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Disclaimer: Originally published in July 2018. It is being republished since it still remains an interesting topic till today.
Indian football team and the captain Chetri have been making quite some noise to garner support for themselves.
While most of us just want them to reach the Group stages in FIFA already, many of us do not know that the Indian...
Breakfast Babble: ED’s own little space on the inter-webs where we gather to discuss ideas and get pumped up for the day. We judge things too. Sometimes. Always. Whatever, call it catharsis and join in people.
When I login to Instagram or Facebook, I don't stay online for long.
Want to know why?
I get MAJORLY turned off by these 'social media influencers.'
Why...
Weddings can be a lavish celebration all around the world. But here in India, we love to take things up a notch and steal the whole show with grandeur and elegant arrangements. All the extravaganza of these weddings has rightfully earned the nickname of “The big fat Indian wedding”.
With the pandemic in full swing last year, weddings were subdued...
Indians have been at the forefront of many things throughout history even though we have been a free and independent country for only the past 70 years. One of these many things is trade in the 17th century.
Virji Vohra was a merchant who was alive during the Mughal rule and is described to be the richest trader in the...
The most basic entity of human cognition, communication, identity, and history is language. It is never constant and keeps evolving with time and caters to societal and cultural changes. It is an integral part of the story of the human race.
Most indigenous languages do not have a written script. The loss of people who speak these languages that are...
Narendra Modi inaugurated the long-awaited Kashi Vishwanath Temple corridor today in Varanasi ahead of the state assembly polls. The temple constructed near the famous Dashashwamedh Ghat is an architectural marvel that is expected to boost tourism in the city.
The corridor connects the temple with the Ganga ghats. The corridor is spread across an area of 5,000 hectares and cost...
The beginning of 2021 was not particularly good. The country was just getting back to its feet after the first wave of the COVID pandemic receded when it was struck with an even more deadly second wave. Thousand lost lives, millions lost their source of income, and humanity itself was on trial.
However, we came out of it together, stronger,...
Meta is leaving no stone unturned in making its new identity the only thing to talk about. Meta, formerly Facebook, wants people to only remember it as its new identity and in order to do so is taking some interesting steps.
One of which seems to be opening its first office after the rebranding in Asia in none other than...
January 12: Authors Sheetal Bhan, a TedEx Speaker and writer and Aamir Bengali, a promising Hindi Film Industry screenwriter, are on their way to transform the life of Deepak Pandit, an assistant commissioner of Mumbai-Customs and now GST, into a biography titled WHITE - The man beyond the uniform.
The amazing journey of Deepak Pandit's life has influenced the authors....
January 13: A true testimony of dreams becoming a reality and an inspiration for all those who don’t stop chasing dreams! Yes, we are talking about our very own Palvi Virmani, raised and brought up in Karnal, who is making ripples in the music industry now! It’s true we know her as an interior designer par excellence and a...
January 13: “True courage results in some extraordinary outcomes, something which we hope for deep down in our hearts but don’t expect in our practical life and yet life surprises us with some beyond imaginable out-turns, only because of our courageous and bold decisions!”
Author Nabaghan Ojha is a thinker with a difference; he is also an avid reader of...
January 13: Akshay Anand, the ED of Pratibha Pallavan Public School shares his views on how education needs to be delivered despite the pandemic and how Pratibha Pallavan Public School is contributing its bit to this noble cause. He also shares insights on how they are going about to achieve it. Below are excerpts from the conversation we had...
New Delhi (India), January 13: As the nation recovered from the second wave of covid, people have been complaining of post covid symptoms. In most cases, it is a direct result of scant oxygen reaching the organs. The Experts have found a solution to treat long-term Covid symptoms, and it involves 97% pure oxygen.
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) proves to...
January 13: Rising cases of infertility among couples is a cause of concern globally. Infertility is usually understood as a female related issue, and she is the one who has to undergo medical investigations and treatment. In spite of data suggesting that one-third of the infertility cases are due to issues in males, male infertility is still a social...
India’s latest e-commerce plus platform gintaa which was recently launched as a unique feature of Bartering, a way of transaction popular from 6,000 BC, is today, not based on the inherent need of goods, but extracting maximum value of your goods as a consumer and your skills and services as a business. Globally, the barter economy is on the...
Mumbai (Maharashtra) , January 13: When Ritesh Barbhaya, the founder and CEO of JewelEMarket.com, India's first fashion imitation jewelry B2B wholesale platform, started getting messages and calls from the fashion imitation jewelry fraternity across India after the world locked down due to Covid-19, the gravity and helplessness of the offline community dawned on him to help them out by...
Future pandemics may be even more deadly than COVID-19, so the lessons learnt from the outbreak must not be forgotten, and the world must be ready for the next viral onslaught, said one of the developers of Oxford's Astra-Zeneca vaccine.
According to Johns Hopkins University, the new coronavirus has killed 5.26 million people worldwide, wiped out trillions of dollars in...
Extended family WhatsApp groups are annoying. There, I said it!
These are one of those places where elders act like stupid teenagers and millennials frown and get annoyed at everything that is shared on the group.
So, if you are a part of one, you probably know what's coming your way.
If not, get all your questions answered here:
#1 UGH, GOOD MORNING
#2...
Recent events and fervor surrounding food and dietary habits have become a gateway for new trends and practices in food.
Among the plethora of new food trends gaining ground in India is Veganism. It is a tougher, more explicit form of vegetarianism.
It is slowly and steadily growing and gaining immense popularity amongst the people of India, for various reasons.
WHAT IS...
By Apoorva Sehgal
Willingly or unwillingly, you all must have watched Bollywood movies. But how many of you are aware of the notions of romance in Bollywood? I'm sure not many. Well, I aim to enlighten you. Bollywood has given me enough reasons to safely conclude that these notions are twisted.
MANIC PIXIE DREAM GIRL
The first thing that I would like to...
There has been a 3 fold increase in the amount of data present in this world in the past five years, and this is much more data than there ever has been.
With the increase in the volume of data, analysts and data scientists have found a whole new industry of their own.
With the big data trending on top of...
Back in Time is ED’s newspaper-like column that reports an incident from the past as though it had happened just yesterday. It allows the reader to relive it several years later, on the date it had occurred.
December 12, 1911: Delhi Durbar witnessed an audience of 2,50,000 people. Dignitaries ranging from the Begum of Bhopal to the highest British administrative...
Yesterday, CBSE (Central Board of Secondary Education) conducted the English exam for class 10th students across the country. The exam left students in a state of sheer confusion and many others in rage. The exam was said to be challenging, tricky, and tough. The paper was also apparently laden with errors.
As per the analysis done by Madhu Malik, Principal,...
January 11: Being the fastest growing search engine in India means nothing if you could not serve all sorts of customers. The two primary channels to expand businesses are B2B (Business to Business) and B2C (Business to Consumer). Both these terms are self-explanatory. Finndit has already garnered over 2.5 lakhs of business listings on its platform. It stands at...
January 11: Vishal Gaikwad, the writer-director of the path-breaking film Runh that garnered the attention of the audience and critics, is now making another film based on the amazing real-life experiences of an Indian American boy. While speaking to the media, he said that the film is about the platonic relationship of a father and the son that goes...
