WHO published its World health statistics report 2025, revealing the deeper health impacts caused by the COVID-19 pandemic on loss of lives, longevity and overall health and well-being. In just two years, between 2019 and 2021, global life expectancy fell by 1.8 years—the largest drop in recent history— reversing a …
Senior secondary school students across India will now study the same maths and science syllabus. On February 16, the Council of Boards of School Education decided to adopt a common curriculum for physics, chemistry, biology and mathematics in all senior schools beginning March 2011. The move aims to provide a …
AHMEDABAD: The concept of a special business zone is known as a Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in present times. But for Surat, the idea was not new. The rulers of Surat always give it special administration and autonomy for the purpose of promotion of business. Mughals considered Surat a blessed …
The Indraprastha thermal power plant, in the heart of Delhi, has recently shut down its polluting operations, but now a debate has begun over the room it leaves vacant. The Delhi government is now considering the uses of the sprawling campus, which is prime property on the banks of the …
New Delhi: In a heated meeting at Delhi Urban Art Commission (DUAC) on Wednesday over a parking lot coming up opposite Delhi High Court, the commission has asked DMRC to protect a Lodi-period monument at the site with the assistance of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) and pay for …
There seems to be no end to the trouble surrounding the proposed multi-level parking lot at the Delhi High Court. After the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC)
Mid 16th century The Spaniards’ expectations of plentiful and easily accessible gold reserves proves unfounded, but the island still becomes important as a seat of colonial administration, a starting point for conquests of other lands, and a laboratory to develop policies for governing new possessions. At Española the Spanish crown …
A 17th century world map with China at its centre, is on display at the Library of Congress in Washington. Printed on rice paper, the map was created by Italian missionary Matteo Ricci in 1602. It is rarely displayed and, because of its fragility, is called the “Impossible Black Tulip …
The Centre has sanctioned Rs 105 crore for the upgrade of the Hooghly banks in the state, as well as the Nimtala burning ghat and the adjoining Rabindranath Tagore Memorial Garden. The CMDA will execute the projects, with the Centre bearing 70 per cent of the cost and the state …
On the last day of 2009, a phrase died a quiet death. “Shovel ready” incessantly invoked by the Obama administration to sell its US$ 787 billion federal stimulus bill was included in a list titled ‘Be Banished from the Queen’s English for Mis-use, Over-use and General Uselessness’. The list is …
Aziza Kobilova, a 25-year-old housewife in eastern Tajikistan’s Rasht region, recently received notice that her marriage of four years was over. Her husband, a migrant labourer working in Russia, first telephoned to tell Kobilova that he was divorcing her. Then he made good on his promise by sending a text …
BHAWANIPATNA: Negligence on the part of Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) to preserve the remnants of Asurgarh in Kalahandi district has triggered widespread resentment among history-lovers and intellectuals. Asurgarh, an ancient metropolis, is considered contemporaneous to Ujjain, Ahichatra, Kosambi, Sisupalagarh and other ancient Indian cities, but it remains unexcavated. After …
A new anti-government movement has sprung up in Iran—with supporters outside—with men posting pictures of themselves on the Internet wearing women’s head scarves as a political statement. The movement began in early December as an online backlash after the arrest of one anti-government protester, Majid Tavakoli. The Iranian news agency …
Book>> Catching Fire • by Richard Wrangham • Basic Books • Indian Price Rs 450 One hundred and fifty years ago, Charles Darwin theorized intelligence and adaptability make us human. But primatologist Richard Warngham thinks our human nature has a lot to do with the invention of the barbecue—some 1.9 …
A sub-committee of heritage conservation architects and environmental experts will decide on the fate of the long-pending Rs 443-crore Byculla Zoo modernisation plan. The sub-committee will be headed by heritage panel member Cyrus Guzder. Vikas Dilawari and Sabyasachi Mukherji, director, Prince of Wales Museum, will be members of the committee. …
Seldom do they ask me to praise anyone. Often, it is the other way round. Give it to them, say commissioning editors, in search of a vicarious glimmer of hope for their unedited thoughts. So then, here is a list of women who make me want to put on my …
Pressure of developmental projects, inadequate staff with the ASI for protecting the monuments are the main factors. In Delhi alone, over 12 monuments are untraceable. Over 3,675 monuments across the country are found to be untraceable. In a reply to the Rajya Sabha, minister of state for planning and parliamentary …
TOI Unleashes Campaign To Get The Deserved Unesco Recognition Founded in the year AD 1411, Ahmedabad will be celebrating 600 years of its existence just over one year from now. Clearly, it is time to hit a 6 for this city of 5 million, which has survived and thrived through …
The Punjab Heritage and Education Foundation has called for declaring 2010 as the Punjab Heritage Preservation Year besides calling for adoption of one uniform Punjabi font to facilitate intercommunications on the internet. This was the consensus following deliberations after hosting the Sikh heritage memorial lecture by Prof Gurbachan Singh Bachan, …
