Harshada Prakash Temghare: Her face suddenly swelled in her early 30s, and she discovered an apple-sized lump in her lungs; she recovered by adopting home remedies, and now runs her business to feed people: Meet Harshada Prakash Temghare

Representative image (Photo: Canva) We all encounter those moments in life that leave us in pieces.When health scares us, we usually think about getting better and going back to normal. But for some people, normal no longer feels like enough. They come out of hard times with a new sense of purpose. One such story…

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“I used to call my mother before returning home”: Sachin Tendulkar reveals the home-cooked Maharashtrian meal he craved on cricket tours

Sachin Tendulkar reveals his fav home-cooked dishes (Instagram) Gods also miss their mom’s home-cooked meals. Today the Lord of Cricket Sachin Tendulkar took to Instagram and revealed his favorite Maharashtrian meal cooked by his mother. For someone who has spent decades travelling across the world and winning some of cricket’s biggest tournaments, the most memorable…

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Taylor Swift once had a Christmas tree farm job most children would hate: picking praying mantis egg cases off trees before they were sold; the unexpected detail offers a glimpse into the country life she experienced long before she became a global pop superstar |

Long before the stadium tours and record-breaking albums, Taylor Swift had a very different kind of workday. According to reports, the singer grew up on a Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania, where one of her childhood jobs was to pick praying mantis egg cases off the trees so they would not hatch inside customers’ homes….

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A 1999 accident left her struggling to walk and unsure how to rebuild her life; years later, Chennai activist Prema’s trust is helping abandoned women, widows and cancer patients find support

Sometimes, a difficult experience can change the way a person looks at life. For Prema, founder trustee of Chennai-based Nesam-Opearl Charitable Trust, a serious accident in 1999 became a turning point. The experience made her reflect on how she could contribute to society and support people who needed help. Her journey from personal hardship to…

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This ancient forest has trees that have survived for thousands of years; where visitors can walk among some of Earth’s oldest living organisms and what makes these ecosystems so resilient

Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest (Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons) There are places where history is preserved in stone, and then there are places where history is still growing. High in the White Mountains of eastern California, on a landscape of pale limestone, exposed rock and seemingly endless sky, some of the world’s oldest living individual trees…

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IIT Madras graduate Shreeram Gobinath and his co-founders turned a model they built in a hostel room into Modulus Housing, which has now made more than 1,500 foldable buildings that travel to remote parts of India

Imagine a school that needs extra classrooms, a clinic waiting for more space, or a remote community that cannot afford to wait months for a building. What if some of these structures could be manufactured in factories, transported to the required location and assembled far more quickly than conventional construction?This is the problem Chennai-based startup…

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Taylor Swift once had a Christmas tree farm job most children would hate: picking praying mantis egg cases off trees before they were sold; the unexpected detail offers a glimpse into the country life she experienced long before she became a global pop superstar |

Long before the stadium tours and record-breaking albums, Taylor Swift had a very different kind of workday. According to reports, the singer grew up on a Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania, where one of her childhood jobs was to pick praying mantis egg cases off the trees so they would not hatch inside customers’ homes….

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