Monthly Archives: December 2016
We would be lying if we said that demonetisation has not made our lives difficult.
It has hampered our day-to-day activities and making simple payments like tuition fees, school fees or EMI’s have become a mammoth task.
Axis Pay- Payments Made Easy
Axis Bank has launched the Axis Pay UPI App which links your bank account to make payments directly.
While mobile wallets...
By Arushi Bahuguna
We all know the frustration of a power cut — to put our lives on hold for no fault of ours. It makes us curse the government and wonder whether things will ever change. Change is what all politicians promise, but few achieve. An India without power cuts is what Prime Minister Narendra Modi has promised, but can...
There have been few courses and streams that have always been a kind of safety for students in India, something they can always go for in case their desired course is not available.
The commerce stream for students and for college students courses like B.Comm, B.A. English (honours) and such have been the fail safe subjects that one can always...
India has successfully tested Agni V, the fifth ballistic missile from the Agni series of nuclear missiles developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation. The tremendous launch of the missile was met with great appreciation from the government as well as from experts around the world.
To sum it up here are a few noteworthy things about the glorious...
Real Madrid, the club of dreams. The club which has seen dramatic highs, lows and unparalleled success in the entire footballing world.
I became a Real Madrid fan in 2008, I think. I was young and introduced to a club of such glorious legacy which is second to none. Ever since then, I've been fascinated with this club and followed...
Are you one of those people who went on and on, ranting about having to wait in queues at the ATM to get your hands on the new pink notes? Cause then this might be of interest to you. Snapdeal has launched an exciting new service under which they’ll deliver cash up to ₹2,000 at your doorstep.
The service has...
As I have said before, I am not an ardent fan of reality TV shows, but MasterChef is usually such a delicious show, that most of the times I do watch and even follow the show.
Maybe not religiously, but yes enough to know who was eliminated, who is a strong contestant and who should probably just leave the show...
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 2004.
Chennai, 26th December 2004: Sleeping soundly in their beds post the Christmas day...
A very Merry Christmas to you my dear reader! With good spirits in the air and general merry making all around, news this week did not fail to live up its regular expectation of being bold and bizarre.
To laugh till your belly aches or cry till your head hurts, you be the judge!
Pope Francis Slams Materialistic Christmas Celebrations.
We...
Did anyone tell the Delhi Metro Association that a lot of people stand in long metro queues with black money to recharge their metro cards?
Call me an idiot for drawing up this scenario, but the announcement that 10 Delhi metros are going to cashless from January 1st is quite uncanny. The announcement that this move has been made to encourage people...
If you think that it was a rather ..pffft year for Bollywood, here comes Mr. Perfectionist a.k.a Aamir Khan with his Christmas release: DANGAL.
Dangal means to wrestle or refers to a wrestling competition in the literal sense. It refers to a fierce fight, in general. And well, the movie is quite the same! It's a journey, a fight in...
It is a murky bog of politics and corporate media.
I am not an investigative journalist, let me be very clear on the topic. However, being the citizen of the world, I have the full right to express my views and opinions on things I feel concerned about. And I have the right to conduct my own amateur-ish research on...
#OlabeatsUber has been trending on Twitter and while it sure does seem to be filling everyone with intense feelings, it is probably not the feelings that Ola would ever want targeted on them.
Delhi and for that matter almost the entire India is slowly moving towards using cabs as their basic mode of transport because you can fight with stubborn autowallahs only for...
Salini Madiraju
Puratchi Thalaivi- A word recognized by almost everyone in the country. Google it and you will be surprised to see that it gives results for “Jayalalithaa” without suggesting translation.
It means a revolutionary leader and indeed she is one. She was an actor-turned-politician of the country and had a towering personality.
Known as “Amma”, she was elected to power...
London, this winter, because why not?!
Having visited London, I do believe I can vouch for the fact that there is just some another feel to being there. A feeling that you cannot necessarily get anywhere else, not US, not Australia not even any other part of Europe, only London can give you that.
London in itself amasses an entire country’s...
Superhero movies from Marvel and DC definitely raised the standards of film making in 2016. Be it the gritty and witty side of Marvel's Captain America : Civil War or the dark and stylized tone of DC's Batman v Superman : Dawn Of Justice, we got to watch some amazing movies this year.
(Special mentions for Deadpool and Doctor Strange,...
By- Sandhya Sharma
So the Jagga Jasoos trailer is out and while to be completely honest I had been looking forward to the movie, just based on how much I liked Barfi, I am regretting my excitement now.
Because it seems that whether it is the unfortunate delays in the film, the repetition of Ranbir Kapoor or just plain laziness on...
The next Einstein is here. Are we ready yet?
She is 22 and already a physics PhD candidate at Harvard. She studies some of the most complex concepts like spacetime and blackholes, and you can only find her on her website - physicsgirl.com where she regularly updates her research work. Amazon already has a standing offer for her right now....
Japan realises that old-age homes aren’t the solution to its large population of elderly citizens, especially when a good number of those are suffering from dementia. A little towards the extreme, but an effective step taken by the Japanese is to tag citizens with QR codes to help the disoriented citizens, when and if required.
How Does The Tag Help?
The...
Rishank Dabra
Recently, Flipkart has been devalued for the 4th time and this time it has been devalued by Morgan Stanley to $5.6 billion, which is 40% lower than the value earlier.
Is the era of huge valuations of Indian companies coming to an end? Will we see the demise of the unicorn term in the startup ecosystem by 2020?
It could...
Back when the news of a Full House spin off broke, the internet went berserk. While season 1 premiered on Netflix this year in February, the second season of Fuller House was released in December for binge watching during the holidays.
The response for the first season was so great that Netflix instantly picked up the series for another season....
Okay guys, the wonderful and my personal favourite film, Jolly LLB’s sequel that is Jolly LLB 2’s trailer is out.
The film stars Akshay Kumar, Huma Qureshi and Anu Kapoor in lead roles and even has the much loved judge Saurabh Shukla from the first film back on.
Now before I get on to my reaction of the trailer, I do...
Last year that is in 2015 Kerala wrote history with the transgender policy, being the first state in the country to bring out any policy directed towards making the play field equal for transgenders and stopping the stigma imposed on group.
The ‘State Policy for Transgenders in Kerala 2015’ covered all types of transgenders and basically was instilled to provide...
Comedy through pranks is a genré which is very hard to master. Impractical Jokers is one show which has managed to do so and that too in it's own style!
For those who haven't watched the show, the premise is simple: Four lifelong friends (read: "jokers") compete in hidden camera "impractical" prank challenges.
Whoever loses the most challenges in each episode...
Sanitation is a problem. There is a far better solution now.
We all know Sulabh, and how easy it has made this durlabh endeavour of sanitation partly possible. But installing public washrooms comes with a lot of cost attached to it.
There have been innovations constantly happening, but nothing much substantial has been achieved as of now. The costs remain high,...
