Month: March 2021

The exercise is scheduled from March 3 to 21 at the Al-Dhafra airbase in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

Her strongly worded tweets were central to the opposition to her candidacy from Senators on both sides of the aisle.

The Biden administration will stop pursuing the nomination of Indian American Neera Tanden for Director of the powerful Office of Management & Budget (OBM), after Ms. Tanden wrote to the President withdrawing her nomination on Tuesday.

The awards are presented in recognition of outstanding work done by news publishers, in digital media

The Hindu Group won two golds and two silvers at WAN IFRA’s South Asian Digital Media Awards, culminating in being named ‘Champion Publisher of the Year’, owing to the highest tally on the points table.

KIA bags award for best airport by size, region for fourth yearKIA had earlier received ACI’s Airport Health Accreditation (AHA) and the first-ever World’s ‘Voice of the Customer’.

The Kempegowda International Airport has been judged the Best Airport by Size and Region in the category of 25-40 million passengers per annum at the Airports Council International’s Airport Service Quality (ACI-ASQ) Awards 2020.

Here is an original, riveting and extensively researched social and cultural history of India.

Namit Arora’s “A brief History of a Civilization” (Penguin) takes the reader through nearly 5,000 years of India’s history, revealing the worldview of early Indians at various times — and what of it lives on and what has disappeared among modern Indians.

Mushroom-fortified rasam, chutney powders… Kerala farmer wants to do more with mushroooms than just farm them

Shije Varghese, who recently won Kerala State Government’s Best Mushroom Farmer’ award, is not content with just being a farmer. She is focussed on creating a line of value-added products using mushrooms.

Arun Prasad, one of India’s largest comic book collectors, is working on a project that traces the history of comics in India

The farmer from Melakkal village in Vadipatti taluk has developed four types of machinery to make rope out of plantain waste, three of which are patented.

On Sunday, the Prime Minister lauded the agro-based entrepreneur and said, “Murugesan’s innovation would not just solve the waste disposal problem but also open up new avenues of income for farmers.

Madurai, Tamil Nadu

Indrani Dahal is a brave woman. She is neither afraid of the perils a woman travelling alone could face on a journey through the deceptively bucolic India of rapes and burnings nor the small towns and cities where she is easy prey.

West Bengal