Although Diwali is a festival of beaming lights, mouth-watering sweets, lots of fun activities, and firecrackers, it is also a time when a little negligence on your part can cause mishappening. Fire injuries, burns, eye infections, skin allergies and breathing problems are certain issue that comes as a package with the celebrations. Amongst the festivities, it is really difficult to keep an eye on your kids all the time, hence, […]

Scientists from Sweden have found a bird that can fly in the air for almost a year and that too without landing. Known as the common swift, it is a small, dark-feathered bird which can fly for the said time without landing, the longest time spent aloft by any known bird. The findings in the US journal Current Biology confirmed a 46-year-old hypothesis, first offered by British researcher Ron Lockley, […]

The tomb, where Jesus is believed to have been buried and resurrected, is situated in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the Old City of Jerusalem. For the first time in centuries, the surface of Jesus Christ’s traditionally considered tomb in Israel has been uncovered by scientists for restoration purposes, National Geographic revealed in an exclusive report. The tomb, where Jesus is believed to have been buried and resurrected, […]

The actor will be seen portraying a blind man alongside Yami Gautam in the Sanjay Gupta directorial. The highly anticipated trailer of Hrithik Roshan’s ‘Kaabil’ is finally out and it’s absolutely worth the wait! Hrithik and Yami, who play a blind couple in the film are delightfully adorable and your heart beats for their romance. But then real life brothers Ronit Roy and Rohit Roy pitch in their most menacing […]

Poovalur Jayaraman’s story is one of constant struggle. As we enter his cramped one-room house, Poovalur Jayaraman, an 80-year-old writer, is sitting on an old chair. He smiles, despite all that life has put him through. At 4am every day, Jayaraman takes out his pushcart from Nehru Nagar on Kalapatti road in Coimbatore, selling vadas and bondas for a living. But unable to put in the long hours at his […]

“These women are role models. This is an investigation into why very few women enter science. And we are looking for answers,” says Aashima Dogra. Sushama Agarwal has been a mathematician at the Ramanujan Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics at the University of Madras in Chennai for almost two decades. Her expertise lies in “functional analysis”, a branch of applied mathematics. Sushama is also possibly, one of the first […]

She weighs half a tonne, believe it or not. This Egyptian woman, tipping the scales at about 500 kg, is thought to be the fattest woman alive, media reports said on Sunday. Only 36, Iman Ahmad Abdulati has not left her home in Alexandria for 25 years and is unable to move from her bed or even roll over because of her enormous size, the Daily Mail reported. She relies […]

Indian media has once again proved their shameless nature by completely blacking out this story! General VK Singh and Sushma Swaraj have once again proven their brilliance. As many as 1,100 retrenched Indians are expected to return to India in the coming weeks with Saudi government issuing exit visas to the Saad group workers, according to External Affairs Ministry. Minister of State V K Singh, who is currently in Saudi […]

A number of major Indian banks are taking safety measures amid fears that the security of more than 3.2 million debit cards has been compromised. Meanwhile, Nettitude explains security operation services and why banks should think about the importance of externally monitoring and avoiding threats. Some of the affected banks have been asking their customers to change security codes. They are also blocking and replacing debit cards. The breach is thought to […]

The company strives to keep the old world charm of letters in this email driven world. 11-year-old Sara* really missed having her mom around for lunch. Her mom, a techie in one of the largest IT parks in Bengaluru, unfortunately could never make it home during lunch time, due to the huge workload at her office. Sara decided to do something about this. She sent a beautiful handwritten letter to […]