President Ram Nath Kovind conferred the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman awards on 28 eminent personalities and two organisations of the Indian diaspora for their contributions and achievements in various fields, here on Wednesday. The awards were conferred at the valedictory session of this year’s Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD) on the concluding day of the three-day diaspora […]
Writer E.L James, whose “Fifty Shades of Grey” series has broken sales records for contemporary adult publishing with over 150 million copies sold worldwide, has written a new novel which will be published globally in April, publisher Penguin Random House said. Titled “The Mister”, the contemporary romance, according to the publisher, will be set in […]
Celebrity astrologer Sanjay B Jumaani Predicts In our New-Year story for the last 3 years we had predicted something nobody had even passed a fleeting reference- the weather! While we had said 2016=9, Mars that is fiery Red, so shall be one of the hottest years. Ditto wias said of 2017=1, Sun that’s fiery too! […]
Facebook has elevated its senior Indian-origin executive Karandeep Anand to head Workplace, the company’s two-year-old enterprise communication tool. Anand, who was earlier Head of Product for Facebook Marketplace and Payments services, would handle the Workplace product team and report to Julien Codorniou who is its Vice President. “I’m excited to now be part of the […]
An Indian-American teenager has won the inaugural “Digital Transformation Hackathon” at Cornell University for designing a device to detect the actual pain level of a patient during a diagnosis. The device designed by 17-year-old Mahum Siddiqi and her team uses neurological activity occurring in one’s brain to help doctors more efficiently determine someone’s pain levels. […]
By Vishnu Makhijani New Delhi There are no business problems, only people problems — and once these get resolved, so do the business problems, says motivational guru Shiv Khera, whose fifth book has just hit the stands while the first one has entered its 20th year and is set to be relaunched. “I am not […]
Circa June 2011, Rohan had just migrated to Australia from New Delhi. Apart from physically being in a completely new country miles away from home, he had to accustom himself to the very different culture of his new homeland. Setting up his home was going to be a huge task. Unlike back in Delhi, he […]
By Rrajesh Kothhari Who wants to be Millionaire? If I asked to any person of this planet. The answer will be the one, “I want to be Millionaire. “But nobody knows the mystery of it. In this world, we have seen lots of multi millionaires for example, Mark Zuckerberg -Founder of Facebook, Steve Jobs- founder […]
Lara Dutta made headlines when she won the coveted Miss Universe title in 2000. Dutta was not only beautiful but she also won hearts with her intelligence. 18 years later this beauty diva stands as one of the most inspiring Indian actresses of Bollywood. She advocates healthy living, dons the producer’s hat with proud, works […]
By Shashi Narasimhiah My own understanding is that our seriousness essentially stems from worries and over-thinking due to our ego and self-importance and not appreciating how small we are in the larger realm of creation.Imagining a different kind of a holiday? I only meant a holiday from our seriousness. Bertrand Russell once said – “If […]