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Watch Riz Ahmed’s poetry from The Big Narstie Show answers the most poignant question desi kids and immigrants of colour get slapped with: “Where You From”? in countries like the UK and the US Tap Check out commercial pilot Santiago Borja L’s award winning photographs especially those in storm clouds as viewed from his cockpit! […]
“Such a bawa he looks like!” says celebrity stylist Anaita Shroff Adajania, with a chuckle, scrolling down the Instagram handle of “an artist” that she’s discreetly showing photographer and screenwriter-turned-director Sooni Taraporevala on her phone. The ladies have rollers in their hair and are lounging in the broad balcony of Anaita’s breezy sea-view apartment in Mumbai’s Breach […]
Places of worship and NGOs are proving equal to the task of helping the poor fight hunger in these troubled times. In Panchkula, the Nada Sahib gurdwara has been preparing food for over 2,000 every day. Granthi Jagjit Singh told HT that this was being supplied to authorities in Panchkula since March 25. “We are […]
Yes, I know the meme going around. Shakespeare wrote Macbeth and King Lear during a plague. Isaac Newton discovered gravity, calculus and optics during the Great Plague of London. What are the rest of us doing? In this age of uncertainty, let me just say: I hope you and your loved ones are safe and […]
The top 20 rankers for each test to be given free one year access to Unacademy Subscription India’s largest learning platform, Unacademy, is conducting the UPSC CSE Championship, offering five full length free mock tests on its platform for UPSC aspirants looking to appear for the CSE Prelims 2020 – General Studies paper. The test […]
Prepare yourselves for a bit of a shock and it has nothing to do with the coronavirus. But it is, nonetheless, distressing. As many as 83 Indian soldiers are said to be in Pakistani captivity, some from as far back as the 1965 and 1971 wars, and it appears successive governments have either forgotten about […]
“They are not making the Chief Minister after all,” said a Congress leader after Jyotiraditya Scindia formally joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and was offered a Rajya Sabha ticket. Calculating ‘gains and losses’ from a political switch of a prominent leader is a given. So, it is natural for the average Congress leader to […]
If you’re currently working from home and missing the office banter; worry no more! These two feline friends are here to make you feel nostalgic about the catty corporate culture, pun intended. The three-second-long clip was posted on Reddit on March 27. It is captioned “by all means-just have it out right on top of […]
The faculty at the Biochemistry deparment at the University of Hyderabad are working on potential vaccine candidates, called T cell epitopes to fight COVID-19, the UoH said here on Friday. The candidates are against all the structural and non- structural proteins of novel coronavirus-2 (2019-nCoV) for experimental testing, a varsity press release said. These vaccine […]
Union HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal has urged the students to read books in the free time available to them due to coronavirus lockdown in the country. The minister used the microblogging site Twitter, to make students aware about the importance of books in one’s life. In his tweet, the minister wrote, “Dear students, I know […]