During early mornings and late evenings, Edakkulam village of Thirunavaya Grama panchayat in Malappuram district of Kerala is as busy as a bee. Urgency is in the air and youngsters can be seen plucking lotus flowers, which are just beginning to bloom, by balancing on canoes. Vehicles would carry the flowers to different te...
The total number of homicide victims fell from 48,167 in 2000 to 42,678 in 2016, the Global Study on Homicide 2019 released by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNDOC) on Monday found....
Gallup released a poll on July 8th showing a decline in the public's confidence in the church or organized religion. It found that 36% had a "great deal" or "quite a lot" of confidence; 36% had "some"; and 29% said they had "very little" or "none." That was the lowest degree of confidence recorded since 1973. Still, 72% of Americans continue to express confidence in the ...
Late Steve Jobs who co-founded Apple was a master at "casting spells" to keep employees motivated and working long hours, according to Microsoft's co-founder Bill Gates. ...
Often, our attention is drawn to the subject of postpartum depression by sensational headlines about a celebrity’s ordeal or horrific outcome of an infanticide. High‐profile mothers like Brooke Shields and Gwyneth Paltrow have shared their stories of postpartum depression. In 2017, Ivanka Trump revealed on CNN her struggle. Last mont...
The Forbes magazine last month featured Lively and its founders, Alex Cyriac, 36, and Shobin Uralil, 37, CEO and COO respectively. Three years ago Cyriac found out that his mother was not taking all the required prescription drugs, because the co-pay under her Medicare drug plan had risen $200 a month. Cy...
From renovating and reviving deserted temples in the Kashmir Valley to expansion of new "shakhas" in the higher reaches of the Himalayas, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) seems to be on an expansion mode in Jammu and Kashmir. Besides expansion plans, the top leadership of the RSS also endorses fresh delimitation of Assembly constituencie...
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo came in advance for the final round of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's face-to-face meeting with American President Donald Trump. Trump sent him to fix the schedule of the two top leaders' meeting. It was just before June 28 that a bilateral meeting would be held in the G-20 summit in Japan. But with Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar, P...
The 'Gandhipedia' is being developed as a social media portal that will contain original works related to the Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi, a Culture Ministry official told IANS....
There is a huge gap between the skill needs of the Indian economy and the supply of graduates, a government backed report says, adding that non-technical, non-professional degree courses should have 20-35 per cent vocational content....
