|
|
|
|
Farming on the edge: the Indian salt producers coping with 48C heat
|
|
An initiative to support female salt farmers in Gujarat provides loans to help them switch to solar in the face of climate change. Read more...
|
|
Published over a month ago.
|
Reply
Submit New Post
Feedback
|
|
|
|
The Majesty and Mystery of India?s Sacred Banyan Trees
|
|
Some 550 years ago, so a story goes, the poet-sage #Kabir was on a silt island in India?s Narmada River. He was brushing his teeth with a twig. When he flung his toothbrush to the ground, up sprang a gigantic tree whose crown spread so wide it cast shade over a whole hectare of land. Today, Kabir?s tree is one of the biggest plants on the planet. Its true story is no less extraordinary than the myth.
Read more...
|
|
Published over a month ago.
|
Reply
Submit New Post
Feedback
|
|
|
|
Indian technology institute to put the art of happiness under the microscope
|
|
Kharagpur research centre will examine theory that investment in mental health of citizens reaps economic as well as spiritual reward
Read more...
|
|
Published over a month ago.
|
Reply
Submit New Post
Feedback
|
|
|
|
A Trip to India With the Sisters Behind a Cult-Favorite Textile Label
|
|
“The weather and the gods dictate our schedule,” says Lily, a painter who first arrived in India six years ago as an artist’s apprentice and had her first solo show at Gavlak Gallery this year.
“That’s the difference between being a tourist or a traveler in India and running a business there,” adds the Harvard Business School-trained Hopie.
Read more...
|
|
Published over a month ago.
|
Reply
Submit New Post
Feedback
|
|
|
|
Indian Minister Says Global Retailers Want to Invest After Food Store Rules Relaxed
|
|
NEW DELHI—Global retail giants who have been reluctant to dive into the Indian market due to restrictions on how they supply their stores are ready to ramp up their presence in the South Asian nation through outlets that sell only locally-sourced food, said the country’s food-processing minister.
Read more...
|
|
Published over a month ago.
|
Reply
Submit New Post
Feedback
|
|
|
|
Indians are willing to pay upto 80% more for healthier food
|
|
Indian consumer companies are charging a premium of between 22% and 82% on variants of flour, noodles, oil, and other products that come with added nutrients and health benefits, according to a recent report by research agency Nielsen. And customers are all too willing to splurge. Read more...
|
|
Published over a month ago.
|
Reply
Submit New Post
Feedback
|
|
|
|
Photos of 100-year India coal fire win Getty Instagram award
|
|
|
Ronny Sen joined Christian Rodriguez of Uruguay and Girma Berta of Ethiopia - the other two winners - to pick up a grant of $10,000 (£7,702) for his project.
Sen won the prize for his work on the dusty coal town of Jharia in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand where underground fires have burned for more than a century.
Read more...
|
|
Published over a month ago.
|
Reply
Submit New Post
Feedback
|
|
|
|
Is India in the throes of a fever outbreak?
|
|
The capital, Delhi, is fighting an outbreak of chikungunya. Next door, Haryana is battling malaria. Down south, the info-tech hub of Bangalore is grappling with both. Dengue has returned with a vengeance in Kolkata and its neighbouring areas. Clinics in populous Uttar Pradesh are swamped with patients suffering from fever.
So, is India in the grip of a "fever outbreak"?
Read more...
|
|
Published over a month ago.
|
Reply
Submit New Post
Feedback
|
|
|
|
Mobile application development services for mCommerce industry
|
|
mCommerce industry is booming We have the team of expert mobile application developers which can develop simple to complex mCommerce mobile application. The features we may integrate in the mCommerce app are listed below:
- Product listing with different criteria
- Search of product
- Cart
- Payment
- Online shopping
- And much more
These are the generic features and we may integrate all simple to complex features based on specific requirements. To drop an email at sales@ecosmob.com
Read more...
|
|
Published over a month ago.
|
Reply
Submit New Post
Feedback
|
|
|
|
India opens the doors of its fashion world to new era of trans models
|
|
|
Chauhan set up Bold, India’s first modelling agency for trans people. “We held auditions and then we did our first shoot. The whole community was asking for it. My whole idea was, let’s set up a beginning, a milestone. How long can we keep waiting for someone else to decide when it’s the right time to see trans models? I thought, we’ll do it ourselves, we’ll show them.” Read more...
|
|
Published over a month ago.
|
Reply
Submit New Post
Feedback
|
|
|
|
The salt farmers of India's Rann of Kutch marshes
|
|
|
Rann of Kutch, Gujarat - Rann of Kutch is a seasonal salt marsh located in the Thar desert ?just 10km from the Arabian Sea in India's Gujarat district. This is the land of the Agariya people, who have lived here for centuries, knowing only one means of livelihood - salt production.
Read more...
|
|
Published over a month ago.
|
Reply
Submit New Post
Feedback
|
|
|
|
|
|
India's growing thirst for scotch whisky drives rise in exports
|
|
|
Demand in India, where the market grew by 41% by volume and 28% by value, helped bring total global sales to 533m bottles equivalent. That was the first increase in global #whisky sales volumes in three years, the Scotch Whisky Association (SWA) said on Friday.
Read more...
|
|
Published over a month ago.
|
Reply
Submit New Post
Feedback
|
|
|
|
Mama's Boys: An irreverent take on India's Mahabharat
|
|
|
Mama's Boys, a short YouTube film based on Draupadi's polyandrous marriage to five Pandava brothers from the ancient Hindu epic #Mahabharat, is a hit with online audiences in India, but has angered some hardline Hindus, writes the BBC's Geeta Pandey in Delhi.
Read more...
|
|
Published over a month ago.
|
Reply
Submit New Post
Feedback
|
|
|
|
Brill Mindz Mobile App Developers
|
|
Read more...
Read more...
Read more...mobile-app-development/
BrillMindz who are associated with dedicated mobile app developers has extensive experience working with all the OS
like Android, iOS and Windows we thoroughly execute all simple to complex responsive app requisites ensured with
standard quality. We keep us acquainted with the latest OS versions and their advancements to cater the end-to-end
solutions
|
|
Published over a month ago.
|
Reply
Submit New Post
Feedback
|
|
|
|
Growth Valleys | Growth Hacking Marketing Agency| Events | Strategies | Academy
|
|
Growth Valleys is a leading Growth Hacking Marketing Agency based out of Bangalore, India that design and implement
growth strategy for startups and well-established companies with a purpose to improve their performance metrics such
as driving customer acquisition and selling products.We are a team of passionate Growth hackers that work on three
broad components which involve implementing Growth marketing strategy, experiencing these concepts with Growth
hacking training and application of these concepts for real-life business needs in the form of communities.
|
|
Published over a month ago.
|
Reply
Submit New Post
Feedback
|
|
|
|
How the 20 Jews left in Kolkata, India are using food to keep their culture alive
|
|
|
A new restaurant, Calcutta Stories, aims to draw attention to Kolkata’s Jewish heritage. Calcutta Stories is trying to pique the city’s interest in the migrant cuisines of Kolkata’s roots, including Jewish, Parsi, and Armenian Indo-fusions.
Read more...
|
|
Published over a month ago.
|
Reply
Submit New Post
Feedback
|
|
|
|
India ready to put driving licences onto smartphones
|
|
The paper or plastic driving licence could be consigned to history as India announces that it will allow motorists to store the documents on their smart phones. They will need to install an app called Digilocker onto their device and register with the service.
Read more...
|
|
Published over a month ago.
|
Reply
Submit New Post
Feedback
|
|
|
|
|
|
The dreaded destination: why foreign flight attendants dislike travelling to and from India
|
|
An ex-flight attendant had no qualms referring to the panicked passengers as “fucking rats” and an “untameable bunch” as videos emerged of them rushing to grab their belongings in the midst of the emergency. #FlightsToIndia
Read more...
|
|
Published over a month ago.
|
Reply
Submit New Post
Feedback
|
|
|
|
|
|
Reliance Jio launches cheap 4G services in India
|
|
|
Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Jio network officially launched on Monday offering customers three months of free services followed by free calls and data plans it claims are the world’s cheapest, some charging 50 rupees, or 56p, per gigabyte. Read more...
|
|
Published over a month ago.
|
Reply
Submit New Post
Feedback
|
|
|
|
Man's Worst Enemy: Wild Dogs Terrorize in India
|
|
|
Packs of wild dogs have haunted India for centuries, but urbanization and pollution have recently made the problem more prevalent and more dangerous. Within the past three years, packs of strays have made residents of densely populated coastal city of Kozhikode at the southwestern tip of India feel like hostages. Read more...
|
|
Published over a month ago.
|
Reply
Submit New Post
Feedback
|
|
|
|
|
|
Tens of millions of Indian workers strike in fight for higher wages
|
|
State banks and power stations shut and public transport halted in some states as tens of millions take industrial action. Among the trade unions’ 12 demands are a 692 rupee daily minimum wage, universal social security and a ban on foreign investment in the country’s railway, insurance and defence industries.
Read more...
|
|
Published over a month ago.
|
Reply
Submit New Post
Feedback
|
|
|
|
|
|
India rolls out world's first leprosy vaccine as fight goes on 'war footing'
|
|
|
This week the government announced the world’s first leprosy vaccine, developed in-country but tied up for years in testing, will be rolled out in Gujarat and Bihar, two states where the problem is sharpest.
Among the oldest recorded references to leprosy – appear in 4,000-year-old Hindu epics, the disease christened kustha, Sanksrit for “eating away”.
Read more...
|
|
Published over a month ago.
|
Reply
Submit New Post
Feedback
|
|
|
|
Reliance Jio promises unlimited free voice calls, cheapest 4G data plans in India
|
|
|
India's biggest industrial house has launched its 4G LTE network and is offering unlimited free voice calls forever to anyone who signs up for its services. It is also claiming to offer the cheapest 4G LTE data rates in the world.
Read more...
|
|
Published over a month ago.
|
Reply
Submit New Post
Feedback
|
|
|
|
India has launched a national mobile payments ecosystem
|
|
|
The UPI allows customers to send and receive money via smartphone using a “virtual identifier” rather than one’s actual identity.
Read more...
|
|
Published over a month ago.
|
Reply
Submit New Post
Feedback
|
|
|
|
Custom Mobile Application Development Services
|
|
We have experience in developing innovative custom mobile applications.We serve android and iOS as development platform.
To be specific we offer:
- Android phone app development
- Android tablet app development
- Android TV application development
- iPhone application development
- iPad app development
To know more about our services in mobile app development, visit Read more...
|
|
Published over a month ago.
|
Reply
Submit New Post
Feedback
|
|
|
|
Rainwater-harvesting billboards offer lifeline to India's drought-hit farmers
|
|
The billboards, fitted with tanks, are harvesting rainwater. When the tanks are full, a text message sounds on the mobile phones of a 24/7 collection team and within hours red trucks roll in to collect the water and deliver it to Pimpri Sandas about an hour’s drive away. The idea is simple, but for the farmers of the drought hit village it is life-changing.
Read more...
|
|
Published over a month ago.
|
Reply
Submit New Post
Feedback
|
|
|
|
The woman who discovered India's first HIV cases
|
|
|
Thirty years ago, India discovered the dreaded HIV virus had reached its shores when blood samples from six sex workers tested positive. It was largely due to the efforts of one young scientist - but until now, her pioneering work has been all but forgotten.
Read more...
|
|
Published over a month ago.
|
Reply
Submit New Post
Feedback
|
|
|
|
|
|
After visa on arrival, tourists traveling to India will get a local SIM card too
|
|
|
India is fixing one of the most annoying problems that tourists visiting the country face - getting a local SIM card. India's Union Home Ministry has sanctioned a proposal to give SIM cards to foreigners who visit India on e-tourist visas. The plan could be enforced by the end of September this year.
Read more...
|
|
Published over a month ago.
|
Reply
Submit New Post
Feedback
|
|
|
|
|
|
Electric Daisy Carnival Is Coming to India
|
|
|
Come this fall, Insomniac's Electric Daisy Carnival festival franchise is headed to Delhi, India.
“Ever since I was a kid, I’ve been fascinated by the country’s colorful and exotic culture,” #Insomniac founder Pasquale Rotella says in a press release. Read more...
|
|
Published over a month ago.
|
Reply
Submit New Post
Feedback
|
|
|
|
The journey of India’s GDP from 1000 A.D. to 2020
|
|
|
“India’s rise may seem unprecedented but it’s actually reclaiming a position it held for centuries. Throughout much of the last 2,000 years, India has been either the largest or the second-largest economy in the world,” Kenneth Akintewe, senior investment manager, fixed income, Aberdeen Asia, writes in the report. Read more...
|
|
Published over a month ago.
|
Reply
Submit New Post
Feedback
|
|
|
|
9 Places You Have To Eat At If You're Visiting Varanasi
|
|
|
An epicentre of Hinduism, the city of #Varanasi is as old and sacred as the ghats of the Ganges themselves. From steaming kachoris and jalebis to refreshing lassi and thandais...
Read more...
|
|
Published over a month ago.
|
Reply
Submit New Post
Feedback
|
|
|
|
Target Cuts Ties With India Textile Company - concludes Welspun India sold it phony Egyptian-cotton sheets.
|
|
|
American retailer Target Corp. said it was severing ties with one of India’s largest textile suppliers, Welspun India Ltd. , after concluding the company sold it phony Egyptian-cotton sheets.
Read more...
|
|
Published over a month ago.
|
Reply
Submit New Post
Feedback
|
|
|
|
|
|