Covid patients struggle to shake off hospital images

Many of those who have been to Covid hell and back are unable to shake off the memories of their days in hospitals, leading to worries about post-traumatic stress disorder and other anxiety related......

ICMR aims to launch COVID-19 vaccine by Aug 15

India's apex medical body Indian Council of Medical Research said on Friday that it aims to launch the world's first COVID-19 vaccine, the indigenously developed Covaxin, by August 15, and has......

Tales from a flooded Chennai: 'Water entered from beneath the doors and suddenly started rising'

Eighteen-year-old Abhik Thapa, a Nepalese student at a private university in Chennai, had come to India as one of the lucky survivors of the killer April earthquake and now he is heading back to......

'We are surviving on biscuits and prayers'

Surviving on biscuits for the last two days and sleeping on the floor of the Tambaram Station on the outskirts of rain-hit Chennai, construction worker Saleem is waiting for a train to take him to......

Microsoft launches AI digital labs in India, to train 1.5 lakh students

As part of the three-year programme, Microsoft will support select institutions with infrastructure, curriculum and content, access to cloud and Artificial Intelligence (AI) services as well as......

Fewer jobs, flat salary blues for techies in campus hiring

'Over the next two to three years, hiring will come down further.''You will see the industry intake of freshers go down to 150,000 from the current 200,000.'Vinay Umarji, M Saraswathy and Shivani......

No electricity, no school here but kids learn with iPads!

In Rajasthan’s remote villages with no schools or electricity, two young engineers educate children with iPads and digital technology, instilling in them a dream of a better tomorrow, reports......

IT firms hiring students with niche skills

  Such hiring is restricted to top colleges and forms just one to two per cent of the overall recruitment Competition from product companies and changes in customers’ technological......

How sailor Nethra charted her journey to Olympics

'I've been working hard for this for the past 18 months and away from home for a long time...and it is good to know that it all paid off and the event is done and we've got what we came for'......