On Sunday morning, in his monthly Mann ki Baat address, Prime Minister Narendra Modi once again invoked BR Ambedkar and said that new India is Ambedkar’s India. The reference fit into the Bharatiya Janata Party’s institutional and the Prime Minister’s personal push to win over a substantial section of the Dalit electorate by paying respect to the man many Dalits deify. In 2014, the BJP swept reserved seats in north, […]
Acer announced the launch of a new gaming desktop named Predator Orion 9000, under its premium Predator gaming series. The latest Acer gaming desktop features an Intel Core i9 Extreme Edition processors with up to 18 cores and 36 threads and up to two NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080Ti graphics cards as a highlight. New Acer Predator Orion 9000 has been priced at Rs 3,19,999 and will be available for purchase […]
In 2004, Venkat Iyer decided to quit his hectic IT job and take up organic farming in Peth, a village near Mumbai. The former IBM executive recounts the journey in a new book, Moong over Microchips: Adventures of A Techie-Turned-Farmer. Iyer spoke to Sonam Joshi about his encounters with local corruption, the reasons for farmer distress, and why they are in protest mode. What was the most difficult part of […]
When music producer Pete Cannon shared the video of the advert for the latest model of the iPhone series on social media, the soundtrack struck some Bollywood buffs as familiar. It was the legendary Indian music maverick RD Burman’s unmistakable trumpet tune from his composition – Meri Nazar Hai Tujh Pe from the 1980 film, The Burning Train, a multi-starrer featuring Dharmendra, Jeetendra, Vinod Khanna, Vinod Mehra, Parveen Babi, Hema […]
If scientists are to be believed, there are small chances that an asteroid will smack into Earth in 2135, The Washington Post reported. Though chances are there that a lot of living things on the planet might be destroyed due to this but forward-thinking astrophysicists have a plan to deal with this. According to an IANS report, in order to deal with potential asteroid impact, NASA has drawn up plans […]
Many of us have talked about the need for more trees in the city and the communities we live in. However, it is surprising to know that apart from a few popular trees, many of us cannot even name the common trees we pass by on the street—and even fewer know about their benefits. Nevertheless, every tree has its own purpose and story. Here are seven trees that are commonly […]
How many wooden pencils do you think a 20-foot pine tree could generate? Actually just 2,500. Over 8 million trees are cut per year to produce just pencils. Such alarming statistics got two young entrepreneurs working with the farming community in Tamil Nadu, thinking. Vishnu Vardhan and Divya Shetty, co-founders of Indian Superheroes, were two Indians working in one of the MNCs in Bengaluru as Instructional Designers. In late 2014, […]
Amazon Studios debuted the teaser trailer for writer/director Dan Fogelman’s Life Itself The Teaser Trailer for Dan Fogelman’s Life Itself.The film will open in theaters on September 21. Life Itself is produced by Marty Bowen, Wyck Godfrey and Aaron Ryder. Watch the Trailer. Please follow and like us:
Mumbai-resident allegedly spent $1.41 million (Rs 9.1 crore) on British e-commerce websites using a foreign travel card issued by the State Bank of India (SBI) with a meagre spending limit of $200 (Rs 13,000) prompting the CBI to register an FIR today, officials said. The SBI had filed a complaint with the CBI in this regard alleging that its NRI Seawoods branch in Navi Mumbai had issued a Foreign Travel […]
