Mobile in one hand. Holding a big bag in the same hand. The other hand on the motorcycle handle – and his 3-4 years child holding his shirt. Shielding his child from the rains of Udaipur with an umbrella, this man seems to be a miracle. Driving without a helmet …
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Story of the Air in India
As I walked through the streets of Delhi, I could taste and feel the different chemicals in the air. Today, doctors often say that, ‘breathing air in India is like smoking 50 cigarettes in day’. Seeing a random couple walk down the streets of India today, with their pollution protection …
Read More »Ground Report / Karnataka / Kolar / Special Story: Barali school teacher turns driver to ensure students keep coming to school
A school teacher in Barali Government Higher Primary School, located near the Bramhavar town in Udupi district, Karnataka, took it upon himself to drive the school bus so that the students turn up regularly.
Read More »Enigmatic African fossils rewrite story of when lemurs got to Madagascar
Discovered more than half a century ago in Kenya and sitting in museum storage ever since, the roughly 20-million-year-old fossil Propotto leakeyi was long classified as a fruit bat. Now, it’s helping researchers rethink the early evolution of lemurs, distant primate cousins of humans that today are only found on …
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There and back again: Mantle xenon has a story to tell
The Earth has been through a lot of changes in its 4.5 billion year history, including a shift to start incorporating and retaining volatile compounds from the atmosphere in the mantle before spewing them out again through volcanic eruptions. This transport could not have begun much before 2.5 billion years …
Read More »Hemingway story from 1956 published for first time
But the story itself has been little known beyond the scholarly community for decades: “A Room on the Garden Side,” written in 1956, is being published for the first time. The brief, World War II-era fiction appears this week in the summer edition of The Strand Magazine, a literary quarterly …
Read More »PM shares India’s growth story on global platform
Prime Minister Narendra Modi attended the third annual meeting of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank in Mumbai on Tuesday. This year’s theme is “Mobilizing Finance for Infrastructure: Innovation and Collaboration”. It recognizes the private sector’s vital role in bridging the infrastructure gap. Prime Minister Narendra Modi presented India as one …
Read More »Boy cooks up kidnap story fearing failure in board exam
‘Used mobile app to call home from international number’ Udaipur : A 16-year-old boy who had cooked up a fake kidnap story, fearing parents may chide him for failing in board examination, was detained by Udaipur police from a train at Nasirabad junction. Police brought the boy to GoverdhanVilas police station …
Read More »Boy craft kidnap story, ask 50 lakh ransom
Udaipur : A 10th grader left his home of his own will, caught a train to New Delhi and later made a call from his mobile to his father claiming that he has been kidnapped and the abductor is demanding 50 lakh rupees to release him. The boy’s father Rajendra …
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