While technology usually gets the blame for making humans lazier, the Indian Railways ministry seems to have found a way to incentivise fitness by harnessing modern technology. Inspired from ‘squat and ride’ machines in Russian railway stations, Indian Railways has introduced similar technology in a railway station in the capital to encourage fitness and exercise….

KOCHI: TK Varada Devi, who works as private secretary to High Court Judge Justice Devan Ramachandran, had approached him on Wednesday evening with a request. “Sir, I will be a bit late tomorrow morning as my daughter is arriving from Bengaluru,” she said. And the judge readily granted permission. On Thursday morning Gokulanatha Kaimal, a…

Within hours after Chikkamagalur girl Amulya Leona Noronha shouted ‘Pakistan Zindabad’ at a public meeting in Karnataka capital Bengaluru’s Freedom Park, Bajrang Dal activists stormed her parents’ house in Shivapura village in Koppa last night. An exclusive video shot by a Deccan Chronicle reporter shows activists barging into Amulya Leona’s house in Chikkamagalur and demanding…

NEW DELHI/PATNA: With poll strategist Prashant Kishor setting out to be a surprise package in Bihar, the BJP is making haste for an early start to its election campaign. BJP chief J P Nadda will soon be in Patna to roll out the electoral machinery for the polls this year. With the Delhi verdict exposing…

The natural world is filled with a lot of strange and fascinating things, which may often leave humans baffled. One such incident was recently caught on camera where the act of a flamingo feeding its chicks left netizens shocked. In the video that was shared by Science Channel on Facebook, it looks like a flamingo…

India vs Australia, Women’s T20 World Cup 2020 Highlights: Highlights India start the campaign on resounding note! It’s all over at the Sydney Showground Stadium as Australi bow down in front of India spinners. In response to India’s 132, the hosts could only manage 115/10 in 19.5 overs. The architect of the win has been…

Surat: On Thursday, nearly a week after the Bhuj incident where 68 girls were paraded through the college corridors to the restroom for examining if they were menstruating, a second shocking incident has come to light from a state-run hospital in Surat where nearly 100 women trainee clerks of the Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) were made…

By PTI NEW DELHI: The Directorate General of Civil Aviation has for the first time proposed testing of aviation personnel for psychoactive substances such as cannabis, opioids and their variants, officials said on Friday. The civil aviation watchdog stated that once the regulations are finalized, flight crew members and air traffic controllers (ATCs) would be…

When they arrive in Delhi on the evening of February 24, US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump, who land in Ahmedabad the same morning, and will make a stop at Agra on their way to the capital, are expected to check into the ITC Maurya hotel at Chanakyapuri. Although the hotel staff…

Maha Shivratri 2020: Maha Shivaratri is a major festival in Hinduism annually observed in honour of Lord Shiva which is also known as the also known as ‘Padmarajarathri’ and ‘The Great Night of Shiva’. On this day devotees worship Lord Shiva, observe a strict fast and do various religious activities to please Lord Shiva. Devotees further…

Chief Minster Yogi Adityanath has claimed that over 2.51 lakh youths have got jobs in the state over the past two-and-a-half years. Adityanath, who was in Gorakhpur on Thursday, also claimed that over 1.20 lakh Basic Shiksha Parishad Schools had been developed in the state on the lines of convent schools. The Chief Minister, who…

NEW DELHI : To get a new PAN card you need not fill up a 2-page application form and wait for a few days anymore as the income tax department has launched a new facility for taxpayers allowing anyone with an Aadhaar card to get an instant PAN card online and that too for free. The…

The husband of a 33-year-old woman, who died after childbirth at a private hospital in Kolkata, allegedly slapped a doctor, accusing the hospital of medical negligence. The woman’s relatives claimed that they got a call from the hospital — Calcutta Medical Research Institute (CMRI) — around 3 am on Thursday, informing them that her condition…

Chennai: Three people were killed and nine injured when a crane came crashing down on the sets of actor Kamal Haasan’s upcoming film ‘Indian 2’, police said, as the veteran actor mourned the deaths. Haasan, who himself “missed death by a whisker”, announced a total sum of Rs one crore as relief to the bereaved…

Coimbatore/Thiruvananthapuram: Tragedy struck 48 passengers of a Kerala transport bus at Tirupur in Tamil Nadu on Thursday, when the vehicle collided with a lorry head-on, leaving at least 20 dead and many injured and was reduced to a heap of metal in the impact. All the 20 were killed on the spot and six of…