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Published By: Nibandh VinodLast Updated: July 23, 2023, 06:30 ISTBal Gangadhar Tilak was called ‘Lokmanya,’ which means ‘accepted as the people's leader.’ (Image: Shutterstock)Bal Gangadhar Tilak was born on July 23, 1856, in Ratnagiri of…

Over the past two decades, dozens of behavioral scientists have risen to prominence pointing out the power of small interventions to improve well-being.The scientists said they had found that automatically enrolling people in organ donor…

Elliot McCarter (left) said PM Modi’s visit will help spread Hindi literature and language-teaching in the US and Shah pointed to PM’s contribution towards raising awareness about millets. (Image: Twitter/Vanderbilt University)Sanskrit and…

Indian-American VA Shiva Ayyadurai, who "invented email" when he was just 14, has expressed interest in taking up the position of Twitter's chief executive officer after Elon Musk said he wishes to step down from the post. Mumbai-born…

Kwasi Kwarteng's stint as chancellor was perhaps as short as his rise to the top of politics was swift.Mr Kwarteng was promoted to chancellor by Liz Truss on 6 September from his previous post as business secretary under Boris…

A first-of-its-kind study has found new stars forming beyond the visible boundaries about 1.5 to 3.9 billion light years away from the Earth, according to an article by a research scholar of Tezpur University. Anshuman Borgohain, the…

And he wrote voluminously. Many of his essays, as he put it in the introduction to “American Homo: Community and Perversity,” his 1998 book, “explore the social significance of homosexual emancipation since the end of World War II and the…

Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan was a great orator, teacher, scholar, philosopher, academician, and statesman. He was the first vice president and the second president of independent India. Born on September 5, 1888, Dr Radhakrishnan died on…

A Western University sports scholar says an athlete-focused approach is key to ending a toxic culture in gymnastics.  On Monday, more than 70 gymnasts contributed their stories to an open letter addressed to Sport Canada. In the letter,…

Bengaluru: 100X.VC portfolio firm Super Scholar, an edtech platform, has raised $400,000 in a funding round from MAGIC Fund, 2am VC, Astir VC, JITO Angel Network, and others. The company said it will use the funds to strengthen its courses…