Friday, March 29, 2024
ED TIMES 1 MILLIONS VIEWS
Home 2016 July

Monthly Archives: July 2016

Pokemon Go has taken the world by storm. Asians, being Asians have started downloading the game illegally. But this game has also been instrumental in showing the plight of Syrian kids. Past two days, Syrian kids have been holding images of Pokemon in their hands urging people to find them and rescue them too. Game- is that the priority? The campaign started...
By Rahul Dua Being a fan of Bollywood movies, my mom recently recommended, “Udta Punjab” - a star-studded film that chronicles the extent of drug abuse in the Indian state of Punjab. The premise seemed gripping and so I decided to do some research about the movie. I was soon led to various news articles detailing the difficulties that the...
A major breakthrough in medicinal sciences emerges as a cure for infertility in women 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 1978. Oldham, 25th...
Crazy, sassy, funky, hearty. If I had to describe the nature of true Delhites, these would the be perfect 4 words but well, myths will always be there about us and here we are, debunking them. Here are the 7 most stupid myths busted about our very own Delhites of "Dilli" : 1. The age old saying that goes like, "Tu...
It's been a while since Aamir Khan's infamous 'intolerance' comments. All he implied was that his wife (Kiran Rao) fears to open the newspapers everyday due to how the intolerance in our country is growing with each passing day. And dare I say it, I believe they were not wrong. In retrospect, is this any different from women fearing to...
Fashion is always quite synonymous with tall, slim women. I remember being stick thin as a child and being told by all my relatives that I would make a great model. What else does modelling require from one, except unbelievably perfect bodies, to attain which women starve themselves, develop eating disorders and what not? The world has come to terms...
For several years, Muslim women have gone through a lot of struggle in their lives pertaining to the orthodox laws regarding marriage, not created by anybody but the people themselves. It came as a surprise to many when Bhartiya Muslim Mahila Andolan (BMMA) announced the formation of Darul Uloom Niswaan a centre for Islamic learning and theology to train women...
Atharv is the management and cultural fest of IIM Indore. And it’s unique, do you know why? Well, it might have to do with the fact that it’s the only IIM in the country to have an undergrad fest. Within just 2 years of its genesis, Atharv has grown to become the largest fest in central India. That is no...
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...
When the first of the new Star Trek films by J.J. Abrams came to be released in 2009, I was part apprehensive, part curious. Apprehensive because well, the captain Jean-Luc Picard-led Enterprise had died a slow death way back in 2002 and curious, because the man behind it, J.J. Abrams had given us an inventive Cloverfield just a year previously. Fast forward...
What is Esya? Esya, the annual technical fest of IIIT-Delhi, provides a platform for students to showcase their talents and knowledge in various fields of Computer Science, Electronics and Communication, and various non-technical fields. They aim to cross boundaries of the imaginable and let everyone discover a world unknown to them, be it about technology, or more. Throwback Going back to the...
Pokémon Go lovers! It’s time to relish, for you have got yourself another perfect invention If you haven’t been living under a rock, the news of Pokémon Go taking over the world would be pretty familiar to your ears.  Hence, you can’t say you didn’t see a Pokémon Go dating service coming. Because, I sure did. Only this Wednesday, the world’s...
I travel regularly throughout Delhi. The total travelling time for me in a day ranges from 4-5 hours ON AN AVERAGE, depending upon where I am going. NO EXAGGERATION! And a huge part of this travel includes dealing with autowalas. They have become an interesting specie in their own right. There is a certain behavioural pattern they follow, vary according to...
A 22-year old, young Kashmiri boy was killed in an army encounter and the peace vanishes from the valley again. Burhan Wani was the chief operative of militant group Hizbul Mujahhiddin in Kashmir valley. He wasn’t anything less than an inspiration for the people of Kashmir, especially the youth.   He recruited more than fifty boys into the separatist militant group in...
Indian merchandise exports stopped their continuous fall for the last 18 months and finally registered a growth of 1.27% compared to last June’s estimates. Imports fell by 7.33% during this period but even then the trade deficit rose to $8.1 billion dollars in June compared to May. What is trade deficit? Trade deficit derives from another term called the balance of trade....
Remember how you cringed the last time you had the misfortune of having an emergency of using a stinky public loo? Now, imagine what if that loo is a large open field or forest area or worse, open railway tracks that too for thousands of people?     EVEN HODOR CANNOT “HOLD THE ODOUR" FROM REACHING YOU, IF IT INVOLVES THIS...
Hold on there, fellas! Great-grandfather Mick isn’t done with the poopy diaper job yet Apparently father of seven, British rock and roll legend Mick Jagger still “can’t get no satisfaction”. The 72 year old rocker is now expecting his eighth baby with current girlfriend and ballerina Melanie Hamrick. 29 year old Melanie has been dating Mick since 2014. The couple has...
The great hockey player Mohammed Shahid has passed away. He was suffering from a serious liver and kidney illness after ignoring a bout of jaundice and was being treated at the Medanta Hospital at Gurgaon. He was 56. Shahid, also known as the dribble wizard, was a part of the gold-winning Indian Hockey contingent at the 1980 Moscow Olympics. He...
Is calling a middle aged woman “worse than prostitute” the level to which politics has fallen to? The abyss gutter that political rivalry is already in has now been drilled further. Dayashankar clearly has no acknowledgment for the suppressed classes that are now finally coming to a bench which is shared by people of all caste, gender, species. And how...
With every annual meeting of the UNESCO, a few natural or cultural sites get added to the World Heritage List. This year, all three sites nominated by India have been accepted by the UNESCO. These include the Nalanda University, Chandigarh's Capitol Complex, and Sikkim's Khangchendzonga National Park. What Does Being A World Heritage Site Mean? A World Heritage site means that...
As the attempted armed coup in Turkey dies down, we try to decipher who was behind it and why did they do it. It’s been four days since relatively quiet ambience of Turkish capital Ankara was destroyed with the noises of tanks, guns and helicopters. What was earlier seen as an army coup, it brought the world to a standstill because...
For a game which hasn't even been properly launched in India and many other countries around the world, Pokemon GO has surely gone viral in terms of downloads to an extent that there are talks of a similar Game Of Thrones version to be put out and we discuss how it would appear. One of the game's global product marketers,...
Home is a place where you stay with people that drive you crazy one moment and make you feel special the next. It is your refuge from the world, a place where you feel safe and can be your own 100% self. But when it comes to buying a house, the experience has always been synonymous with words like...
The technology of our world has constantly been on the ascension. You might be familiar with 2G, 3G and 4G available in India and how hard it is to get a good signal. Nonetheless, we might soon be able to tap into the privileges of the 5G network which is said to be at least 10 times faster compared to...
Are you one of those who are not fond of wearing a lot of accessories? And even if you reluctantly pick something, it simply refuses to go with a lot of your clothing? Me too! Welcome to the club. But do not worry, my friend. Because people like us have watches as the ultimate last minute saviour, especially when it comes from...

Subscribe to India’s fastest growing youth blog
to get smart and quirky posts right in your inbox!

Enter your email address:

Delivered by FeedBurner