Kanishka Mishra

This story is from May 28, 2018 Chik or bamboo curtains are effective to insulate hot air from homes, keeping it comfortable. LUCKNOW: From setting up a terrace garden to keep the blazing sun away from their homes to using water therapy of exercising in water to retain energy, Lucknowites are doing whatever it takes to keep heat at bay. A teacher, 32-year-old Archana Singh of Indiranagar has begun water therapy to keep not just her body temperature down but also gain psychological benefits.

This story is from May 28, 2018 Garbage dumped on Rana Pratap Marg, less than a kilometer away from te DG office in this file phot. Photo: Man... LUCKNOW: Lucknow streets and colonies will remain littered for some more weeks as Lucknow Municipal Corporation is set to miss its May 31 deadline to clean the city phase-wise. In March, LMC had selected 40 Adarsh wards (five from each zone) to achieve 100% door-to-door garbage collection and cleaning of streets. LMC had planned to clean all 110 ward

This story is from May 21, 2018 With garbage not being picked up, residents in Bangla Bazaar and Aashiana said they were forced to throw it on... LUCKNOW: Garbage collection from homes remains a challenge for Lucknow Municipal Corporation despite its efforts to streamline the process. LMC had appealed to residents to hire sanitary workers from its partner Eco-Green and dismiss private ones. It had also revised the charges for garbage collection from doorsteps as part of an elaborate plan to

Students celebrate their success after CBSE declared its class 12th results, in Lucknow on Saturday. By : Shivangi Pandey and Kanishka MishraLUCKNOW: Self-study and staying stress-free are the two success mantras that highscorers swear by.Sharing their experiences, they said pursuing their hobbies helped them handle examination stress all through the year. Besides, they maintained a ‘no’ to coaching classes to save both time and energy and depended on their classroom and self-study.Scoring 98.4

Marital rape victim Khushbu Saif, along with All India Democratic Women’s Association (AIDWA) and the RIT Foundation, had filed a petition challenging marital rape exception Section 375 which declares marital rape legal (if the woman is not a minor) in Delhi High Court on 17 July 2017. The court ruled against it by using the argument that it can lead to the destabilisation of the sanctity of marriage and would lead to male harassment. The legal status of marital rape in India violates over three

A journalist residing in Northern India, Rachna Khaira reported about a breach in the Aadhaar database, UIDAI (Unique Identification Authority of India) being the authority accountable for the data. Her report claimed that it took just Rs 500 to access details of any individual through an ‘agent’. UIDAI blatantly denied the breach. Moreover, UIDAI filed a case against the newspaper The Tribune and the Ms. Khaira for allegedly exposing personal details of over 1 billion Aadhaar cards. Khaira was

A farmer in a remote village now doesn’t have to make payments in cash. He or she can book tickets, access policy benefits etc., online. The Digital India campaign was launched with the aim of better rural connectivity and awareness. Steps were taken to bridge the urban rural gap. The question which remains with us is how far Digital India was successful? Was it a nationwide success or did it just have state focused development? To understand the given issue better, one should get familiarized

It was the French intellectual and writer, Albert Camus, who once wrote, “I love my country too much to be a nationalist“. Those words seem to have particular relevance to India’s contemporary political milieu. Nationalism and patriotism are two words which are often confused as one. This is incorrect since there is a world of difference between the two concepts, in spite of a few shared ideals. According to George Orwell, nationalism is a feeling that one’s country is superior to another in all

With his outrageous immigration policies and 3 AM raging tweets, Donald Trump is still having a hard time to get funds for his wall at the US-Mexico Border. The idea of wall at the border and payment for its construction by Mexico were two highlights of Trump’s campaign agenda. President believes that the wall is an important aspect of the border security as it will protect US from illegal immigrants migrating from Central American countries. Trump’s Presidency has seen many ups and downs inclu