“There’s nothing much to photograph you know,” jokes Dr Vanit Nalwa, when asked if she could be photographed in the chamber where she conducts her hypnotherapy sessions. “No candles or swinging pendulums!” Dr Nalwa, well-known Delhi-based hypnotherapist and neuropsychologist, isn’t far off the mark. For many people, the word hypnosis conjures images that have more to do with magic than medicine. But the truth is that hypnotherapy is a scientifically-acknowledged […]

BENGALURU: Malleshappa M Kalburgi, a reputed scholar and academic who served as the Vice-Chancellor of Kannada University in Hampi was shot dead by unidentified men at Dharwad on Sunday morning, police said .  Three men who barged into his house shot him after an heated argument, police said.  While police strongly suspect that he might be the target of Hindu fundamentalist , they have also ruled out personal enemity over […]

Manohar Aich is a Legendary Indian Bodybuilder who is now 103 years old. He won the 1952 Mr. Universe – Group III championship and is also a three-time Asian Games gold medalist in body building. Manohar was interested in bodybuilding and fitness right from his early age. At that time,there were not gyms and weight equipment’s. Hence he used to do only body-weight exercises with more reps. His workout in […]

It has been almost four years since Steve Jobs uttered his final words as he looked at his family and whispered in hushed tones the words “Oh wow” thrice. Thousands would leave flowers and apples with a single bite taken out of them at the same stores they lined up outside waiting to get their hands on some of Jobs’ latest creations. Before this year ends, we will have two […]

Billionaire Virgin chairman Richard Branson celebrates a Virgin Atlantic expansion into India at Mumbai. The idea of being “successful” is ultimately a matter of personal judgment. But regardless of personality, industry, or point in history, there are timeless truths about what it takes to achieve one’s potential. Self-made industrialist Andrew Carnegie was the wealthiest man on the planet in the early 20th century and was a student of what it […]

There must have been about 120 people crammed into Room number 5, in Tata Institute of Social Sciences last evening. From window sills to the floor, every surface had a bottom resting on it. In true Mumbai fashion, everyone ‘adjusted’ and focused their attention upon the film being screened. Nakul Singh Sawhney’s documentary Muzaffarnagar Baaqi Hai is two hours and 16 minutes long. Not a single cellphone rang during that […]

  Over a million young aspirants try to crack the UPSC exam every year. The motivation for many, several of them from poor backgrounds, is to serve the country as IAS, IFS and IPS officers. Their dreams are often exploited by coaching centres that charge in the lakhs and leave families mired in loans. Read about two young men who decided to take this system head on through Unacademy, a […]

The launch of Geo-synchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) D6 carrying India’s latest communication satellite GSAT-6 is scheduled for August 27, Indian Space Research Organisation said today. The launch of GSLV-D6 carrying GSAT-6 is scheduled at 16:52 hours from Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh, ISRO said. ISRO chairman A S Kiran Kumar had earlier said that the satellite would be for strategic application. “It will give you […]

Early to bed and early to rise… is certainly applicable to these people who shone in their respective fields and went on to become inspirational. Early to bed and early to rise… is certainly applicable to these people who shone in their respective fields and went on to become inspirational. Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer only gets about 4 hours of sleep. Marissa Mayer isn’t much for sleep. The Yahoo CEO […]

In what is likely to put the scheduled India-Pakistan NSA level talks in jeopardy, Islamabad on Friday said that it will not accept any ‘pre-condition’ of cancelling the meeting between its NSA Sartaj Aziz and the Kashmiri separatist leaders. According to media reports, Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaj Sharif this morning conducted a meeting with his council of ministers, Army and ISI chief over the issue. During the meeting, it was […]