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March 16, 2016 Yoga for Children
Mountains tumbling into head stands, suddenly converting into speeding cycles. Bridges collapsing into roaring lions, cocooned caterpillars turning into beautiful butterflies. These amazing pictures are nothing but scenes from any normal household. Watch a child and you will know. The natural postures of a child are yoga asanas. This is what the body is born […]
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March 16, 2016 20 Postures For A Healthy Heart
Yoga is the art of reposing in different postures while keeping focus on the breath. As a result, every yoga posture has a particular effect on the respiratory system; and therefore affecting the heart as well. The following postures begin with mild ones, gradually increasing to more demanding ones that require greater stamina and strength. […]
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March 16, 2016 Yoga Wear | Secrets for choosing the right yoga clothes
Stretchable fabrics enhance yoga postures •• The main objective of choosing the right yoga wear is so you can just forget about it during yoga practice. At dawn, when the rest of the world is still and quiet, I reserve special yoga-time for a series of gentle Art of Living Yoga asanas, pranayamas (yoga breathing […]
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March 16, 2016 Govt hikes funding for start-ups, Flipkart invests more in Myntra
Photo: iStock What to watch out for: • Flipkart invests another Rs.338 crore in its fashion portal Myntra: In an attempt to boost its leadership position in the fashion segment, Flipkart has infused Rs.338 crore into online fashion store Myntra. The fresh funds come at a time when Myntra’s nearest rival, Rocket Internet-backed Jabong, is […]
ALL DEALS March 16, 2016 Apple, Google to Face EU Lawmakers Over Tax Deals
Apple, Google, McDonald’s and IKEA will be asked about their European tax deals on Wednesday as EU lawmakers ratchet up the pressure on multinationals to pay more tax on their profits locally. The hearing, organised by the European Parliament’s tax committee, follows a similar event in November last year when Anheuser-Busch InBev, HSBC, Google and […]
NEWS March 16, 2016 Changing gears at India’s start-ups
The Morgan Stanley markdown brings Flipkart’s valuation down to about $11 billion from the $15.2 billion the company claimed when it raised its last round of funds. Photo: Hemant Mishra/Mint In late October, Silicon Valley venture capitalist Bill Gurley, speaking to The Wall Street Journal about technology start-up valuations, said, “All these private valuations are […]
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March 16, 2016 The correction underway at India’s start-ups space
Morgan Stanley’s filing comes nearly two months after Flipkart appointed co-founder Binny Bansal (right) as its new chief executive officer, replacing Sachin Bansal, who became executive chairman. Photo: Hemant Mishra/Mint On 29 July 2014, when Flipkart, India’s largest e-commerce marketplace, said it had raised $1 billion in funding, the world sat up and took notice. […]
NEWS March 16, 2016 Crowd sourcing innovation
A screen grab of Ideapoke website. New Delhi: Research and development is a costly affair, which often kills innovations in a nascent stage. Moreover, intellectual property (IP) adds to researching woes. What if this technology came as open source? At a time technology is hard to be kept confined to their silos, two Indian childhood […]
NEWS March 16, 2016 Flipkart invests another Rs338 crore in Myntra
For the year ended 31 March 2015, Myntra’s revenue grew 77% to Rs758 crore from Rs427.26 crore the previous year. Photo: Bloomberg In an attempt to boost its leadership position in the fashion segment, Flipkart has infused Rs.338 crore into online fashion store Myntra, according to documents filed with the Registrar of Companies. Myntra Designs […]
NEWS March 16, 2016 China Calls for FBI Cooperation in Internet Security, Counter-Terrorism
China wants to have deeper Internet security and anti-terrorism cooperation with the United States, China’s public security minister told the visiting director of the FBI, state news agency Xinhua said. Meeting in Beijing, the minister, Guo Shengkun, told James B. Comey that China was willing to enhance strategic mutual trust and the respect of each […]
NEWS March 16, 2016 Five-fold hike in govt budget for funding startups
In the 2016-17 financial year, the government will provide seed capital to 50-80 new ventures with funding ranging from Rs.50 lakh to Rs.1 crore per company. Photo: Priyanka Parashar/Mint New Delhi: A five-fold hike has been made by the government in its budget for funding startups in the next fiscal, a move which is in […]
NEWS March 16, 2016 Online Harassment Must Be Met Head-On: SXSW Panel
Online harassment and sexism is demeaning women and can no longer be brushed aside as an ugly side of social media and the gaming industry if they are to thrive, panellists on Saturday said at the South By Southwest (SXSW) tech meeting in Austin. The gaming summit at one of the premier events on the […]
