Category: Features

Why robot dogs should stop smelly people getting on planes

By Nury Vittachi Used my wife's lemon-herb-mint shampoo, and now my head smells like a slow-roasted leg of lamb and…

7 years ago

India’s tallest Christmas tree reaches up to the heavens

By Quaid Najmi Mumbai, Dec 20 (IANS) Over 10,000 twinkling colourful fairy lights, cherubic angels and fairies, reindeer and snowmen,…

7 years ago

Sip on fine wine, gorge on authentic Chinese delicacies at China Club

By Kishori Sud Gurugram, Dec 19 (IANS) Head to the China Club here to savour authentic Chinese delicacies in a…

7 years ago

UN action set to revive Kenyan lake around which flowers bloom

By Vishal Gulati Naivasha (Kenya), Dec 18 (IANS) The Naivasha wetlands, nestled amidst the volcanic mountains of Kenya's Great Rift…

7 years ago

On a wing and verse: Bengal girl gives poetic meaning to broken life

By Sirshendu Panth Kolkata, Dec 17 (IANS) Eight years back, Sathi Mondal was a normal, jovial teenager, enjoying life and…

7 years ago

The year when Indian fiction reflected the burden of society

By Saket Suman New Delhi, Dec 17 (IANS) A novel that takes its readers into the abyss of poverty and…

7 years ago

India witnessed infusion of AI across industries

(ATTN Editors: Beginning December 15, IANS will be running a series of Yearenders that look at the highs and lows…

7 years ago

Mythical medicines that I am impatient to try

By Nury Vittachi I hate it when I want to sneak out of work early, but invisibility pills have not…

7 years ago

Rishi Kapoor objects to journalists at launch of book on Raj Kapoor

New Delhi, Dec 14 (IANS) Rishi Kapoor objected to the presence of journalists at the launch on Thursday evening of…

7 years ago

Writer’s desk: How writers build the sanctums where they write

By Saket Suman Solitude and silence are what most writers seek to produce a full-length novel or non-fiction book. But…

7 years ago

Month-long fiesta of sales at Dubai Shopping Festival

Dubai, Dec 12 (IANS) Preparations here are underway to host Dubais annual citywide shopping extravaganza, offering the shopping-lover in all…

7 years ago

Bhai Boolchand, the unsung Indian who launched trade with Ghana

By Francis Kokutse Accra, Dec 11 (IANS) Not much is known about him, but it has now emerged that trade…

7 years ago

Making a difference: Teenager’s passion sets an example in Kashmir

By Sheikh Qayoom Laharwalpora (Jammu and Kashmir), Dec 10 (IANS) Bilal Ahmad Dar, 18, is ready to start his daily…

7 years ago

Chatham: A stroll through Asia’s oldest saw mill in the Andamans

By Milinda Ghosh Roy Port Blair, Dec 9 (IANS) Enormous storehouses with wooden planks and logs piled up to the…

7 years ago

Pitching millets as ‘smart food of 21st century’

By Vivian Fernandes Karnataka is dressing them up as "siridanya" or rich grains that should be on every thinking eater's…

7 years ago

Things you can do at home, such as nuclear fission

By Nury Vittachi Sometimes I order weird stuff from Amazon and tick "same-day delivery" just to make Jeff Bezos swear.…

7 years ago

‘Let the murals speak for the dignity of transgenders’

By Somrita Ghosh New Delhi, Dec 6 (IANS) There's no protest, no placards, no shouting of slogans -- rather a…

7 years ago

Max Hospital didn’t follow norms: Initial report

New Delhi, Dec 5 (IANS) In its preliminary investigation report, north Delhi's Shalimar Bagh-located Max Super Specialty Hospital on Tuesday…

7 years ago

“There was never an iota of communal hatred in Ayodhya’

By Saurabh Katkurwar Ayodhya, Dec 3 (IANS) This is a town held sacred for its association with Hindu religious lore,…

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If not now then when? Living the Great Indian Dream

By Saket Suman There's talk that the country has lost track and is headed in a direction not envisaged by…

7 years ago



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