India’s Olympic connection dates back to 1900 when there was only one athlete to represent India at the world stage – Norman Pritchard – who eventually went on to win a silver medal in Men’s 200m event. Soon it was our Hockey team that made their way to glory with the …
Read More »FASTag – cashless toll payments on National Highways
The condition of the highways in India have improved drastically in the last decade with Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s dream project of Golden Quadrilateral. The project aimed to connect the four metros Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata with 4 lane roads to enable swift movement. The roads are excellent, be it …
Read More »Find recipes the Dakaar Way
Discovering new things have become so easy, thanks to the world of apps that we have at our fingertips. From finding restaurants, cabs, to almost everything one can think of. These apps have helped each one of us explore the ‘explorer side‘ of us. Thanks to these apps that we …
Read More »Death of the Newspaper in digital era ? I don’t think so.
Even today in India, you are greeted by two visitors daily even before the cock crows or the sun rises. One of them is the milkman, and the other is the newspaper boy(I don’t know if newspaper man exists ? :/) One of the first things that you would see every morning is the …
Read More »Gurgaon or Gurugram – What’s in the name ?
Exactly 7 months ago there was an uproar in the country to rename the famous Aurangzeb Road in New Delhi to Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam road in the memory of the late President. The road is renamed on date, but not without its share of controversies. The congress slamming the …
Read More »Holi Memoirs – Me and my “Rang Army”
Holi is one of the festivals which is enjoyed by everyone especially kids and the youth. It’s a festival of colors and is celebrated with great enthusiasm everywhere. I remember during my childhood, we used to have Holi holiday in schools and we used to enjoy a lot with our …
Read More »Here’s why you should start using Plastic Money, if you don’t already
With a population of 1.2 billion people, India has about 65 Crore Plastic Money Users (Debit Card and Credit Card combined) as per data from RBI, November 2015 – Reference. With so many plastic money users, Indians transacted a whopping 25,10,403 million rupees in November 2015. Having said, not the …
Read More »Rail Budget 2016: New schemes,better services but will it be effective ?
We all have traveled by train at some point in our lives. Some of you might have had a great experience while others might not have had a great time. Your traveling experience largely depends on various factors including cleanliness, food and safety to name a few. Usually the services …
Read More »All you need to know about the 520 rule
If you have been reading the newspaper lately, especially the business or the financial section, you would have definitely come across the 520 rule. The rule has a caused a huge stir in the aviation industry with the bigwigs including Jet Airways, Indigo, Spicejet and Go Air at one end …
Read More »Where’s my Telephone ? Impact of VOIP
Years ago my relatives would tell me about how they used to book a trunk call in the telephone exchange to call a number and at that time a telephone was a luxury and only a few people had it. With the technology becoming cheaper, we got telephones in every …
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