Acording to a recent research led by London School of Economics, not financial factors but meaningful relationship and robust mental health are the reasons behind a happy and content individual. It further added that the happiness of finding love and good mental health is much more than of doubling one’s salary. “The evidence shows that the things that matter most for our happiness and for our misery are our social […]
It has not rained in Chennai since about 4 pm, a little after Cyclone Vardah hit the Tamil Nadu coast on Monday afternoon making landfall about 15 km away from the capital. But after a one-hour lull, strong winds have started to blow again. The cyclone struck land with a wind speed of 120 and 130 kmph, bringing with it heavy rain that lashed the coast in Tamil Nadu and […]
It is estimated that around 8% of the black economy is held in the form of cash. So, 8% of Rs. 75 lakh crore is held in cash. So, around Rs. 6 lakh crore of black money is held in cash. There are no official estimates of black money held in cash but experts on estimating black money such as Prof. Arun Kumar have estimated the amount at Rs. 6.5 […]
A Harvard student’s Facebook post on J Jayalalithaa, the powerful Tamil Nadu chief minister who died on Monday, has been shared over 30,000 times since it was posted on Tuesday morning. Jayalalithaa, 68, was buried with state honours at Chennai’s Marina Beach yesterday, next to the man who starred with her in many films and brought her into politics, MG Ramachandran or MGR. Lakhs of people paid their respects […]
An Indian-origin Oxford graduate has sued the university for £1m claiming the “appallingly bad” and “boring” teaching resulted in him getting a second class degree and in turn led to loss of earnings during his career as a lawyer. Faiz Siddiqui, 38, studied modern history at Brasenose College at the university and accuses its staff of “negligent” teaching of his specialist subject course on Indian imperial history, which led […]
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa, who is undergoing treatment at Apollo Hospital in Chennai following a cardiac arrest on Sunday evening, has been put on an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) to support her heart-lung activity. The 68-year-old leader was in a critical condition following the cardiac arrest and is being treated by a team of specialists at the hospital where she has been admitted since late September. Here’s what you […]
Reliance Industries Limited’s Chairman and Managing Director Mukesh Ambani on Thursday announced to extend the Reliance Jio Welcome offer till March 2017 in which customers will get free voice calls and roaming services, while data is being charged at one-tenth of the prevailing market rates. Here are the key facts of announcement regarding Reliance Jio that you should know – Reliance Jio extends free voice and data for […]
One of the pioneers in the space of backend-as-a-service, Kinvey has faced stiff competition from larger enterprise rivals like Amazon, IBM, Red Hat and SAP. In our smartphone-saturated world, everyone dreams of being an app developer. But somebody’s got to build the platform that lets you turn your next big idea into a practical mobile solution. Enter Sravish Sridhar, founder of the mobile developer platform Kinvey, which was ranked as […]
“A city is a living, throbbing organism with a soul of its own and, it would often seem, a thinking mind,” TJS George writes in Askew, a delightful “short biography of Bangalore”, published by Aleph Book Company this month as part of its series of monographs on Indian cities. Like all the volumes so far — on Delhi, Bombay, Madras, Calcutta and Patna respectively — this book is a combination […]
Home Minister Rajnath Singh today assured innocents of no harassment as he told country’s top Police officers not to arrest anyone on basis of allegation of radicalisation unless solid proof is available. Singh also said that genuine NGOs are free to carry out development works but warned that those organisations which allegedly indulge in anti-national activities will not be spared. This was conveyed by Singh at the concluding day of […]
