Hopefully train journeys will be more pleasant with stinking toilets becoming a thing of the past. Vinod Anthony Thomas, a student of Manipal University, has won the second prize for designing a waterless and odourless toilet for the Indian Railways. In keeping with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Clean India initiative, the railways held a public competition for waterless and odourless …

“Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born,” said Alan Kay, a US-based computer science pioneer credited with designing the Dynabook – the basis for all modern-day tablets and laptops – in the early 1970s. Try remembering the time when you held your first mobile phone. Did you realise what the device was going to offer you in …

महाभारत में आदर्श जीवन से संबंधित बहुत सारी नीतियों का वर्णन किया गया है। जिनको अपने जीवन में अपनाने से वैभव संपन्न जीवन का यापन किया जा सकता है। महाभारत के एक श्लोक अनुसार 5 ऐसे लोग हैं जिन्हें खाना खिलाने से शुभ लाभ के साथ-साथ बहुत सारे पुण्य प्राप्त होते हैं। श्लोक: पितृन् देवानृषीन् विप्रानतिथींश्च निराश्रयान्। यो नरः प्रीणयत्यन्नैस्तस्य …

Publisher: Collins Business Pages: 324 Price: Rs.599 Start-ups may have become a familiar term in India in the past decade, but this lady dared to delve into such a mission — a domain dominated by men even today — more than three decades ago. The fact that she will be different from her peers was also evident rather early. For …

Publisher: Straits Times Press Pages: 368 Price: NA In March 2013, National Security Adviser Shivshankar Menon called Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, the Sri Lankan president’s brother who ran the war against the Tamil Tigers. Menon promised Indian support at the UN human rights vote in Geneva and wanted to know which countries may vote against Sri Lanka so that he may persuade …

Publisher: Penguin Books Pages: 305 Price: Rs. 599 This is a fascinating story of the Indian revolutionary movement, focussing mainly on the charismatic Bhagat Singh and the Hindustan Socialist Republican Army (HSRA) and how the group influenced and radicalized the Congress, speeding up the race for independence. In contrast to popular belief that the revolutionary movement and the Congress struggle …

Lucknow, India – April 11, 2016 – History was made at Indira Gandhi Pratisthan in Lucknow; Vodafone India celebrated the launch of Vodafone SuperNet™ in the UP East Circle by creating a 627 sq. mtrs. (6746.5 sq.ft.) large disposable cup mosaic which sets the new world record for the Largest disposable cup mosaic. Photo: Vodafone India celebrated the launch of Vodafone …

Dubai, UAE – February 24, 2016 – A bag of rice weighing 550 kilograms has entered the Book of World Records for being the heaviest bag of rice; the rice bag of India Gate Classic Basmati Rice brand has achieved the feat at the annual 4-day food and hospitality trade show being held in Dubai. Photo: KRBL director Priyanka Mittal. KRBL …

Hindustani classical vocalist Jai Thirath Mevandi belongs to the land that has given gems like Pt Sawai Gandharva and Pt Bhimsen Joshi. Following his mother who hummed devotional songs while doing household chores, Jai Thirath took a liking to music right from his childhood. He started learning classical music under Pt Arjunsa Nakod at the age of 14. Inspired by …

Hari Chand sits at Café Coffee Day, a stone’s throw away from the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi. Inside the enormous belly of the stadium is a tartan track. Hari Chand has an unrealised dream there. If fulfilled, it would have made him the undisputed long-distance running champion in India. For a lot of people, who have bothered to …