Who Was Your Valentine? Here Are 5 Adorable & Unique Ways India Celebrated V-Day
When you think about Valentine's Day, you think chocolates, roses and maybe a thoughtful card along with a (preferably expensive) gift. But for some, the day means celebrating love in all its forms;...
View ArticleTo Space and Back: Things You Might Not Know About India’s Legendary...
On April 2 in 1984, an elderly couple, Tripta and Devendranath, sat on a carpeted floor and watched the live telecast of Soyuz T-11 in Russia taking off into space. In the spacecraft was a young man...
View ArticleMY STORY: Moving to India & Living With an Indian Family Taught Me the Real...
Since moving to India it’s occurred to me that I say ‘please’ and ‘thank-you’ a lot. Maybe it’s down to my cultural background or maybe it’s a consequence of how I’ve been raised by my parents....
View ArticleMilind Soman Is Now Ultraman – Completes the 517.5 Km Race at Florida, Run...
His Twitter and Instagram handles read @milindrunner, and he is often seen participating in various marathons. But Milind Soman just took his love for running a notch higher by completing the Florida...
View ArticleIndian Railways Building 160 Kmph Speed ‘World Class’ Train Sets at Half the...
Starting 2018, the Indian Railways will begin building a train set that will be built entirely in India and will travel up to 160 kmph! The Integral Coach Factory (ICF), that is based out of Chennai,...
View ArticleAll You Need to Know About BharatQR Code: India’s New Cashless Payment System
The Indian government is resolutely ushering the country towards digital and cashless payments through a number of schemes and apps. The latest, after the successful launch of the BHIM app, is...
View ArticleSkype Lite to Smart Villages: Key Takeaways From Satya Nadella’s Speech at...
When it comes to Microsoft's mantra for this country, it is Make in India for India. Or at least that was the message driven home by CEO Satya Nadella, who was in Mumbai to deliver the keynote address...
View ArticleWorried About Getting Duped? Here’s How You Can Easily Identify Fake ₹2,000...
It's the story that has dominated chatter across social media for over a day - a man in New Delhi trying to withdraw money from an ATM ended up with four notes of ₹2,000 that were clearly fake. Apart...
View ArticleMY STORY: Tourist Life vs Local Life: What It’s Really Like for a Foreigner...
Last year I spent 9 months backpacking around India. I travelled from the South (Kerala) to the North (Jammu & Kashmir) and from the East (West Bengal) to the West (Rajasthan), and a lot in...
View ArticleHang out With Lincoln and Mukherjee at Rashtrapati Bhavan’s Mughal Gardens
President Pranab Mukherjee once said that “the future of the country would be as bright and vibrant as the flowers in the Mughal Gardens.” The gardens, usually open to the public in February, are...
View ArticleRailways Is Working on a New Catering Policy for You. Here Are Top 5 Things...
Even the most enthusiastic commuters of the Indian Railways can attest that sometimes the food in the trains can be less than ideal. In a bid to win hearts across the country and also satiate some...
View ArticleSunny Pawar and Dev Patel Won Hearts at the Oscars. Here Are Our Favourite...
While viewers across the world who tuned in to watch the 89th Academy Awards - Oscars 2017 - are probably still recovering from the shocking twist of the wrong film being announced as the winner for...
View ArticleLearn Life Skills, History and English Through Music With Manzil Mystics
"Music has always been treated as an extracurricular activity in school and a piece of entertainment in society," points out Anurag Hoon. But for him and his musician friends at NGO Manzil it has...
View ArticleHow NPPA Is Ensuring Hospitals and Healthcare Providers Do Not Overcharge...
It has only been a few weeks since the government announced that that the prices of coronary stents have been slashed by 85% but the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) is aggressively...
View ArticleAbandoned and Injured, Bhijili the Horse Is Now Embracing Life on a...
She was found abandoned and injured, but is now on the path to recovery. Meet Bhijili, the horse fitted with a prosthetic limb after she lost her leg in an accident - and is now learning to walk on it....
View ArticleWorld’s Oldest-Serving Warship, INS Viraat, Will Soon Sail Into the Waters of...
She spent almost seven years at sea in her 30 years of service with the Indian Navy and has covered the globe 27 times. And now, INS Viraat is all set to be decommissioned on March 6. “INS Viraat is...
View ArticleOn a Cleaning Spree: Gurgaon Pond Gets a Facelift After Students, Volunteers...
Armed with nets and handheld filter tools, a group of over 150 school students, volunteers of an organisation and residents of Wazirabad village entered a filthy, smelly pond in Gurgaon’s Sector 53...
View ArticleClick and Send: TrafficEye App Will Allow Users to Report Traffic Offenders...
"The app will give every citizen of this country an opportunity to become a virtual traffic police officer,” says Vandit Gandotra. The 20-year-old pre-final year student of BITS Pilani, along with...
View ArticlePranab Mukherjee Defends Free Speech, Equal Rights for Women & Healthy Debate...
Intolerance is not welcome in India. As debates surrounding the importance of freedom of speech and expression continue to heat up in the country, the President of India, Dr Pranab Mukherjee, has...
View ArticleBritain Not Taught About Atrocities of Colonial Rule, Says Shashi Tharoor....
Historical amnesia. That was the buzzword that ended up making the rounds all across social media after author and politician, Shashi Tharoor went on a news show in Britain and spoke about the...
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