Mumbai Tilak Mehta is like any other teenager. The 13-year-old attends a suburban school and complains about his father coming home from work late. But there are also some things that set him apart. Tilak is a budding entrepreneur who has founded a logistics startup and also roped in Mumbai’s dabbawalas for help. His startup called “Papers […]
New Delhi As part of the central bank’s regular exercise, the Reserve Bank of India is set to introduce new Rs 100 denomination notes. The new notes, in the Mahatma Gandhi (New) series, will bear the impression of Gujarat’s historic stepwell Rani ki Vav, depicting the country’s cultural heritage. The base colour is Lavender, said […]
New Delhi It may be the first time you have seen this image, but it is not the first place you’re seeing this face. When ‘Trump’ started to be a big search term since the man started running for the US presidential election campaign, he perhaps did not expect the term ‘idiot’ to show up the same result on […]
New Delhi Apple, Facebook, Twitter and other tech giants celebrated World Emoji Day on Tuesday with declaring most used and favourite emojis, announcement of new ones, acknowledging how emojis make conversataions easy and expressive without words, among others. Apple announced over 70 new emoji characters with hair colour variations, gender-neutral characters, mythical creatures and more […]
New Delhi More than 70,000 employees of associate banks of the State Bank of India are angry. Banking staff worked overtime post-demonetisation to meet the demands of long queues of people waiting to exchange old notes with the new ones and maintain working with bare minimum cash supply. The bank staff had been promised “overtime […]
Aurangabad Sixty highly poisonous Russell’s viper snakes were found in the kitchen of a Zilla Parishad school in Hingoli district of Maharashtra, a school official said on Saturday. The spotting of so many snakes at one place created panic among students and staffers of the Zilla Parishad-run school located in Pangra Bokhare village of Hingoli […]
New Delhi Dhing is a village around 30 km from Nagaon town in Assam. Most people outside the state had no clue about its existence; all that changed on Thursday night. Eighteen-year-old Hima Das, the daughter of a farmer from Dhing, has made history by becoming the first Indian woman to win a gold medal […]
As the Thai Navy Seal unit succeeded in rescuing 12 boys and their soccer coach who were trapped inside a flooded Thai cave for more than 10 days, the world breathed a sigh of relief. The 25-year-old coach Ekapol Chanthawong stood strong and took care of the children and what kept the boys going were […]
New Delhi The Supreme Court on Wednesday came down heavily on the Centre and the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) for not being able to protect the iconic Taj Mahal, issuing a warning it will “shut it down” and the authorities should “demolish or restore” the Mughal structure. The apex court was unhappy as the […]
The final four boys and their soccer coach were successfully removed from a flooded cave in Thailand on Tuesday, capping a herculean international rescue effort that appeared bleak just days ago. The rescued was completed Tuesday morning, according to the Thai Navy SEALs. Officials confirmed they had restarted the rescue effort for the third day at 10 […]