Palak Chawla
World Haemophilia Day: Battling lethal bleeding disorder
April 16, 2021
When four-year-old Piyush Tanti, slightly injured his forehead while playing, he began bleeding profusely and he had to be hospitalised where his parents were told that there was an urgent requirement of AHF VIII to stop his bleeds and if the bleeding was not stopped in time it w...
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Record high digital payments expose big gaps in backend infrastructure
April 14, 2021
On April 1, 2021, the first day of the new fiscal year, the failure rate of Immediate Payment Services (IMPS) and Unified Payments Interface (UPI) transactions shot up dramatically. While total number of transactions for the day were much lower than usual, the failure rate had sh...
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India witnessing a frenzy of forest fires in 2021
April 11, 2021
In the three months since January 1, 2021, Uttarakhand has witnessed over 1,000 wildfires, 45 in one day in early April, claiming the lives of five people and seven animals. While the fires in Australia and Amazon grabbed global attention, few paid heed to wildfires raging in Ind...
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Delhi Art Week: Revitalising art scene in Delhi
April 10, 2021
On the off-chance you enter Dhoomimal Gallery located in Connaught Place, one painting, Our Politicians (facing the camera), created by BC Sanyal is sure to grab your attention due to its quirky yet authentic portrayal of Indian politicians of the 1960s. One of four politicians i...
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World Health Day: Sedentary lifestyle, stress, stigma leads to rising cases of PCOS in India
April 7, 2021
Lifestyle diseases, a phenomenon that was largely unheard of till about a generation earlier, have become so common now that 61 pc deaths in India in 2016 were caused due to non-communicable diseases (NCD), says Lifestyle Diseases: Body Burden, a study conducted by the New Delh...
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Shashikala: The exemplary second fiddle
April 6, 2021
Born in a small town, Solapur in Maharashtra, Shashikala had exhibited talent from an early age whether it was working as an artiste in a village fair at the age of five or moving to Mumbai to act in films at 11. However, that shift had happened due to a rough stroke destiny inst...
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India seizes the top spot for most digital transactions in 2020
April 5, 2021
While the pandemic and accompanying lookdown brought many segments of economy to their knees, the digital transaction sector thrived as fear of contracting the virus drove people to opt for online modes of payment.
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6.15 million people used Vande Bharat Mission till phase 10
April 3, 2021
It has been almost an year when Vande Bharat Mission was launched on May 6,2020 to help Indians stranded in different parts of the world due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the ensuing shut down of international travel. In the initial phases, the stranded passengers were selected on...
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OTT becomes voice of female driven content
April 2, 2021
While movies like Padmaavat and Lipstick Under My Burkha faced a lot of trouble during their production as well as theatrical release, online streaming services have provided filmmakers with a new platform to deliver female driven content to the audience. Most of these manage to ...
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World Autism Awareness Day: Special schools joust with Covid19 to teach autistic children
April 1, 2021
Every day at 10 am, a group of about 20 children, aged between 3-20 years, wait in line in a locality in west Delhi for the gates of their school to open. Teachers take special care to escort the kids from the gates to their respective classrooms. Presently functioning at 40 pc c...
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Coronavirus robs tourist guides of their livelihood
March 31, 2021
“Even though we are not frontline workers fighting against the pandemic, we are the frontline workers of the tourism industry, but our plight was completely ignored by the government,” Gopal Sharma, a French speaking tourist guide operating in Rajasthan, tells Media India Gro...
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Miniature artists’ take on life
March 30, 2021
Gautam Bhatia and Shankar Bhopa’s attempt to represent the uncertain progression of life reflects beautifully in the series of paintings and sculptures created by them, the otherwise in-animate paintings appear to be brimming with life. The architect’s latest creation, in...
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