Selfies: five times more deadly than shark attacks
Selfies: five times more deadly than shark attacks
With smartphones becoming more sophisticated, the death toll has crept up incrementally each year
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Over 200 million watched India-Pakistan World Cup match on TV in India
Over 200 million watched India-Pakistan World Cup match on TV in India
Another 100 million saw the match online
Here is how bacterial spray may help conserve decaying monuments
Here is how bacterial spray may help conserve decaying monuments
A close examination of a sixteenth century Moghul monument facing disfigurement has led scientists to a new method of conserving decaying monuments ...
Actor-director Vijaya Nirmala passes away
Actor-director Vijaya Nirmala passes away
She broke into the male bastion of film direction
Semi-arranged marriages partially replacing arranged marriages in India: UN report
Semi-arranged marriages partially replacing arranged marriages in India: UN report
In India, for example, the practice of arranged marriages remains commonplace.
In legal first, court faults France over air pollution
In legal first, court faults France over air pollution
A court on Tuesday found the French state had failed to take sufficient steps to limit air pollution around Paris, a legal first in the country hailed ...
Summer of 83: An identity for some of India’s world cup veterans even after 36 years
Summer of 83: An identity for some of India’s world cup veterans even after 36 years
They remember most of the things, may forget a few just like senior citizens tend to but then comes June 25 and they are all back in that Lord’s ...
Abandoned tents, human waste piling up on Mount Everest
Abandoned tents, human waste piling up on Mount Everest
After every party it is time to clean up and Mount Everest is no different. The record number of climbers crowding the world’s highest mountain ...
IIT-M Avishkar Hyperloop team zooms into SpaceX contest final
IIT-M Avishkar Hyperloop team zooms into SpaceX contest final
A team of 30 students of IIT Madras is making both the institution and the country proud by being the only team from Asia to make it to the finals of ...
Number of unruly airline passengers worldwide in 2018
Flight plan: Jargon
Gas-turbine engine: An engine incorporating as its chief element a turbine rotated by expanding gases. In its ...
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Why planes don’t fly like birds!
Why don’t aircraft take a direct route to their destinations instead of criss-crossing the skies? The reasons ...
Go for good quality large and mid-cap stocks that have corrected sharply: Vinit Sambre
"Stocks in these segments are good hunting ground for investors with long term view"
A lowdown on bond ETFs in India
They are passive funds traded on the exchange and invest in bonds
NCLAT members give differing views in the Visa Infrastructure case
SBI’s application for initiation of insolvency proceedings in limbo
Short-term outlook weak for rupee
The rupee, which had been holding between 70.75 and 71.4 against the dollar since the beginning of October, ...
Remade in India
Good old bartering and repairing are back in fashion, with the millennial zeroing in on the pre-owned and the ...
Quiz: Mind games
On this day in 1773, the first asylum for the insane opened in the US. This quiz will literally drive you ...
Antique pleasures
One of my quirks is that I don’t re-read books. Even favourite books. There’s barely enough time to read ...
Ancient skills and vanishing livelihoods of Tamil Nadu
Why should the young continue the hereditary occupations of their families, when their traditional wisdom is ...
When labelling gets smart, savvy and sustainable
Intelligent tags are not just making shopping frictionless but are changing our lives
Nuggets
Hype around the hoop!Could this be basketball’s take-off moment in India? With no less than two heads of state ...
Marketer, Leader, Teacher, Titan
Some lessons from Bhaskar Bhat, who powered iconic brands
Sustainability is the new style statement
As global action against climate change mounts, more brands step up on eco-consciousness
No longer the right climate for tea
Climate change has unleashed havoc on the tea plantations in the Nilgiris. Frost, drought, pests — growers ...
Coffee in crisis
Kodagu farmers remember the hillside crashing down on their plantations following heavy rains
Rubber hit, too
James Jacob, Director, Rubber Research Institute of India, points out that natural rubber growing regions in ...
Done in by discounts?
Undercutting by online aggregators has made business unviable, be it food delivery, hotel booking or cab ...