Mental health experts stresses the vital role of counselling in Indian schools

IANSlife | February 16, 2024 12:31 PM

New Delhi, Feb 16 (IANSlife) A National Mental Health Survey in India revealed that nearly 14 percent of the population in the country necessitated active mental health interventions. The need to provide mental health support and counselling in schools should be one of the top priorities of educators to ensure their holistic development. India boasts the highest population of children and adolescents in the world and this further necessitates the need to bolster the mental health programmes to facilitate healthy psychological growth of the leaders and policymakers of tomorrow.

How the maker of the Taj set off a famine, ignored by historians, that killed 7.4 mn people

Aabhas Maldhiyar | February 14, 2024 5:09 PM

New Delhi, Feb 14 (IANS) Shah Jahan, son of Jahangir, was way ahead of his father in terms of barbarity. It was merely in the first decade (sixth year) of his reign that he passed a farman to raze mandirs whose foundations had been laid during his father's period and stood unfinished. He was high with the zeal to revive Islam in the best possible way. He intended to reflect Islam as a dominant religion, and hence apart from demolishing mandirs, he commissioned many grand mosques like the Jama Masjid in Delhi.