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This is hillarious. (courtesy: Atanu Dey’s Deeshaa) Read more
This is hillarious. (courtesy: Atanu Dey’s Deeshaa) Read more
We have seen earlier how Nehru and his Defence Minister, Krishna Menon looked the other way even when the Army top brass expressed their deep concern about the road that the Chinese were building within the Indian borders and also their aggressive build up along the border. The reactions and the actions of these guys in the prelude to the Indo-China war was nothing short of betrayal of India. Now, more people are standing up and giving yet another angle... Read more
Even Internet can be an addiction. And it has its repercussions. Some people think that internet addiction (IAD) is not a real issue, but in China, Taiwan, and Korea as much as 30% of teens are considered internet addicted. IAD is being treated as “a grave national health crisis” and researchers in Taiwan linked ADHD and hostility to internet addiction in children. In 2013, the United States will mark internet addiction as a ‘real’ disorder as well. Here is an interesting... Read more
In a survey across the globe by Linkedin, where it asked the respondents about their dream jobs when they were kids and if they were currently in those dream jobs, 415 Indian participants also replied. It seems becoming an Engineer, Scientist and a Soldier are the top three for male respondents, while becoming a teacher, nurse or doctor, and engineer are the top three for females. Survey reveals that the top childhood dream jobs for men in India were engineers... Read more
Data Scientists are using Twitter data and Super-computer power to understand where positive and negative emotions and responses are being generated. Silicon Graphics International, or SGI, has partnered with researchers from the University of Illinois to scan international tweets in a project dubbed the Global Twitter Heartbeat. By using SGI’s UV 2000 Big Brain supercomputer, the researchers created real-time heat maps of positive and negative sentiments expressed via Twitter. This means your angry/excited/nervous/happy tweets are possibly being recorded by an... Read more
The Supreme Court on Monday pulled up Centre for being “casual” in handling 2G case before it. It asked the government to explain why entire the 2G spectrum, licenses for which were cancelled by it, were not put on recent auction. The apex court refused to take on record Centre’s affidavit filed by an under secretary-level officer and directed that it must be filed by a secretary-level officer. Read more
The Indian team has handed a handsome defeat to Alistair Cook’s team. This match was important in many ways. At least for India. Within this year, when Rahul Dravid has retired and Sachin Tendulkar is on verge of retiring, India were looking for two rockstar batsmen. In Virat Kohli, we had found one. In Cheteshwar Pujara, we have found a very credible and wonderful replacement for Rahul Dravid. He is rock solid, has the patience and the stamina to pile... Read more
Scientists have for the first time discovered a common gene variant that influences when you will wake up each day and the time of the day you are most likely to die, a new study has claimed. Researchers identified the gene variant that affects virtually the entire population responsible for up to an hour a day of your tendency to be an early riser or night owl. The discovery also finds this genetic variant helps determine the time of day... Read more
We had covered Javed Akhtar’s earlier rendezvous with Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev (Intellectual Nonsense, Javed Akhtar and the India Today conclave), and how – ideologically inclined as Akhtar was, he just seemed to be arguing on things that (1) Sadhguru didn’t say and (2) Kept denying. Just as in that interaction, the public, the anchor – Akhtar and the Harvard professor seemed to be going on their own tangent without any intelligent discussion keeping the topic on hand; the same happened... Read more
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