Often funded by community efforts or meagre govt funds, these spaces are breaking caste and gender barriers, empowering first-generation learners and preserving indigenous knowledge.
When 3 meteorite pieces struck Khalwat Nimgaon, it upended village life and set off a frantic hunt for a missing fragment. Scientists, officials, and even students elsewhere are invested.
Cartoonists’ Combine, founded by Bal Thackeray in 1983, held annual ‘Cartoon Mahotsav’ in Mumbai last week, putting on display 100 cartoons on burning issues of the day.
In what part of the world is a community denied full control over its holiest shrines? Except us?” asked Akash Lama, the general secretary of the All India Buddhist Forum.
As India-Pakistan tensions rose, the elderly in Habibwala and Jalalwala sent away their sons, daughters-in-law and grandchildren to safer areas, and stayed behind on drone duty.
PM Modi has set a template that his successors—no matter from which party—won’t be able to divert from or abandon. It has become an unwritten national security code.
Zoya & Ayan, 13 were killed when a Pakistani shell struck their home in Poonch. Their father, still being treated for his injuries, is unaware of their deaths.
The US and Israel’s assassinations of Iranian leadership ended up bestowing martyrdom on those killed. Shias saw the deaths as a continuity of martyrdom from the Battle of Karbala.
India’s fast-growing data centre sector may strain state electricity networks; Central Electricity Authority has urged Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu to boost capacity.
Indian Navy chief Admiral Dinesh Tripathi said that the ongoing conflict in West Asia illustrates that speed is no longer merely an enabler of warfare but a distinct capability.
China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.
COMMENTS