Panorama

By Dr Nandkumar M Kamat
Body Mass Index or BMI affects mortality. If you are a healthy non-smoking adult and have a BMI between 20 and 24.9 you would live longer says a sensational finding published on December 2 in the New England Journal of Medicine.

The exploits at the Guangzhou Asiad capped off a scintillating year for Somdev. Having broken onto the ATP Tour in 2008, the last couple of years have been ones of whirlwind progress for the 25-year-old.

By A C Tuli

The storylines of Hindi films nowadays mostly revolves around the lives of Hinglish-speaking, upper-middle-class people, who live in super metros, move about in sleek cars, talk of setting up their dream projects and the mega bucks they need for it.

By Danish Khan

There is little doubt that the large presence of people from different regions of India, now living in the United Kingdom, has added to the cultural richness of contemporary British society. With them has come the ‘Indian curry’, served in thousands of restaurants all over the United Kingdom. In fact, curry has become a national dish in Britain.

By Mário Cabral e Sá

Once upon a time a volcano flared up somewhere in the Deccan. It vomited its lava for three days − some say it was 30 years − before it cooled down.

By Dhanvanti Keshavrao

December 30, 2010 marks the 75th anniversary of the revival of the 2000-year-old sacred dance of Bharatanatyam, as it was on December 30, 1935, that the famous dancer, then 31-year-old, Rukmini Devi Arundale (1904-1986) did her arangetram of Bharatanatyam.

By Prajal Sakhardande

Five hundred years ago, on November 25, 1510 the Portuguese governador Afonso de Albuquerque conquered the beautiful island of Tiswadi (Goa Island) from the Adilshah of Bijapur. Definitely not a day for celebrations as on this day Goans were cut off from their motherland, Bharatvarsha, by the ‘paclo’ called Albuquerque, and our ancestors were forced to give up their enlightened culture and religion.

By Tomazinho Cardozo

The results of the Assembly elections in Bihar are out. Nitish Kumar led JD(U)-BJP alliance has swept the poles in Bihar.

By Vinayak Khedekar

Man is a social being and is interdependent on nature and his fellow beings. In the quest of fulfilling his needs he started communicating and sharing things with his companions, as a consequence slowly but gradually we see the advancement of trade, giving rise to markets in different area, held on specific days.

By Sadhguru

The Vedas are the most ancient scriptures on this planet and yet the most comprehensive in content. Vedas are not a moral code that somebody made up. The Vedas are a series of discoveries, both of the outward and the inward.