A former employee of India’s third largest IT services firm Wipro, has sued the company for a compensation of around £1 million, in a case of sexual discrimination, unequal pay and unfair dismissal. Shreya Ukil, 39, who worked in the Bengaluru-based company’s London office alleged that she was subjected to a “deeply predatory, misogynistic culture.” She also accused Wipro of sex discrimination, unequal pay, harassment and unfair dismissal. “The culture […]

At the peak of World War II, the British and the Germans faced a severe shortage of men to work in the factories because many of them were recruited for fighting. The British found a simple solution to the problem: they recruited more women to run their factories and take care of non-combat jobs. But the Nazis kept their women at home, believing that their only job was procreation and […]

Even as the nation struggles to come to terms with the shocking reality of the Dadri Lynching incident and many question Prime Minister Modi’s silence over the heinous act, there is a section of the society that has decided that enough is enough and it is high time to take action against the growing incidents of violence and intolerance on religious ground. Yes I am talking about the litterateurs who […]

Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru’s niece, Nayantara Sahgal, an eminent writer, has returned her Sahitya Akademi Award, against what she calls “a vicious assault on India’s diversity and debate.” Nayantara Sahgal, stated her reason behind returning the award, the ‘intolerance on the rise.’ She said, she is returning the award “in memory of the Indians who have been murdered, in support of all Indians.” While speaking to NewsX, she expressed her […]

Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan on Tuesday said saving the endangered tiger was the responsibility of all citizens of the country. Debuting as Maharashtra’s ‘Tiger Ambassador’ at a function held inside the Sanjay Gandhi National Park in Borivali East, Bachchan expressed happiness that the tiger population in the state was much better than other states. “I shall give my best to help the forest department conserve and save the tigers in […]

Crucial measurements were made at the Super-Kamiokande neutrino detector in Japan The discovery that neutrinos switch between different “flavours” has won the 2015 Nobel Prize in physics. Neutrinos are ubiquitous subatomic particles with almost no mass and which rarely interact with anything else, making them very difficult to study. Takaaki Kajita and Arthur McDonald led two teams which made key observations of the particles inside big underground instruments in Japan […]

  “Bang Bang!” star Hrithik Roshan has been announced as India ambassador for Unicef and the Global Goals campaign’s World’s Largest Lesson. The actor has joined other celebrities to invite young students to use their superpower to help protect our planet and achieve the global goals’ mission to end poverty and inequality. The World’s Largest Lesson aims to teach children in over 100 countries about the new Sustainable Development Goals […]

India accounted for the largest number of poor people in any country in 2012, but its poverty rate was lowest among countries having large number of poor population, the World Bank said in a latest report, which uses a revised methodology for measuring poverty. “India was home to the largest number of poor in 2012, but its poverty rate is one of the lowest among those countries with the largest […]

Viral fever is one of the most common illnesses usually characterised by an increase in body temperature, headaches and body aches. It also refers to a wide range of viral infections, which are very common during seasonal changes. It is caused by different kinds of viruses, of which the influenza-virus is well known. The symptoms of viral fever are so common that we neglect them at their initial stages. But, […]

  On the surface, James Harrison is just an average guy. He loves his daughter and grandchildren, collects stamps, and goes for walks near his home on Australia’s central coast. But it’s what’s under the surface that makes him extraordinary — specifically, what’s flowing in his veins. Known as “The Man with the Golden Arm,” nearly every week for the past 60 years he has donated blood plasma from his […]