By Saket Suman, Tawang (Arunachal Pradesh) : National Geographic explorer Mike Libecki and his 14-year-old daughter Lilliana are essentially travellers who have been to several remote corners of the world. But it is not just the high-ranging mountains or far-flung...
Canberra : An Australian entrepreneur is offering a cash reward of A$5,000 ($3,710) to decipher one of the country's greatest unsolved modern mysteries, a media report said on Monday. On a desert plateau 36 miles from the tiny South Australian town of Marree, lines...
By Mohit Dubey, Lucknow : Much before the Indian parliament promulgated the Right to Education Act (RTE) in 2009 that guaranteed education to all a committed local teacher had already pioneered the idea of making school access a reality for hundreds of underprivileged...
Cannes : Singer Akon is launching his own "AKoin" cryptocurrency in an effort to grow crypto-based apps in Africa to bring economic power back to the continent. Akon, who is of Senegalese descent and has spent years running 'Lighting Africa' -- a project aimed at...
By Saeed Naqvi, The three column, six inch-deep headline on page 1 of the Daily Telegraph caught my eye: "Doors open to thousands more skilled migrants." Given the anti-immigrant rhetoric I had heard in Rome and elsewhere in Europe, the headline was refreshing. Even...
Bangkok : Indian golfer Rashid Khan will hope to overcome few mental and technical issues as he bids to end a four-year title drought when he competes at the $300,000 Thailand Open which starts on Thursday. The lanky Indian enjoyed an amazing season in 2014 when he...
By Mudita Girotra, Hisar (Haryana) : On May 15 this year, a teenaged girl from Haryana embarked on the very challenging task of climbing Mount Everest from the Nepal side. But having dropped her radio transceiver during the trek, she couldn't inform anyone about her...
By Saket Suman, Book: All The Lives We Never Lived; Author: Anuradha Roy; Publisher: Hachette; Price: Rs 599; Pages: 335 In a shattered world of lovelorn characters, Anuradha Roy's recent novel yearns for "all the lives" it "never lived", gently unfolding a narrative...
Mumbai : From winning awards without attending award shows to bringing a new wave in the business of Indian cinema, actor-filmmaker Aamir Khan not only broke all the rules to establish his stardom over the last 30 years but also remains a watchdog of the film...
By Milinda Ghosh Roy, Kolkata : With no cutting-edge medical equipment, air-conditioning or critical care unit in place, the under-construction building in West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district hardly matches the popular notion of a modern medical care facility....