How a network of volunteers from Tamil Nadu are enabling underserved communities to access healthcare services with ease and dignity

Spread the love       Sukanya V’s mind is a remarkable network of names, medical conditions and institutions that may be able to help people in utmost need. In one instance, she found a daughter pouring out her heart about the difficulty her father diagnosed with throat cancer faced having to travel from Maraimalai Nagar to the hospital in Tambaram. The family...

Watch: Chaos at Bengaluru airport as flyer finds chicken in veg biriyani

Spread the love       Flyer says religious sentiment hurt; online post goes viral BENGALURU: Chaos erupted at Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) Saturday after a vegetarian flyer spotted meat in a vegetable biriyani he ordered near his gate.Piyush Agarwal claimed that the restaurant — Taste of India in T1, between gates 16 and 17 — served him non-vegetarian food despite the bill...

8-month pregnant Bengal woman delivers stillborn after assault by ‘BJP workers’

Spread the love       BJP leaders, however, denied that the accused were party workers and claimed the incident was linked to a different dispute (AI Image) KOLKATA: An eight-month-pregnant woman delivered a stillborn baby after she was allegedly assaulted by suspected BJP workers during an attack on her husband in West Bengal’s Cooch Behar district, police said on Saturday.Police said two...

Textile industry welcomes customs duty exemption extension for cotton

Spread the love       With daily cotton arrivals remaining dull at fewer than 70,000 bales a day during the first month of the current cotton marketing season (October 2026 to September 2027) and the Government of India deciding to extend the customs duty exemption on cotton till the end of December, the textile industry hopes there will be adequate cotton to...

What you need to know about losing visceral fat

What you need to know about losing visceral fat

Spread the love       Wellness coach Tanvi Parikh recently spoke about reducing visceral fat naturally, questioning whether the familiar advice to “eat less, move more” is enough to tackle stubborn belly fat. She noted that visceral fat—the fat stored deep inside the abdomen around organs such as the liver—is different from the fat that sits just beneath the skin. But reducing...

Beyond Cyclone Arnab: can India tackle the growing cost of natural disasters? | Insight India

Spread the love       Cyclone Arnab hit the coast of Andhra Pradesh this week. In preparation, authorities evacuated people, halted transportation services and alerted disaster response forces. This is just the first cyclone of the northeast monsoon season. As climate change threatens to bring increasingly intense cyclones and other natural disasters, will India’s current disaster management programme be able to handle...

Oppn ‘impeaches’ CEC in ‘mock Parliament’, but what will it take to remove him for real

Spread the love       NEW DELHI: The opposition on Saturday unanimously passed a “resolution” to remove Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar over allegations of irregularities in the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls during a “mock Parliament” organised at Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge’s residence.Former Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar presided over the proceedings, with several MPs and activists supporting the demand...

Zakir Naik gets schooled by Malala’s father for defending Taliban on girls’ education

Spread the love       Zakir Naik said that claims around Afghan women being denied higher education were “wrong and a misinformation”. NEW DELHI: Fugitive Islamic preacher Zakir Naik was criticised for defending access to education for women under Afghanistan’s Taliban regime, which has notoriously restricted the equal rights of Afghan women.Naik, booked under India’s stringent UAPA for terror-linked activities, said: “Everything...

Zakir Naik gets schooled by Malala’s father for defending Taliban on girls’ education

Spread the love       Zakir Naik said that claims around Afghan women being denied higher education were “wrong and a misinformation”. NEW DELHI: Fugitive Islamic preacher Zakir Naik was criticised for defending access to education for women under Afghanistan’s Taliban regime, which has notoriously restricted the equal rights of Afghan women.Naik, booked under India’s stringent UAPA for terror-linked activities, said: “Everything...

Binance replenishes 90% of stolen crypto, says it will absorb financial losses

Spread the love       Binance has restored 90 percent of the cryptocurrency assets lost due to a recent security breach. The exchange has pledged to handle the financial repercussions internally, ensuring customers are unaffected. Binance has replenished 90 per cent of the cryptocurrency assets stolen in a massive security breach, with the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange saying that it will absorb...

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