If you’re bringing Bappa home this year, put the alarm away. Most households rush to install the idol at sunrise, the way they would for any other puja, but Ganapati sthapana does not work that way. The idol goes in at midday, not dawn, and getting that one detail right sets up everything else correctly.In…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi hailed the “growing strength, appeal and unprecedented trust” in Brics during the second day of the multilateral event in New Delhi.While chairing the Brics session on “Inclusive global governance and strengthening multilateralism”, PM Modi said that cooperation and support between the Brics members has led the shared vision transform…
The project also created about 500 feet of new pedestrian trail, connecting the visitor center with the Lakeview Tinitun trail and the broader trail network. What was once a utilitarian patch of ground beside an Alaska visitor center is now becoming part of the landscape again. At Lake Clark National Park and Preserve, a young…
Possibility of Paul Walker’s return to the ‘Fast and Furious’ franchise using AI met with a lot of backlash(Instagram) The ‘Fast and Furious’ franchise is officially ending after 25 successful years in the market. The upcoming film, tentatively titled ‘Fast Forever,’ is under development, with the team aiming for a release sometime next year. However,…
We’ve all eaten a modak once. The third pleat always gives it away. Pinch too hard, and the ukad, the steamed rice-flour dough that forms the modak’s outer shell, splits along the seam, and the coconut-jaggery filling starts leaking out before the thing even reaches the steamer.Every home cook who has attempted ukadiche modak, the…
NEW DELHI: Over 60 nutrition and public health scholars from 17 countries, including researchers from Harvard, Johns Hopkins and Oxford, have backed India’s mandatory warning labels on packaged foods and beverages high in nutrients of health concern, while urging FSSAI to strengthen system.In a written comment to Food Safety and Standards Authority of India, the…
‘Padayaatra’ trailer_ Mammootty reunites with Adoor Gopalakrishnan after three decades. The trailer for Mammootty and Adoor Gopalakrishnan’s much-awaited movie ‘Padayaatra’ has been released. It gives the audience their first glimpse of the period drama where the superstar will play a doctor. About the ‘Padayaatra’ trailer The one-minute, 14-second trailer introduces Mammootty as a doctor who…
Forest City was meant to become a futuristic metropolis near Singapore, but its empty towers and quiet streets earned it a very different reputation. That unusual setting later attracted a group of technology entrepreneurs who saw the underused development as an opportunity to test a new way of living and working. In 2024, Network School…
Ganesha’s single tusk is in his prayers before it is in his idols. The Ganapati Atharvashirsha, a short Upanishadic text recited in temples every day, carries the Ganesha Gayatri, which begins “ekadantaya vidmahe”, roughly, “let us know the one-tusked one.” Ekadanta, the one with a single tusk, is how devotees address him.So the missing tusk…
Osama bin Laden (File photo) Three years before the 9/11 attacks shocked the United States, then-President Bill Clinton was warned by the CIA that Osama bin Laden intended to carry out attacks in India, Pakistan, Uganda and possibly Nigeria.A newly declassified CIA warning dated August 28, 1998, said Bin Laden had survived US missile strikes…
