*Kenyan-born Urjit Patel to train Indian long and middle-distance runners’ Bengaluru, Aug 24: It had to happen. With the market for outrage-triggering news reports and features reaching an all-time high, a Bengaluru-based startup has come up with an app that would reel out such stuff at the touch of a button. Announcing the launch of the app, which is appropriately… Read more →
Madras Day is the celebration of — as can be easily deduced from the name — Francis Day, the guy who is said to have founded the city of Chennai. Before Francis Day arrived here in the 1630s, the whole place was just an undulating terrain of land with no real roads, water connection, traffic signals or other such civic… Read more →
Ahead of the Independence Day, the biggest question facing the nation is: Is it the 69th or 70th I-Day? Unfortunately, there has never been a national consensus on this matter, and so we always have a situation of one set of people celebrating ‘y Independence Day’ and another ‘y + 1 Independence Day’, and totally yet another having no clue… Read more →
Chennai, Aug 10: The trick to be a specialist in any subject is to actually specialise in that subject. But there is one obvious flaw in this approach: It involves hard work. So the best option for you is to cheat, which is what everyone also does. In the case of Olympics, which involves numerous sporting events, the first trick… Read more →
The Rio Olympics will get underway tonight (Friday) with typical fanfare and fireworks a good two days after it actually got underway without any fanfare and fireworks. No, I am not joking. The football matches are already on since Wednesday, but usually it is a tradition of the Olympics to have the inaugural ceremony after the Games have been technically… Read more →
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