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Customise your Instagram stories with these apps

As businesses increasingly narrate professional stories via visual mediums, the Instagram story format is gaining momentum. Here are some useful apps to edit your stories better, make them fun, and thus increase engagement.

Difference in daily diets of north and south Indians

Not just cultures, traditions, and languages, what people eat and drink also varies in different parts of India. While daily diets do not differ so much in the same regions, the variations are stark between north and south.

Soaring petrol and diesel prices

With petrol prices in India at near five-year high, and diesel prices at all-time high levels, after oil marketing companies hiked prices, here is a look at how it can have a negative impact on the economy.

World Environment Day 2018: India suffocates in plastic

As India hosted World Environment Day yesterday taking the lead to fight plastic pollution, drains in Indian cities were being clogged with plastic bottles, bags and food wrappers. Though there are initiatives with a view to reduce plastic pollution, lack of public awareness and ...

India violates global laws by taxing international tickets

India is levying its standard Goods and Services Tax (GST) even on international airlines, disregarding global airline laws set up by authorities.

Playing Ganjifa

Circular, hand-painted cards, this deck made for a royal play and were once hugely popular. Brought to India by the Mughals as the Persian Ganjifa they evolved into the Indian Dashavatara and Ramayana cards. Made, in various parts of the country, today, they are more a piece of a...

Electronic Warfare

Technological advancements have made the defence sector more vulnerable to cyber attacks. Cyber warfare is the most dangerous threat of today. In the past decade, the defence industry changed dynamically. With the advanced technological innovations in defence, countries might get...

Weapons of Mass Destruction

Even though mass killing of human beings is not a new feature of warfare, Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) pose an unparalleled constellation of challenges to peace and security. As India is becoming a major player in the world economy, it needs to have security mechanisms of it...

The Rise of Asia-Oceania and Middle East

The world has expended USD 1,739 billion in the military segment in 2017, amounting to 2.2 pc of the global GDP according to SIPRI. However, this rise of spending – including all expenditure items – is not uniform and the weight of military spending is shifting away from Euro...

Most inexpensive international airlines

A report by a travel planning site that suggests Asian and Indian airlines to be dominating the list of the most inexpensive international air carriers, has positioned two India carriers in the top five.

Maharashtra for health and wellness

India has traditionally been known to be the land where ancient medicinal forms originated, making it a growing hotspot for tourists seeking alternative health remedies and wellness. Apart from the hill stations and secluded places, big cities like Maharashtra are also home to ma...