The Central Government announced the list of the Padma award winners late on Thursday evening, honoring the many people who brought laurels in their respective fields. The list included many people, from well-known music director Isaignani Ilaiyaraja who has been awarded Padma Vibhushan, to two lesser-known people from the state of Kerala. Lakshmikutti, known as the Grandmother of the Jungle, and …

People are becoming increasingly aware of the importance of donating their bodies to science and medicine after their deaths. An elderly couple from an orthodox family signed to forego their last rites. A teenager celebrated her birthday in the anatomy department of a medical college. A woman felt a stab every time she passed by a particular city hospital until her …

Running a business is tough. There are some conditions which make it easier but the overall conditions remain tough. A high-pressure work environment is often seen to be the trend of most business corporations. However, there are some corporations where the leaders go a step beyond the usual and make their mark on their teams. Such efforts make these leaders …

Raipur, which currently ranks as the 129th cleanest city in India, hopes to be among the top 10 cleanest cities this year. And the city is making efforts to make that hope a reality. We have seen film festivals, lit fest, music fest, food fest, and comic-cons but Raipur city has come up with an innovative idea, a Kachra Mahotsav or …

While many people strive to achieve a great percentile in the Common Admission Test (CAT), there are some with an exceptional ability to crack the test in their first attempt. People spend years preparing to get a good percentile in CAT. Chhavi Gupta is a 24-year-old girl who surprised everyone by not only cracking the test in her first attempt …

We all have busy lives and more often than not, we lose focus of what is important and what is not. We start to get frustrated and exhaust ourselves into doing multiple things all at the same time. We fail and try to do many things and look busy trying to do nothing. We invest ourselves into doing many things …

Daniel Marcus Macwan is a 43-year-old DJ-turned-conversationalist who shifted from Mumbai to Manipur’s  Tamenglong town three years ago with his wife Galina Newme. A usual day in Daniel Marcus Macwan’s life often involves negotiating with poachers to buy endangered animals. Once the deal is sealed, and the sale finalized, Macwan takes these animals to his house, not to sell them to …

The memory is still very fresh in my mind when I got a call that my father had met with an accident and had suffered serious head injury. I felt my knees weakening & it was a bad dream coming true. I dropped everything then and there & immediately headed for Dehradun, where he was being taken for treatment after …

Medhavi Davda was only 16 when she first fell in love with the mighty Himalayas. It was her first high-altitude trek and all it did was leave her wanting for more. She could not be stopped after that first trek. Along with a demanding job as a software engineer with big names such as TCS, Infosys and IBM, she also took …

Deepak Nayak is an engineer with ancestral land in Rajasthan. While growing up, he would often visit his family’s ancestral land in Rajasthan which was being managed by farm labourers as no one had no time to work on it. “Those few days spent on our farm were the most memorable and relaxing moments of my childhood, and I would often crave …