The human-dog relationship has been around for over 15,000 years. A new study shows that even untrained, homeless and abused, stray dogs can understand the language of our bodies. India has the world’s largest number of stray dogs, approximately 30-35 million. But still, many continue to regard street dogs as […]
Smallpox-like lesions spotted on Ancient Egyptian mummies reveal that the nasty disease has been there for the past 3,000 years and remained one of the world’s most dreadful diseases until a global vaccination programme spearheaded by the World Health Organization wiped it off. In the 4th century CE, the first documented […]
The animal realm is as ruthless as it is compassionate, as peculiar as it beautiful, as fascinating as it is perplexing. As a result of the fierce competition, species have evolved some of the most bizarre, incredible, and odd defense mechanisms. Below are a few instances of these one-of-a-kind creatures. HORNED LIZARD A number of predators prey […]
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the late Prime Minister of India, referred to Puducherry as “the Window of French Culture.” Once the French’s primary headquarters in India, Puducherry is often nicknamed “The Paris of the East”. For 138 years, the French governed the Union Territory. It once had solely French as its official […]
“Best of rivers, born of all the sacred waters,” the Ganges, Described in the Mahabharata. Ganga river, also deemed as the Ganges River, flows 2,700 km from the Himalayas mountains to the Bay of Bengal in northern India and Bangladesh The Ganga rises from the Gangotri glacier about 4,000 metres above sea […]
Lotus silk is one of the world’s most exquisite and rare fabrics, made exclusively in Myanmar, Cambodia, Vietnam, and parts of Manipur. Lotus silk can ultimately cost ten times as much as regular silk. LOTUS SILK possesses incredible features such as lightweight, soft-touch, breathability, Crease-resistant, pilling resistance, tear-resistant, Cellulosic fibre, […]
In India, there are approximately 350 snake species however, only 15 to 17 percent of all snakes, including sea snakes, are venomous. Russell’s viper, Pit vipers, Saw-scaled vipers, Trimeresurus stejnegeri, Ptyas mucosa, Echis carinators, and many other venomous and poisonous snake species can all be found in India. In India, […]
The Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act was passed in the early 1980s, but due to lax regulation, it has failed to make an impact. India ranks third in the world in terms of greenhouse gas emissions, trailing only China and the United States. India was marked the fifth […]
What is Menstruation or A Period? The level of estrogen and progesterone, reproductive hormones, climbs every month as the uterus prepares for pregnancy. The uterine lining becomes dense and spongy as a result of these hormones. This lining is made up of tissue and blood, much like everything else inside […]
India has a high level of biodiversity, with roughly 8% of all species on the earth found there. It is home to 7.6% of all mammals, 12.6 percent of all avian, 6.2 percent of all reptilian, 4.4 percent of all amphibian, 11.7 percent of all fish, and 6.0 percent of […]
“Yoga is the art work of awareness on the canvas of body, mind and soul” – Amit Ray. Over 5,000 years ago, the Indus-Sarasvati civilization in Northern India formed the foundations of Yoga. Yoga is generally misconstrued to mean merely “union,” or the merging of one’s own consciousness with that of […]
COVID-19’s catastrophic second wave left India crippled. Shortage of oxygen, hospitals on the brink, unbridled Covid deaths, rampant Covid cases, people in agony pretty much sums up the second wave. The virus evolves as it spreads. India is coping with the UK version, South African variant, Double mutant, Kappa variant, […]
Ratan Naval Tata- an epitome of benevolence, nobility & perspicaciousness. He is the country’s true treasure. He was born to Naval Tata and Sooni Tata. Naval Tata was the adopted son of Ratanji Tata, the younger son of Jamsetji Tata, founding father of the Tata group. Ratan Tata received his […]
ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization), with its astounding & momentous achievements, has proved that even – Sky isn’t the limit. It has come very far, from launching Aryabhata, the first Indian satellite, with the help of the Soviet Union- to set up a world record by launching 104 satellites in […]
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