Lithuanian homes are also frequently decorated with sodai gardens for Easter and Christmas Enter the hall of the National Crafts Museum and you’ll see handcrafted sodai — aerial 3D ornaments made from rye stalks — casting dancing shadows on black walls as they gently move. Created by Lithuanian artist Vida Snieckuviene, these geometric, pyramid-like structures…
NEW DELHI: A few jackals escaped from their enclosure at Delhi’s National Zoological Park on Saturday morning, prompting authorities to launch a search operation in the forested area behind the animal exhibits, according to an official.Calls and messages to the Administration Department of Delhi Zoo went unanswered, and officials did not immediately respond to queries…
NEW DELHI: Delhi Development Authority (DDA) on Saturday issued a public notice outlining draft modifications to its Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) policy, aimed at facilitating more flexible and extensive planned housing development across the city.The authority has invited objections and suggestions from the public within 45 days. Under the proposed changes, unauthorised colonies and the Walled…
NEW DELHI: Delhi woke up to dense smog on Sunday morning, with the average Air Quality Index (AQI) at 381 at 7 am, placing it in the ‘very poor’ category. This comes despite the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP)-IV being in effect across Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR), according to the Central Pollution…
NEW DELHI: A classmate of 16-year-old Shourya Patil, a Class X student of St Columba’s School who died by suicide, alleged that one of the accused teachers would often use him as an example of under-performing students. Students also claimed that Patil had informed the school counsellor about having suicidal thoughts weeks before his death,…
Delhi St Columba’s Class 10 student suicide case NEW DELHI: Classmates of 16year-old Shourya Patil, a Class X student of St Columba’s School who died by suicide on Nov 18, have claimed that he informed the school counsellor of suicidal thoughts weeks before his death, but the concern was dismissed as a “joke” and never…
New Delhi: India has become the world’s leading nation for live donor liver transplantation (LDLT) — and Delhi is driving this achievement more than any other region in the country. This was highlighted at the Annual Conference of the Liver Transplantation Society of India (LTSICON 2025), where experts from over 20 countries gathered in the…
New Delhi: Even as protests erupt over the death of a Class X student, teachers and principals say schools have long been working to create safe, trusting and emotionally supportive spaces for children. Many describe the school environment as a “home away from home”, a place where students feel secure enough to share what they…
New Delhi: “The scar is permanent. Now my son has to wear spectacles all the time except when he sleeps,” said Anuradha Verma, whose six-year-old son was seriously injured after allegedly being beaten up by a teacher at a school in southwest Delhi’s Mohan Garden. Her son is not alone. Several other parents have also…
New Delhi: Parents whose kids are enrolled in some of Delhi’s private schools have started complaining about how hybrid classes are being undermined, perhaps at the cost of students in the middle of rising air pollution. They said the concept of hybrid schooling was being stretched, misused and in some cases, completely undermined.According to them,…
