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The emotional clip has gone viral on social media. Students at a school in Maharashtra’s Amravati refused to let their favourite teacher leave after his transfer order, with some reportedly crying, hugging him and even shutting the school gates to stop his departure. A video of the emotional protest has gone viral on social media,…

A helmet, a delivery bag, and a bike weaving through Mumbai’s traffic every single day. This is the story of a woman, a mother, a wife, who took to discharge her duties as the primary breadwinner after her husband fell ill.Her decade-long journey as a food delivery rider quietly funded some of her family’s biggest…

How Parthenium quietly became one of India’s biggest invasive plant problems (Photo: Canva) Not every invasion arrives in a country with pomp and show; some happen silently without us even noticing, with something as simple as a sack of grains. This is what happened with Parthenium hysterophorus, a wiry, white-flowered weed that entered the country…

Sara Tendulkar has found a rather unexpected way to wear a saree – and it works.For her latest Vogue cover shoot, Sara skipped the usual blouse and paired a soft pastel green Banarasi saree with an ivory corset. The result was traditional at first glance, but with a very modern edge.The blouse was a strapless…

As much as a manga hiatus is important, it is also horribly irritating, isn’t it? Readers wait day and day out for manga chapters to release, but manga go on a week-long break or a months-long hiatus. Many people still wonder why that happens so often. Here’s everything you need to know if you also…

For most adventure lovers, ticking off a bucket-list activity means climbing a mountain or hot-air balloon or skydiving. But for 97-year-old Betty Bromage of England, adventure translates into climbing onto the wing of a vintage biplane and soaring through the skies. The woman loves flying so much that she broke her own Guinness World Record…

Quote of the day by Ram Dass (Photo: Ram Dass/ @BabaRamDass/ X) Ram Dass was a Harvard scientist and psychedelic, who later became a spiritual teacher after meeting his guru Neem Karoli Baba, and is credited with bringing the concept of Indian spirituality to the West.Previously, he talked about how the world often treats pain…

Lighting a diya is one of those rituals many of us grow up seeing without ever really asking why we do it. A small wick is lit, the flame is placed before a deity or at the entrance of a home, and suddenly, the moment feels a little more special. But the diya has never…

Image Credit: Facebook/@WCBM 680 Ten-year-old Herbie Martin IV from Maryland has turned a late-night baking effort into a remarkable achievement after his lemon blueberry buttercream cake sold for $15,000 at the Carroll County 4-H and FFA Fair’s charity cake auction. According to The Baltimore Sun, Martin stayed up until 2 a.m. perfecting the cake before…

The emerald ash borer is killing ash trees across North America—here’s why it matters The emerald ash borer (EAB) is a jewel coloured, invasive beetle originating from Asia, which has posed a real problem for ash trees ever since it appeared on the scene back in 2002, near Detroit, Michigan. Since then it has been…