From the Ambani’s in India to the Villa Leopolda in France, we share with you a nifty little infographic courtesy of DoMyOwnHomeLoan that covers the Top 13 most expensive homes in the world. The Ambani’s come out on top with a home worth $1 Billion which Mukesh Ambani calls “Antilia”. $1 Billion is just a drop in the ocean for Mukesh who has a networth of $22.6 Billion. See […]
We all know that doing bad things is wrong, but come on, by now it’s clear that the payoff is pretty massive. You may have to spend half your life in prison, but when you get out you’re basically sorted for about two lifetimes. There are people in the world who have made so much money through the underworld that they could start their own army. Check out this […]
An award known as “the Nobel Prize for water” has been given to an Indian campaigner who has brought water to 1,000 villages. The judges of the Stockholm Water Prize say his methods have also prevented floods, restored soil and rivers, and brought back wildlife. The prize-winner, Rajendra Singh, is dubbed “the Water Man of India”. The judges say his technique is cheap, simple, and that his ideas should […]
YANGON, Myanmar — A bar manager from New Zealand and two Burmese men were sentenced to two years in prison in Myanmar on Tuesday for posting an image online of the Buddha wearing headphones, an effort to promote an event. The court in Yangon said the image denigrated Buddhism and was a violation of Myanmar’s religion act, which prohibits insulting, damaging or destroying religion. “It is clear the act […]
It really says a lot when the creator of the iPad wouldn’t even let his kids use an iPad. When asked by New York Times reporter Nick Bilton if his kids loved the iPad, he replied: “They haven’t used it. We limit how much technology our kids use at home.” That’s quite the response! Among tech executives, there’s a growing trend of parents who won’t let their kids use […]
Lalitesh Katragadda, former Google India hotshot plans an exhaustive database of information on the ‘next billion’ people. Lalitesh Katragadda, the man behind Google Maps, is picking up where Nandan Nilekani, former Unique Identification Development Authority of India (UIDAI) chairman, left off. After quitting his lucrative job as Google’s India head for products in March last year, Katragadda is building a national information platform – an exhaustive database of information […]
From selling vegetables in his local village, long distance runner Indrajeet Patel has indeed come far – today he competes with some of the best athletes in the world.He won the 2013 and 2014 editions of the Mumbai Half Marathon and Singapore’s 3000 meter Asian Area Champion (Jr.) in in 2010). Patel doesn’t consider his past as a farmer a hindrance. “Farming is a labour intensive process. Right from sowing […]
There’s opulence, there’s crazy opulence and then there’s the birthday party of Zimbabwe President, Robert Mugabe. He’s the world’s oldest leader, who has been ruling Zimbabwe since its independence from Britain in 1980. The president ushered in his 91st birthday at an exclusive golf course and spa in Victoria Falls by releasing 91 balloons into the sky, hosting 20,000 guests and spending a whopping million dollars – and that’s […]
Prominent Bangladeshi-American blogger Avijit Roy began one of his final articles by writing that January’s Charlie Hebdo massacre in France was “a tragic atrocity committed by soldiers of the so-called religion of peace.” He recalled the case of another secular blogger, Ahmed Rajib Haider, who was hacked to death outside his home in Bangladesh in February 2013 by assailants with machetes. “The virus of faith was the weapon that […]
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