Lady Gaga’s new song “Till It Happens To You” featured in the documentary movie ‘The Hunting Ground’ dissects the culture of rape and sexual assault prevalent in colleges in US. The song splits open the reality of “what is happening on regular basis in college campuses”. Laced with a series of sexual assault scenes, the music video written by Diana Warren, aptly starts with a disclaimer beforehand as the scenes […]

Bharat Ratna is India’s Highest Civilian Honour. But what do the awardees receive from the Government? What is the worth of the medallion presented to them? Are they given any monetary award? What other facilities are extended to them? Bharat Ratna was instituted in the year 1954 and only 45 individuals have received the award till date. It is awarded in recognition of exceptional service/performance of the highest order in […]

The Internet’s coolest kids hung out together for the most impressive picture we’ve seen in recent times. That’s what this photo from the Internet Industry Forum at Microsoft’s main campus in Redmond, Washington feels like. Maybe less cool and more iconic, though. The picture puts together the World Wide Web’s most powerful names – the top CEOs and founders – Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Alibaba’s Jack Ma, Microsoft’s Satya Nadella, Apple’s […]

Most of us can’t get enough of horror movies! These movies have delighted audiences all over the world and entertained our basest instincts with horrifying gore, monsters, insanity and the supernatural. What is with the scary haunted houses, uncanny settings, eerie sounds that titillate our senses so much? Do we love the fear and violence that these movies present us with? For many of us, being scared out of our […]

Court’ was selected from a shortlist of 30 films by a Film Federation of India jury headed by film-maker Amol Palekar. Chaitanya Tamhane’s critically acclaimed Marathi film ‘Court’ was on Wednesday selected as India’s official entry to the Best Foreign Language category of the 2016 Academy Awards. ‘Court’ was selected from a shortlist of 30 films by a Film Federation of India jury headed by film-maker Amol Palekar. Marathi film-maker […]

A 13-year-old girl from Odisha’s backward Koraput district bagged a prestigious $10,000 award at the finals of the Google Science Fair in the United States late on Tuesday for her low-cost water purifier using corn cobs. Lalita Prasida Sripada Srisai will be supported in her research for one year by the well-known journal, Scientific American, for winning the Community Impact Award that honours projects which make a practical difference by […]

Prime Minister Narendra Modi kicks starts his 7-day tour of Ireland and US. His visits to both the countries have generated significant interest. While this is the first time in almost 60 years that an Indian Prime Minister would be visiting Ireland, the interest around the US visit seems predominantly on business grounds. In the US the Prime Minister is scheduled to head for the west coast once his UN […]

Never mind the brief but furious debate over Rabindranath Tagore’s use of the word ‘adhinayak’ in the National Anthem, this soul-stirring Bengali version of Jana Gana Mana will leave you wiping away tears of emotion. Titled “Bharoto Bhagyo Bidhata,” the video is available on YouTube and belongs to filmmaker Srijit Mukherji’s new offering Rajkahini, based on the 1947 Partition of Bengal. Bharoto Bhagya Bidhata has been sung by a motley […]

According to recruitment platform MyHiringClub.com’s Worldwide IT Salary 2015 survey, Indian IT companies are among the 10 worst paymasters in the world. The Survey conducted by MyHiringClub.com has these highlights: India ranked 7th on the list of lowest paymasters for information technology (IT) managers, down by one position from last year’s. A mid-level IT manager in India draws an average salary of $41,213. Bulgaria topped the list with a meagre […]

Living in Present is killing the Boredom Being bore is being egoist i.e. 1 is so self-absorbed that 1 does not think of surroundings and keeps on harping on self. Not only this, person is usually sitting on laurels or projecting to fairy tales. Lack of Internal Peace How many times we face the circumstances in the accompanying picture? It’s all because of restlessness and turmoil inside and we are […]