In 2022, she lost her hand to an 11,000-volt shock; a nine-year-old girl’s family gave her a new one; today, every Raksha Bandhan, Anamta Ahmed travels to Gujarat to tie rakhi to her donor’s brother

Anamta came into contact with an 11,000-volt high-tension power line while playing. Every Raksha Bandhan, 17-year-old Anamta Ahmad makes the journey from Mumbai to Valsad for a brother she found in the most unexpected way. On Thursday, she travelled to Gujarat to tie a rakhi to 16-year-old Shivam Mistry, whose nine-year-old sister Riya donated the…

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Cutting Board Safety: Put a towel under your cutting board: The tiny kitchen trick that makes chopping safer

There’s a particular kind of frustration that comes with dicing an onion, getting into a good rhythm, and suddenly feeling the whole cutting board slide a few inches across the counter mid-chop. It’s more than just annoying, a board that shifts unexpectedly while a sharp knife is coming down is a genuine, if often overlooked,…

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In 2022, he left a ₹83 lakh Google job in Dublin and returned to Punjab for growing organic food; today, Mantaj Sidhu runs a farm-to-home business for hundreds of families |

Sidhu’s compensation at Google was around €100,000, including bonuses and shares, equivalent to roughly ₹83 lakh at the time. For Mantaj Sidhu, leaving a well-paid Google job in Dublin was not a decision he made overnight. After nearly five years with the company, he began questioning what he was working towards and eventually decided that…

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Nepal Floods: “It was a terrifying wall of dirt and water and we jumped out of the bus”: Couple recalls their near- death experience in Nepal floods

Couple recalls their near-death experience in Nepal floods (Image Credit: Instagram/ @cbsnews) Anjana Raja and Pattabiraman Venkatesan, a couple from the San Francisco Bay Area who were travelling on a pilgrimage to Tibet, described a terrifying escape after a huge mass of mud and debris suddenly rushed toward their tour bus near the Nepal-China border….

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Nepal tragedy: Goddess at Palanchok Bhagawati Temple was reportedly ‘sweating’ days before the disaster, reviving an ancient belief about calamities |

Devotees noticed what they described as ‘sweat’ on the idol during evening prayers on August 22. (Photo: Niranjan Shrestha/AP) An unusual incident at a temple in Nepal has caught attention after devotees claimed that the idol of Goddess Bhagwati began “sweating” (was reportedly seen with moisture) days before devastating flash floods hit the country. The…

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69-year-old Dimple Kapadia proves she’s more stylish than anyone in Bollywood in a mundu-inspired skirt and shawl at Dil Chahta Hai reunion

Dimple Kapadia knows how to make an outfit feel interesting without looking like she’s trying too hard. At a panel celebrating 25 years of Dil Chahta Hai, the actor turned up in a look that mixed easy, modern separates with a distinctly Indian touch.She wore a black tank top under a crisp button-down shirt, keeping…

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