MODI PRESSES THE ‘B’ BUTTON! EXPOSES THE ‘BARBARISM’ OF PAKISTAN IN BALOCHISTAN
It was during August 2016, in his Independence Day speech, when the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has performed an unprecedented feat which Pakistan could never have imagined. He pronounced the ‘B’ word, which Pakistan always detests to talk about as Balochistan remains a touchy or an issue which Pakistan always want to hide from […]
A TEAM OF SCIENTISTS DEVELOP TECHNOLOGY TO READ ‘CLOSED BOOKS’
A group of scientists from the Georgia Tech and Ramesh Raskar, an Indian-origin researcher from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), have successfully developed a new technology to read pages of a book without opening it. The technology enables the machine to read through the pages of a closed book. It uses a system makes electromagnetic […]
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चांद पर पहुंच गया यह इंडो-अमेरिकन! इंडो-अमेरिकन नवीन जैन की कंपनी – मून एक्सप्रेस पहली ऐसी प्राइवेट स्पेस कंपनी बनी है जिसे चंद्रमा पर मिशन चलाने को हाल में अमेरिकी सरकार की इजाजत मिली है। जैन (56) ने यह कंपनी स्पेस आंत्रप्रन्योर बॉब रिचर्ड और नासा के पूर्व साइंटिस्ट बर्नी पेल के साथ मिलकर बनाई […]
INDIAN-ORIGIN ENGINEER TRAVELS IN A SOLAR 'TUK-TUK' FROM INDIA TO UK
Naveen Rabelli, a 35-year Indian-origin engineer, has travelled 10,000 km using a solar-powered auto-rickshaw from India to London. The move was directed at creating awareness about alternative mobility solutions by employing renewable energy for passenger vehicles in Asian and European countries. Naveen started his journey on the auto, known as ‘tuk-tuk’, from Bengaluru in February, […]
NRI PARTICIPATED IN BERLIN MARATHON TO RAISE FUNDS FOR DISTRESSED PUNJAB FARMERS
Ms. Tarandeep Kaur, a young financial analyst, has participated in the 42-km Berlin marathon to raise funds for the distressed farmers in Punjab. She completed the marathon in 3 hours 45 minutes and 59 seconds. The Berlin marathon is one of the largest, fastest and most popular marathons in the world, which features top runners […]
GREATEST SIKH ICON OF OLYMPIC HOCKEY
One of the greatest Sikh hockey players ever, Avtar Singh Sohal ‘Tari’ has not even once played for India. But he was at Rio with Sachin Tendulkar at his side, lustily cheering the Indian Hockey team at the games when they got on to the field to play their first match against Ireland. Who is […]
ARATHI KRISHNA – WOMAN OF SUBSTANCE
A well read scholar and accomplished diplomat, an artiste and a good singer, a dedicated social worker and a philanthropist, Arathi Krishna is a multifaceted personality who came into this world in interesting times – born at the right time in the right place to the right family, which incidentally has a strong political background. […]
CANCER VICTIMS & SURVIVORS HONOURED AT GALA
From our North America Bureau: Victims and survivors of cancer were honoured at a grand annual gala organised by the SKN Foundation, a sold-out event with more than 400 guests that took place on September 17, 2016 at the Marigold in Somerset, New Jersey. The nite included powerful messages and poems from the founder, Dr […]
WORLD FLUTE FESTIVAL
Every year the ‘Raasrang World Flute Festival’ spreads the message of “Love Peace Water” through the timeless melody of wind instruments. This year’s Raasrang was organised and hosted in collaboration with the United Nations Information Centre For India And Bhutan (UNIC) and the Indian Council For Cultural Relations (ICCR). This 7th Edition of the festival, […]
SPREADING ECONOMIC & INNER WELLBEING TOGETHER
Today, our society is in transition, moving from one level of economic development to another. This transformation is likely to happen dramatically in the next few years’ time. We hope it is going to percolate into rural India, and it will. The point is just that if we facilitate it, it will happen very well. […]
INDIA’S UNCLE SAM
The United States of America’s ‘Uncle Sam’ with is top hat adorned with stars and stripes is rather famous across the globe. But little is known of India’s own Uncle Sam, who came from a Parsi family and was once the most powerful man in our country. Popularly known as Sam Bahadur, he had made […]
FACE CHANGING GAMES – STARS PLAY
Acting is by no means an easy job. To get into the mold of the character that an actor is portraying, he has to do a lot of homework and footwork in order to get his teeth into the skin of the character. Quite often this obsession of actors to act is stretched to abysmal […]
REDEFINING ‘COMFORT’ IN URBAN INDIA TODAY
Today, urban India is largely driven by up-and-coming single professionals and young, dual-income nuclear families. As per a recent study, over 10% of Indian families still had nine members or more in 2001 while only slightly above 6% of families had that many members by 2011. More and more Indian families have splintered off from […]
STREAMLINING CONSTRUCTION APPROVALS
In the backdrop of a large number of stalled real estate projects, the report, “Streamlining Approval Procedure for Real Estate Projects (SAPREP),” brought out by the Ministry of Urban Development, Housing & Poverty Alleviation, has been made an integral part of the model building by-laws in the yet to be released “National Building Code 2016,” […]
INDIA’S GROWTH STORY – THE TURNING POINTS
India is today the fastest growing economy in the world. Achievement of this status would not have been possible if India had not embarked on a reformation process in the 1990s. The past 25 years saw the launch of major structural reforms in the Indian financial landscape, with its transformative effects continuing today and reaching […]
INDO-PAK RELATIONS – TURNING UP THE HEAT
Pakistan has always remained a thorn in India’s flesh, right from the time the British carved up the subcontinent as a parting gift, a partitioning that saw much bloodletting and massacres, with estimates of the dead varying from the low 200,000s to the high 2,000,000s. Time healed wounds to the extent that India returned to […]
NEW TOP LEVEL APPOINTMENTS
The Appointments Committee of the Indian Cabinet has approved the elevation of Atul Bhatt as the Chairman & Managing Director of MECON Limited. Bhatt currently serves as an Executive Director with the National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC). The appointments committee had also approved the appointment of Sreenivasulu as CMD of Scooters India Limited. He is […]
INDIA PUNISHED PAKISTAN WITH SURGICAL STRIKES AND DIPLOMACY
As the Indian PM Narendra Modi walked the talk, the Indian Army cracked down on the laboratory of terrorists clearly hinting at the prospect of more such strikes if Pakistan doesn’t mend its way. In the wee hours of 29th September, 2016 the Indian Army launched a stinging attack targeting the terrorist camps across the […]