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News18
an hour ago
- Entertainment
- News18
Lost In Views, Sachin Tendulkar Shares Pictures With 'Woolly New Friends'
The Master Blaster is enjoying a vacation with his wife Anjali and Sara and shared pictures from the scenic countryside with sheep, playfully offering them leaves. Despite knocking off a half-century two years back, Sachin Tendulkar continues to age like a fine wine. The maestro Indian batter, who retired from international cricket after a legendary career in 2013, has been spending time out with his family on various vacations. He is currently in the UK with his wife Anjali and daughter Sara and loving the scenic valleys and greenery in the countryside. On Tuesday, July 22, Tendulkar shared a series of beautiful pictures and videos, where the Master Blaster is enjoying the greenery around with sheep giving him company. Known for his humorous streak on social media, Tendulkar gave the post an amusing caption: 'Lost in the views, making some woolly new friends." In a video, Tendulkar is seen giving leaves for the group of sheep to eat, soaking in the natural beauty of the place and its peaceful vibes. Tendulkar was recently in London for the third Test of the ongoing Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy with Anjali and Sara, enjoying the thrilling contest between India and England. He rang the traditional bell for the start of the play. The two great rivals gave the maestro plenty to cheer about in a Test that went to the final session of the final afternoon before Ben Stokes' men came out triumphant by 22 runs. Tendulkar also took time out for Wimbledon, expressing his love affair for tennis by watching some of the finest tennis players in action at the iconic event. He met fellow legends Roger Federer and Bjorn Borg at the Royal Box and shared a picture with them. During his time in London, Tendulkar supported former teammate and 2011 World Cup champion Yuvraj Singh's gala organised to raise support for his cancer awareness programme and charity 'YouWeCan'. The gala was also attended by Tendulkar's successor and former India captain Virat Kohli, who joined hands with Yuvraj for the noble cause along with Kevin Pietersen, Brian Lara, Ravi Shastri and many other former and current cricketing stars. Even the travelling Indian team, led by Shubman Gill, stood behind the cancer awareness cause and posed for pictures with the greats at the charity gala. view comments First Published: July 24, 2025, 00:04 IST Disclaimer: Comments reflect users' views, not News18's. Please keep discussions respectful and constructive. Abusive, defamatory, or illegal comments will be removed. News18 may disable any comment at its discretion. By posting, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.
Time of India
2 days ago
- Time of India
Asha worker's body found in sack, bro-in-law held
Meerut: The semi-naked body of a 45-year-old Asha worker was found stuffed inside a plastic sack at an under-construction house on Kotana Road in Baraut. Bhupendra Singh, her husband's cousin from Titauli village in Shamli, was arrested after the incident on Saturday. Anjali Devi, a resident of Rajpur Khampur village, had left for the Baghpat community health centre on Saturday morning. Later, she informed her family that she was heading to Baraut to collect money she had loaned to Bhupendra, who was constructing a house near the canal. When she failed to return by evening and her phone was found to be switched off, her family filed a missing persons report at Baraut police station. Accompanied by her son, Saksham, police reached Bhupendra's locked house. Peering through a window, Saksham spotted his mother's feet protruding from a plastic sack. Police broke the lock and discovered Anjali's body inside. A head injury initially led officers to suspect she had been shot. Her husband, Chashmveer Singh, filed an FIR against Bhupendra alleging rape and murder. However, the autopsy report contradicted that assumption. It confirmed that Anjali had not been shot, but had suffered three blunt-force injuries to the head, likely caused by a heavy object. There were no signs of sexual assault, though forensic samples have been sent for further testing. ASP Narendra Pratap Singh said that during interrogation, Bhupendra admitted to killing Anjali. He told police the two had known each other since 2003 and often met at the under-construction house, where he occasionally stayed while working at the Malakpur sugar mill. Bhupendra claimed that during their meeting on Saturday, Anjali demanded Rs 1 lakh from him. When he refused, she slapped him. Enraged, he picked up a hammer lying nearby and struck her multiple times on the head. He then stuffed her body into a sack, planning to dump it in the canal at night. Police reached the spot before he could carry out his plan.
Forbes
15-07-2025
- Business
- Forbes
Closing The Digital Skills Gap: How UNICEF And Partners Empower Youth
As digital technology rapidly transforms the workforce, a global digital skills gap is leaving many young people behind, especially girls and young women. UNICEF and committed private sector partners are equipping the next generation with essential digital, entrepreneurial and AI skills, empowering them to become innovators, leaders and changemakers. Anjali poses with the sewer cleaning robot protoype that she developed at the Atal Tinkering Lab (ATL) at her school in Chhattisgarh, India. UNICEF, along with private sector partners, supports ATLs across India to foster a culture of learning, skilling and entrepreneurship. Why digital skills are essential for today's youth As digital technology reshapes work, too many adolescents and young people are falling behind. Globally, 65 percent of teens lack the digital skills needed for 90 percent of today's jobs, with the widest gaps in low- and middle-income countries and among girls. In many of these places, girls are 25 percent less likely than boys to access the knowledge needed for basic digital tasks. However, 86 percent of employers expect artificial intelligence (AI) and information processing technologies will transform their businesses by 2030. The theme of World Youth Skills Day 2025, 'Youth empowerment through AI and digital skills,' highlights the acute need for an inclusive, ethical and empowering future for all youth. UNICEF's role in youth digital workforce readiness UNICEF is a leader in digital skills programs that prepare young people to take part in a fast-changing economy and become the leaders their communities and the world need. This work is supported by strong private sector partners whose values, interests and corporate philanthropy aims align with UNICEF's goal to create a better world for every child. Private sector partners collaborate with UNICEF in many ways, supplying the knowledge, tools and finances that complement UNICEF's strengths and accelerate young people's path to economic security and opportunity. Trusted private sector partners allow UNICEF to plan long term and scale up programs more effectively. True collaboration and bold innovation can lead to powerful solutions, while UNICEF remains committed to promoting and upholding children's rights as AI policies and practices evolve. How public-private partnerships are transforming youth opportunities Public-private sector collaboration can scale programs from concepts to solutions and achieve greater impact at an accelerated pace than either sector can by working alone. Since 1999, fewer young people around the world have been working, even though the number of young people has grown. When youth are not working, studying or in training, their overall wellbeing suffers, diminishing their ability to contribute to future economic development and sociopolitical stability. To flip the script, more young people must be able to identify and access the skills to participate in a digital and green economy. UNICEF and SAP piloted an innovative, scalable workforce readiness program for marginalized youth in Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa that supports learning to earning pathways. The program leverages Generation Unlimited's Youth Agency Marketplace (Yoma), a digital platform that connects young people with social impact tasks and learning to earning opportunities. Scaling digital learning with Yoma: a youth-led innovation The Yoma platform for youth was developed by young Africans seeking to address the stark reality that youth comprise 60 percent of all of Africa's jobless. Since 2022, the SAP and UNICEF partnership has reached over 815,000 and helped improve the lives of 250,000 more through engagement with foundational and digital skills for youth. Overall, thanks to SAP and other partners' support, Yoma has reached over 5 million engagements, which include registering more than 500,000 youth in over eight countries registered to access skilling, earning and impact opportunities through the Yoma ecosystem. Muhammad Abdullahi applies skills he learned from UNICEF Youth Agency Marketplace (Yoma) in Bauchi State, Nigeria, to his work as a health care innovator and employer. Yoma is a digital marketplace for youth to gain individualized learning and align opportunities with their aspirations. Muhammad Abdullahi, a health educator from Azare in Nigeria's Bauchi State, uses his Yoma-acquired skills to inspire change around him. Bauchi State has a high number of children who are out of school. "Growing up in a community like Azare gave me a sense that we need to call on our young people to change the narrative of how our people survive here,' he says. Muhammed used the money he earned scavenging plastic waste to pay for his university tuition. "I was afraid to graduate from university because I may not get a job, but after utilizing opportunities from Yoma, I am a proud health innovator and employer now.' How Skills4Girls builds confidence, STEM access and leadership Investment in girls' education and skills-building forges a critical pathway to dignified work and economic security. About 1 billion girls and women worldwide lack the skills to keep up in today's job market. For teenagers between 15 and 19, twice as many girls (1 in 4) are not working, learning or training compared to boys (1 in 10). With support from several private sector partners, UNICEF's Skills4Girls is closing the gap between the education girls traditionally receive and the digital skills to thrive in today's economy. The Skills4Girls develops girls' skills in STEM, digital technologies and social entrepreneurship areas and bolsters life skills like problem-solving, communication, teamwork and self-confidence. For example, thanks to Sylvamo'spartnership with UNICEF, Skills4Girls expanded its work in countries like Bolivia and Brazil to give girls greater access to STEM education and leadership training, unlocking their individual potential and yielding greater societal benefits. With more than 640 million adolescent girls living on the planet today, programs like Skills4Girls play a crucial role in supporting their growth and potential. Mary Luz, 15, of La Paz, Bolivia, created an award-winning robotic boat to collect trash from rivers and lakes. In Bolivia, only 24 percent of students in STEM are women. A UNICEF Skills4Girls program is teaching Bolivian girls to design and build robot prototypes. In Bolivia, only 24 percent of students in technological and scientific careers are women. Skills4Girls is working to improve that reality and build a better future by teaching Bolivian girls to design and build robot prototypes. 15-year-old Mary Luz from La Paz, Bolivia, dreamed of seeing nearby Lake Titicaca clean – free from pollution and plastic waste. Driven by that vision, she created a prototype robotic boat that collects trash from rivers and lakes. Mary's invention is equipped with weather sensors, a live camera and an anemometer to measure wind speed. With support from UNICEF, her creativity and determination led her to represent Bolivia at the world's largest robotics tournament. Grassroots innovation, generational power Partnerships are a means to an end, not the end itself. Each UNICEF and private sector initiative is a dynamic collaboration to lead young people somewhere better than where they started. And when young people are actively involved in crafting solutions, that goal is often reached faster. Crocs, Inc., one of UNICEF's newest skills partners, has committed to a 3-year partnership to support UNICEF's UPSHIFT, a social accelerator that prepares young people between 10 and 24 to become community changemakers and innovators. UPSHIFT aligns with Crocs, Inc.'s Step Up To Greatness program values and goals to support building skills and confidence in young people to unlock their potential. UPSHIFT equips youth with professional and transferable skills through experiential learning. Participants identify challenges in their communities and devise local, innovative solutions to address them. For example, in Ukraine, where approximately 1.5 million children are at risk of depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder, UPSHIFT has equipped young people to take action to address issues they care about the most. One solution is Teenage Island – created by teens for teens – on the social platform Discord. Teenage Island provides a safe virtual space for young people to connect over shared struggles. 'You can get away from unwanted reality. For us, that is the war,' says Oleksii, 22, a Teenage Island member. ofia, 17, hosts a podcast on Teenage Island, a teen-led virtual space offering connection and psychological support to young Ukrainians. UNICEF UPSHIFT participants identify challenges in their communities and devise local, innovative solutions. On Teenage Island, adolescents and young people can talk to a psychologist in group sessions, explore creative writing or dive into fantasy role-playing adventures. The team also launched a podcast series in which Sofia, a 17-year-old Ukrainian, openly discusses grief, mental health and war with a psychologist. Teenage Island exemplifies how partner funding doesn't just support immediate needs but can strengthen systems and services for sustainable progress long after UNICEF's interventions end. Partnering for a brighter future UNICEF's public-private sector partnerships for youth can bring the tech, experience and talent, and critical investment needed to supercharge skills development. Together, UNICEF and partners create scalable, forward-thinking solutions that fast-track young people's access to opportunity and build a brighter future for the next generation. Learn more about UNICEF's private sector partnerships that help bridge the digital divide and support every child's right to learn. UNICEF does not endorse any company, brand, organization, product or service.
Time of India
15-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Rethinking Indian Literature: Dispersion, Diaspora & Expanding Boundaries Beyond Traditional Literary Canon
Excerpts from the interview: Q: How did the two of you come to collaborate on this book? Let's start with Anjali. Anjali: The project started when Ulka reached out to me with this proposal and I obviously jumped at it because this idea of modern Indian and literatures, each of those terms that we query in this handbook is at the heart of everything that I do and have been doing all this while. Right? So I was delighted when Ulka reached out to me, what was it, four and a half years ago or five years ago? She'll be able to remember the date. And it just went from there. It was like natural. She said, will you do it? And I said yes. And we just started from there. Ulka: The Oxford Handbook series is a very prestigious series and so I was delighted when the editor reached out and asked if I was interested in working on such a project. The main thing for us was how Anglo-centric the Indian literary studies continues to be despite the fact that there are so obviously literature and long traditions in so many languages. But it's true in the US, it's even true in India itself. Even the study of Indian literature in English is relatively new. For a long time in English departments, even in India, you were just studying British and American literature. So that is new. Even then there's been such a favouring of English language literature over all these other traditions. So when the editor at Oxford reached out and said we want something that focuses on India's multilingual heritage, of course I immediately thought of Anjali because I was such a fan of her book Bombay Modern and of course her work in multilingual Indian spheres. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like SRM Online MBA | India's top ranked institute SRM Online Learn More Undo So I think it was a good match and it was something I think we were both very passionate about. Q: Even just the title Modern Indian Literature packs in so much, you can dissect those three words for a very long time, isn't it, Ulka? Ulka: Yes, absolutely. And in fact we do spend quite a bit of time in our introduction and in all the presentations we've given dissecting those words because none of them are self-evident. It's not obvious what we mean by modern, what we mean by literatures, because when we think about the literary sphere, we often tend to think about the novel and poetry and short stories. But recent studies of different media have shown that what we count as literature might be much more vast than that. We have a chapter on the graphic novel, we even have a chapter on video games to really expand what we think of as literature and push those boundaries. And the term Indian itself is not self-evident, especially with the different role that different languages play within a kind of conception of India. So of course we can think about Hindi and Tamil and some of the main languages, but also languages that, you know, have a different relationship with the nation. So we really had to piece out these different terms. And the final book is not a conclusive answer to what these terms mean, but hopefully opening it up to more questioning and more debate. And we really hope that others will take up some of these provocations that we've tried to try to propose in the introduction. Anjali: To add to what Ulka said about the handbook. I think one of the concepts we kept in mind when putting together this handbook was the idea of dispersion, especially because the notion of handbook is such a canon making sort of concept, a gesture, right? And along coupled with the idea of Oxford, which is another canon making gesture. So one of the concepts that we dealt with was, or rather kept in our mind was the idea of dispersion. So dispersion of several things, of a limited and prescriptive canon of Indian writing, of texts that must feature in this list of the disciplinary boundaries. Ulka talked about that right. Of what is literary or not literary, but also of what are regions and languages, and also of scholarly voices that usually reflect, are reflected in Anglophone tables of contents from where they speak, generally the predominance of scholars only from the Western world dominating the conversation. So all of these ideas were at the back of our minds when we thought of this idea of dispersing this to kind of removing that centre that has been in this Anglophone Western world when talking of Indian literatures, and we hope, or we Assume, we hope that we went a little way towards that. Q: The texts you choose to explore are unusual. When it comes to going into the minor languages, and with reference to video games etc, how did you decide to explore these boundaries? Ulka: So one thing I'll say is with any project like this we have an ideal TLC of what we'd like, who we like and what kind of topics we'd like covered. But of course when you ask people can we do it, can you write this 6,000 word piece? There's many people who can't or they want to write on something else than what we would have liked them to write about. So having said that, the final project is, you know, is hopefully moves towards what we were envisioning. It's not exactly what we were envisioning. I said we would have even wanted more attention to more minor literatures and minor in the sense of, you know, not always represented in these kind of anthologies than we had. But we really were trying to do many things at once. We were trying to kind of present what some of the most exciting work in Indian, in contemporary literary criticism on Indian literatures in a variety of languages and also push some of the boundary. So you know, with video games as a good example, it's not, I don't think I would argue that it is definitively a literary form. But we wanted to have some places at the, in the volume where we were pushing those boundaries. We also have a chapter on auto fiction, again, you know, always, not quite always understood as literary, but. And so we wanted to push some of these boundaries and that includes talking about literatures from, from languages where, you know, people have an ambivalent relationship with the idea of India and we wanted to use those as Places to push the boundaries. So we were trying to do many things at once. Both kind of present things that people understand as Indian and then also push the boundaries. And we think those two things are done at once. Then you can never take a term like Indian literature for granted. Anjali: I remember one of the conversations we had when we went to India and talked to students about this book in September. And one of the questions that that students had was how can you subsume, for example, this was just an example. How can you subsume Tamil modernism under Indian? Right. And so the kind of way we tried to explain was that we proceed as if we already know the term, right. What Indian is. But then in the actual chapters and in the actual work that follows, it gets queried, dismantled, reformulated. So, for example, Tamil Modernism, or the Question of Tamil is featured here. But then we also talk about Tamil in Sri Lanka and Tamil in Singapore. A chapter goes across India and Tamil in Singapore. So the borders, the contact zone of the borders is again, one of the other concepts that we always kept in mind, this idea of relationality and contact zones which. From which we started looking at the idea of what it is that is Indian or what it is that is modern.
NDTV
15-07-2025
- Health
- NDTV
Nutritionist Shares Key Tips To Correct Metabolic Decline
A slower metabolic rate, often referred to as a metabolic decline, indicates that your body is burning calories slowly, which may cause weight gain. A metabolic decline occurs when your body's ability to burn calories and carry out essential processes like hormone regulation, detoxification, and digestion slows down. It is a loss in the body's ability to efficiently turn food into energy, and it often results in other health problems, such as diabetes or heart disease. In her recent Instagram post, nutritionist Anjali Mukerjee has shared three practical strategies to improve metabolic decline: cut out processed carbohydrates, exercise daily, and get enough sleep. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Anjali Mukerjee (@anjalimukerjee) Let's dive deep with each tip Eliminate refined carbohydrates Refined carbohydrates are foods that have undergone processing to eliminate nutrients and fibre. White bread, sugary snacks, and a variety of fast foods are a few examples. Eliminating refined carbohydrates enhances blood sugar regulation, boosts energy levels, and helps with weight control. Regular exercise Anjali Mukerjee recommends trying to get in at least an hour of exercise every day. Walking, running, cycling, and taking fitness classes are a few examples of this. Regular exercise increases metabolism, builds muscular mass, and enhances mental wellness and general mood. Prioritise sleep Nutritionist Anjali has suggested trying to get 8 hours of good sleep every night. Proper sleep promotes hormonal balance and healing, controls metabolism and appetite, and improves mental performance. According to the nutritionist, changing one's lifestyle can help with metabolic decline. One should steer clear of processed carbohydrates and concentrate on whole foods, make a commitment to consistent exercise and enough sleep for optimum health. Nutritionist Anjali Mukerjee often shares useful tips for better health management. Previously, she has recommended having carbohydrate-rich foods for better PCOS (Polycystic Ovary Syndrome) management, yet lifestyle modifications like eating healthily and exercising are helpful. For better outcomes, she stressed the significance of eating a "high-fibre, antioxidant-rich diet" in addition to "hormone-balancing supplements and personalised care." Disclaimer: This content including advice provides generic information only. It is in no way a substitute for a qualified medical opinion. Always consult a specialist or your own doctor for more information. NDTV does not claim responsibility for this information.
