesh teammates Praveen Kumar, RP Singh, Piyush Chawla, India hockey goalkeeper P R Sreejesh, Board of Control for Cricket in India vice-president Rajeev Shukla, singers Shreya Ghosal and Sonu Nigam to take forward the Challenge and urged them to continue the campaign.
The PM will spend much of Friday outside Delhi; will devote day attending official events in Jharkhand and a political rally in Banka, Bihar
The nation on Friday remembered Mahatma Gandhi on his 146th birth anniversary.
India lifted 271 million people out of poverty between 2006 and 2016, recording the fastest reductions in the multi-dimensional poverty index values during the period with strong improvements in areas such as "assets, cooking fuel, sanitation and nutrition," a report by the United Nations said.
There's some amazing stuff beneath the water. For proof, look no further than the annual Ocean Art Underwater Photo Competition.
Ahead of the prime minister's visit, the administration is busy working on roads and ensuring cleanliness. Fire engines have also been deployed inside the railway station for cleaning of trees on its premises.
National Geographic's Travel Photo Contest is open for entries and has already attracted incredible snaps from across the globe. Week 2 of the contest include images of a newborn lion being carried to safety in the jaws of its mother, a daredevil slackliner in the USA, and a penguin being chased by a fur seal. The international competition runs from 18 March to 3 May, with budding photographers able to enter their work in one of three categories: nature, cities and people.
Building toilets, however essential, must not be confused with sanitation and the crying need for a revamp of India's sewage systems.
A compilation of results from the Vijay Hazare Trophy matches played on Saturday.
'I can assure you the Ganga will be more polluted in 2030 than it is now.' 'What they are trying to do now is clean the Ganga without understanding how to do so.'
Its newly-built Jigani kitchen in Bengaluru is piloting the use of technologies such as data analytics, blockchain and Internet of Things to speed up the huge volume of its operations while ensuring strict quality control, reports Samreen Ahmad.
"I'm taking a minute to respond... I do respect Raghuram Rajan as a great scholar who chose to be in the central bank in India at a time when the Indian economy was all buoyant," Sitharaman said during the lecture organised by the Deepak and Neera Raj Centre on Indian Economic Policies of the Columbia University.
Who better than India's beloved storyteller to teach you how to spin a yarn?
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