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Kerala Flood
Flash floods and substantial downpours have wreaked destruction in Kerala in the course of recent days. Popularly known as 'God's Own Nation', the state encountered the heaviest precipitation since 1924. In excess of 400 individuals have lost their lives, and more than two million have been uprooted in what is being named as one of the most devastating floods in a...
आज से 4 साल पहले, जब देश भर में चुनावी बिगुल बज चुका था और प्रचार ज़ोरों पर था, तब देश के शीर्ष नेता अटल बिहारी वाजपेयी के निवास स्थान पर जा रहे थे। यह आना जाना चुनावी नहीं था बल्कि उस दिन लुटियंस की सबसे प्रसिद्ध गुमनाम महिला की मृत्यु हुई थी। श्रीमती कौल की दिल का दौरा...
indian idol
Reality singing show Indian Idol which is into its 10th season has always been a crowd puller. But this time it’s for all the wrong reasons. Nishant Kaushik Blows The Whistle: Recently, former Indian Idol aspirant Nishant Kaushik has found his spot on Twitter’s trending list after he spoke about his ill experience on the show. He went on to reach the...
Metro Card To Pay For Bus Rides
Your metro card will now act as a ‘common mobility card’, with the help of which you can pay for all bus rides in Delhi. How you ask? Well, all you got to do is swipe your metro card to pay for bus rides. The Delhi Government announced the move earlier this week, which would be applicable from today onwards....
It’s evident that social media plays a highly dominant role in our lives because recently a Twitter user lost a highly coveted NASA internship because her profanity-laden tweets irked another Twitter user. And absolutely zero points, for guessing that the other "user" was the famed former NASA engineer Homer Hickam. Let's have a look at the exchange that spanned between these...
Netflix's Ghoul
Ghoul, the new horror web series by Netflix was launched today and it’s just 3 episodes long! Netflix’s Ghoul is actually a movie divided into three episodes. Even the first scene of the next episode is the last scene of the previous one. The horror factor in this show is a ‘Ghul’, a demonic spirit from Arabic folklore. Unique Premise: The premise of...
With the debates around feminism and women empowerment briskly doing the rounds, questions around the applicability of these concepts have emerged. Very often, words like ‘empowerment’, ‘independence’ and ‘equality’ emerge within an urban context. They might have heterogeneous connotations that cut across caste and class, but predominantly remain within the precincts of the urbane as matters of intellectual debate. Effort for...
Prateik Babbar drag
Fashion has always been used as a way to push boundaries and experiment with new or old looks in order to do something different. What Prateik Babbar and Chola The Label by designer Sohaya Misra have done with their latest collection 'Bye Felicia' at the first day of the 2018 Lakme Fashion Week is truly stunning and something we would...
The news can tend to be a downer, but lately- with wars, floods in Kerala and the latest announcement of Big Boss season 12, its been especially depressing. Worry not, because Google Assistant is trying to fix that. Well, Google is not planning to censor all the bad news, but will surely make it easier for you to find curated...
FlippED is an ED Original style wherein two bloggers come together and share their opposing or orthogonal perspectives on an interesting subject.  Recently, pictures of how flood relief shelters in Kerala were cleaned by people before leaving for their own homes are doing rounds on the internet. It only left our bloggers wondering what the North Indians would have done in...
You know what triggers my taste buds the most? Domino’s pizzas, particularly with cheese burst. But after knowing this alarming fact about their cheese and chemicals used in it, I don’t think I’m going to eat another pizza from Domino's. Probably you won’t too. What’s Wrong With The Domino’s Pizza? It has been 6 months since cheese samples from Domino’s outlets in Shahjahanpur failed...
UEFA Player of The Year 2018
UEFA has officially declared its three men shortlist for the biggest award of the European governing body, 2018 UEFA Player of The Year award. Cristiano Ronaldo, Luka Modric, and Mohamed Salah have made it to the top and are in contention for the award. Antoine Griezmann has finished fourth with 72 points followed by Lionel Messi at fifth with 55 points. The...
Mumbai Clean Up Marshals
By Jimil Shah The city might finally witness a change in its lethargic routine; clean-up marshals may now be fined if public places are found dirty. Cleanliness has always been one of the most rudimentary topics for environmental science textbooks and the favorite topic for students to prepare posters and short films on. The reason? Because lack of it is abundantly...
baccarat
Welcome to the game of observation. Don't pull out your IQ card just yet. The learning curve of baccarat is more of a straight line. You‘re not pressured to make any tough decisions. Don't worry about brain-busting strategies, and there's no need to fume at the poor decisions players have made. In baccarat (bac-ca-ra), the “t” is silent like the steady...
Manually Back Up Chats On WhatsApp
WhatsApp and Google seem to be coming up with a new offer to offer the app users unlimited storage space on Google Drive, but it has a slight and confusing twist to it. Apparently, while this is a good step, it also means that if you have not backed up your data to your Google Drive in the past year,...
super consumers
We’ve all heard the famous, old phrase, ‘Consumer is the King’, and we all know how marketing campaigns work these days. However, there is a category of consumers that are truly treated as the king – ‘super consumers’. Marketers have identified wealthy, single urbanites (WSUs) as their new super consumers, replacing DINKs (double income, no kids). You might wonder what the...
India’s internet population is seemingly ever increasing but a loss of around 50 million customers has dented the pockets of E-Commerce giants plying their trade in India. Report As per the reports of Bain & Company, Google and Omidyar Network, the current online shoppers are around 50 million in India but alarmingly, the same number of users have opted out of...
Subhash Chandra Bose, a freedom fighter and inspiration, has been credited with expanding the reach of the Indian freedom movement far and beyond the boundaries of India. He gave the movement international backing and greater universal appeal. He sacrificed his life for the cause, however, the mystery around his death could never be solved. It is often argued that Bose as...
India To A Cashless Society
By Nivedyta Khanna By the year 2020, nearly $500 billion worth of transactions in India will happen digitally. Now if we look back to the biggest Indian news story of the past year, Prime Minister’s cash ban, his initiative to demonetize the country was viewed as a remote event. But it was something that forced everyone to enter into the new digital...
trolls helped raise money
Yes, you read that right. In Kerala, the girl who sold fish outside college for college fee, has helped raise money for CM's Relief Fund; all thanks to trolls. Here's the story about the girl who sold fish outside college and how trolling came to aid for so many people: Also, read: Was The Paytm Founder’s 10K Donation To Kerala Floods Just...
Mourinho sacked
I am not the one who believes in rumors but we have a pretty good reason to believe that Jose Mourinho is on the verge of getting sacked as the manager of Manchester United. Manchester United faced Brighton and Hove Albion in their first away match of the season and they lost it 3-2. This might be the final nail...
Andaaz Apna Apna
Andaaz Apna Apna, might have released back in 1994, but it is one of those films that is almost a rite of passage for us Indians. The movie starring Aamir Khan and Salman Khan is such a cult classic that family evenings and get-togethers would be spent watching and enjoying this film because of its supposedly clean humour and all. In...
Spotify launch in India
Spotify is a fan favorite all across the world. It has the largest user base among all streaming platforms. But unfortunately, it is not officially present in India. People use ingenious workarounds to somehow use Spotify in India and have even faced shadowbanning of their accounts by Spotify itself. Spotify's potential customers are being taken away by the likes of Wynk, Gaana,...
bhavesh joshi superhero movie
Bhavesh Joshi, the much talked about 2nd movie of Harshvardhan Kapoor, son of Anil Kapoor came out last month. Although the marketing and promotions were intense and considering the team behind it, it was quite surprising that the film did not make any impact at the box office. With a director like Vikramaditya Motwane who has Dev D, the genius Trapped,...
netflix and amazon prime
Burning a hole in my pocket, I was paying Rs. 800 a month for Netflix and the yearly Rs. 999 for Amazon Prime until one of my friends told me about Terrarium TV offering free, limitless Netflix and Amazon Prime content. It’s too good to be real, isn’t it? There are many platforms with all-in-one Netflix and Amazon Prime style streaming...

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