The Challenges Of Caregiving For 'Alzheimer's Patients'

By Dr.Sumitra Shah

With an estimated four million registered cases of Alzheimer's disease, are families in India equipped to deal with dementia patients? What does it take to be a caregiver to someone with Alzheimer's? 

Are we aware of this pressing problem and how to diagnose it? INNLIVE talks to caregivers and experts to get some answers.

1. Sometime in 2005 – nobody's sure when – Savitri Joglekar strolled out of her home in Ratnagiri. She was found 10 years later in an Amritsar ashram, 2,000 km away from her village.

2. On the evening of December 12, 2008, Vijaya Patil was traced to Gorai jetty, 12 hours after she disappeared from her brother's flat in Bandra.

Alert: Is Yasin Bhatkal Planning To Escape From Hyd Jail?

By Abdul Rehman

SECURITY ALERT: World's notorious terrorist outfit, Indian Mujahideen's co-founder, Yasin Bhatkal, who is lodged in the high security Cherlapally central prison in Hyderabad, dropped a major bombshell when he reportedly told his wife that he would soon be out of jail with the help from Damascus.

According to intelligence sources, they had this information a couple of days back and it is said that the first information in this regard had come from New Delhi. It is learnt that the security agencies had kept a tab on the phone of Bhatkal’s wife Zahida.

Get Featured: ‘Do Indian English Writers Have Any Relevance In Global Scenario Other Than 'Indianness'?’

By Suchitra Menon

The explosive Malayali writer KR Meera talks on the need to preserve regional languages in literature and the value of translation.

KR Meera is among Kerala's most celebrated contemporary writers. Born in 1970, she worked as a journalist for many years, writing short stories on the side. In 2006, she gave up her job to write fiction full-time – which, as her prolific output reveals, she really does. 

The provocative and disturbing tale of a young Bengali woman appointed state executioner, Aaraachaar was originally serialised in Madhyamam Weekly and published as a book by DC Books in 2012.

Focus: Why J&K Police Want This FB Image To Be Blocked?

By Likha Veer - Group Executive Editor

EXCLUSIVE: This photo of 11 young men, with their faces clearly visible, is proof that militant groups are winning new recruits. The Jammu and Kashmir police asked a local court to block all Facebook pages that had uploaded this image of 11 uniformed boys.  The picture was clicked over the last month, the authorities believe. The boy in the centre of the second row is 19-year-old Burhan Muzaffar Wani. He is the face of the new militancy movement in the Valley. 

Beware! The Rupee Notes In Your Wallet Are Carrying 'Killer Disease'- Causing Microbes And Destructive Viruses!

By Dr.Muneeb Faraaz

A genomic analysis of currency shows that paper money is home to pathogens and antibiotic resistant genes.

Beware the Rs 10 note in your wallet. That money is dirtier than you think. Paper currency in India carries a whole bunch of genetic material from micro-organisms – bacteria, fungi and viruses – and some of them may even be the antibiotic resistant variety.

Scientists at the Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology in Delhi recently studied the microscopic environment of Rs 10, Rs 20 and Rs 100 currency notes that they collected from street vendors, grocery stores, snack bars, hardware shops, chemists and such places where one would expect to find money that has frequently changed hands.

Will PM Modi Keep His Word On 'One Rank One Pension'?

By M H Ahssan - Group Editor in Chief

OPEN EDITORIAL: And far more importantly, should he? On September 15, 2013, the then Chief Minister of Gujarat Narendra Modi spoke passionately at a rally in Rewari to honour retired members of the armed forces: “Today, I publicly demand from the government of India on behalf of the army men and ex-service men of this country, to publish a white paper on the status of the ‘one rank, one pension’ scheme.”

Special Report: 'Our College Examination System Is Broken And One University Is Trying To Fix It!'

By Rupesh Kumar in Mysore

Mangalore University proposes penalising of examiners for not performing efficiently. Before the widespread protests against the new education system, which is set to replace the semester system across universities in India, could cool down, institutions in the country are faced with a new problem in the existing framework – a broken examination system. 

In Delhi University, protests have broken out against faulty mark-sheets because more than 400 final-year students failed in the sociology examination this year.

TV Show Review: The Colors Television Show 'Comedy Night With Kapil' - Yet It’s No 'Laughing' Matter!

By Nishi Khan in Mumbai

Kapil Sharma of “Comedy Nights” fame has excellent comic timing but his show is not always funny. Instead, it thrives on ugly stereotypes of misogyny and racism.

If we are to go by TRP ratings, it would seem that the nation has not laughed as hard as it has in the last two years, since “Comedy Nights with Kapil” — India’s highest-rated non-fiction television show, hosted by Kapil Sharma, India’s “funniest man” — first aired. One of Sharma’s main strengths, hailing from a non-elite and non-English-speaking background, is apparently that he “speaks the language of the nation”.