TNI show

Lata Mangeshkar, born Hema Mangeshkar had been given several honorifics –  Nightingale of India, Queen of Melody, and so on, all of them good as descriptions go but none that truly described her. She was phenomenal. Losing her father when she was only thirteen, in 1942, the burden of providing for her three siblings and […]

In a no holds barred interview with The New Indian’s Editor-in-Chief Aarti Tikoo, Prof. Meenakshi Jain answers the biggest controversial questions about the historians accused of white-washing facts and selective reading of Indian history. Jain explains why she remained an isolated voice among historians for challenging their unscholarly approach to history writing and education in […]

Varanasi: Arrayed in their bright colorful sarees, young and middle aged women stretch themselves on barbell benches and elliptical trainers, and every now and then, they giggle and chatter away. In an open gym in the midst of a brimming market of Varanasi, women say, they are now far more health conscious than they have […]

NEW DELHI: January 10 marked the one-year anniversary of the momentous feat achieved by Captain Zoya Aggrawal, when she flew the inaugural flight from San Francisco to Bengaluru last year, taking on the Atlantic Route. She did this by leading an all-women crew alongside her and earned the nickname— Polar Girl. In fact, the past year […]

SHIMLA: The Himachal government will take strict action against private schools that fail to admit children belonging to  the weaker and underprivileged sections of the society as laid down by the RTE (Right to Education) Act. The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights has written to the Director of Primary Education on the issue, […]