Indian swimwear designers have crafted a mastectomy blouse for women with breast cancer. It was more than a decade ago that Simran Singh (name changed) underwent a “breast-removal operation”, clinically referred to as mastectomy, in Chandigarh. A cancer survivor, Singh fought off the disease bravely but rues how “things were never the same.” Once a smart dresser, the former school teacher lost confidence in her appearance and substituted first baby […]
“Secret Pakistan” by BBC showing involvement of ISI and Pakistan Army in helping taliban. Some MIGHT/MIGHT NOT agree with it. It’s their personal matter. So, comment sensibl Please follow and like us:
Shubhendu Sharma’s start-up Afforestt is helping build natural urban forests that grow in a short period of time and are maintenance-free. Those weekend trips you made to a hill-station or to your farmhouse cushioned amidst nature, need not be just during the weekends. If Shubhendu Sharma and Afforestt have their way, every backyard in our country will have abundant greenery. Shubhendu’s company grows urban forests that are maintenance-free, natural forests […]
It is not the lack of skills and poor education institutes, but the lack of passion to learn and poor choices that is holding India’s young grads back. Read on for interesting insights from a recent roundtable held in Mumbai. Just when most of us were reeling from the after-effects of the McKinsey report that a majority of young Indians are unfit for employment, Raman Madhok, Group Director, Human resources, […]
‘Anyone of them could have been the girl. So in a way it had what I call the ‘rakhi effect’. Everyone felt the rape victim could have been my sister and everyone felt that could have been myself.’ Professor Shiv Visvanathan speaks to Rediff.com‘s Sheela Bhatt on the recent demonstrations by India’s youth, and on current political and social trends. You can expect Professor Shiv Visvanathan, intellectual and author, to start a […]
six-member special team comprising five from the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and one from the Income Tax department was on Thursday constituted by the Supreme Court to examine the contents of tapped telephonic conversations of corporate lobbyist Niira Radia with politicians, corporate honchos and others. A bench comprising justices G S Singhvi and S J Mukhopadhaya said the working of the team will be supervised by two officers of […]
By making a statement of regret over the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, David Cameron has opened up a can of other questions and grievances over Britain’s colonial past. What about the British museum returning all the treasures looted from India during the Raj? What about sending back the Kohinoor diamond still embedded in Queen Elizabeth’s crown? And many commenting on this blog say it shouldn’t stop at India – what about the many casualties of […]
NEW DELHI:India’s principal opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) reiterated its decision not to let the parliament function smoothly unless the federal home minister Sushil Kumar Shinde renders his unqualified apology over his Hindu terror remark. BJP made it clear that the ruling coalition should not expect smooth functioning of the budget session which begins today with the customary address by the President to the joint sitting of both House of […]
New Delhi: Sporadic violence broke out in India on Wednesday as labour unions began a two-day strike to protest rising prices and government policies to open the economy. Millions of factory and bank employees stayed away from work and public transport was shut down in most big cities after major trade unions called the countrywide strike. With autorickshaws and taxis off the roads and metro trains and buses packed to […]
Hanging of four aides of sandalwood smuggler Veerappan has been further delayed with the Supreme Court on Wednesday extending its interim order staying the execution of death sentence imposed on them for killing 22 police personnel in a landmine blast in Karnataka in 1993. A bench headed by Chief Justice of India Altamas Kabir said it was keeping the matter pending since another bench, which has heard an identical plea, […]
