LIFESTYLE & LEISURE


Several friends and colleagues have forwarded me an article by Srinivas Kantheti, in CNBCTV18 titled “How one Indian industry beat China at manufacturing and creating a global footprint". It is an excellent piece that explains how India’s two-wheeler industry has 'overtaken' that of China,...

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The ongoing pandemic has reinforced the value of good hygiene and self-care in our lives. Observing the best hygiene practices is the new norm, which means not only washing and sanitizing your hands regularly but your footwear as well, to get rid of any potential virus on...

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Puja Gupta (IANS) 16 June 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a toll on almost every industry in the world and the Indian Wedding Industry, estimated around $50 billion, has now come to a halt. However, industry experts believe that Indian weddings will return with spike in growth in the coming years and it will continue...

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Aniket Bhatkhande 11 June 2020
The death of an elephant in Kerala has galvanised the nation and there have been clarion calls for ‘justice’. As the sentiment wears off, phrases like ‘fed’ and ‘hungry’ have disappeared from the reports. A clearer picture has subsequently emerged of the events that allegedly unfolded. It can...

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Natalia Ningthoujam (IANS) 29 May 2020
Even though the Maharashtra government has considered requests from the film and TV industries to resume work safely after the lockdown, there's still the COVID-19 scare. So should shooting from home be the new way of functioning? TV actors and show makers weigh in their...

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Moneylife Digital Team 25 May 2020
The story of a 15-year-old Jyoti Kumari cycling more than 1200kms in just seven days with her father on the back caught a lot of attention. It was one of many stories of migrant labourers in the country getting displaced during the lockdown and looking to go home. While many have come forward...

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Organisations which are more control-oriented and check the productivity of their employees based on inputs will find it more difficult to trust their people when working from home, according to a new study.   The pandemic has forced many organisations to change in ways that would...

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Amid the ongoing COVID-19 lockdown as multiplexes remain shut, the streaming platform Amazon Prime Video is going all out in a bid to revolutionise the way we might watch films in the future. After confirming the Amitabh Bachchan and Ayushmann Khurrana-starrer "Gulabo Sitabo" for a digital...

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Discretionary consumption will change in 2020 due to COVID-19 as food, health, clothing, and shelter will take over high-end consumption in terms of lifestyle and adornment, Morgan Stanley said in a note.   The COVID-19 outbreak, the current lockdown, and social distancing measures...

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Several eulogies and beautiful tributes have followed the sad, and premature, passing of Rishi Kapoor. As well as his redoubtable contribution to Indian cinema, one must also remember his involvement, probably involuntarily, in the first most famous case of product placement in Indian cinema,...

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Open, frank and unfiltered are some of the words used describe Rishi Kapoors life, but there are some aspects of his life which might have evaded public eye.   A day after he was hospitalised here, Rishi Kapoor is no more. He passed away on Thursday after a two-year battle with...

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Archana Sharma (IANS) 29 April 2020
Irrfan Khan, the versatile bollywood actor who passed away on Wednesday was born and brought up in Jaipur.   Since his childhood, he had a craving for acting. However, due to unavailability of right platform in the pink city in those days, he started engaging himself in street...

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The novel corona virus (COVID-19) pandemic is an extremely severe health and economic crisis that is impacting our lives to a major extent, and as we continue to tackle the crisis, we must simultaneously also absorb a crucial lesson provided by it in risk management.     Several...

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QUAID NAJMI (IANS) 20 April 2020
What blood-thirsty terrorists couldn't succeed in doing, the invisible coronavirus pandemic has achieved.   For the first time in its nearly 250 years history, Mumbai's world-renowned and iconic 'Mohammed Ali Road street food bazaar' is poised to wear a deserted look this Ramzan...

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional; loss is unavoidable; grief isn't; death is certain. And life? Well, life isn't certain. Its uncertainty, unpredictability, even its irrationality, make it what it is—particularly in these troubled times with the coronavirus pandemic sweeping the world...

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Dutch post-impressionist artist Vincent van Gogh's painting "Spring Garden" from 1884 was stolen from a museum in The Netherlands.   The painting was a loan from the Groninger Museum, for a temporary exhibition at Singer Museum, in the city of Laren, dedicated to preserving the...

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Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) on Monday announced it has set up India's first dedicated COVID-10 hospital with 100-bed capacity in a short span of just two weeks.   Sir H.N. Reliance Foundation Hospital in collaboration with the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has set up the...

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Further tightening the clampdown in the state, Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Friday ordered all private offices, shops and commercial establishments to be shut in Mumbai, Pune, Nagpur, slashing attendance in government offices to 25 per cent, while all examinations from Class...

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With the total shutdown of Bollywood in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic affecting daily wage workers of the film industry, and the Producers Guild of India has set up a relief fund for these professionals.   Siddharth Roy Kapur, president, Producers Guild of India, said in a...

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The massive surge in fake news, videos, GIFs and authentic-looking government notifications related to new coronavirus (COVID-19) in India has left millions of users, civil society members, journalists and authorities completely baffled and cornered, starting with panic buying across the...

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