Stop Cribbing:: Do IIT And IIM Graduates Know That Jobs In A Market Economy Are Not An Entitlement?

By M H AHSSAN | INNLIVE

India’s Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) and Indian Institute of Management (IIM) campuses are on a warpath against companies who made offers to their students but backed out or postponed hirings at the last moment, leaving students in the lurch.

The institutes and the students are upset, as they should be. But in the outpourings that have graced the pages of several newspapers in subsequent weeks, I detect a strange sense of entitlement that runs contrary to the nature and behaviour of the real world outside. It suggests naivete at best and ignorance at worst about what a real, free market economy is about.

Hold Your Horses! Ever Wondered How Much A Wedding Horse Has To Suffer

By MENAKA GILL | INNLIVE

Every week my hospital admits a white horse that has been hit by a truck or has gone so lame that it cannot walk anymore.

When doctors diagnose them they find that most of them are partially deaf and blind. Most of them die of their wounds and dehydration within a few days. These are "marriage horses."

Drought In India: Women Battle Cruelties Everyday And Exit Isn't An Option

By SWETA SALVE | INNLIVE

It's a women's drought", declared Avik Saha, my partner in imagining and designing this padyatra, and now my co-passenger. This was the third day of our padyatra in Marathwada. We had just gone past yet another queue of women and girls waiting for water with their pitchers and cans.

It took some time for his formulation to sink in. Avik is always on the lookout for a way to summarize what we have seen. I guess his astonishing range of experience - a high-flying real estate lawyer, a humble organic farmer, the patron of a classic guitar society and a connoisseur of indigenous seeds - accounts for his knack for thinking a step ahead of everyone else. I had learnt not to let his remarks go past me.

In Defence Of Zoos: How Captivity Helps Conservation

By LIKHAVEER | INNLIVE

The best modern zoos focus on conservation, education and research – not entertainment.

The death of Harambe the gorilla at Cincinnati Zoo, shot to protect a child who had fallen into his cage, has caused outrage. Some of the anger has now turned from “trigger-happy” staff towards zoos in general. Why, some are asking, is an endangered gorilla behind bars in the first place?

'Triple Talaq' And The Silence Of The Muslim Men

By KAUSER FATIMA | INNLIVE

Many Muslim women are against the Triple Talaq , Around 50 thousand women have signed a petition asking for legal ban against 'Triple Talaq'.

According to survey by Bhartiya Muslim Mahila Andolan (BMMA) more than 90% women want an end to this practice. The campaign by these women is commendable but what is noticeable is the silence of most Muslim men on the topic of Triple Talaq . Many men do ascertain that the practice is unislamic, bad for the Muslim society but are not very vocal about their thoughts.

Is The Highly Photogenic Obama - Modi Friendship Real?

By M H AHSSAN | INNLIVE

It's a friendship between two powerful men that transcends politics, transcends diplomacy.

It certainly looked like genuine affection when Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi pulled President Barack Obama into a bear hug as he stepped off Air Force One last year. An intimacy seemed to envelope the two as they sat in the garden of an old royal palace, smiling and chatting.

Medical Research: What Is Chronic Pain And Why Is It Hard To Treat?

By NEWSCOP | INNLIVE

Unrelieved pain contributes more to human suffering than any other disease.

A recent study by the National Institutes of Health found that more than one in three people in the United States have experienced pain of some sort in the previous three months. Of these, approximately 50 million suffer from chronic or severe pain.

Prices Of Cancer, Diabetes, Blood Pressure Drugs Slashed By 25% In Indian Markets

By LIKHAVEER | INNLIVE

Prices of 56 important medicines used in treatment of cancer, diabetes, bacterial infections and blood pressure have been capped by the government thereby reducing the cost by an average of around 25 percent.

Drug price regulator National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA), however, has also increased prices of some of the smaller volume packs of commonly used intravenous fluid such as glucose and sodium chloride injections.