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Monthly archives: April 2017

Digital banking and its 4 BIG issues

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ambitious vision is to see all transactions done through banks and that too digitally. There have been many steps to discourage cash transactions and promote digital banking transactions. Stories of chaiwalas and paanwalas accepting their small amounts through digital mode were common during the note ban. There is a huge surge in transactions done through debit cards, credit cards, e-wallets and apps developed by the government, […]

Starting Fast Is Important but Finishing Strong Is Vital to Your Success

As Entrepreneurs we have no shortages of ideas. Some good, some bad, and some downright terrible, and with that comes many projects. Now a lot of emphasis is placed on the speed of implementation, but the real emphasis should be completion. Simply put an unfinished job does nobody any good. There are many excuses as to why a project is not completed but no good reason. You’ll see it everywhere […]

"Miss You Balasaheb..." An Emotional Letter by Dr. Swapna Patker

That’s why I miss you Balasaheb When I was a kid, I lived with a thought that Balasaheb is a name of a God . Brahma , Vishnu , Mahesh and Balasaheb was a quadrilateral and not the trinity of my life . I have felt safe because you existed . And I knew if anything went wrong, You will be the saviour . I knew Shivsena was your other […]

Struggling to save your relationship? Try and express gratitude, says study

Expressing gratitude may help boost your relationship and also enhance your psychological and physical well-being, a study has found. The findings, published in the journal Review of Communication, showed that gratitude contributes to long-term success in relationships and personal well-being — “up to six months after a deliberate expression to one’s relationship’s partner.” Just as we periodically boost our immune system through vaccines, we can boost our relationships and mental […]

Dubai gurdwara creates world record with breakfast for people from 101 nations

A gurdwara in Dubai broke the world record for serving free breakfast to the maximum number of people from diverse nationalities. Gurdwara Guru Nanak Darbar entered the Guinness World Record on Thursday for serving continental breakfast titled ‘Breakfast for Diversity’ to 600 persons from 101 countries in an hour-long event in Jebel Ali. The Khaleej Times reported that schoolchildren, government officials and diplomats attended the event while Indian ambassador to […]

Silicon Valley’s hottest startup Hortonworks eyes India’s Big Data

The big data industry in the country is expected to grow eightfold to touch $16 billion by 2025 Hortonworks Inc. stunned the tech industry a few years ago when it became the fastest enterprise software start-up to reach $100 million in annual revenue in just four years from inception. The California-based company said that it now saw its next big growth coming from international business and the Indian market is […]

Does a girl in the house mean fire in the belly? Book Review of the "The Taming of Women"

“Having a girl in the house is like having a fire in my belly… I will have peace only when I hand her over to a husband.” I bet you have heard someone close to you spout these lines from the novel in all seriousness. While our boys grow up with a sense of entitlement to the world, our girls are brought up with a sense of gratefulness for being […]

North Korea celebrates founding father's birth anniversary; warns US against 'military hysteria'

If the United States wages reckless provocation against us, our revolutionary power will instantly counter with annihilating strike, and we will respond to full-out war with full-out war and to nuclear war with our style of nuclear strike warfare,” a close aide to Kim Jong-un said. North Korea warned the United States on Saturday to end its “military hysteria” or face retaliation as a US aircraft carrier group steamed towards […]

Begum Jaan Movie Review

BEGUM JAAN STORY: On the eve of Independence, the chairman of the Border Commission, Sir Cyril Radcliffe decides to divide India and Pakistan into equitable halves. What the administration doesn’t account for is the line running through the middle of Begum Jaan’s(Vidya Balan) brothel situated plonk on the border; with one half falling in India and the other in Pakistan. BEGUM JAAN REVIEW: It’s a good period and story to […]

Infosys Hiring Drops 65%, Nearly 38,000 Techies Leave Company In 2016-17

Infosys saw A whopping 37,915 engineers leave the software major while its hiring plunged 65 per cent in fiscal year 2016-17 thanks to increasing automation and thrust on artificial intelligence in its operations and projects. According to the employee metrics disclosed by Infosys on Thursday, 37,915 left the company and its subsidiaries worldwide during the fiscal year under review (FY 2017) as against 34,688 in the previous fiscal year (2015-16). […]