An Indian-American author has launched a Hindi-English book for children growing up in bilingual households, making it easier for parents and kids to read and the language together, a media report said. After giving birth to her daughter in the US, author Chandni Bhatia, who came to America in 2013, was inspired to teach basic Hindi to young children, the India West newspaper said in the report on Saturday. In her “My First Hindi Book”, Bhatia presents a colourful and creative way to teach children counting, colours and animals in Hindi. “As the only Hindi speaking parent to my daughter,…
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At a time when economic experts are putting their heads together to find a way to counter the economic slowdown in the country, saints at the ongoing Magh Mela in Prayagraj are also doing their bit Mahant Mauni Maharaj of the Paramhans Ashram (Amethi) is holding a special ‘trishul puja’, that includes a ‘havan’ and ‘aarti’, to please the Goddess of Wealth Laxmi so that the country’s economic condition can improve. The ritual in this regard will continue for one month at his camp at the Magh Mela. Adressing reporters, the Mahant said: “This puja is being held with 54…
Union Minorities Affairs Minister Muktar Abbas Naqvi here on Sunday said there was no threat to citizenship of Muslims due to the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA). The Muslims were safe and secure and there was no threat to their citizenship, he said. “No citizen of the country will be affected due to implementation of the CAA,” Naqvi said talking to reporters on the sidelines of national handicrafts exhibition. Ruling out any rollback of the CAA, he said it had come into force in the entire country, including Jammu and Kashmir. The opposition parties had ganged up to mislead the nation,…
Over 200 academics in the country, including university vice chancellors, have written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi alleging that the left wing is sponsoring violence in campuses in the name of student politics They, dated January 11 and signed by 208 vice-chancellors, professors and academics, also said that efforts are being made by the left activists to engulf the campuses in a “fire of violence”. Expressing deep concern on the issue, this group of academics has demanded that Prime Minister liberate educational institutions from the atmosphere of chaos. Citing the recent incidents, he said that a handful of…
The Delhi unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has slapped a Rs 500 crore defamation notice on the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) for tweeting state BJP chief Manoj Tiwari’s edited video with the AAP poll theme song ‘Lage raho Kejriwal’. The BJP has also filed a complaint with the Election Commission. The video showed Tiwari dancing to the AAP poll campaign song and appears to be an edited version of Tiwari’s Bhojpuri album with “Lage Raho Kejriwal” soundtrack. Terming it a violation of intellectual property rights, Tiwari questioned the AAP for using the video. Tiwari, a Bhojpuri singer and…
An open university in Uttar Pradesh has launched an awareness campaign on the Citizenship Amendment Act and Article 370 by including them in the college syllabus. The new syllabus came into force from January 2020. Professor Kameshwar Nath Singh, the Vice Chancellor of Rajarshi Tandon Open University, told IANS, “Our university runs courses according to the need of the time and society. There are some courses for which students do not have to appear for exams. Certificates are handed out on the basis of evaluation of assignments. Right now we have introduced CAA and Article 370 in this category.” The…
With only a month left for the Delhi Assembly elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) wants Union Minister Smriti Irani to take up the war cry for the party at maximum rallies here, say party sources. A senior party leader told IANS: “Smriti Irani, the youngest cabinet minister of the Modi government, has her own glamour. She has a great influence on the youth. Her speech style and sharp attacks on the opposition leaders go well with the people. Her speeches tend to charge the party workers. That is why the BJP wants Smriti Irani to hold more rallies.” Another…
Mars may have been a place brimming with water in the form of seas, lakes and rivers once but all of that evaporated into space as researchers now report that the Red Planet is losing water faster than expected. Mars today is cold and dry – a desert world — but dry river valleys and lakebeds suggest that water covered much of the Red Planet billions of years ago. Previous research has also found that Martian water mostly escaped into space. The gradual disappearance of the water occurs when sunlight and chemistry turn water molecules into the hydrogen and oxygen…
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh has written to the Centre reiterating his demand for viability gap funding for biomass power projects and biomass solar hybrid power projects to check stubble burning. In a letter to Union Power Minister, New and Renewable Energy Minister, R.K. Singh, the Chief Minister has sought his personal attention towards framing of scheme and guidelines for promoting biomass power projects by providing one-time viability gap funding in a phased manner. This, said Amarinder Singh, would go a long way in complying with the directions of the Supreme Court for tackling the problem of stubble burning in…
The Special Task Force (STF) of Madhya Pradesh Police has arrested a former Air Force Wing Commander for impersonating over the phone as Union Home Minister Amit Shah and asking the Madhya Pradesh Governor, Lalji Tandon to appoint a friend as vice-chancellor of a university, Additional Director General of Police Ashok Awasthi said. Wing Commander Kuldeep Vaghela who is reported to have worked in the Raj Bhawan earlier got his friend Chandresh Kumar Shukla, a known Dental Surgeon, to pose as Amit Shah’s personal assistant and call the Governor over the phone. He asked the staff to be connected to…