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Meet India’s ‘water doctor’, who has turned 84 acres of barren land into a water bowl

Ayyappa Masagi has a simple message: “You want water? Call me!” Thousands have. And his phone rings dozens of times a day. There appears to be an endless supply of patients for the man nicknamed India’s “Water Doctor”. “I faced a lot of water problems in my childhood,” he said. “I used to go at 3am to fetch water from the stream. So I made an oath that when I […]

Why did Facebook gift this student Rs 21 lakh?

Engineering student Arun Suresh Kumar reported two significant security-related bugs to Facebook. Arun Suresh Kumar’s first tryst with computers was a Pentium 3 processor with 128 MB RAM. “I used to play games on it,” says the lad who has participated in and won bounties for his skills in cracking and fixing security bugs — Bitcasa Bug Bounty; AT&T Bug Bounty being some popular ones. Arun was in Class 12 […]

 
 
 

Ae Dil Hai Mushkil' TRAILER OUT! Ranbir, Aishwarya, Anushka will make you celebrate love, friendship and heartbreak

Ranbir Kapoor, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Anushka Sharma starrer ‘Ae Dil Hai Mushkil’ songs are already topping the music chart and now filmmaker Karan Johar is finally out with its much-awaited trailer and this will surely make you celebrate all the emotions that come with true love! After seeing the trailer it’s really hard to judge who’s chemistry is stronger- Ranbir-Aishwarya or Ranbir-Anushka? Pakistani heartthrob Fawad Khan has definitely added […]

Uri Attack: Something Must Have Gone Wrong, Admits Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar

Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar, speaking on the Uri terror attack in which 18 soldiers were killed, conceded today that “something may have gone wrong”. He also asserted that he would “take steps to ensure that this doesn’t happen again.” “Obviously something must have been wrong…although I will not go into details of it. Obviously it’s a very sensitive matter. When something goes wrong, while you try to correct it you […]

Time to hit and hurt the Pakistan army!

‘For every act of terrorism on Indian territory for which there is credible evidence pointing to the Pakistan army and the ISI’s involvement, carefully calibrated military strikes must be launched against the Pakistan army,’ says Brigadier Gurmeet Kanwal (retd). The Pakistan-sponsored fidayeen attack on an army camp in Uri on September 18, that resulted in the martyrdom of 17 soldiers, is the worst since 2002. Though all four fidayeen were […]

Uri attack: RESPECT! These 18 bravehearts sacrificed their lives to protect India

India on Monday bid tearful adieu to its bravehearts who died in Uri terror attack. Heavily armed militants suspected to be from Pakistan-based JeM had on Sunday stormed an Army base in Kashmir, killing 17 jawans. Another soldier ( Sepoy K Vikas Janardhan, who was airlifted to the Army Research and Referral Hospital in Delhi, after being critically injured) succumbed to his injuries today, taking the toll to eighteen. While […]

 
 
 

They never get sick, don't know about cancer and live up to 120 years, this is their secret!

The people who are believed to be the happiest and to live the longest on this planet are those that live in the Northern part of Pakistan. We talk about the Hunza people, who are the only cancer-free population. Moreover, the women give birth, even at the age of 65, and all of them are usually bathing in cold water. Dr. Robert McCarrison reported that nobody among the Hunza people […]

These quotes by Swami Vivekananda can help you write your own destiny

One of India’s most iconic and influential spiritual personalities – Swami Vivekananda – born as Narendranath Dutta, was a disciple of Ramakrishna Paramhamsa, an ardent devotee of Goddess Kali. Representing India at the Parliament of the World’s Religions on September 11, 1893 at the Art Institute of Chicago, Swami Vivekananda, began his speech by addressing the audience as “Sisters and brothers of America!” His words echoed compassion and universal brotherhood. […]

Raghuram Rajan's former IIT teacher's heart-warming story of working with tribals will inspire you

Ex IIT Delhi Professor now lives in a remote village in Madhya Pradesh to work with tribals. From teaching the ex-RBI governor Raghuram Rajan to working with tribals in a remote village in Madhya Pradesh, professor Alok Sagar continues to give ‘service’ a new meaning, even at 64. Originally from Delhi, Sagar acquired his under graduation and post graduation degree in electrical engineering from IIT Delhi after which he went […]

Cauvery row: Karnataka burns as Cauvery stir kills one, curfew imposed in Bengaluru

One person was killed and three others were injured in police firing in Bengaluru as the Cauvery water dispute took a violent turn on Monday following a Supreme Court order to Karnataka to release 12,000 cusecs of water from the river to Tamil Nadu till September 20. The court had, on September 5, ordered the state to release 15,000 cusecs a day By late night, curfew was imposed in 16 […]