If you’re from south India, you’ve probably been brought up on a healthy dose of rasam in everyday cuisine. Rasam is the ultimate comfort food for many. That something that mom makes when you’ve been away on a long trip or you need when you’re sick. Taking on chicken soup as the quintessential comfort food isn’t easy. But rasam is totally up to the task! A piping hot, tangy concoction […]

Still dealing with the anti-diversity memo controversy, Google CEO Sundar Pichai addressed the issue at a coding event for girls, assuring them of the importance of women in tech jobs. “I want you to know there’s a place for you in this industry. There’s a place for you at Google. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. You belong here, and we need you,” Pichai is quoted at saying in an […]

Adolescence in my school had just one meaning: Getting closer to girls. I went to a government school in a small town where boys and girls lived strictly segregated lives – even in the classroom. The biology teacher didn’t touch human reproduction when female students were present, men and women couldn’t sit on the same bench and even sharing notes before examinations was confined by gender. Our lives were co-educational […]

While lay-offs have become the norm especially in futuristic sectors like IT, the Union cabinet has cleared the labor code on minimum wages, creating a minimum wage barrier of Rs. 18,000/- With the implementation of this bill, any state is bound by law to not pay a lesser amount. This translates to that the minimum wage for someone working in a metro city will be the same as that of […]

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Seventy years ago, in August 1947, British colonial rule in India came to an end. The country was divided into two independent states – Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan. Using letters and diaries sourced from the world’s first Partition Museum which opens in Amritsar on 17 August, Soutik Biswas pieces together the extraordinary story of four friends who were separated by the traumatic event and reunited 30 years later. “Our […]

There’s a vacancy at NASA, and it may have one of the greatest job titles ever conceived: planetary protection officer. It pays well, between $124,000 and $187,000 annually. You get to work with really smart people as part of the three- to five-year appointment but don’t have to manage anyone. And your work could stave off an alien invasion of Earth or, more important, protect other planets from us. President […]

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Many people think that if they work hard, be the first person in the office and the last one to leave at night that they will be successful. Entrepreneurs put in 50 to 60 hours a week chasing success as they slowly burn out. The reality is that success is often closer than you realize and it depends on how you think about it and what questions you ask yourself. […]

The government has made a number of changes in passport rules over the past year with the objective of making registration of passports easier. The Ministry of External Affair, which handles the issuing of passports in India, released new passport rules in December 2016. Few changes have followed afterwards as well. We look at all the significant changes enforced in recent months. 1. Birth certificate requirement waived off: Prior to […]