Monthly Archives: August 2016
As if normal bridges did not seem risky enough, China have gone ahead and constructed the world's longest and highest bridge with a glass bottom. The extensive structure was officially unveiled on 20th august 2016.
It crosses two peaks on the mountains of Zhangjiajie which is said to have inspired the 'floating peaks' in James Cameron's 'Avatar'.
Only 8,000 visitors are...
Google has announced the launch of its newest OS update called Nougat and it is absolutely how you’d expect it to be: With slight performance improvements, inclusion of new emoji’s and well only available for Nexus users right now.
It’s been always this way with Android. Unless you own a Nexus, the update could take days, weeks or even months to...
Health is the prime concern, says Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) while it enforced a compulsion on the conduct of Yoga and Suryanamaskar in Mumbai civic schools, this Tuesday. While the idea mooted by BJP corporator Samita Kamble faced stiff opposition from Congress and Samajwadi Party, the proposal was ultimately given green light by BMC.
The Proposal
Samita Kamble, the BJP corporator...
QuoraED! This is when we pick up a trending or interesting thread from Quora and spin a story around it.
India Today published a news piece titled ‘Are you a criminal now? Users may get 3 years in jail for viewing torrent site, blocked URL in India’.
Following this everyone went crazy - tweeting and talking about it to gather more...
By Mrinaal Datt
Demystifier : ED Original where the content is written in such a way that it is knowledgeable and easy to comprehend at the same time.
This article has been written as a demystifier for the following reasons :
A. People don't know the Kashmir issue.
B. People don't know the Balochistan issue.
C. We need to tell them and clear the...
The ceremony celebrated all the traditional Indian customs and rituals, complete with garlands.
In a bold, contemporary, and conventional-defying step, Indian parents of a gay man planned and organized a complete Indian traditional wedding, including all the rituals such as the ceremonial exchange of garlands, for their son and his fiancé.
Rishi Agarwal and Daniel Langdon got married at a golf...
Today, the Bombay High Court made an iconic ruling of allowing the entrance of women into the world renowned Haji Ali dargah's inner sanctum.
The ban which restricted the entry of women in the dargah up until a certain point was put in place in the year 2012 by the Haji Ali Dargah Trust.
The reason behind the restriction was that...
If you have ever travelled in an Indian flight, you would have noticed the sudden start of the message tones, the second the flight lands. Well, for all we may know, the time is not very far before these tones do not stop throughout the journey.
On the silver jubilee celebrations of the Air Passengers Association of India, civil aviation...
People throughout India are shamelessly using the names of the winners at the Rio Olympics to shun female foeticide. While PV Sindhu and Sakshi Malik have “earned” their right to live, and proved how women can one day make your family, household and country proud (that’s what they are saying!), without actually doing anything about it, a state in...
Be it Bollywood or Hollywood, there is a long history of horror genré where haunted or possessed inanimate objects brings laughter instead of screams. While some of these films overcome their weird concepts, but others, uhhh, do not.
Here is a list of some weirdest objects to ever be the focus of a horror movie. Some are the work of...
Forget real terrorists, we now need to fear about people pretending to be one: Fake attack staged in Prague.
A group of right-wing Czech radicals staged a fake Islamist attack in the city of Prague earlier this week. Martin Konvicka, the event organizer and a prominent figure in the world of Islam opponents, had disguised himself as a member of...
In a competitive marketplace, companies are constantly working to outshine one another. With Amazon.in introducing Amazon Prime in July, it took Flipkart just a month to get back to them with Flipkart Assured.
The two e-retail stores offer a great choice to their customers, but with Amazon Prime and Flipkart Assured in place, to what extent is the customer experience...
Wednesday morning the entire world went into frenzy when 22,400 page document detailing Indian Navy secrets and the secret combat capabilities of Scorpene-class submarines were leaked.
To state what lead to the leak or who is behind it is difficult to say at the moment but this is a loss India and several other nations will have to bear.
What are...
It was an impressive week for the Spanish big guns in the La Liga as Real Madrid and their Catalan rivals Barcelona made impressive opening statements for their title challenge.
The week was started off by Barcelona taking on Real Betis as they marched to their first victory in the La Liga this season with a 6-2 scoreline.
The rout was...
The deep-rooted problem of Indian Caste system popped out on the surface just after India's pride PV Sindhu beat Chinese Taipei badminton player Tai Tzu Ying, in the pre-quarterfinals.
While the majority of us were anticipating for India's first gold medal in Badminton, there were some dim-witted people who failed to curb their stupid itch to search for PV Sindhu's...
For most North Indians, Delhi is their Mumbai. It is close to everywhere and almost every news starts from Delhi.
This picture story will give you a feel of what Delhi's monsoon actually looks like. So, what are we waiting for?! Let's start!
Imagine yourself on a rickshaw ride, where the puller is trying hard to balance out your weight with his force.
Sun...
Undermining the importance of education in the life of an individual is a fool's act. Those of us residing in cities are luckier in that aspect. It's not hard for people who live in urban areas to get their school and college education.
But what about those in the villages? Are we to condemn them to a life of illiteracy? ...
Liv’ED is an ED original style where we write about our personal experiences on visiting and reviewing any place which gives us a feeling of coming back for more. This time, we discuss Duo, a video calling app released by Google.
Until now, video calls have been synonymous to Skype for mostly everybody in this world, and FaceTime for the...
In a move straight out of the first Hunger Games, when Katnis Everdeen did the famous three finger salute, and started a rebellion, something similar happened to the Ethiopian marathon runner Feyisa Lilesa.
After winning the Olympic marathon and securing the prestigious silver medal, Lilesa is apparently in danger of either being killed or imprisoned for making an anti-government signal on...
If you are tired of using your college’s VPN or sketchy Russian websites to look for research articles, you’re in luck! Following a new policy directive at NASA, any research article that is funded by the agency will now be posted on Pubspace within a year of publication.
All the publicly funded research will now be available to download and...
Modi government has become famous for overhauling government machinery and their actions have occasionally drawn the ire from opposition parties who have constantly accused Modi for changing established norms for personal benefit.
Undeterred by these accusations the Finance Ministry headed by Mr. Arun Jaitley has announced to advance the date of presenting Union Budget to January.
Union Budget for the longest...
It was a week of star-studded debuts and mouth watering clashes in the Premier League as Paul Pogba, Zlatan and Sergio Agüero stole the show whereas the Leicester vs Arsenal match ended in a stalemate, with both the sides still winless in the Premier League.
The top clubs had plenty to offer, starting off with Arsenal and Leicester City but...
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...
So… you know how the Delhi people have that famous line of 'Tu Janta Hai, Main Kon Hu?' or 'Do You Know Who I Am?' or another variation of it substituted with whatever relative is in a position of power.
Well till now it had mostly been relegated to a funny thing that filmmakers and television people used to exaggerate...
Rustom, a legal thriller came out almost a week ago and has finally managed to enter the 100 crore club. But is it really worth it? Lets find out.
Lets just face the fact that Bollywood has always failed to deliver good legal thrillers/courtroom dramas! Of course there are a few exceptions but sadly Rustom falls in the former category.
Being...
