In what will be her life's crowning moment at the age of 70, Assam’s Parbati Baruah, India’s first female elephant keeper or ‘mahout’, will be one among 110 unsung yet......
'These reports of cases being very low in other states, is it true? Are the numbers believable?'Shyam G Menon discovers resilience and a determination to adhere to Covid protocols on a recent visit......
Five COVID-19 patients at a leading private facility in New Delhi have suffered from cytomegalovirus-related rectal bleeding during the second wave of the pandemic, the hospital authorities said on......
From providing food and succour to pavement dwellers to helping the elderly in times of need, Dinesh Saravanan has been a godsend to the needy.A Ganesh Nadar/Rediff.com reports on what drives the......
Yoga guru Ramdev's herbal medicine company Patanjali Ayurved on Tuesday claimed to have discovered a medicine that could cure coronavirus in just seven days -- a claim that the Ayush Ministry......
The judgment could impact not only Ramdev's widespread ayurveda and herbal products business but also that of many other pharmaceutical, ayurveda, herbal and cosmetic product manufacturers.Nitin......
The Haridwar-based firm plans to open around 100 outlets of Paridhan by the end of this fiscal and have a network of around 500 stores by March 2020, mostly on franchise model. Baba Ramdev-led......
Zydus Wellness looks for a wider berth in the country’s burgeoning beauty market, redesigns and rebrands its flagship brand It is a 27-year old homegrown beauty brand and yet, at a time when......
Kapiva's plans to introduce allopathy-like doses of ayurvedic remedies for the millennial consumer finds traction. Ayurvedic medicines still continue to be viewed as only a niche alternative to......
In the coming months, Lever Ayush will venture into categories beyond soaps, shampoos, toothpastes, lotions and moisturisers, its current segments of operation, as it seeks to give the brand a......
'The starting point of the Udta Punjab casting was that we didn't think stars would do a film like this, so we'd take non-stars.''As the names kept rolling in and we had Kareena Kapoor and Shahid......
The recent, shameful expos of a band of Indian athletes "caught in the act" for using performance-enhancing drugs is just the tip of the iceberg. A wittingly, or unwittingly, enacted "fall-out" of......