India’s pilgrimage business is booming, with choppers for the rich and dorm beds for the poor. But the days of wooing foreigners to the Taj, Jaisalmer, and Palace on Wheels are over.
The test is unique. Not only does it extract DNA from the shaft of a mammal’s hair—previously thought to be impossible—but it does so without damaging the expensive shawl.
At entry level, women make up 46% of the workforce in India. At the C-suite level, it’s just 19%. That means for every 10 women who start, fewer than two make it to the top.
As Air Marshal Awadhesh Kumar Bharti briefed the nation on Operation Sindoor, it was a personal milestone for his family and friends in Purnea. ‘Our hearts are filled with pride.’
Haryana’s Jat heartland—Rohtak, Jhajjar, Hisar, and Bahadurgarh—shares a unique bond with Pakistan’s Punjab, where Muslim Jats settled after Partition.
India’s heart ached over the movie Baghban. But countless stories of abuse behind closed doors and rapidly filling ashrams and old age homes belie this.
Jamtara is going all out to erase its tag as a cybercrime capital. Cops are running coaching classes, turning old thanas into libraries, and inviting YouTubers to teach positive internet use.
Liberty without accountability is the freedom of the fool. Our concept of freedom will remain impoverished until it is deepened by liberal education, wrote Nani A Palkhivala in 1995.
While global corporations setting up GCCs in India continue to express confidence in availability of skilled AI engineers, the panel argued that India’s real challenge lies elsewhere.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
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