Some things just can’t be taught from a book. You can read every manual ever written on how to ride a bike, run a meeting, or raise a child, and still be hopeless at the actual thing until you’ve watched someone do it and copied them. King Charles once put this in a wonderfully humble…
While encouraging communication is important, turning speaking practice into another performance-driven activity is what parents need to be cautious about. According to Dhall, parents should avoid: Forcing children to memorise speechesCorrecting every small mistakeComparing them with other childrenFocusing only on results and performanceExcessive correction can make children self-conscious and afraid of making mistakes. In contrast,…
Renée Nicole Good was killed on January 7, 2026 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, during an encounter with ICE agent Jonathan Ross. Two US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents visited a woman at her workplace in New York and told her she could be arrested unless she removed an Instagram post identifying a federal agent involved…
Loss-making Air India stops crew laundry services on international layovers NEW DELHI: : This cost-cutting move could potentially stink all the way from ground to the sky. Loss-making Air India has informed its crew that “routine availability of laundry services during international layovers will be discontinued from July 1, 2026.” The facility will, however, continue…
Singer D4vd, whose legal name is David Anthony Burke, is facing serious criminal charges in the death of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez. According to prosecutors in Los Angeles County, Burke is accused of killing the California teenager after she allegedly threatened to reveal what they describe as an ongoing sexual relationship. Prosecutors say the relationship…
SIR now makes its way into NCERT Class IX textbook NEW DELHI: Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls launched last year ahead of Bihar assembly polls has entered the Class IX textbooks, 1975-77 Emergency has moved from senior school political science into compulsory secondary reading, while economics has been recast around scarcity,…
MHA moving fast to set up exclusive NDPS court NEW DELHI: Ministry of home affairs is moving swiftly to set up exclusive NDPS courts across the country to secure speedy convictions in major narcotics cases, with home minister Amit Shah urging states to establish dedicated benches within their high courts for daily hearings. Till now,…
Japanese proverb of the day (AI-generated image) A thousand years against one hour. That’s the strange arithmetic at the heart of this Japanese proverb, and it’s worth pausing on. The reputation of a thousand years, it says, may be determined by the conduct of one hour. Sit with that for a second. A good name…
Army, in coordination with IAF, launches Operation Amistad to rush medical contingent to quake-hit Venezuela NEW DELHI: Becoming one of the first responders to the devastating earthquakes that struck northern Venezuela, the Indian Army, in coordination with the Indian Air Force (IAF), has launched Operation Amistad, deploying a specialised medical contingent to support humanitarian relief…
Burmese proverb of the day teaches us how circumstances don’t create character but reveal it. What changes under circumstances is not genuine. What remains unchanged is the true nature like a real chilli, which will still taste hot even if it’s immersed deep under water. This Burmese proverb is one of the timeless wisdom from…