Monthly Archives: August 2016
Manchester United win, Liverpool thrash Arsenal and the reigning champions falter against Hull City. The Premier League is back with a bang!
The reigning champions Leicester City started their Premier League campaign with a surprise defeat against minnows Hull City on the first day.
It was a brave performance by Hull City as Riyad Mahrez's penalty, which equalized for Leicester early in the second...
Some people are claiming that Pokémon GO is the greatest open world game ever made. I’m not saying a lot of people are saying that, but they are out there. I guess it’s time to put that to the test, don’t you?
So what are the best things about open world games? We take a look at some of the...
Jails are usually the area of crime, viciousness, violence and more. But this independence day I came across a piece of news that really lifted my spirits and made me realize that prisons can actually work towards bringing the good out people.
In an unknown jail in Gurgaon, a team of 8 inmates, over the course of 4 months, created...
15th August and 26 January are the two days on which if you sing Jana Gana Mana, your tone automatically becomes vehement which in turn will give you goosebumps.
We all know that today is the day on which India gained its independence. But 15th August has something more to do with it, it reminds some people of their patriotic...
Tony Stark must really be sweating all over now. Even though he had assured everyone in Iron Man 2 that it was nearly impossible for anyone else to make the suit, it looks like he has been proved wrong now! And the maker of the suit is an Indian!
Yes, it is true! Vimal Govind Manikandan, a final year mechanical...
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On 14th of August in 1947, our neighbours celebrated their first independence day.
The separate states of India and Pakistan were created at midnight on August 15, 1947. Yet, while India celebrates 15th August as its...
NASA isn’t taking the settlement on Mars expedition lightly. In fact they have picked six companies to do this task of theirs and are paying an exquisite $65 million for that. The main aim of the companies is to build NASA a deep space habitat that can be used on the surface of Mars.
All the companies are trying out...
Goa's probably the favourite holiday destination of a vast majority of Indians. The night life, beautiful beaches and obviously the cheap alcohol make it the preferred vacation getaway for college students.
In fact, you won't find a single college student who hasn't made plans for visiting Goa during his college life. That's just how hyped Goa has been for a...
When I am flipping through tabloids, one thing that I do not like to see are photographs of celebrity children splashed across with ridiculous headlines. And yet, very periodically they are there.
I have been following tabloids and entertainment sections of newspapers from quite a young age. No matter whom the star kid was, their activities merely amused me, rather...
Today I stand here at the Red Fort to address the 120 crore people of my country and also to address the NRI population outside the country who are devoting their time and money helping to raise the image of India.
I appear in front of you, debilitated, on our 70th Independence Day. Having taken no holidays in the entire...
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Ever got transported to a parallel universe while in motion, sitting by the window seat? Invokes a memory, isn’t it?
All of us have been there, day-dreaming and lost in thoughts while on a journey. Ever wondered whether window seats have...
If you think that the Olympics are just about sports, sportsmanship and winning, then think again.
Apart from winning gold, athletes going to this prestigious and worldwide known sports event, would also be winning in other areas.
So, fret not if one is not able to win in the actual event, a prize might still be waiting during the duration of...
The Subhash Nagar area in Delhi witnessed an accident where a man was hit by a mini tempo. The driver of the vehicle fleed from the spot and the man lay on the street, severely injured.
What followed defines new levels of apathy by the citizens of our country!
It was a busy road. Hundreds of cars, motorcycles, cars and people...
Humans have the innate tendency to take weirdness to a whole new level.
If the popularity of the Kardashians boggled you and made you question what is wrong with mankind then here is another such phenomenon for you.
13th August i.e. today, is the Left-handers Day!
What is The Left-handers Day all about?
This magnificent day is celebrated to aware the world of...
With Independence Day right around the corner, concerns about national security increase threefold. Adhering to that the Ministry of Tourism issued an advisory to all states, instructing them to ban selfies in front of national memorials from August 12 till August 18.
Now, that is just plain awful. How else do you expect people to show the world that they...
Amidst everything we hear of what the Indian Army did for the country, we do not even get to know the hardships they had to face to ensure the safety of civilians. And many a times, their efforts are not even recognized. It is because of the army that we sleep in our houses peacefully, while they bear the...
By Esha Ajmera
From 1947 to 1991, the Indian economy witnessed a sedate growth. But after that, things changed. So what happened in 1991?
Before 1991, India was a closed economy. This meant that international companies like Adidas and Nike were not there to sell their products and we had to make do with Indian brands instead. In 1991, India witnessed...
By Vedant Kabra (Hrithik's Super Fan)
First things first - I am Hrithik Roshan's biggest fan ever. So you are signing up for this (apparently) lopsided review of Mohenjo Daro.
It'll be hard to express in words what I felt during the movie. The movie was flawed - yes. But then, in its perfect imperfections - it became more than just...
“Everything has to come to an end one time or the other” says Sania Mirza’s father Imran Mirza over his daughter’s split with Swiss tennis pro Martina Hingis. The pair reportedly parted ways on amicable terms and purely on professional grounds.
Hingis announced the split as joint decision on her Instagram this week. The duo was responsible for displaying an...
The news came pretty quickly of Shah Rukh Khan being detained at the Los Angeles airport today. And while it is not really uncommon any more, poor SRK has not been detained the first time. But what truly struck a chord with me and made me feel bad was his tweet.
Now, this is not the first time that he has...
Where on one hand, this year’s Olympics featured a Refugee Team as a symbol of compassion and empathy towards the unfortunate, Pakistan on the other was being nothing but callous and insensitive to the seven athlete contingent representing them at the Rio Olympics 2016.
Only a day after Rio Olympics were kicked off, several Pakistani news channels were seen mocking...
Recent crowd funding campaigns have given us a lot of cool tech – from Fitbit to Oculus Rift. But it is time for crowd sourcing platforms to elevate themselves and harness the strong power that they truly possess. That is precisely what Ranganath Thota did, a former PepsiCo. executive who founded the Bangalore-based crowd sourcing company FuelADream.
Farmers in the...
If the future of banking was ‘Going Digital’, the future is right here right now.
It’s hard to imagine what banking looked like a decade back. A time, when transactions involved less voodoo, and more standing in long queues in front of a kiosk or a cubicle.
Of course, plastic money (credit cards and debit cards) made lives easier but digital...
Yes, you read it right!
The BJP Government in Maharashtra headed by Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis launched the (I am not kidding) ‘Quit India 2 – Swaraj to Suraaj’ Movement on Tuesday i.e. 8th August 2016 to mark the 74th anniversary of the movement.
As far as I remember my history lessons, Quit India Movement was a civil disobedience movement launched...
Shobha De Commenting on Sports
Alright, this is almost old news now, but I feel that I just have to give me own piece on it.
The ‘it’ is renowned writer Shobha De’s tweet, in which she criticised the Indian Olympic team to have gone to Rio only to click selfies and then return empty handed.
And while I’ll be the first...
