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While microbial contamination is a major cause for making food unsafe, there are other factors at play as well Aruna Raghuram The recent incident of a customer finding a lizard floating in his cold drink at a McDonald’s outlet in Sola, Ahmedabad, has sent shock waves through the community. While the outlet has been sealed, […]
John Green, a well-known writer of Young Adult Fiction, is the author of Fault in Our Stars. The book tells us the tale of Hazel, who can’t recall a time when she was healthy and cancer-less. While Hazel was about to give up all her hope, she met Augustus Waters, another cancer survivor. Waters read […]
As the world will celebrate the Anti-Child Labour Day on 12th June, here’s a reminder: Children belong in schools, not workplaces. Child labour deprives the kids of their right to education. It imposes the undesirable never-ending cycles of poverty. Child labour is a minor that does monetary work in exchange for mental and physical effort. […]
By Samaira Jindal Global temperatures are reaching dangerous levels due to human-caused greenhouse gas emissions. Extreme weather events are occurring, displacing potentially tens of thousands of people and wreaking havoc on our flora and fauna. Pollution from factories, plastic waste, and deforestation are killing animals on land and at sea. The importance of taking corrective […]
By Samaira Jindal This year, I traveled to three different locations, and today I’m going to tell you about my experiences in one of them, Switzerland. For 15 days, I was a member of a camp called Les Elfes, which took us to Switzerland. Let’s get into some specifics now. We spent the first week […]
There’s no dearth of LGBT stories in the media these days. Celebrities in various fields are coming out in numbers. The courts are stepping in to protect LGBT rights. The month of June, which is gay pride month, will see marches organised in cities across India. Mumbai is currently hosting its annual Kashish Queer Film […]
An exhibition of paintings by Indian poet-diplomat Abhay K. titled ‘UniVerse’ opened at the Akademia Malagasy (the national academy of Madagascar) on Thursday in Madagascar’s capital Antananarivo in presence of the President of the Academy Pr. Rajaoson François and other dignitaries. Commenting on the art exhibition curator and Research Repository, Asian Heritage Foundation, Yamini D. […]
Choose a card From the Left Card 1 Relationship: In relationships indicates that you and your partner have been going through a rough time. Some recent events may have sucked all the energy. You may feel like giving up and calling it quits but this card tells you to keep going! You are through the […]
Absence makes the heart grow fonder. This BJP leader and erstwhile minister is living it up. Even though he lost the last elections, he makes sure of showing up every now and then at his old constituency… a wee bit more often than usual. “Bhai comes even more than the corporator,” share old timers of […]
The first day of June is here and in Gujarat, it has a special significance. June 1 is celebrated as the birthday for 33 Gujarat MLAs, 5 IPS officers and 6 IAS officers. In some cases, one cannot argue the validity of the DoB furnished as June 1. Interestingly, in most cases, there’s more to […]
A unique initiative, Reloved Fashion Wardrobe, seeks to promote the purchase and sale of used clothes Aruna Raghuram Fashionable, Affordable, Sustainable. That’s the tag line of a first-of-its-kind venture in Gujarat. The venture has been founded by marketing professional Gayatri Hurra and image consultant Sandhya Anantani. They held a successful exhibition in March 2022 and […]
Seems the idea of best friends has undergone a dramatic change over the years. A lot has been altered by the “friend image” in movies, social media and fictional stories. Girls, in particular, are influenced by mushy thoughts and dreams of having a shoulder to lean on. “Girl-pal” and “girl-gangs” are in and are a […]
Sincere devotion and a belief in the goodness of the end are key ingredients to long-term undertakings. For 78-year-old Prof Vijay Pandya, the task began at 62. After 16 years of hard work and perseverance, he has translated the epic, Valmiki’s Ramayana, into his mother tongue. His magnum opus brings pride to all Gujaratis!! Having […]
The Madras High Court invoked the “parens patriae jurisdiction” to declare Mother Nature as a “living being” with all corresponding rights, duties and liabilities of a living person, in order to preserve and conserve them. In its recent order, the Madurai bench of the HC placed immense importance on conserving nature. The order was in […]
Boris Becker, now 54 who became a tennis hero with worldwide fan following, at just 17 in 1985, will be jailed under under Britain’s Insolvency Act, a court ruled. Becker was convicted of four charges and will serve two-and-a-half year sentence in prison. The case is about Becker’s bankruptcy in June 2017 resulting from an […]
