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For years, the American teaching profession has been discussed almost entirely in terms of what it has lost. Falling enrollment in teacher training programmes, rising exits from classrooms, and persistent warnings about burnout have shaped a bleak consensus: Fewer people want to teach, and many who do rarely stay long.But the latest data complicates that…
R Balki recalls Rajesh Khanna’s professionalism in his last 2012 ad shoot despite terminal illness. Flying by air ambulance, wheelchair-bound with IV drip, Khanna shot 45-second takes, laughing at the script and whistling “Ye Sham Mastani.” He quipped about his humor before passing weeks later. Rajesh Khanna ranked among the top superstars of his era,…
High blood pressure is one of those silent health risks that often goes unnoticed until it causes serious harm. Besides diet, exercise, and medication, which most people consider the mainstays of blood pressure management, growing evidence suggests that what we breathe indoors may also have a meaningful role. Recently, scientists have begun to explore how…
This week, Saturn is encouraging you to be present; inspired by the thought of where to run will surely emerge. Feeling overwhelmed by emotions or daily life pressure might seem less blasphemous, but, beyond that, keeping your feet on the ground and seeing clearly is a far better way to survive. Simple daily anchors will…
Federal injury data logged shampoo bottles, lightbulbs and vape pens removed during emergency room visits in 2025/ Image: Defector Every year, emergency departments in the US record cases involving foreign objects lodged in patients’ rectums. The information is logged clinically, without names, and fed into a federal injury database. In 2025, that data once again…
1) Gaia is the ancient Greek word for Earth; some refer to her as the ancestral mother and claim that she gave birth to all of the elements of the world. Gaia is the personification of Earth, Ma-Ka or Ma-Go, both of which mean Mother Gaia. The modern onslaught of ‘divisive preaching’ and academic focus only on…
In the early hours of Saturday morning, at 4.21 am, President Donald Trump announced on social media that the United States had captured Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro. Ten minutes later, his phone rang. On the line was Tyler Pager, a White House correspondent for The New York Times. After three rings, Trump answered. Chants Grip…
Nepal’s Interim PM Sushila Karki and her husband Durga Prasad Subedi (ANI) NEW DELHI: Nepal’s Interim Prime Minister Sushila Karki’s husband, Durga Prasad Subedi, is set to be flown to New Delhi for his medical treatment after he was admitted to a government hospital but showed no improvement.Subedi, 74, was admitted to the Tribhuvan University…
CEC Gyanesh Kumar and Mamata Banerjee (File photo) NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday wrote to Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar, criticising the “procedural violations” and “administrative lapses” in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), which is currently under way in the poll-bound state.Mamata Banerjee called the exercise “unplanned, arbitrary and…
Saturn asks you to disagree with settling this week. Contemplate the areas of your life that feel stuck and forced. Have you sought comfort and sacrificed growth? Saturn comes to help you conduct a brutally honest self-evaluation. Recognise facets that do not touch your life anymore and begin the transformative process in a real and…
