With over 1.3 billion users, world’s largest social networking firm Facebook has enabled global economic impact of $227 billion (roughly Rs. 14,01,725 crores) and 4.5 million jobs around the world in 2014, according to a report by consultancy firm Deloitte. The report titled Facebook’s Global Economic Impact, analyses how Facebook’s marketing, platform and connectivity effects have facilitated growth and jobs around the world. Commissioned by Facebook, the study estimates […]

An Entrepreneur, a philanthropist, a billionaire and an extra ordinary genius investor, Warren Buffett is the fourth richest man in the world and the second richest man in the United States after Bill Gates. Warren Buffett began investing at the ripe young age of 11 and by the age of 13 he was into his own business as a paper-boy, selling his own horse racing tip sheets. Nowadays, Buffett is […]

When President Barack Obama arrives in India on January 25, it will be in Air Force One- that jetliner so advanced and iconic that it has been granted leading man status in several films. In India, Air Force One will be treated very much as a VVIP – it will be accorded the same protocol in Indian air space that is set aside for the President of India and the […]

  (Indian Gooseberry) or ‘amalaki’ is a translucent fruit with many therapeutic benefits. It’s considered to be one of the most important plants in Ayurvedic medicine and is a unique balance of sour, sweet, pungent and bitter. It’s rich in Vitamin C and also loaded with a range of polyphenols (gallic acid, ellagic acid, luteolin, corilagin etc). Polyphenols are antioxidants that prevent damage to free radicals in the body and […]

International academicians could be paid as high as USD 12,000 for a 20-day teaching session in institutes here under a government sponsored-programme to help students across the streams get exposure to the best of faculties from abroad. They would teach in centrally-funded educational bodies like IITs and central universities and in institutes with ‘A’ grade, the details of which are being finalised before US President Barack Obama’s visit to India. […]

Here’s a pop quiz for anyone who calls the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. an American hero. Can you name any of his great speeches or written works without citing “I Have a Dream” or the “Letter from Birmingham Jail”? Most Americans would likely flub this quiz. King may be a national hero whose birthday the country commemorates on Monday, but to many he remains a one-dimensional hero — the […]

Did you know that only 20-30% of our life expectancy can be determined through our genes? If you want to live to be 100, you may need more than just a sound set of X and Y chromosomes passed down from your parents. Lifestyle is the most important factor in determining not only how long you live, but the quality of your long life. It turns out the people from […]

India has been pure and clean. It is us the people who have made it dirty. By just cleaning the streets on superficial way wont help in cleaning the India. SwachhBharat campaign is not about just about cleaning our streets and surrounding, it is about changing the mindset of people in India. Please share and help in changing the mindset of people for cleaner and better India. Please follow and […]

A lot of people are quick to believe the vicious reputation that pit bulls have been assigned, but it’s entirely unfair to the sweet pooches who wouldn’t hurt a fly. These six hungry pits prove that there’s way more to the breed than meets the eye. Watch as they patiently wait as their little chef pours out their food and cautions them to “stay, stay…” until it’s finally time to […]

Mumbai may pace to a frenetic beat, but the metropolis has hidden corners where life moves more leisurely. If you want to see what life was like a few decades ago, I’d suggest a visit to Mumbai’s 92-year-old Bombay Development Directorate’s chawls. Families manage in tiny rooms and neighbours, unlike what happens in much of Mumbai, are very much a part of each other’s lives. The chawls’s residents still share […]