Manu Joseph’s latest novel starts with the collapse of an 80-year-old building in Mumbai’s Prabhadevi area, introducing us to Miss Akhila Iyer, a student of neurosurgery headed for Johns Hopkins, she of the “large eyes set in a clever Aryan face”. The offspring of Communist parents and a rebel with more causes than one can keep track of, Miss Iyer’s prolific, multi-themed videos are guaranteed to go viral, most of […]

Leading wellness and corporate life coach Mickey Mehta, in his latest book, The Shoonyam Quotient, offers to help you become the best version of yourself. From breathing to sleeping, the book demands that you look at every aspect of your life with deeper introspection. It may seem like you wouldn’t need a whole book to tell you how to do that, but it’s actually quite helpful to get words of […]

A report in The Tribune on Thursday revealed that access to any Aadhaar holder’s details could be gained, through a mere payment of Rs 500, via an anonymous service on Whatsapp. As per the report, the payment allowed the person to be designated as an ‘agent’, which in turn granted him access to the grievance redressal system. Entering an Aadhaar number into the system revealed the holder’s information, including name, […]

The latest ban on the display of non-vegetarian food because it hurts people’s sentiments got us thinking…how on earth can someone come up with such absurd bans, right? Well, to our surprise, when we researched laws from around the world, we found that we are all surrounded by a crazy bunch of bans, and not just in India. Here are 11 insane things that are banned around the world and […]

The proposed US Bill — Protect and Grow American Jobs — is riddled with “onerous conditions” and places “unprecedented obligations” on both Indian IT companies and clients using H-1B visas, software body Nasscom has cautioned. Nasscom said it has flagged its concerns around visa- related issues in the US with the Senators, Congressmen and the administration, and will engage further in a dialogue over the next few weeks over the […]

A builder from the western suburbs, who has taken up a project on a disputed plot in Mira Road, has been shaken after he received a phone call, allegedly from the dreaded fugitive don, Dawood Ibrahim two weeks ago. “Jayeshbhai,main Dawoodbhai bol rahan hoon. Yeh Mira Road ka property ka mamla mera hai samajh ke, Iqbal jaisa bolta hai vaise settle kar le. Samajh gaya na (Jayeshbhai, this is Dawoodbhai. […]

On Monday, the Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Khwaja M Asif granted a consular access to India, in connection with Kulbhushan Jadhav, who is a former Indian Navy Officer and was sentenced to death on the charges of espionage. The Foreign Minister of Pakistan told the media that they are going to allow a meeting between Kulbhushan Jadhav and his family. His family beng his wife and his mother. He also added […]

Christmas is finally here and one can feel the excitement in the air. Christmas trees are being lit up, gifts are being bought, cakes are being baked and letters to Santa Claus are being scribbled. Plans of either cooking at home or eating outside have been already and the faint sound of Christmas carols can be heard floating in the air. The festive mood is all around and it is […]

Are your students unable to concentrateand retain their lessons at school? For the study, the team included a total of 11,613 children in the UK — including 1,536 from Scotland — to discover the impact of taking a short break from the classroom to complete a physical activity on their mood and cognitive abilities. One of the most exciting areas is brain-based memory research we now have is neuroimaging and […]

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) may either be holding back Rs. 2,000 notes or could have stopped printing high denomination currency, says a SBI Research report. Juxtaposing the data presented in the Lok Sabha recently with the one provided by RBI in its Annual Report earlier, the SBI Ecoflash report said today, “we observe” that the value of small denomination currency in circulation up to March 2017 was Rs. […]