Life & style

Surta Parmar saving the Yadavs (Instagram) Heroism has no age, no gender, no caste or no nationality. Just a brave heart willing to go to any extent to be a saviour. It was an ordinary day in Dharti Mata village in Rajasthan’s Dungarpur district. Surta Parmar (38) was at home doing her daily chores. It … Read more

We see them on busy roads, outside hospitals and sometimes rushing through traffic with their sirens on. Yet one detail about ambulances rarely makes us stop and think: why are so many of them white? It may look like a simple colour choice, but an ambulance is not designed quite like an ordinary vehicle. Its … Read more

Here are five common cleaning habits worth breaking before they cost you a pair of glasses. Most people clean their glasses with whatever’s within arm’s reach, a shirt hem, a tissue, or a quick spray of whatever cleaning bottle happens to be on the counter, without realising that almost every modern prescription lens carries a … Read more

Little girl’s dal dhokli recipe video wins hearts online A little chef, a familiar Indian dish, and a recipe explained most simply have come together in a video that is getting attention online. Little girl Niyati Choudhary has caught viewers’ attention with her Dal Dhokli cooking video, where she takes part in the preparation and … Read more

Every home renovation seems to end the same way, a neatly stacked pile of extra tiles sitting in a storeroom or garage corner, too good to throw away, too small a quantity to use for anything “real.” What most people don’t realise is that this leftover pile is actually one of the most underrated resources … Read more

Virat Kohli has added another piece of ink to his already impressive tattoo collection.The former India captain was recently spotted getting a new tattoo on his left arm, and pictures from the session have quickly made their way across social media. The design is unlike some of Kohli’s more obvious symbolic tattoos, featuring a circular … Read more

When you think of apple orchards, Maharashtra is probably not the first place that comes to mind. Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir and Uttarakhand have long dominated India’s apple-growing landscape. Yet in Wakadi village near Shirdi, Maharashtra, engineer-turned-farmer Vikrant Kale has been growing apples despite summer temperatures touching 44°C. According to The Better India, Kale … Read more

Anima Anandkumar has spent much of her career trying to bring two worlds closer together: artificial intelligence and science.Now, that work has earned her a spot on TIME’s list of the 100 most influential people in AI. The Indian-born scientist has worked on using AI to tackle some seriously complex problems, from predicting the weather … Read more

Sonali Bendre stepped out for a recent dinner event for a Mirzapur project, dressed in a striking cobalt blue kurta set by designer Rachana Ved. The actress kept things elegant and uncomplicated, letting the rich colour and pretty embroidery take centre stage.She wore Rachana Ved’s Peacock Kaftan in Cobalt Blue, a flowy A-line silhouette crafted … Read more

Quote of the Day by Plato Plato is one of the most important figures in the history of philosophy, not only for the ideas that he proposed, but also for the questions that he taught generations of people to ask. His writings dealt with justice, truth, knowledge, love, education, politics, morality and the essence of … Read more