OPPO F1s smartphone: Strictly for selfie freaks
By Sourabh Kulesh New Delhi, Oct 2 (IANS) If you are a selfie lover and spend much time clicking self-portraits to later sit, choose the best shot and then edit it to wow your friends…
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Walk with Mahatma Gandhi at Rashtrapati Bhavan
By Mudita Girotra New Delhi, Oct 1 (IANS) The new hi-tech Garages Museum in the Rashrapati Bhavan here provides visitors with some great experiences, allowing them to “feel” the presence of Mahatma Gandhi and as…
Karma ensures that poetic justice doesn’t just happen in stories
By Nury Vittachi Uh-oh. My son, after spending his whole life in Mario world picking up rows of spinning gold coins, is about to step into the real world. I’m worried the shock may traumatise…
Heart disease fast catching up with young Indians: Experts
By Rachel V. Thomas New Delhi, Sep 29 (IANS) Heart disease has affected the young Indian population 10 years ahead of their Western counterparts — particularly over the last three decades — owing to sedentary…
‘Designer gym’ for children opens in Delhi
New Delhi, Sep 27 (IANS) Worried about the rising cases of diabetes, obesity and television addiction among kids, a Delhi-based doctor and mother has created a first-of-its-kind designer gym for children — Zig Zag Zoom….
New laws are very silly, should go through Beta testing
By Nury Vittachi A colleague asked me to be her babys godparent but her smile faded as she watched me trying to operate a microwave. Not my fault. There’s obviously a hidden law which says…
This Odisha villager has a goldmine of autographed images, letters
By Chinmaya Dehuri Bhubaneswar, Sep 22 (IANS) Priyabrat Biswal lives in a small village in Odisha but this hasn’t come in the way of his building up a veritable treasure trove of autographed images and…
Global chef Teuku now rides Chennai’s Flying Elephant
By Venkatachari Jagannathan Chennai, Sep 21 (IANS) It would not be wrong at all to call 41-year-old Jakarta-born Teuku Syafrulsyah a global chef. After all, the current Executive Chef at the 201-room Park Hyatt Chennai,…
Next-Gen security can help Indian firms minimise cyber attacks
By Nishant Arora New Delhi, Sep 21 (IANS) As Indian enterprises gain more exposure and attention globally, there is a worrying downside: these firms are at an increased cyber security risk owing to aged and…
When neurotransmitters find their way into a cookbook
By Mayabhushan Nagvenkar Panaji, Sep 21 (IANS) Biting into a chocolate truffle tickles the neurotransmitters in the brain as much as it may tantalise your taste-buds, Bavaria-born author Korenelia Santoro believes. Her newly-released book, “Cooking…
App-based cab services push ‘kaali-peelis’ to the brink
By Team IANS New Delhi, Sep 20 (IANS) The age-old proverb “old is gold” may not hold true for traditional black-yellow taxis any more, given the people’s increasing preference for app-based cab services for intra-city…
Karnataka leads in cases of resurgent chikungunya
By Prachi Salve An acerbic exchange of tweets between Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and journalist Shekhar Gupta illustrated the growing tension in India’s capital over chikungunya, a painful but previously non-fatal mosquito-borne disease that…
True stories show how distorted modern values are
By Nury Vittachi Proposed Fourth Law of Robotics: All robots must have dog memories implanted in them so if they mutiny we can control them with vacuum cleaners and bacon treats. Essential, right? So how…
At Gaj Retreat, nature is at its closest
By Jaideep Sarin Chandigarh, Sep 14 (IANS) Punjab may not be a hill state but a new eco-resort is offering that hill-top feeling amidst abundant nature right on the state’s border with neighbouring Himachal Pradesh….
East-West confluence, blue sea and belly dances turn Istanbul into travellers’ delight
By Aparajita Gupta Istanbul, Sep 13 (IANS) The scintillating blue water of the Bosphorus strait and the high boundary walls of the erstwhile Byzantine civilisation strewn with royal structures in every nook and corner of…
Have your beer chilled with some cutting-edge gadgets
By Sourabh Kulesh New Delhi, Sep 12 (IANS) Do you remember that time when, busy working on a laptop, you found your beer had gone all warm and flat? What if you can get hold…
Sindhudurg: Maharashtra’s and India’s cleanest ‘mini-paradise’
By Quaid Najmi Sindhudurg (Maharashtra), Sep 11 (IANS) Bordered on the west by the bluish-green waters of the Arabian Sea and on the east by the lush green forests of the Western Ghats, Sindhudurg district…
The God of Irony is following me around at the moment
By Nury Vittachi Cop: You were doing 20 kilometres an hour over the speed limit. Me: Yes, but you’re standing there telling me this on a planet spinning at 1,000 kilometres an hour moving around…
Crave for thin-crust pizzas? PizzaExpress is the answer
By Kishori Sud New Delhi, Sep 7 (IANS) Comfortable ambience, a perfectly baked thin-crust pizza with a chilled berry fresca mocktail: The combination offered by PizzaExpress is just perfect for a relaxed Saturday night dinner…
In rich New York, Mother Teresa’s sisters serve its poorest like in Kolkata
By Arul Louis New York, Sep 4 (IANS) Mother Teresa, who is being declared a saint by Pope Francis on Sunday, has been hailed as the “Saint of the Gutters of Kolkata”. But her sisters…