Ravi Shankar

Samadhi is the source of youthfulness. It acts like the refrigerator of your life; it is the secret to bubbling enthusiasm and the secret to life's renewal.

Ravi Shankar is the SVP & CMO at Denodo. He is an AI-forward growth-oriented B2B technology executive with 25 years of marketing experience.

The Indian Army on Tuesday rolled out its long-awaited Integrated Battle Group (IBG) concept, marking the beginning of one of its most significant organisational reforms in recent times. Conceived as

by Ravi Shankar Santhana Gopala Krishnan and Department of Data, Digital Health, Analytics and AI, World Health Organization, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland

'Tantra' is a technique, and ‘Swatantra' means to be with your Self. And so when you learn how to be with your own Self, you are free and truly independent.

Admitted. Rahul Gandhi seems to be a soft target. He has no hold over police, ED, and other agencies like Team Modi-Shah does. But it has to be said, here and now: when thousands of students agitating against irregularities in government employment exams are met with police lathis and water cannons in Ranchi, who really runs Jharkhand? Not Narendra Modi, not Amit Shah. It is the Congress which supports Hemant Soren's coalition government and thereby enjoys Cabinet portfolios. It was not that long ago when police and proxy-police unleashed brutality on students at Jantar Mantar. Then Rahul Gandhi asked for resignations: if Amit Shah ordered pellet guns to be fired, he was culpable; otherwise his ignorance defined incompetence. It is an implacable standard and also a perfectly fair one, if Gandhi intends to apply the same standard across the board. The same strategy of Go Man Go should be applied by Congress in Jharkhand. Who takes political responsibility for the state police behaving brutally? If it was sanctioned by the Chief Minister, how is he not responsible? Is not knowing about it the administration's failure? If the law and order reaction was out of proportion, shouldn't political partners in that government hold it accountable? And if that government will not back down and protect corruption, then why should Congress continue to give its support? These are not trick questions. They are questions Gandhi himself has tried the public to ask of power.

Life’s challenges can strengthen a person when faced with courage, effort and faith, the passage says. Favourable periods may bring joy and expansion, while difficult situations can reveal hidden strength and deepen understanding. It urges people to give their best to every task, avoid leaving positive action to fate, and remain centred regardless of outcomes in life.

Life’s challenges can strengthen a person when faced with courage, effort and faith, the passage says. Favourable periods may bring joy and expansion, while difficult situations can reveal hidden strength and deepen understanding. It urges people to give their best to every task, avoid leaving positive action to fate, and remain centred regardless of outcomes in life.

Indian Army Chief General Dhiraj Seth began a three-day visit to Nepal on Monday, his first overseas trip since taking charge, amid growing calls in the country for the resumption of recruitment of Ne

Excessive screen time and insufficient physical activity are increasingly common among adolescents and have been linked to adverse physical and psychological health outcomes. This school-based cross-sectional study examined associations between sedentary screen time, physical activity frequency, and motor control performance in adolescents, and explored acute psychophysiological responses to a single bout of high-intensity interval training (HIIT). A total of 366 adolescents (mean age = 14.52 ± 1.21 years) were categorized into low-, moderate-, or high-screen-time groups and classified as physically active or inactive based on self-reported behavior. Participants completed standardized assessments of balance, coordination, neuromuscular speed, and reaction time. All participants then undertook an 8-minute HIIT session, with pre- and post-exercise measures of heart rate recovery, perceived exertion, and self-reported mood and cognitive states. Higher daily screen time was significantly associated with poorer motor control performance across multiple domains (p < 0.001), whereas greater frequency of physical activity was independently associated with better motor control performance (B = 1.45, 95% CI 0.88–2.02, p < 0.001). Physically active adolescents demonstrated superior heart rate recovery, lower perceived exertion, and more favorable post-exercise profiles of fatigue and alertness compared with inactive peers. The HIIT session elicited significant acute improvements in energy, alertness, motivation, and cognitive focus, alongside reductions in fatigue and tension (all p < 0.001). These findings indicate that greater sedentary screen time is associated with poorer motor control performance in adolescents and suggest that brief, school-feasible physical activity strategies warrant further investigation as potential approaches to support physical and psychological health. Given the cross-sectional design, these associations should not be interpreted as evidence of causality.