Monthly Archives: August 2015
"Supreme Court allows 14-year-old gang rape victim to terminate pregnancy"
“I just want to sleep. I want to play as happily as I used to before that Man touched me. A coma would be nice. Or amnesia. Anything, just to get rid of this, these thoughts, whispers in my mind. Did he rape my head, too?”
Will they force me? Yes...
On August 3, President Obama of the United States of America announced the Clean Power Plan which is unarguably the most vital decision taken by the administration in their crusade against climate change.
It is a historic step with strong but achievable standards for power plants and customized goals for the states to reduce their carbon footprint. It requires that...
You are flooded with discount deals on your favorite brands. Come this Independence Day weekend and the online retailers line up a red carpet welcome for you to shop on their websites. We all love variety, variety of brands and variants and that too on discounts. Your hands are itching to click on the ‘Buy’ button.
All you have to...
Mystique of tastes,
Classic ambience,
Copious cuisines,
And glorious food!
All these summing up the outburst of food joints in North Campus, Delhi University.
To your surprise, every eating joint here can very beautifully be laced with a Hindi TV series.
Bringing out these ambrosial relations, here is the list of food joints which are much relatable:
1. Tom Uncle Maggi Point: Running successfully since 1996...
National Geographic released it's award winning pictures for the 2015 Traveler Photo Contest. There were four categories of photographs: Travel Portraits, Outdoor Scenes, Sense of Place, and Spontaneous Moments.
It's a MUST see whether or not you're into photography!Don't believe me, see it for yourself.
With over 18,000 photographs, the judges chose ten pictures that won top prizes. And to top it...
Back in Time is ED’s newspaper type column that reports an incident from the past as though it has happened just yesterday. It allows the reader to re-live it several years later, on the date it had occurred.
For this incident, we go back in time to 1925.
Lucknow, Sunday, 09 August: In perhaps the most audacious act of resistance against the British...
Tired of your boring "nine to five job" and thinking of a new way to earn, the only thing "Radhe Maa" has to say is don't try to be a spiritual leader because that is one tough job. Becoming the world's healer is no easy game, to reach that position you have to follow a certain way.
STEP 1
First you...
DISCLAIMER: The writer will happily blacklist those who haven’t read the novel in question yet, and will gladly see them as literary inferiors. *Mwahaha*
So anyway, what’s a novel without a movie?
More importantly, what’s Gone with the Wind without a visual treat?
This Pulitzer Prize-winning novel’s (written by Margaret Mitchell) movie adaption came out in the theatres of U.S.A. on New...
Every now and then, one thing comes across which makes our jaws drop and it instantly makes an entry into our wish lists. We all want to spend extravagantly on a few things but at the same time we are afraid that what if one day it’s no more in vogue? And that’s probably the only con with fashion...
There is always some good to some bad… So here are a few things amongst the top news this week that we loved and few that we wanted to shove.
If you think we missed something, do tell us in the comments!
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When you see THIS GoT reference:
Jon Stewart's final sign off from the Daily Show
https://youtu.be/eHrWmwoPdDw
Windows 10 User Interface!
Trash It
That the...
England and Australia have a cricketing rivalry that goes back a long way. Both teams have been world leaders of the game at some point or the other in history and have time and again fought it out on the field with undying vigour, limitless energy and burning fire.
As we all know, when fire fights fire, we end up...
Let's start from scratch.
What are the Special Olympics?
The Special Olympics is the world’s largest sports organisation for individuals who are intellectually disabled.
The organisation provides year-round training and competitions to over 4.4 million athletes across 170 countries. Competitions and events are held every single day, all around the world, and add up to 70,000 by the end of the year.
Mission:
“The...
ED got invited for Asus ZenFestival 2015, India’s biggest blogger’s meet, on 6th August at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, New Delhi.
The main entrance to ZenFestival, find the Zen in you!
The entrance led all the visitors to the Photo Op Zone and Tattoo Artist Zone. The main event area attracted guests in heavy numbers which was due to the event line...
Credits: Aman Bhardwaj
Come August 8th, the coveted English premier league, or the EPL kicks off as Manchester United take on Tottenham Hotspurs. Each club will be raring to start the campaign on a positive note by making their opponents bleed. As the anticipation and delirium around the fateful Saturday grows, we at ED conducted a survey to find out...
P.S.: All images used are from the live event. Please don’t be a judey snob. Peace.
We’ve seen grand launches of iPhones and Samsung Notes in the past, but the one we saw yesterday was pretty impressive as per our Indian standards. The Asus Zen Festival was held in New Delhi at the Jawaharlal Stadium on 6th August; wherein...
Note: This article has elements of satire. Please read it in the spirit it was intended to be read in. Hope no one arrests us. Or beheads us, for that matter.
Is your day job making your hair fall out?
Are you tired of running around for printouts and groceries?
Do you wish to see the world outside of your nine-to-six life?
Has...
ED loves to try out new products, services and apps. And today we got our hands on Airtel's 4G service. So here's how we Liv'ED the entire experience of getting it activated on our phone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpHZ3sXY6B8
1. I use an Iphone 5s and received a sms from Airtel few days back saying that I can upgrade to 4G from my current 3G plan at...
Back in Time is a newspaper type column that reports an incident from the past as though it has happened just yesterday. It allows the reader to re-live it several years later, on the date it had occurred.
For this incident, we go back in time to 1945.
Hiroshima, Monday, 6th August: As the Second World War goes on, at 8:15 am, Japanese time, an American...
"Ladies and gentlemen, I am running for the President of US and we are going to make our country great again".
Donald John Trump, 64, popularly known as THE DONALD declared his candidacy for the President of US 2016 on 16th June, 2015 from his headquarters in Trump Tower in New York City. He is a man who needs no...
Some species of Birds lure in their mates by contesting their crooning talents. The males with the most pleasing voices are chosen by the female for coitus.
If you see this video – which is one of the most watched TED talks on YouTube - you will know that if humans worked this way, this guy would DEFINITELY get "chosen"!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNZBSZD16cY
Tom...
Back in Time is ED’s newspaper type column that reports an incident from the past as though it has happened just yesterday. It allows the reader to re-live it several years later, on the date it had occurred.
For this incident, we go back in time to 1892.
Massachusetts, Aug. 4, 1892: The Bordens are murdered by an ax in their Massachusetts home;...
1. One lakh prize money for the best Idea validation & exposure. #BrainWheelsAreChurning
2. Networking with around 600+ individualsfrom 4 different cities comprising of entrepreneurs, HNI's, VC's , corporate leaders, so on and so forth. #TimeToShowcaseYourSpunk
3. Rare opportunity to pitch directly to the investors, et al. #MoneyMoneyMoney #MustBeFunny
4. Young organizing team, filled with energy and amazing ideas. #SmellsLikeTeenSpirit
5. Access to stalls with different products...
What happens when trendy social media practices grip society so much so that they practically end up spear-heading social campaigns?
One must have noticed how ‘selfies’, i.e. self-clicked images, have become a fad amongst the younger generation. On streets, in metros, inside trial rooms and washrooms – every corner in the world has now become a potential “selfie-corner”. Forget about...
After a two-month long vacation, University of Delhi’s colleges began on the twenty-first of July. The feeling of coming back to my dream institution to have the time of my life was blissful. However with college beginning again, there was also the fear of monotony of life -same old classes, same old assignments, same old fear of deadlines, and...
There is always some good to some bad… So here are a few things we loved this week and few we wanted to shove.
If you think we missed something, do tell us in the comments!
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Dr Kalam's exemplary life!
Watching this puppy sneeze!
https://youtu.be/cLKpg-wDHo0
AIB's 'How To Cricket' video. It's weird. Exactly why we like it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1q89uEpHIuQ
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The entire debate on capital punishment
When you...
