Baisakhi Festival By Dr Arvind Kumar Baisakhi, also known as Vasakhi, is an ancient harvest festival in the Punjab region of North India. Baisakhi is also a Sikh religious festival. It usually falls o ...

Jallianwala Bagh massacre By Dr Arvind Kumar 13th April this year marks the 92nd Anniversary of the 1919 Amritsar massacre, also known alternately as the Jallianwala Bagh massacre: for after the Jalli ...

Crusade against Corruption By Dr Arvind Kumar Finally, Gandhian Anna Hazare’s crusade against corruption has partially won the battle, with the government conceding to majority of the demands made by ...

Growth or Moral Decline By Dr Arvind Kumar David Korten in his book Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth, points that humanity is living out an epic morality play. For millenni ...

World Health Day By Dr Arvind Kumar World Health Day is celebrated every year on 7 April, under the aegis of World Health Organization (W.H.O.). It was in 1948 that the World Health Organization held ...

Glaciers Sculpting Valleys By Dr Arvind Kumar According to a recent report published in Science Daily, the beautiful and distinctive U-shaped glacial valleys, typical of alpine areas from Alaska to Ne ...

Durga Navratri By Dr Arvind Kumar 4th April marks the inaugural day of the Navratri celebrations. The word ‘Navratri’ literally means nine nights in Sanskrit, the period of eight days and nine nights ...

Water Woes of South Africa By Dr Arvind KumarAccording to a recent report by the news agency, IRIN, more than 40 percent of South Africa's dams suffer eutrophication, when the water becomes nutrient-r ...

Prevention of Blindness By Dr Arvind Kumar 1st April inaugurates the commencemnt of the prevention of blindness week to be observed from 1 to 7 April by the National Society for the Prevention of Blin ...

Social Innovation By Dr Arvind Kumar Social innovation is about meeting the unmet social needs and improving social outcomes. According to José Manuel Barroso, president of the European Commission, so ...