Monthly Archives: December 2013
As expected, the markets were exuberant on Monday following the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP’s) gains in the assembly elections, results for which were announced on Sunday. Both the benchmark indices— S&P BSE Sensex and CNX Nifty—hit all-time highs of 21,483.74 and 6,415.25, respectively. The tricky question now is whether investors would book profits after the long wait or whether...
Ford has unveiled the sixth generation model of one of America’s most iconic muscle cars, the Mustang. The car will go on sale on the 17th of April, 2014, Fifty years from the very day the Mustang made it’s debut. The Ford Mustang is one of the most popular cars ever built. It was launched in 1964 and since...
A moving article by Binoo K. John
We three-- Parsa (Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr), Tarun and I-- were in the same team at India Today and we three together laughed the loudest. As our immediate boss both of us admired and learnt from Tarun.
His is a case of life imitating his own fiction. He has become one of the characters...
MUMBAI: Stocks may rise on Monday and stay buoyant for the rest of the week after voters weary of price rise and corruption punished Congress in four key state elections, handing BJP a major boost ahead of 2014 polls.
Brokers and analysts believe the victory will boost stocks though the upside may be capped by fears of the Fed slowing...
SOURCE :http://www.fakingnews.firstpost.com/2013/10/faulty-family-planning-caused-huge-losses-to-bollywood/
With every other movie claiming to have joined 100 crore club, Bollywood might appear as the only industry adding to the GDP growth of the country.
But a report by CAG (Celluloid Auditing Group) has claimed that the Bollywood could have earned much more if there were not too many children of star actors and filmmakers.
According to CAG, the...
New Delhi. Rohit Singh, a proud alumnus of MTV Roadies hailing from Pitampura, today voted in the Delhi assembly elections for the candidate he hates most.
He confused the electoral process as being similar to the one in reality show MTV Roadies, where he had voted last.
As per an eyewitness, Rohit arrived at the polling booth on a Hero Honda...
I met Nelson Mandela twice. The first time he was no longer a prisoner and not yet the president of South Africa. His office was in a high-rise building in downtown Johannesburg, which the oil company Shell had used earlier as its headquarters but was now the home of the African National Congress (ANC). At that time, the ANC was still...
As the world rose to the depressing headlines of Nelson Mandela’s demise at the age of 95 on 5th December 2013, the obvious question that crept to my mind was, what was this “Apartheid movement” and what exactly is it that Mandela – Madiba to his people, is hailed for. Forgive me, but I am a history student, and...
The latest fault line to surface in Bangladesh’s fractious politics is on the modalities of conducting the next general elections, scheduled to be held on January 5, 2014. But given the turmoil here, there are now doubts over whether it will take place at all. The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has decided to boycott the election as has its...
Gertrude Stein once said and I quote, “Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.” Is that why we’re more attracted to things that are unreal, and that couldn’t possibly happen to us in real life? To think of it, as children our notion of an ideal life was one that was straight out of a Harry Potter or Lord...
Source : http://jacobinmag.com/2012/04/the-politics-of-getting-a-life/
Work in a capitalist society is a conflicted and contradictory phenomenon, never more so than in hard times. We simultaneously work not enough and too much; a labor famine for some means feast for others. The United States has allegedly been in economic “recovery” for over two years, and yet 15 million people cannot find work, or cannot...
Unless you are using a Nexus 4 or a Nexus 5 and you want to tweak your phone this post is for you!
I have been using an Android for about ten months or so. A Samsung Galaxy S3 to be precise. The Samsung's, HTC's and Sony's phones of the world come with a lot of pre-loaded content which hog...
President Obama, the most powerful man in the world, is stuck with cumbersome and faulty technology that might have been impressive half-a-decade ago. Ha ha, no, we're not talking about Healthcare.gov. We're talking about his bulky old BlackBerry jam-packed with extra security measures.
Yesterday in a speech at the White House, the President joked that the Secret Service doesn't allow...
" I have walked that long road to freedom. I have tried not to falter; I have made missteps along the way. But I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I have taken here a moment to rest, to steal a view of the...
To decide whether a person is guilty of any crime is not my job, its the job of a judge. To portray someone as hero or villain is also not my job, its the job of a film director or book writer.
I have been following the Aarushi-hemraj murder case trial for about three years. The case was a Bermuda...
Singapore/Mumbai: Indian gold smugglers are adopting the methods of drug couriers to sidestep a government crackdown on imports of the precious metal, stashing gold in imported vehicles and even using mules who swallow nuggets to try to get them past airport security.
Stung by rules imposed this year to cut a high trade deficit and a record duty on imports,...
1. Marc Jacobs
A stock boy of 15 in a now defunct clothing boutique, Marc Jacobs made his mark with his extraordinary talent in the mid 80’s launching his own line. In over 60 countries, his retail stores number is 285 in 2013 and includes both his lines, Marc by Marc Jacobs and Marc Jacobs Collection. Having worked with big...
So are you of the school of thought that voting is your right and not a duty, so you can choose not to exercise your right and sit around posting emphatic facebook status messages about how the system screwed you over? Well, we’re sorry to break it to you but your excuse sucks worse than Harman Baweja in Love...
The fashion world’s latest obsession is the newest and the youngest ever editor of Lucky, Eva Chen. What makes her big news is the fact that she is the first appointment made by Anna Wintour since she became creative director of Conde Nast,which publishes Vogue and Lucky. If the Goddess of the glossies herself can place so much faith...
Distressed denim has recently become quite fashionable. This worn down or faded look on the jeans is usually achieved by a process called sandblasting, in which minute silica particles are bombarded on the denim at a high speed to cause abrasion on the denim.
This method may be easy and cheap, however is extremely unethical as workers involved in sandblasting...
Thoughts! I can't control them. You can't control. Even if I try, even if I want to. You know what the funny thing about a thought is?
After hours of deep analysis of the mind...they come so fast, it's almost like you have to catch every ball of snow that falls on Christmas. And they go away from where they...
Indian politics, which for a long time has been centered around the aged and experienced political class, has seen a shift in the notion of the people towards the young, educated politicians. This change is not surprising, especially for a country which has one of the largest youth population in the world. Rahul Gandhi, Jyotiradiyta Scindia, Sachin Pilot, Naveen...
"I have a budget of Rs.40 lakh, and want to go in for a BMW. But how does the equivalent Audi or Mercedes get along?", was the question put in front of me by a very keen uncle. Let's be honest, most people looking to buy a car in that price range tend to ask this very question. Well,...
