India’s 99th Chess Grandmaster Rathanvel VS (Designated by TimesofIndia.com) NEW DELHI: Odysseus, the king of Ithaca, felt like the wait was almost over. Almost a decade after the end of the ten-year Trojan War, he and his crew were finally within reach of home, only to find themselves on the verge of losing all hope…
Survival Story of 16 Year Old Md Imran (Special Arrangements) NEW DELHI: The bus pulled away shortly after 8 pm. Md Imran, famished after an eight-hour drive, had pulled away during a scheduled ten-minute stopover in Bratislava, Slovakia, looking only for biscuits and coffee. He returned to the platform in time and frantically motioned for…
Grandmaster Harshavardhan GB with his parents (Designed by TimesofIndia.com) NEW DELHI: As India moves a step closer to the landmark of producing 100 Grand Masters, Chennai, long hailed as the ‘Mecca of Indian chess’, finds itself as the protagonist.On Sunday, Harshavardhan GB became the 97th Grand Master (GM) of India from the same land. He…
The 96th Grand Master of India Ethan Vaz NEW DELHI: The exact date was March 11, 2011, when a magnitude 9.1 earthquake and subsequent tsunami damaged the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Three reactor cores have melted, resulting in the largest release of radioactive material since the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. At that time, Linda Fernandes…