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February 6, 2016 What’s going on at Yahoo?
Photo Credit: Omar Torres/AFP 12.6K Total Views Spare a thought for the CEO of Yahoo, Marissa Mayer. Nearly four years on the job, the ailing internet giant is still struggling to deliver a credible path to growth. And following the US$4.3 billion loss the company reported for the year in its latest results, the Yahoo […]
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February 6, 2016 Four days of fear among African students, months of mistrust among Bengaluru residents
Photo Credit: Nayantara Narayanan 14K Total Views African students studying at Acharya Institutes in Bengaluru are still wary of stepping out of their hostels and rented accommodations. Four days after an accident involving a Sudanese driver and a subsequent mob attack on a group of Tanzanians, students at the college from Congo, Malawi, Namibia and […]
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February 6, 2016 Drama The director of ‘Million Dollar Arm’ sails into the high seas.
10K Total Views In Craig Gillespie’s imagining of the true events of 1952, you feel the snowy, stormy winter day with a sea and waves so harsh that they split not one, but two oil tankers in half. The Finest Hours recreates what is considered the greatest small boat rescue mission in American Coast Guard […]
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February 6, 2016 Detective Feluda was Satyajit Ray’s way of coping with the nightmare called Calcutta
19.4K Total Views Ray’s antipathy towards having Feluda drawn into contemporary political and social settings has a deeper root: he didn’t like what he saw happening around him. This bhadrolok abhorred the breakdown of reason, the flood of chaos, unthinking violence and unintelligent criminal acts – even if he had separate problems with middle-class hypocrisy […]
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February 6, 2016 The latest adaptation of a Nicholas Sparks novel is reliably mawkish.
13.4K Total Views The world is probably divided into those readers (mostly women) who devour Nicholas Sparks’s novels and daydream about those ruggedly handsome, slightly flawed but ever-so charming men who are perfect boyfriends and husbands, and those who don’t. Full disclosure: I fall in the latter category. In The Choice, Benjamin Walker (who could […]
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February 6, 2016 Why Nepal’s poorest people are risking their livelihoods by blockading the border
Photo Credit: Anumeha Yadav 16.6K Total Views A broken road, with brief patches of asphalt punctuating potholes filled with water from the previous night’s rain, led to the ancient temple town of Janakpur in Nepal. Revered as the site of the mythological kingdom of Mithila, the birthplace of Sita (or Janaki), the town attracts thousands […]
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February 6, 2016 Through the artist’s eyes: Life after devastation and the politics of identity in Nepal
Photo Credit: manishhorizon.com 8.7K Total Views Last year was a difficult one for Nepal. An earthquake in April killed over 8,000 people and caused widespread devastation. A few months later, the decision of Nepal’s top political parties to push through a Constitution after years of wrangling led to massive protests by marginalised groups like Madhesis […]
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February 6, 2016 A three-day music and food extravaganza, Auto Expo, and more.
Photo Credit: Vishesh Sharma 9.4K Total Views FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5 ART Martand Khosla at Nature Morte MesoDomain, city-based artist and architect Martand Khosla’s new solo show of sculptures and installations, explores themes such as housing and migration in urban India. See theFacebook event page for more information. When: Until Saturday, February 27. Open Monday to […]
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February 6, 2016 The sequel can’t dislodge memories of the original, but the action is spectacular.
13K Total Views Sunny Deol is back, and this time he is throwing punches from the director’s chair. In Ghayal Once Again, Deol stars in and directs the sequel to Raj Kumar Santoshi’s vigilante drama from 1990, which featured the bulky actor as a boxer who kills a slimy businessman in full view. Ghayal’s Balwant […]
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February 6, 2016 As garbage continues to pile up in East Delhi, a lesson on how to better manage our waste
Photo Credit: IANS 14.4K Total Views For the past week, thousands of hapless East Delhi residents have had to wade through piles of garbage to get anywhere. The municipal workers entrusted with keeping the area clean are on strike because nobody has bothered to pay them. Even if residents manage to skirt the waste, they […]
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February 6, 2016 The secret to staying young? Scientists boost lifespan of mice by deleting defective cells
Photo Credit: pixabay 13.6K Total Views The ageing population is one of the greatest challenges facing society. More people are surviving to old age than ever before, but we currently lack the means to keep them healthy and independent. If a treatment existed to reduce sickness and death from ageing by 20% then between now […]
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February 6, 2016 Sania Mirza is a great inspiration: Pranjala Yadlapalli, India’s top junior player
Photo Credit: Facebook 13.1K Total Views After Sania Mirza and Saina Nehwal, Hyderabad has another sporting champion to be proud of. Pranjala Yadlapalli may be just 16 but she is already India’s top rated junior tennis player. She is currently ranked 16 in the world junior girl’s rankings. Yadalapalli was the tenth seed at the […]
