In a year full of biopics and sports drama, here’s a fresh breeze of political drama in Bollywood. Jimmy Shergill, Ashutosh Rana starrer ‘Shorgul’ is based on religion and political drama in the backdrop of Uttar Pradesh   The trailer of the flick reels on themes such as humanity, politics, social, political and economic issues. It also stars Sanjay Suri, Narendra Jha, Hiten Tejwani, Eijaz Khan, Suha Gezen, Anirudh Dave […]

India, which has emerged as the world’s second largest mobile market, is also the fifth largest producer of e-waste, discarding roughly 18.5 lakh tonnes of electronic waste each year, a study says. Telecom equipment alone accounts for 12 per cent of the e-waste, a joint study by Assocham-KPMG said. Matter of concern The rising levels of e-waste generation in India have been a matter of concern in recent years. With […]

The BJP on Wednesday came out in strong defence of megastar Amitabh Bachchan for his association with an event to mark the second anniversary of the Modi government, despite a probe against him after his name appeared in the Panama Papers expose.   BJP leaders, including Union Ministers, said the probe against Bachchan had nothing to do with the event linked with the social issue of protecting the girl child, […]

Yes, it is finally here. Recently, Disney released its first teaser trailer to the live-action adaptation of the 1991 animated musical film, ‘Beauty and the Beast’, and it is taking the Internet by storm. Loaded with brilliant CGI, the teaser showcases an abandoned castle that is being visited an unknown guest with two voices conversing in the background. “Beauty and the Beast” is the fantastic journey of Belle ( a […]

If bread forms a staple at your breakfast table or if you are heavily invested in stocks like Britannia or Jubilant Foodworks, it was a rather traumatic Tuesday for you. For most common news savvy citizens glued to the TV screen making those shocking revelations, it was literally a bolt from the blue. But is all that scare justified. My first question about the report released by CSE is the […]

Potassium bromate is the main culprit – it has been classified as a category of 2B carcinogen which is mostly cancerous for humans. This is the reason it is banned in most countries. Not in India of course because of easy-going food regulations.Why are they using these chemicals in bread? According to a research, the chemical Potassium Bromate and Iodate offers high quality finish to the bread and helps the […]

Bollywood superstar Salman Khan is back to take the silver screens by storm and, this time, he looks determined enough to break all Box Office records. You will be amazed to know that the recently released trailer of Yash Raj Films’ ‘Sultan’ has been declared an instant hit by the viewers. The Ali Abbas Zafar directorial is slated to release on Eid this year. It also features Anushka Sharma, Randeep […]

We have all been in those customer meetings where each of your slides are greeted with a deafening silence from the customer. The glass half full part of you would like to think that the customer is “all good”!  However, your inner doubting Thomas, keeps you second guessing on how the meeting went?! There could be Five reasons for a silent customer in a meeting, that you need to be […]

 A recent study led by Vikram Patel, a prominent mental health expert, suggests that by 2050, India will lose 39.6 million years of healthy life to mental illnesses unless appropriate steps are taken. Studies have shown that a third of global mental disorders occurs in India and China, indicating the growing burden of untreated mental illnesses in the world’s two most populous countries. Schizophrenia is one of the most serious […]

India will get an indigenously-built supercomputer next year as part of the government’s Rs 4,500-crore programme aimed at taking India into an elite league of nations who have made advancements in the field.  Centre for Development of Advanced Computing that built India’s first supercomputer, Param, is handling the project, said Ashutosh Sharma, secretary in the ministry of science and technology. The government had, in March 2015, approved the plan of […]