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Chandrika was found alive, partly trapped in mud on the fourth floor of a house that had been buried by the August 26 floods. For eight days, Chandrika Shrestha’s family searched for her after a devastating flood swept through Nepal’s Bhotekoshi river basin. There was no sign of the 64-year-old woman. Her house had been…

The psychology behind checking your phone You are waiting for a lift and, almost without thinking, your hand reaches for your phone. You are sitting in a car and there is a two-minute pause before you need to get out, so you unlock the screen. You are standing in a queue, waiting for your coffee…

The temple is located on a hill and visitors have to climb around 500 steps to reach the shrine. In Rajasthan’s Bhopalgarh, there is a temple where the person performing the rituals is not a Hindu priest. For generations, a Muslim family has been serving Bagoria Mata (a local deity), performing the temple’s rituals while…

Photo: @deepikapadukone/ Instagram Ask anyone what their comfort food is, and you’ll usually get an answer that has nothing to do with fancy plating or trending recipes. This love for comfort recipes goes back to the days of childhood: sitting and filling the stomach to the brim during the summer vacations, be it eating curd…

Photo: @neena_gupta/ Instagram Neena Gupta is a household name who spent over four decades proving there’s no single way to build a career in Hindi cinema, she is a fashion icon, known for her exceptional fashion choices, has done it her own way, on her own timeline, and her work is still going strong.From early…

Toddlers under 3 are particularly vulnerable to choking A two-and-a-half-year-old boy was having a birthday party at home. He was playing with friends, laughing, running around. At 1 am, just as the family was about to sleep, he suddenly developed noisy breathing and a harsh cough. “We thought it was just cold,” said the parent.Parents…

Photo: tenithadithyaa.com While most teenagers are busy with video games or engrossed in books preparing for board examinations, a young innovator from Tamil Nadu seems to have solved a problem the whole planet is struggling with: plastic waste.Tenith Adithyaa spent his childhood not on a PlayStation but in a home lab, brimming with ideas, and…

Bipasha Basu is reminding everyone why she has always had a strong place in Bollywood fashion conversations.The actor is the cover star of Elle India’s September 2026 digital cover, and the images from the shoot have already made their way across social media. Dressed in dramatic black couture and styled with striking vintage-inspired jewellery, Bipasha…

Four decades later, the survivor says the memories of the hijacking remain vivid. Forty years ago, she was a 15-year-old girl travelling alone, returning to the US after a vacation in India. She had no idea that the flight home would become one of the most terrifying experiences of her life- or that the memory…

Quote of the day by Albert Einstein Albert Einstein was a brilliant scientist best known for his theory of relativity, which changed how we understand space, time, and gravity.But his life was not just limited to equations; beyond that, he was deeply curious about life, often speaking about wonder, imagination, and the beauty of the…