The advent of social media and emergence of platforms like Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat, which let users share views and images with people across the world, has also given rise to a selfie craze. Although it can have effects on mental health, at times the obsession with selfies has also proved fatal when taken too far.   As youngsters have been in the race for clicking the most spectacular selfies […]

India’s largest public sector bank has dropped more than Rs 7,000 crore, more than 80 per cent of the amount owed to it by its top 100 defaulters, into the Advance Under Collection Account (AUCA) bin for toxic loans With efforts to recover its dues hitting a virtual dead-end, the State Bank of India (SBI) seems to be have started a clean-up of its balance sheets by writing off loans […]

The jury is still out on whether Modi’s demonetisation move can spell out long-term benefits and actually curb the scourge of black money and corruption in the system but one simple fact that this exercise has brought in to the forefront is a surge in the humanity and the humane aspect of the average Indian around you. Whether you follow What’sapp or not the umpteenth instances of Gurudwaras and charitable […]

People are queuing up at banks across the country to exchange their demonetised Rs 500 and Rs 1000 banknotes . While the move disrupted the daily lives of hundreds of millions of Indians, economists and some businesses have welcomed it as a vital step towards broadening the formal economy and improving tax compliance. People are trying to swap their old notes for smaller bills and for new 500 and 2,000 […]

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 […]

A Finance Intelligence Unit report to FinMin had highlighted the quantum jump in suspicious transactions and the need for action against hoarders On October 27, two weeks before Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s crackdown on black money by demonetising Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes, the Finance Intelligence Unit (FIU) wrote to the finance ministry on the urgent need to tighten the noose around those involved in suspicious financial dealings. A […]

The government is learnt to have been working on this proposal over the last two months Making one of his boldest moves since assuming power, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Tuesday announced that Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes will be withdrawn from circulation at midnight, saying this decision was taken to break the grip of corruption and black money. Addressing the nation on television at 8 pm, the Prime Minister […]

In many ways, children from very different countries share similar online interests. Sonia Livingstone, London School of Economics and Political Science and Mariya Stoilova, London School of Economics and Political Science The internet has reached almost every corner of the globe, but most research on how it is used, particularly among children, focuses on the US and Europe. This is a problem, because according to best estimates one in three […]

In an alarming revelation, it has been found that as many as 76 tiger deaths have been reported because of poaching in the country from January to October this year. According to a Times of India report, Madhya Pradesh is on top of the list, accounting for nearly one-third of the total number of deaths and Karnataka stands on the second spot with 13 deaths. This number of tiger deaths […]

Nepal has successfully drained part of a giant glacial lake near Mount Everest, averting risk of a disastrous flood that could have threatened thousands of lives, officials said Monday. Scientists say climate change is causing Himalayan glaciers to melt at an alarming rate, creating huge glacial lakes which could burst their banks and devastate mountain communities. Imja Tsho, located at an altitude of 5,010 metres (16,437 feet), just 10 kilometres […]