Dikshaa Puri
Dikshaa Puri
International Day for Street Children: Unseen And Unprotected
April 12, 2025
#Onthisday : On April 12, 2011, Consortium for Street Children (CSC) first observed International Day for Street Children. #MIG
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IPL, Ads & Addiction: Online gambling quietly hooking India
April 11, 2025
It is IPL season once again, and the excitement is palpable. Cricketing superstars from around the world, including national icons like Virat Kohli, MS Dhoni and Shubman Gill, as well as international talents such as Pat Cummins and Travis Head, have gathered to compete in this e...
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Attempted Assassination of Zhou Enlai: Failed Assassinations in World
April 11, 2025
On April 11, 1955, a chartered Air India aircraft crashed into South China Sea, just north of Sarawak in Malaysia. #MIG
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Lambasingi: Of cool climes & coffee crops
April 7, 2025
The southern region of India, comprising Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, and Telangana, is renowned for its iconic temples, such as Kerala’s Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple and Tamil Nadu’s Meenakshi temple. It boasts a rich and flavourful cuisine, with staples lik...
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Winston Churchill Resigns: Racist Iron Man
April 5, 2025
#OnThisDay: On April 5 1955, Winston Churchill resigned as Prime Minister of United Kingdom, due to ill-health, ending almost two decades at helm of British & European affairs. #MIG
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Birth of Alibaba: China’s Tech Odyssey Begins
April 4, 2025
#Onthisday: On April 4, 1999, Chinese entrepreneur Jack Ma along with 17 others founded Alibaba Group in his apartment at Hangzhou, China. #MIG
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Swipe, spend, repeat: India’s growing love affair with credit cards
April 1, 2025
In January, India’s central bank, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), revealed that credit card spends grew by 10.8 pc in January 2025, to INR 1.84 trillion, adding that the country’s major banks have consistently expanded their credit card portfolios over the years, now account...
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Mandu: Where love became legend
March 31, 2025
For millennia, love stories in India have been revered as the ultimate ideal, something people dream of having or long to experience. To meet this demand, the country has given birth to iconic love stories in films like Veer-Zaara, Mughal-e-Azam, 96 and Shershah, which portrays t...
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Sleepless India: Hidden toll of chronic sleep deprivation
March 29, 2025
The clock struck 12 to indicate it was midnight, yet 26-year-old Sanjana Agrawal, a UX researcher at an insurance healthcare startup in Bengaluru remained glued to her screen, binge-watching The Adolescence, a British Netflix series. Hooked on what would happen next, she had lost...
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Discovery of Terracota Army: Accidental Archaeological Discoveries
March 29, 2025
#OnThisday: On March 29, 1974, Terracotta Army, comprising 8,000 life-size terra-cotta soldiers & horses was discovered in China.
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TMI 2 Leak: Nuclear Disasters that Changed the World
March 28, 2025
On 28 March 1979, Three Mile Island Unit 2 (TMI-2), a nuclear power reactor in Pennsylvania suffered a partial meltdown, releasing radioactive gas. #MIG
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Porbandar: Where Mahatma Gandhi’s Legacy Lives On
March 27, 2025
On October 2, 1869, Porbandar, a tiny town along the western coast of India, in Gujarat, etched its name in eternal history when Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born in the house of Putlibai and Karamchand Gandhi, a dewan or high official of the principality of Porbandar. The chil...
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