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It's been barely a month since he took over as only the third CEO of tech giant Microsoft since it was set up 39 years ago, but Satya Nadella already has Microsoft's five-year plan chalked out: use software as a driving force to advance the company's devices and services. In an...

Lok Sabha polls to start on April 7, vote count on May 16. Here is the complete 2014 LOKSABHA ELECTION State Wise Schedule :- Arunachal Pradesh: April 9 Assam: April 7, 12 and 24 Bihar: April 10, 17, 24, 30, May 7 and 12 Chhattisgarh: April 10, 17, 24 Goa: April 17 Gujarat: April 30 Haryana...

In a ground-breaking discovery led by an Indian-origin palaeoclimatologist, researchers have found that a 200-year-long monster drought nearly 4,200 years ago doomed the Indus Valley civilisation in present Pakistan and northwest India. Based on isotope data from the sediment of an ancient...

Stripping down in public as a means of protesting against some social evils or restrictions is not a new concept for the world. In western countries, public stripping is carried out by many individuals and groups who go out nude or semi-nude in public places, demanding certain goals they want to...

After 9 months’ long wait, the entire nation was waiting, with bated breath, for the verdict of the infamous Delhi gang rape. Yes, it was a rarest-of-the-rare kind of brutality that occurred on the fateful night of 16th December, last year. It brought the entire nation, rich and poor, young and...

Who would not have heard of Yo Yo Honey Singh! The rap star has become extremely popular among the Indian youth these days. His songs can be heard everywhere− in clubs, youth parties, college functions, on FM stations, blaring car woofers, and (sadly) in family functions. Since Bollywood has...

The concept global village really came in to a reality with cutting edge digital technologies and internet invaded in to the everyday lives of common man. Now, we can connect and communicate with anyone across the world within a matter of minutes through the platform of social networking, which...

Bollywood cinema has successfully clinched a major position in the Indian and global cinema with its popular stories, dance, music, A-list directors, big banner production houses and, of course, its celebrity superstar actors and gorgeous actresses. From the old black and white days, to the...

Owing to a string of volatile global economic factors, Indian economy has been on a downward slide for the past few years. The economic slowdown has now become a very direct attack on the common man with rupee-dollar exchange instability, the ever-increasing inflation etc. Earlier, with the...

Homosexuality is considered a taboo not only in India, but also in the entire Southern Asia. In India, homosexuality is still a very sensitive subject and is treated somewhere close to illegal and a grade below, despite the 2009 court ruling which overturned the colonial law that declared...

English, the lingua franca, is the global language. It is accepted all over the world and thus has a high preference in education and academics of any nation. In, India also, English language is the main means of communication among the educated class. Since India is a land that has been divided...

Full throttle acrobatics bikers, high-speeding motorist, and a race course... It may sound like a movie’s set’s description, but unfortunately, these are the Indian roads where every pedestrian feels a great sense of relief once he reaches safely to his destination. With the kind of reckless...

At the first glance, it may seem like an instance of whopping generation gap, but it is something more than that. This issue is very particular to India, unlike generation gap, which has affected families all over the world. The modern India and its new-generation citizens are constantly waging...

The moment a child is born, the happiness and joy of the parents reach sky high. And in the modern society, we can see that when the children start growing up, the anxiety and tensions of the parents also grow, along with happiness, love and care, of course. Through every stage that the child...

I recently came across an article about “God’s Own Garden”, a village called Mawlynnong in East Khasi Hills of Meghalaya, this village has been deemed as the cleanest one in Asia. I was curious to know more about it. After visiting a couple of websites and reading a few blogs about how to reach...