IT'S CHAI TIME
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May 2020 -
A group of Indian-American researchers at MIT are part of a team that has developed a “smart” diaper that contains a moisture-sensing, passive radio frequency
identification (RFID) tag.
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May 2020 -
Indian Railways recently installed a squat machine at Delhi’s Anand Vihar railway station. Anyone who can do 30 squats in 180 seconds receives a free platform ticket, saving Rs. 10.
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April 2020 -
G. Sathiyan, India’s top table tennis player, recently joined the T-League, the first professional table tennis league in Japan. The league, founded in 2018, has four teams in the men’s division and four in the women’s
division.
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April 2020 -
India sends only a few athletes to the Winter Olympics, but there’s enough interest in snowboarding,skiing and other winter sports that the country recently launched its first-ever Winter Games.
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April 2020 -
Rajbir Singh, a taxi driver in Roseville, California,was recently honored by his local policedepartment for thwarting a scammer who had targeted a 92-year-old woman.
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April 2020 -
Quotes of actor Anupam Kher, Sri Preston Kulkarni, Nidheya Suresh, Sushil Tyagi and Deepa Mehta.
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April 2020 -
How much do you know about current events in India and the U.S.? Try this short quiz!
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April 2020 -
Young people have no trouble trying new things. My teen-aged kids, for example, are eager to try new devices, new software or new social media platforms. They’re eager to learn new games or sports. They’re eager to adopt new styles of clothing, new types of haircuts, and new ways of frowning at their parents.
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April 2020 -
Saira Rao, a former Colorado congressional candidate, and Regina Jackson, an African-American who worked on Rao’s 2018 campaign, joined hands last year to co-found Race to Dinner, an organization that seeks to persuade white women to help fight racism and dismantle white supremacy
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April 2020 -
Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, the heavily accented convenience store clerk on “The Simpsons,” has been a prominent figure on the animated TV series since 1990, but his days may be numbered—at least that’s what critics of the stereotypical character hope.
