India had a prime meridian of its own much ahead of the Greenwich meridian and it was called "madhya rekha", which passed through the city of Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh, according to a new Class-6......
In India, 11.9 lakh excess deaths occurred in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, 17 per cent higher compared to 2019, an international study has found. IMAGE: Mass cremation of COVID-19 victims......
The decline in life expectancy was higher among young individuals and those aged 50 to 60. IMAGE: Kindly note the image has been posted only for representational purposes. A woman walks past a......
The gunman who shot at former United States president Donald Trump during an election rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday appears to have acted alone, according to the Federal Bureau of......
'There are legions of unemployed degree holders across rural and semi-urban belts in Maharashtra. Now, they aren't finding brides.''This issue has now snowballed into a social crisis. In 2014 and......
Developers in India now have expanded access to Google's powerful AI models with the 2 million token context window in Gemini 1.5 Pro and Gemma 2, the next generation of open models. IMAGE:......
'it's not just youth in India who are left behind because of their inability to find jobs; nearly two-thirds of Indian women of working ages do not participate at all in the paid labour force.'......
Gig workers in e-commerce firms are yet to find satisfactory channels to voice their concerns as none of the 12 major e-commerce platforms have recognised any collective body of workers, Fairwork......
'The earlier you get your treatment done, the better the chance of recovery.' IMAGE: Alka Yagnik posted this week: 'A few weeks ago, as I walked out of a flight, I suddenly felt I was not able to......
There's a spate of book-to-screen adaptations dominating OTT streaming this week. Sukanya Verma lists her recommendations. PriscillaWhere to watch? MubiLanguage: English Sofia Coppola's......
All India Rank achieves a fine balance of authenticity and sensitivity in the fine portrayals of its young actors and old, points out Sukanya Verma. I first saw Varun Grover's All India Rank at......
This isn't a hatchet job, and my excuse for the exercise is my feeling that when you invert some of the clichés mentioned here, you might just arrive at the portals of genuine movie-making......
'Rapists do have families.''I wanted to see how a father or mother would deal with it.''They go through shame as well and get discriminated from the rest of the village.''Why don't we show it that......
Trying to give the best support to Indian contingent but still being criticised: IOA chief PT Usha IMAGE: Union Sports and Youth Affairs Minister Mansukh Mandaviya, Union Minister of Petroleum and......