Demonetization is like an earthquake that refuses to stop despite shaking all of us down to our very core. It struck the Indian subcontinent on November 8 and we’re all still reeling from subsequent aftershocks, with no immediate relief on the horizon. One of the undoubted silver linings of the fallout surrounding demonetization is the push towards the adoption of e-wallets (digital wallets or mobile wallets). With hard cash in […]

A Karnataka land official’s driver who committed suicide left a note stating he killed himself because he was harassed for knowing how the officer converted into legal tender Rs 100 crore black money belonging to mining baron G Janardhan Reddy, said police. Ramesh Gowda, the driver of special land acquisition officer Bheema Nayak, stated in the note that this money was used in the lavish wedding of Reddy’s daughter in […]

Superstar Shah Rukh Khan is better known as the king of romance, and quite rightly so. But the witty actor is now experimenting with character roles which surely present him in a never-seen-before avatar. If ‘Fan’ showed the madness of a crazy follower, then Rahul Dholakia’s ‘Raees’ is bound to break his lover boy image for sure. The much-awaited trailer of ‘Raees’ is out and the superstar is looking nothing […]

Experts said that the poor people will be impacted badly due to demonetization decision. The demonetisation move was going “to damage the economy in long term” and cash-less digital payment system “may not be helpful as being thought”, experts said on Monday. In a discussion on ‘State of the Indian Economy’, organised by India International Centre and Working Group on Alternative Strategies, the experts expressed serious concerns over efficacy of […]

The Narendra Modi government may not get the desired result post demonetisation of high-value notes as the banks have till now received about nearly Rs 10 lakh crore worth of scrapped notes, and numbers may surge with still three weeks to go for the deadline to deposit invalidated 500 and 1,000 rupee notes. According to a Times of India report, Centre estimated that demonetisation might flush out about Rs 3 […]

One of the most good looking actors in Indian cinema, Arjun Rampal’s transformation for his character role in ‘Daddy’ will surely shock you. The film is based on the life of popular gangster Arun Gawli. After the first look of the film was released, the official teaser is out now. Arjun has changed his look to completely get in sync with the reel-life character of ‘Daddy’. His uncanny resemblance with […]

Catering to a young audience, these web series are fun, contemporary, and original. While nothing can beat the sheer number of viewers that the Telugu film industry attracts, Telugu web series, especially on platforms like YouTube, are seeing a steady rise in viewership numbers. Over the past one year, these web series have been gaining popularity among urban youth, who are tired of cliches and are looking for new content. […]

The biggest tax reform in decades – the national Goods and Services Tax or GST – has been thoroughly jeopardized by the centre’s abrupt demonetization drive, said Amit Mitra today. As the Finance Minister of West Bengal, Mr Mitra is on the GST Council, which is drafting the rate and scope of the tax. He told NDTV that the April rollout of the tax seems unfeasible now and he will […]

This digital world we exist in wouldn’t have been without the contributions of master inventors. One of whom is Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose, and it’s his 158th birthday today. He’s a forgotten genius from the turn of the 20th century – someone who’s efforts and contribution to science should never be forgotten. Master of Radio Communications At first the subject of some dispute but it’s now a fairly common scientific […]

Meet Halima Aden. She is breaking stereotypes in unthinkable ways and is winning praises all over. In no way is Halima an ordinary teenager. The Somali-American teen is the first woman to participate in the Miss Minnesota USA pageant with a hijab. Representing the state of Minnesota, Halima Aden is a 19-year-old St Cloud college student who has big dreams of competing at the 2017 Miss USA pageant. On Saturday […]