Monthly Archives: June 2016
Often after an air disaster, as in the case of MH 370 (Malaysian Airlines 370), MH17 (Malaysian Airlines 17), and now the MS804 (Egypt Air Flight 804), we hear about the black box of the airplane and how, if found, it can lead to relevant findings about the reason of the airplane crash. So, what is actually a black box...
It’s been a week since Brexit came true. As dust settles on the fateful day when Britain voted to leave European Union the cackle surrounding Brexit refuses to die down.
It started with Prime Minister David Cameron announcing his retirement followed by Scotland’s demand for another referendum. If this wasn’t enough reports of increased racist attacks in otherwise tolerant Britain...
QuoraED! This is when we pick up a trending or interesting thread from Quora and spin a story around it.
Game theory is the strategy of modeling strategic interactions between problems. Generally regarded as a high-level economics concept, game theory has many implementations in real life. It is used in many fields like psychology and science. Here, a Quoran explains the...
Karan Johar, who has mostly been tight-lipped about his private life, opened up about the fact that he hasn’t been getting much sex and that he is content with his situation.
He talks about some very relatable issues where at his young age he didn’t know anything about sex and his parents were too shy to talk about it to...
Looks like exits are the new rage after selfies. Following Brexit, many other regions with uncomfortable relationships with their country are looking for a way out. Experts have termed these as Domino Referendums. The most popular Domino Referendum currently seems to be Texit, the name that the Texas Nationalist Movement(TNM) has given to its campaign.
When did the movement begin?
Even...
Good news people! The primary reason most of us want to go for long vacations to hill stations in search of peace and serenity i.e. CONSTANT HONKING IN THE TRAFFIC is soon going to cost us dearly, according to reports.
The nuisance, anger and the frustration that it creates is clearly noticeable. It doesn’t take much time for people to...
With yet another season coming to a climax, us Game of Thrones fans have a humongous ten months to wait out before we see any further action. And no, you would not want to put pressure on George R.R Martin to hurry up with the books.
But before we bid adieu, let us reminisce over the moments which astounded us...
There are celebs we love, there are celebs we hate and then, there are celebs that we love to hate. Kanye West falls perfectly into the third category for the mainstream, news-reading, pseudo-intellectual crowd which loves to follow the bandwagon and hate people without knowing "WHY?".
Although I'm a Kanye fan, I'm gonna try and keep this as unbiased as...
The game of financial markets is important as it gives students a real-life connection to economics instead of being in a textbook all the time. Most of the times, the latter happens and we have people who may know about share dematerialization and online trading, but haven’t opened an online account yet.
Trading can be your safeguard against inflation and...
Stronger than ever before, the Indian contingent at the Rio Olympics 2016 has hit its maiden century. With a robust team of 103 sportspersons, it is not a very long wait before we can see this large number converting into medals.
Down Memory Lane
India first participated in the Paris Olympics in 1900, with a sole athlete, Norman Pritchard. He bagged...
The iconic The New York Times photographer Bill Cunningham passed away on June 25 in a Manhattan hospital. He was 87.
He was his own man. Not one to follow trends, he set, and of course, covered them.
Long before Mark Zuckerberg famously dropped out of Harvard “to do his thing”, Bill Cunningham did so. His fascination for women’s hat designs...
The first news of the ban on possession and consumption of beef in Maharashtra caused such an uproar in the community of liberals that it could make it to the Textbook on Internet Reactions if there was one. Not that it was unjustified.
But it looks like this one isn’t the only country that prohibits one from eating a certain...
Iceland played to their strengths and overcame a dull and toothless English side as they won the game 2-1 to advance to the next round. What now for England?
England started the game with plenty of promising attacks as they allowed their opponents little or no touches on the ball and it didn't take them long to get a glorious...
Same story. New characters. And a much different ending, this time. Italy had their revenge after defeating Spain 2-0 and advancing to the last 8 in EURO 2016.
The match started brightly for both the sides as they looked to mount pressure on each other in early stages of the 1st half, with Italy getting the better chances which were...
Chile clinched the Copa America title by defeating Argentina for the second consecutive time in the penalty shootout. This is the third consecutive final loss to Argentina in as many years which includes the World Cup loss against Germany in 2014. With the immediate effect of the loss, Argentina captain and five time World player of the year Lionel...
#EDoriginal: A never-seen-before ED exclusive column where an incident is reported as if it happened yesterday in newspaper style.
On 27th June 1880, Helen Keller, one of the most memorable woman in history was born. Born in Tuscumbia Alabama, Helen Keller suffered from either scarlet fever or meningitis when she was just 19 months old.
She lost her eyesight and hearing...
AAP MLA Dinesh Mohaniya was arrested and literally dragged out of his Press Conference by the Delhi Police on Saturday under charges of molestation. This incident solicited major furore from the Aam Aadmi Party. Arvind Kejriwal immediately retorted by calling it an ‘undeclared Emergency’ by the Prime Minister.
Kejriwal tweeted saying “Dinesh mohaniya arrested from his press conference in front...
"The last thing you're ever going to see is a Stark smiling down at you as you die."
Ah, the satisfaction of it all. The pure, unadulterated satisfaction watching the women in Martin’s universe finally doing what they were destined to do. This was easily one of the best Game of Thrones episodes ever. Period. Right from that opening fifteen...
Live streaming has always been a massive success among the masses. To watch a video in near real time is definitely a distinctive experience compared to a recorded one.
Be it a paramount event or a sports match, streaming has become a widely popular medium of viewing following its introduction several years ago.
With the likes of Facebook and Twitter (through...
Forgot to follow news this week? Or found it boring af?
Worry not. WE are here to present to you news in a way you cannot imagine. From puns to sarcasm dungs, each will be entertained. The motto here is: Why should news be served to you in a simple plate when you can get it served with a hamper full...
The oldest tennis tournament is all set to kick off at the Lawns of Wimbledon. Players will be looking for some motivation and momentum ahead of the Olympics. Big names like Nadal, Sharapova and Azarenka will be missing this year’s tournament.
There are possibilities of history being made in this year’s Wimbledon. Novak’s triumph will make him the first man...
In the last couple of weeks, an anonymous group of hackers calling themselves as OurMine are hacking social media accounts of global celebrities. The latest in the list is Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai.
On Sunday night Sundar Pichai’s twitter and Quora accounts were hacked. Pichai’s account had a tweet “Hey, it’s OurMine, we are just testing your security, to upgrade...
Have you ever visited a restaurant and as soon as you picked up your phone to Snapchat the wonderful- looking food, you see your phone’s battery is dead? Or even been in the middle of making a plan with your potential date, and your battery gave up on you? Well, seems like KFC had experienced it on its own...
Whether it’s for moral reasons, health reasons, or anything else, more and more people are turning vegan or vegetarian these days. If you’re thinking of making this change, then it’s obviously not something that can be taken lightly. A lot of people decide to cut out meat from their diets, and then wimp out when they hit certain issues.
Here...
In a country where there is an abundance of engineering students, people hardly acknowledge the fact that there exist other courses which can be academically tough and physically + mentally demanding.
If you’re thinking that I am talking about commerce students, you couldn’t be any more wrong. These people have it relatively easy (expecting butthurt comments in 3..2..1) but one...
