Water is indeed life! Can anyone imagine life without water? Well, on World Water Day, let’s take a pledge to save and conserve every drop of water and ensure the existence of life on earth for a longer period. Water conservation is not just the responsibility of the government and authorities. Every individual’s contribution plays a vital role in saving water. And hence, it is imperative to be an active […]
Khalida Begum, 35, gave birth to the as-yet-unnamed baby on Monday night Doctors diagnosed the boy with rare genetic condition Harlequin IchthyosisHowever, his symptoms also appear to be consistent with Anencephaly Locals in Kathihar, India, claim he’s an incarnation of Hindu God Hanuman A newborn baby was branded an ‘alien’ and later shunned by his mother after being born with an extremely rare condition, this week. Khalida Begum, 35, gave […]
Do you miss the chirruping of sparrows outside your window when you wake up in the morning? We’re sure you must have noticed how sparrows have slowly vanished from view since the past few years. Once found in huge numbers across the world, the small bird is slowly making its way to the endangered list and looks like humans are to blame. March 20th is a day designated to celebrate […]
It is a sad yet common scene that children forget about their parents while being busy with estate planning and trying how to avoid probate. Last year, Laxmi, a 68-year-old elderly woman was abandoned by her daughter and son-in-law, as they considered her a burden in the house. Since then, Laxmi has been begging on the streets of Hyderabad. After meeting with an accident a few weeks ago, she was […]
Journalism is a hazardous profession. CBS News correspondent Lara Logan suffered a brutal sexual assault in Egypt’s Tahrir Square in 2011 while covering the country’s Arab Spring upheaval. In 2014, an Islamic State video showed the beheading of Steven Sotloff, a US journalist who was held hostage by the militants. Daniel Pearl, a Wall Street Journal reporter, was kidnapped and murdered in Pakistan in 2002. Journalists all over the world […]
Of the 37 million people across the globe who are blind, more than 15 million are from India. The most unfortunate part of this is that while most of the cases are curable, there’s an acute shortage of optometrists and eye donations. However, their inability to see is not an impediment to their education or careers. In an initiative by the College of Fragrance for the Visually Impaired (COVFI), Mumbai, […]
The phone rings at 2am at night. Dr. Honest rushes to the ER. He wants to save his patient more than anything. This is the moment for which he joined the medical profession . But life is not a bed of roses for such a Dr. Honest anymore. Dr. Dishonest only aims to earn quick money by advising obviously un-indicated tests, giving treatment which may not do good for […]
Those were the days when school and college were fun. In today’s time educational institutions impart more stress than knowledge as there is a continuous requirement to perform . The complete educational system functions more on information than on overall growth of an individual . Finally everybody is at an admission war into engineering or medical. The scenario does not seem to change in the near future but the students […]
Ananth Rao from Mysuru started performing gymnastics at the age of 9. He represented Mysuru at the district level and Karnataka at national-level competitions. He is a winner of 3 silver and 2 bronze medals at South Asian Level competitions besides several other medals. However, on October 12, 2010, he suffered a tragic injury at a state-level gymnastic event. While performing a summersault, he landed awkwardly on his head which […]
I am sure that most of you are flooded with what’sapp messages or special offers to celebrate Woman’s Day. But let me ask a question to all our readers, is respecting a woman only about offering her a rose on March 8? Is respecting a woman about buying her expensive gifts, giving her a comfortable life or about letting her to shop till she drops? Well unfortunately none of these […]
