Cyber crooks are rampantly carrying out fraudulent activities in the name of the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), conning gullible customers under the garb of various central schemes. One such incident has come forward where a Nigerian has been netted by the CBI for allegedly running a racket, whereby he impersonated PMO officials and duped people. In April 2017, the deputy secretary of PMO wrote a complaint to the CBI alleging […]

Every time my grandmother receives any money, she carefully puts it away in her tiny purse she keeps under her pillow. For a very long time I believed her hoarding tendencies were just related to age. I was wrong. Save, but not in cash The previous year’s demonetisation exercise exposed how universal the habit of hoarding cash is among women. Housewives, who had squirrelled away whatever cash they’d saved from […]

A 21-year-old man has become the first in Britain to give birth after he put his sex transition on hold to get pregnant by a sperm donor. Hayden Cross, who made headlines around the world earlier this year when he announced he was pregnant by a sperm donor, has given birth to a girl. Cross told The Sun that daughter Trinity-Leigh is his “angel”. Cross gave birth by caesarean. The […]

Are our children equipped with life skills when they leave school to face the world outside? Recent industry surveys are increasingly suggesting that there is a worrying life skills shortage in the workforce. “…graduates are leaving education with inspiring theoretical knowledge, but lack of practical job-related skills. There is a huge soft skills gap developing,” as explained by Ian Gomes, Chairman, KPMG, New and Emerging Markets. Are we educators working […]

After Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a call to the well-heeled LPG consumers to give up their cooking gas subsidies, the Railways department seems to be mooting a similar idea for its passengers too. As per a report in the Times of India, the government wants to give rail passengers a similar option to  “voluntarily forego the subsidy on tickets.” The plan will be rolled out next month, TOI said. […]

Each of us thrives on being successful and in doing so we often forget the difficulties lying in the path to success. We set targets and want to achieve them right away, but we are humans and may fall short on those goals. Failure at the start can lead to frustration, and it shatters the self-confidence you had at the beginning. You might consider giving up on your dreams because […]

Exactly at 4.30 am on August 14, 2004, hangman Nata Mullick, on getting the magistrate’s signal, pulled the lever at the Alipore Central Jail in Kolkata. On his 42nd birthday, after spending nearly 14 years in prison, Dhananjoy Chatterjee was hanged to death. Convicted of raping and murdering a teenage girl in an apartment in South Kolkata in 1990, Dhananjoy’s case is one of the most controversial in the recent […]

People with a legitimate reason for not being able to deposit old 500 and 1,000 – rupee notes – like those in prison – cannot be denied the right to swap the outlawed currency for new notes, the Supreme Court said today, asking the government to explain how it will help these citizens by the 17th of this month. In November, Prime Minister Narendra Modi made the shock announcement that […]

In a first-of-its-kind initiative by a serving prime minister, Narendra Modi will write a book dedicated to the youth, in which he will address core issues like overcoming examination stress, keeping one’s composure and even what to do after the exams are over. Publishers Penguin Random House (PRH) India said the book will be in multiple languages and out in book stores later this year. The book will cover many […]

Prime Minister Narendra Modi quoted Albert Einstein during his speech at the midnight launch of Goods and Services Tax. Mr. Modi said: “Einstein said if there is something in this world that is difficult to understand, it is income tax. I wonder what he would have said on seeing our multiple tax.” So what is the story behind this quote? According to Quote Investigator, a fact-checking blog, Einstein made this […]