Monthly Archives: March 2018
On International Women’s Day, a great progress took place in the country’s accommodation of women in the workplace as Chandragiri railway station of Andhra Pradesh was transformed to a place with only female employees. Yet this development of an all women railway station here has one major disadvantage to itself.
What is disheartening is that the small and far-flung station...
On 5th March, Irrfan Khan shook up the entire Bollywood industry and his fans when he tweeted that he was suffering from a rare disease.
🙏🏻 pic.twitter.com/JXD8NKwH3D
— Irrfan (@irrfank) March 5, 2018
Although Khan specifically said that he will be revealing whatever results come in and to be patient, almost immediately various news sites and media houses started assuming and publishing...
Facebook and Apple are perhaps such entities that even someone who has been underground for 80 years would know about them.
Such is their reach and popularity that you just need to slap on its logo onto something and suddenly its value will skyrocket with people stumbling over each other to get a piece of it.
We anyway see the craze...
It’s common knowledge that every time JK Rowling emerges from the abyss and says, “Jump,” Potterheads around the world will ask, “How high?”
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016) emerged out of the blue, star-studded with the delightful Eddie Redmayne and Katherine Waterston as Newt Scamander and Tina Goldstein respectively, and temporarily...
Dubai is considered to one of the best tourist destinations for both those on a budget or those with huge coffers full of money. Its sprawling buildings, shopping arenas and more exciting things surely pull in the crowds.
But this video, allegedly by the daughter of Dubai’s ruler and Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Saeed Al Maktoum paints a...
When it comes to analyzing friendship and interactions between fellow classmates, the authorities at Kamala Girl's School in Kolkata, West Bengal seem to have a completely different and insensitive approach in dealing with it.
The school authorities took offence when some of the girls were seen holding hands, hugging each other and being playful with each other. You know, just...
Anthony Davis is rising among the ranks in the NBA Regular Season Kia MVP debate. Until a few months ago, he was undoubtedly considered a top player but shouldering the responsibility of being his team's prime performer in the absence of star center DeMarcus Cousins has brought out the best in him.
The recent meteoric rise of the New Orleans...
Every time I go to watch a movie, I check the ratings to see whether it's going to be worth my time or not. And one way or the other, I migrate to the ‘film critics’ section and as a result, my decision is based on the reviews that these people give.
This got me thinking, what makes them so...
Stephen Hawking was an inspiration to many, not just in the science sector but even for normal humans who had no idea what the black hole theory is. He stood as an example of life and survival.
Hawking, while doing his doctoral studies in Trinity Hall, Cambridge in 1963 at the young age of 21, was diagnosed with early-onset-slow-progressing form...
Unfortunately, Manchester United who were the overwhelming favouritse to progress to the quarter-finals have lost to Sevilla at Old Trafford, by a scoreline of 1-2.
All pundits and fans were of the view that United should have progressed easily but some shoddy team selection and abject defensive approach killed it for United. Ben Yedder’s two goals for the Spanish team...
The over 20 km stretch of the Delhi Metro pink line which connects north campus of the Delhi University to south campus will be in operation from tomorrow.
“The two DU campuses are now connected to each other on the Delhi Metro network for the first time. It will help in cutting travel time for commuters, but benefit the students...
Bournvita India, the health drink most kids in India have grown up drinking, launched a campaign that generated the hashtag #LookBeyondMarks.
It was launched to create awareness of how a learner’s or student’s scores in their exams can never be a parameter for success in life.
How successful a learner or student is depends on other important skills which our education...
College is all about finally breaking free of the constraints that school puts on us and doing crazy wild things, exploring, underage drinking and getting some much-needed freedom.
Those 3 or 4 years of college allow us to live life in a way that schools and its rigid routine does not allow and usually you end up making a few...
India faces a unique problem. It has an ever growing digital population which is steadily moving away from traditional methods of consuming content but at the same time is hungry for more.
The problem with digitization
This has caused quite a bit of stir in the print media industry, which has seen a drastic change in its business model over the...
How many times are we suggested by our friends and acquaintances to simply book an OYO when we are having issues finding a suitable hotel across India?
Well, this is because OYO Rooms is the largest branded network of hotels currently operating in India and with a wave of startups coming up and going down every year, this is one...
Tired of being on the sidelines of the discussion during every Parliament session, over 35,000 neglected and angry farmers marched for almost 180 kilometers from the city of Nashik to Mumbai to make themselves heard at last.
The Kisan Long March, organised by the Communist Party of India - Marxist’s farmers body All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) has met the...
Himanta Biswa Sarma, the Finance Minister of Assam today presented the first e-budget of the state. It was presented in an electronic format and all the legislators were provided the details on a tablet.
Andhra Pradesh had earlier become the first state to present an e-budget. However, it was only limited to the legislators. The budget of Assam is available...
Google is finally bringing one of their much talked about feature, earlier limited only to Pixel and Pixel 2 phones.
The app was launched in 2017 by Google during their Google I/O and is said to be similar to Google Googles, however, with better features and using more advanced technology.
Recently, Google has after a long time, at least in the...
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Ekonomiska '18- the Annual Economics Fest of Maitreyi College, University of Delhi is back with a bang. With a plethora of events to choose from, there is an event for everyone.
The festival will be hosted on college premises on 13th of March 2018. The event roster this year includes:
Theoria- Paper Presentation
Theoria gives you the perfect platform to share your...
Euthanasia has always been a very controversial subject in India, with courts not allowing the patients to choose their end on their own terms.
For a long time, the Centre had been against the idea of a ‘living will’ and made no moves to recognize it as a legal thing. Earlier, while it was allowed for a patient to be...
PSG have struggled to hold their own in Europe, as they've grossly underperformed in the Champions League despite splashing the cash on players such as Neymar and Kylian Mbappe.
They hired a 3-time Europa League winning coach (Unai Emery) to help them carve their way towards eternal glory but it seems that for the 2nd time in a row, the...
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 is a country of old men, indeed.
So, in 2016 IAS topper Tina Dabi decided to get married to her boyfriend, Athar Aamil-ul Shafi Khan, who stood at rank two. But of course, something as trivial...
Schools and hospitals are two very important and for lack of a better word, sacred places almost. The school is where education is imparted and a hospital is where people gain another life.
There is a reason why so many rules and regulations have to be followed when in either of them. But of course, that is only limited to...
Do you know of a competition that literally requires you to do nothing?
Generally, when it comes to competition, speed is of the essence, along with energy and agility to test how fast and strong you are.
Whether it be a physical exercise or a mental one, most competitions are all about how much you can do in as little time.
And...
One of the final frontiers has fallen. The North-East, a region where the BJP hadn't won significantly ever has finally fallen with Tripura, Meghalaya, and Nagaland going the saffron way.
When we look at BJP's victory in the North-East, however, few, nay rather a lot of questions pop up in our minds. Here, we’ve tried to answer a few of...
