IT'S CHAI TIME
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February 2021 -
India’s Ministry of AYUSH (Ayurveda, Yoga & Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha, Homoeopathy) and Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports recently announced the formal recognition of Yogasana as a competitive sport.
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February 2021 -
Dharamveer Malik competed in international competitions as a junior wrestler in the 1990s. A knee injury cut his wrestling career short and he never won a medal, but he recently got to enjoy a podium finish vicariously through his 19-year-old daughter, Anshu Malik. Competing in the 57 kg class at the World Cup in Belgrade, Serbia, Anshu won a silver medal, bringing tears to her father.
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February 2021 -
Parul Arora, a national gold-medal winning gymnast from Haryana, has received acclaim recently for her sari-clad flips. Videos of her stunts have gone viral on social media. Her first few sari-clad flips were unsuccessful, but with practice, she mastered the stunt.
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February 2021 -
Quotes by Hemant Bhatt, founder of Indian Voices for Trump, who was among a group of Indian-Americans who attended a January 6 rally in Washington, D.C. / Nisha D. Biswal, president of the U.S.-India Business Council / Raj Shah, president of the Rockefeller Foundation / and Tweet from Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal.
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February 2021 -
How much do you know about current events in India and the U.S.? Try this short quiz!
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February 2021 -
A prominent writer for an American literary magazine, The New Yorker, got fired recently because he inadvertently exposed himself to some colleagues, both men and women, in a Zoom meeting.Online meetings do have several advantages, but it’s important to be aware of their shortcomings (or hazards); otherwise you may find yourself searching for a new job, either because you’ve been fired or you’re too embarrassed to face your co-workers again.
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February 2021 -
It’s rare that a single passenger can get a public bus service to change its timings, but that’s exactly what a student in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, accomplished recently through a polite request. Sai Anwesh Amrutam Pradhan sent a series of tweets to Capital Region Urban Transport (CRUT) and its managing director Arun Bothra. The timing of bus changed for him.
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February 2021 -
The skills you develop in high school may pay off handsomely one day. Just ask Kapil Talwalkar, one of the stars of Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist, an NBC series about a computer programmer named Zoey who hears the innermost thoughts of people as songs.
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January 2021 -
The Knight Riders Group and its majority owner Shah Rukh Khan have become stakeholders in Major League Cricket, a six-team professional T20 league that’s being developed by USA Cricket and its partner American Cricket Enterprises.
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January 2021 -
Sania Mirza, a six-time Grand Slam doubles champion, took a two-year break from tennis after giving birth to her son, Izhaan Mirza Malik, in 2018. The 34-year-old returned to competitive tennis last January and won the doubles title at the Hobart International tournament in Australia. Mirza recently wrote “An Ode to All Mothers” on Instagram, sharing her thoughts about balancing motherhood and a professional career.