As early as next month, WhatsApp could release the update that would allow users to make digital payments which would give a huge boost to the digital payments initiative in India. The most widely used messaging app in India is at various stages of integrating its Unified Payments Interface (UPI)- based payments platform with State Bank of India, ICICI Bank, …

Global warming is very real. It does not matter how much the world leaders may ignore the problem, global warming is causing climate change. Prolonged heat-wave conditions, in other words, a summer lasting up to eight months, could be the new norm by the 2070s for the Gangetic plains, if greenhouse-gas emissions are not cut to limit the global temperature …

A chemical engineer from IIT-Bombay is surely going to live a lush and comfortable life. The same was the case with 29-year-old Sanket Parekh. His life was all about achievements and targets. With a well-paying job in hand, he was planning to pursue post-graduation from the United States of America. But he did not know when his life would turn …

Elon Musk is one of the most eccentric billionaires out in the world. He has crazy ideas that sometimes sound like science fiction. However, as they say, that the technology of future is just magic to today’s eyes, Elon Musk has been responsible for many successful endeavors that brought the future to us. SpaceX and Tesla are just two of …

The ruling party, the BJP, is not happy with the video that Congress put up on Twitter that mocked the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s hugplomacy. “Official Twitter account of Congress has shown worst kind of interpretation which does not behove a mature political party,” said the BJP, also on Twitter. “Congress lacks concrete issues to discuss so they tweeted a disgusting …

Daniel Marcus Macwan is a 43-year-old DJ-turned-conversationalist who shifted from Mumbai to Manipur’s  Tamenglong town three years ago with his wife Galina Newme. A usual day in Daniel Marcus Macwan’s life often involves negotiating with poachers to buy endangered animals. Once the deal is sealed, and the sale finalized, Macwan takes these animals to his house, not to sell them to …

A study conducted by the Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health confirms what we already know about too much business travel in a month. If you are a business traveller who has to be away from home more than two weeks a month, no one has to tell you that this much travel can wear you down. You already know …

Kukuli Velarde is a Peruvian-born, Philadelphia-based artist who co-opts the forms of pre-Columbian ceramics to issue a postcolonial manifesto about identity and integrity. “Plunder Me, Baby,” her show at the American Museum of Ceramic Art in Pomona, is withering one moment, wacky the next, and brilliant throughout. The show features two series of sculptures, a mixed-media wall piece and a selection of videos. …

Challenges have always been a hazardous thing for some or the other group in our world. The last one was the Blue Whale Challenge which claimed the lives of many children. These days, as part of a dangerous new online challenge, teens are putting laundry pods in their mouth. This had started out as a joke since the Tide Pods …

Banana, pineapple, bamboo, jute, aloe vera, flax, hemp, beetroot, pomegranate, teak, sewali flowers are just some of the plants that are being used for creating fabrics, colours or styles. The fashion industry is now making efforts to veer away from the environmental unfriendly clothes and launching new trends towards the making of clothes from plant products that will be both …