Thousands are queuing up outside banks and post offices across the country, exchanging their banned 500 and 1000 rupee notes for the newly introduced currency on Wednesday. But two days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the demonetisation of high value notes as a move “to break the grip of corruption and black money,” questions are being raised on the rationale of introducing the Rs 2000 note besides pumping in […]

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday announced demonetisation of Rs 1000 and Rs 500 notes with effect from midnight, making these notes invalid in a major assault on black money, fake currency and corruption According to an official statement by PM Modi, persons holding old notes of five hundred or one thousand rupees can deposit these notes in their bank or post office accounts from 10th November till close of […]

An India-Pakistan love story has had a happy ending after Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj got the bride her visa. Naresh Tewani, from Jodhpur in north India, tweeted Ms Swaraj asking for help, after his Pakistani bride Priya Bachchani’s visa was delayed. The minister ensured that all 35 members of Ms Bachchani’s family got visas to attend the wedding on Monday. The couple have thanked Ms Swaraj for helping them at a […]

Americans are getting set for a long Election Night of waiting to see who the 45th US president will be — Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump. Here are the key things to know: what it takes to win, which states are the ones to watch, and how long it all might take for the winner to emerge: The magic number is 270 Rather than one big nationwide election, this is […]

The Goods and Services Tax (GST) rate will have four brackets – 5, 12, 18 and 28 per cent. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has said it will be announced later how different items and services will be taxed, but essentials and food will be in the lowest tax slabs while luxury and sin goods like tobacco products will be in the highest and will attract an extra cess. Here is […]

Every day, you get up and head to your place of work, college or school. You travel through the narrow lanes, traffic-swarmed main roads and pedestrian bridges to reach your destination. There goes an hour or two — mundane as it was yesterday, and could be, tomorrow. But, what if we say, China has come up with interesting architecture letting its citizens have fun while they travel every day? Yes, […]

The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem’s Old City is Christianity’s most hallowed shrine. It’s believed that the rock-cut tomb at the heart of the church was where the body of Jesus Christ was once laid. Over the past week, for the first time in centuries, a team of conservationists and researchers removed a marble slab that lay in a rotunda, known as the Edicule, at the center of […]

A brother and sister from Canada are the first overnight guests for some 70 years to spend a night at Dracula’s castle in Transylvania, Romania, after winning a contest run by vacation rental marketplace Airbnb. Please follow and like us:

Wat Phra Kaew, or the Temple of the Emerald Buddha, is the most sacred religious structure in Thailand. Located in the heart of Bangkok, near the royal palace, the lavish complex has more than 100 buildings in its compound, including a statue of the Emerald Buddha, which is considered the country’s protector. Encircling this complex is a two-kilometre-long wall decorated with exquisite murals – of the Ramayana. The murals of […]

Why are we so afraid? Fear continues to saturate our lives: fear of nuclear destruction, fear of climate change, fear of the subversive, and fear of foreigners. But a recent Rolling Stone article about our “age of fear” notes that most Americans are living “in the safest place at the safest time in human history.” It continues: Around the globe, household wealth, longevity and education are on the rise, while […]