How Prof Hemachandran Karah reached Cambridge and IIT Madras

From a blind school in Chennai to Cambridge and IIT Madras: Prof Hemachandran Karah’s inspiring journey. (Photo: LinkedIn) For many students, the journey from school to higher education is filled with familiar challenges — examinations, competition, financial pressures and the uncertainty of choosing a career. For Prof Hemachandran Karah, the path involved an additional barrier:…

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Does your child say ‘I have a tummy ache’ before school? Experts say it may actually be a deeper signal towards something else |

“Mom, my tummy hurts, I can’t go to school.” This is a sentence many parents hear as they are getting their children ready for school. At this moment, some parents get worried and start thinking that their child’s physical pain is being caused by food or digestion problems, while some feel their child is simply…

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In 1963, Maurice Hilleman swabbed his 5-year-old daughter’s throat after she caught mumps; four years later, the vaccine built from her virus strain was licensed in the US and remains in use

Jeryl Lynn comforts her crying sister Kirsten during a 1966 vaccination with the Jeryl Lynn Strain. In 1963, vaccine researcher Dr Maurice Hilleman was working to develop a safe and effective vaccine against mumps when his five-year-old daughter, Jeryl Lynn, developed the disease. One night, Jeryl Lynn woke Hilleman and showed him her swollen cheeks,…

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IND vs ENG: Team India seeks blessings at Siddhivinayak ahead of semifinal — Watch | Cricket News

Team India players at Shree Siddhivinayak Ganapati Temple. (Video grab) Hours before stepping into a high-pressure T20 World Cup semifinal against England, members of the Indian team sought divine intervention at Mumbai’s iconic Shree Siddhivinayak Ganapati Temple on Wednesday.Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel. SUBSCRIBE NOW!In a video that quickly went viral on…

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The British Royal Navy brought nearly 27,000 Africans rescued from slave ships to a remote Atlantic island; their teeth are now revealing their lost childhood journeys

152 Africans were rescued from illegal slave ships and taken to Saint Helena nearly 200 years ago. (Representational photo) Nearly 200 years after thousands of Africans were rescued from illegal slave ships and taken to the remote island of Saint Helena by the British royal navy, scientists have uncovered new clues about where many of…

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Watch: Sleeping driver stopped on Will Rogers Turnpike — How a trooper stopped vehicle before a crash on an Oklahoma turnpike

The Oklahoma Highway Patrol issued a warning after a trooper had to perform a maneuver to stop a sleeping driver’s vehicle from crashing recently on the Will Rogers Turnpike in northeastern Oklahoma.Around 12:20 p.m. on December 13, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol received multiple calls about a newer-model Kia driving slowly in the right lane of…

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