On the Line of Control (LoC), life is no picnic. Yet a year ago, soldiers could break the monotony of keeping the troubled border under watch with occasional leisure. Sometimes, this meant, a game of chess or carrom. Or, flipping through a Bollywood glossy. Soldiers would even soak in the breathtaking beauty of the treacherous mountains. Back then, when this correspondent toured the LoC for a week, things may not […]
As the Indian Army said on Thursday that it has carried out surgical strikes and inflicted serious damage on terrorists and those supporting them across the Line of Control, Pakistan will find that it has little space to respond to the daring operations. Here’s why: 1) New Delhi successfully isolated Islamabad diplomatically before it carried out the strikes. It was not merely how it quickly wrecked the Saarc summit in Islamabad, […]
Rumi was a man who knew how to speak from the heart that not many could parallel. His words will teach you about compassion, unconditional love for others and yourself. Here are 25 sentences that can change your look on life. 25. The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself, everything that you want you already are. 24. Actually, your soul and mine are the same, we appear […]
India celebrated its 500th Test in style on Monday when they overcame New Zealand’s final dogged resistance to win the series opener by 197 runs and go 1-0 up in the three-match series. New Zealand were always going to do well to manage anything more than delaying the Indian celebrations when they resumed on 93 for four in their pursuit of an improbable 434-run victory target on a track offering […]
As the story goes, after Neil Patel got offstage from speaking to 2500 marketers at a large business conference, he was approached by a woman who essentially accused him of lying about his hustle. “C’mon Neil. You know the best way to be successful is to be born to rich parents. Look at Bill Gates. Mark Zuckerberg. Chelsea Clinton. If you didn’t go to Harvard or Stanford, you’re locked out […]
A hardworking ginger cat has been working in a store in New York for the last nine years without ever taking a day off. The 9-year-old Bobo was brought into the store in Chinatown, New York, as a kitten by an employee as he had nowhere to live. He was well looked after by his new friends at the store and a lawyer, who visited the store and had four […]
When people are able to connect to the Divine and benefit from Divine Grace in their endeavours, the mind gets perplexed as to what it should ask for. This confusion is a sign that our being is not unified and that different parts within us want to go in different directions. Despite this the Divine is willing to forgive our ignorance and grant our wishes. In the Bhagwad Gita, Krishna […]
An indigenously built warship equipped with a range of high-tech missiles was launched on Saturday with Navy chief Admiral Sunil Lanba saying the stealth destroyer can be compared with the best vessels in the world. Christened ‘ Mormugao ‘, the vessel has been built by government-run Mazgaon Dock Shipbuilders Ltd (MDL) and belongs to Visakhapatnam class of ships being constructed under Project 15B. The Project 15B missile destroyers are modern […]
We mostly can’t see it around us, and too few of us seem to care – but nonetheless, scientists are increasingly convinced that the world is barreling towards what has been called a “sixth mass extinction” event. Simply put, species are going extinct at a rate that far exceeds what you would expect to see naturally, as a result of a major perturbation to the system. In this case, the […]
