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Online education has created problems beyond the digital divide for school children

Online education has created problems beyond the digital divide for school children

Beyond just the digital divide, schoolchildren forced to go online are battling screen fatigue, distractions at home, and loss of social skills

Google celebrates Republic Day 2022 with Google Doodle b

Google celebrates Republic Day 2022 with Google Doodle b

Google’s Doodle includes elements from the annual Republic Day Parade

Anand Mahindra responds after a showroom salesperson insulted a farmer

Anand Mahindra responds after a showroom salesperson insulted a farmer

Anand Mahindra said that such incidents will be treated with “great urgency”

Marathon man N Chandrasekaran adds another feather to his cap

He will be awarded the Padma Bhushan

Multiplexes on the expansion spree

The two major multiplex operators - PVR Cinemas and Inox Leisure - collectively added 56 new screens in the last two years

Netflix India announces a short film competition

Filmmakers get a chance to attend workshops, bag $10,000 grant to produce their short film

Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Nick Jonas welcome baby via surrogacy

Priyanka Chopra had tied the knot with the 29-year-old Nick Jonas in December 2018

Gates Foundation & Wellcome pledge $ 300 million to CEPI to prepare for future pandemics 

CEPI is a global partnership involving the governments of Norway and India, the Gates Foundation, Wellcome, and the WEF

The tussle over ticket prices: Tollywood deals with an unfamiliar script

Hopes an early solution to the never-ending row

Legendary Kathak dancer Birju Maharaj dead

The Kathak exponent, one of India’s best known artistes, had been suffering from a kidney ailment

Birju Maharaj was inspiration across globe, says Vice President Venkaiah Naidu

Birju Maharaj passed away at his residence in the early hours of Monday.

Will Brand Virat Kohli lose its sheen sans captaincy?

For four years running, the cricketer has been India’s most valued celebrity – will the deals abate now?

Major fire at Secunderabad Club, no casualties

Located on a 22-acre campus, the club's century-old Main Club House has been given heritage status by the Hyderabad Urban Development Authority.

Goat-headed Yogini, an 10th-century idol discovered in England, brought back to India

The goat-headed Yogini sculpture was illegally removed from a temple in Lokhari, Uttar Pradesh in the 1980’s

Spider-Man comic page sells for record $3.36M bidding

The record bidding came on the first day of Heritage Auctions' four-day comic event in Dallas on Thursday.

Ruchir Sharma to deliver 40th Palkhivala Memorial Lecture

The memorial lecture, organised by the Palkhivala Foundation, is conducted January 16

Indian singles and love in the time of Covid

In 2021, singles on BharatMatrimony sent 177 interest every minute

Princeton University research shows collective action works

Don’t be complacent about communists, Jerry Rao warns in his book

Why carnatic music needs a ‘T-20’ to survive

NIOT teams up with Russian research unit to mine for minerals in the deep sea

India to prospect in an area allotted in the Indian Ocean by UN seabed body

6 km below: Coming soon, India’s own crawler to walk the ocean floor

rewind When a leak nearly grounded Chandrayaan-1

mission moon How Chandrayaan-2 could be India’s moment in the Sun

₹603-cr project could be epochal if it can tell world where to find water on Moon

covert operations RAW: 50 years of operating from the shadows

The intelligence agency has accomplished much, but is it ready for the new world?

Sony rides on Spiderman’s appeal to beat pandemic blues

The movie has raked in about ₹265 crore in terms of gross box office collections, making it the third highest grosser in terms of Hollywood films

Omicron batters movies All big films set for release fight a common villain – Omicron

Battered industry looks at more losses as Covid cases surge

Gerson Da Cunha, veteran theatre personality, the quintessential ad man no more

Gerson da Cunha had acted in plays and films such as Electric Moon (1992), Cotton Mary (1999), Asoka (2001) and Water (2005).

Quiz: Spot the country

This week’s quiz is about the smallest countries in the world

Sidney Poitier(94), first Black actor to win best actor Academy Award passes away

Poitier had won his history-making best actor Oscar for"Lilies of the Field" in 1963

Wordle, the word game taking the internet by storm: Here’s all you need to know

Release for the world in October, the userbase for the game has increased to over 3 lakh

Omicron fears: Prabhas-starrer 'Radhe Shyam' release postponed

'Radhe Shyam' was slated for January 14 release

Cricket: ODI crosses a half Century

ODI came into existence because of rains. The first ODI match was meant to be the third Ashes Test in 1971

'Bulli Bai' app row: Engineering student remanded to custody till January 10

Earlier, the police team had also detained a woman, the main accused from Uttarakhand,

party pooper Omicron shrinks the big fat Indian wedding

30 lakh weddings scheduled in the auspicious Jan-March season will have to cut down on guests and events

World Konkani Centre founder Basti Vaman Shenoy no more

He worked to include the Konkani language in the 8th Schedule of the Constitution.

year ender/films After a ‘hit’ 2021, Southern films to set box-office ringing in 2022

Box office Much-awaited RRR put off as Omicron casts shadow on film screenings

Fate of other key releases like Valimai (Ajit) in Pongal season remains uncertain

Actress and comedian Betty White passes away at age 99

Betty White was known for her role of Rose Nylund in the sitcom ‘The Golden Girls’