As World Heritage Week Begins, TOI Salutes The Unique Community Life Of The Walled City Which Keeps The Aged Out Of Old Age Homes When septuagenarian Vilsu Mehta, a resident of Desai ni Pol, underwent a major surgery recently, she did not miss her US-settled sons. Neighbours took good care of this diabetic retired teacher. […]
Continue readingStudents from US now heading to India
With 1 % decline in Indian students going to the US, a huge 44 % rise noted in arrivals of US students in India American universities may be the best in the world and Indian educational institutions may not even figure in the global top 10. But that hasn’t stopped a surprisingly large number of […]
Continue readingMaking poetry out of life’s chaos
Malela Jeev — a literary platform hosting Kavya Samaroh (poets gathering) online, is the brain child of NRG ‘Vepari-Kavi’ (trader-poet) Janak Desai, who runs a small-sized $5-million diamond business in New Jersey. It was named after the prolific author of Gujarati literature Pannalal Patel’s award winning short story which was later taken as a plot […]
Continue readingRoyal regrets selling Wankaner House to US govt
Mumbai Property Sold In 1957 For . 18L Now Valued At . 1,800 cr A royal regret – that’s what the erstwhile rulers of Wankaner state near Rajkot felt when they found out that the US government was planning to sell Lincoln House, their consulate in Mumbai at Breach Candy. Lincoln House was originally Wankaner […]
Continue readingDon’t yap on mobile more than 4 minutes a day: Study
Tower Radiation Can Prove Deadly Too. Until now it was believed that using a mobile phone for more than 30 minutes daily (over 8 to 10 years) would put the user at an increased risk of cancer. However, a group of experts from the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) has interpreted the international Interphone study […]
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