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Top 10 cheapest places to travels in 2023
December 16, 2022
One of the biggest changes in the Indian society over the past couple of decades is the huge growth in travel, both domestic and international. The travel bug seems to have bitten everyone, from students and not so well-off families to single girls and of course families. While e...
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EU’s Chips Act offers unique opportunities to enhance ties with India
December 10, 2022
The adoption of the European Union’s Chips Act Position Paper by the Council of Europe about a week ago is a “watershed moment” in EU’s quest to become a dominant player in the global semiconductor ecosystem. The Council of the European Union consists of the Heads...
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Indian students continue to struggle with Covid-19 disruption
November 15, 2022
Students around the world are still paying for the disruption to their education caused by the widespread closure of schools around the world as one country after another moved to prolonged lockdowns. In most countries, schools have reopened only in this academic year, after almo...
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Breakthrough agenda at COP27 to accelerate decarbonisation
November 12, 2022
Governments of representing over half of global GDP have reached agreement on a 12-month action plan to help make clean technologies cheaper and more accessible everywhere. They launched a package of 25 new collaborative actions to be delivered by COP28 to speed up the decarbonis...
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Amidst chaos in HQ, Twitter’s position in India ominous
November 7, 2022
Friday November 4 is a date that few Twitter employees are likely to ever forget. Most of them are doomed to spend their day or perhaps the entire weekend to see if they have a job to return to on Monday as yet another idiosyncratic policy implemented by the new boss, world’s r...
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Sweet Diwali returns for Indian automobile sector
October 25, 2022
According to the latest data released by the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM), the industry lobby group, a total of 307,389 passenger vehicles were sold in September, while three-wheeler sales stood at 50,626 units and over 1.73 million two-wheeler were sold in t...
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Surprising things you didn’t know about Diwali
October 21, 2022
“So in Uttrakhand what we usually do, especially in Kumaon, as part of Diwali is that the children, after the festivities are done for the day of Mahalakshmi puja, form a group and go about door to door, asking for money, a tradition which is popularly called Bhairlo. They sing...
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India needs to stop whining over Jammu & Kashmir
October 11, 2022
In some senses, Pakistan has scored some brownie points against India in rapid succession. On October 4, the United States Ambassador David Blome undertook an unusually high-profile and rare visit to Muzaffarabad in Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir, meeting with the ‘Prime Minister’...
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Police, administration & ruling party play dandiya with the law
October 7, 2022
While the policemen in Kheda district of Gujarat who created a kangaroo court and delivered ‘instant justice’ by flogging 10 Muslims who had allegedly pelted stones at a Garba event are certainly guilty and should be tried for violation of various laws, a share of guilt also ...
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Raju Srivastava: The man behind a million laughs
September 21, 2022
He started his career doing small roles in films such as Tezaab (1988), an action thriller, starring Madhuri Dixit and Anil Kapoor, or playing the role of a truck cleaner in Salman Khan starrer Maine Pyar Kiya (1989) and a college student in Baazigar (1989). Though he got meatier...
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Top 10 Indian shows on OTT platforms
September 20, 2022
The Indian audience has become pickier with the content it consumes and has recently developed a taste for digital arts. The outdated storytelling approach of television turned many disappointed Indian audiences towards alternatives and increasingly they are finding them on the n...
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Top 10 YouTubers of India
September 6, 2022
Ever since it was launched in 2005, YouTube has dominated the video sharing social media platform. After the parent company Google, it is the second most-visited site on the internet in the world. Over the years, YouTube has become immensely popular in India, with cheap data rate...
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