“To be irreplaceable, you always have to be different” – a phrase that could be familiar to many Coco Chanel fans. Actually born as Gabrielle Chasnel on the 19th of August 1883, she soon realized that she was different from the typical women of her time. So Coco, the name she got from a song she [...]
November 24, 2021
Loknath Das
News
By Rachita Sharma People often (correctly) say that money is not the key to happiness. Whether or not you have a lot of experience managing your finances, you have probably noticed there is another side to this coin: poor money management can be a significant source of unhappiness and stress. We all know people who [...]
November 15, 2021
Loknath Das
Business
Ionce lived a life almost ruled by anxiety, intrusive thoughts and paralysing fear. I spent years looking for the thing that would release me, and when I finally found it, it wasn’t medication or therapy (although both helped). It was running. It gave me a feeling that there was a world out there beckoning me, [...]
March 4, 2019
Loknath Das
Health
Canopy Growth best way to play Canadian cannabis 8 Hours Ago | 01:10 Tobacco giant Altria Group’s investment in cannabis company Cronos Group may have been a smart move for the cigarette maker, but Canopy Growth Corp. remains the best investment in the cannabis space, says CNBC’s Jim Cramer. “Even with Altria investing in Cronos, [...]
December 12, 2018
Loknath Das
Technology
Greening sidewalks, parks and vacant or dilapidated spaces could be an important and inexpensive tool to help address the rising cases of depression, anxiety and stress in urban communities, suggests a study. “Dilapidated and vacant spaces are factors that put residents at an increased risk of depression and stress and may explain why socioeconomic disparities [...]
July 31, 2018
Loknath Das
Health
Scientists have found a new way to kill liver cancer cells and inhibit tumour growth. They have developed a two-way process to achieve the goal and starve the liver cancer. The researchers explained the process as first, they silenced a key cellular enzyme, and then they added a powerful drug. According to researchers at the [...]
February 13, 2018
Loknath Das
Health
Could a state in one of the farthest corners of our country finally help us turn a corner on health care? It looked like that on Tuesday when the people of Maine voted decisively to expand Medicaid over the wishes of their governor, Paul LePage, bringing health care coverage to 70,000 people in the state, many for [...]
November 10, 2017
Loknath Das
Health
They rose above their grim financial conditions, overcame all odds and defied stereotypes to come with flying colours in the Punjab School Education Board (PSEB) Class-12 exams, results of which were declared on Saturday. Meet Rajni Kumari, Sumandeep Kaur and Ruksana Bano, who have topped the Jalandhar district in non-medical, commerce and humanities streams, respectively. [...]
May 15, 2017
Loknath Das
Education
A longtime Louisville company that specializes in high-end security system products is settling into its new location a few blocks away from the building it had called home since 1972. Deco A/V, which installs security cards, card readers, closed-circuit televisions and other security products for companies in Louisville and the Midwest, recently relocated to a [...]
February 2, 2017
Saheli
Home Deco
The United States is in the midst of an education crisis; this is not news. The underperformance of American students, particularly in science and math, is well-known, as is the education bureaucracy’s dereliction of duty in the country’s poor and urban communities. Almost all Americans seem to acknowledge the failures of the government school system; [...]
December 8, 2016
Saheli
Education
Time for some great news! A three-year old startup from Hyderabad, Tuplejump, is being acquired by Apple. They were in the big data space building a product that allowed use of nosql databases. This bring us to one question — when starting up, how does one pick the idea to pursue? Sometimes, there are a [...]
September 29, 2016
Saheli
Technology
The Chinese government issued nationwide ride-hailing regulations that will allow companies that include Uber and its Chinese counterpart Didi Chuxing to legally operate in the country. The new rules, which will take effect Nov. 1, require that companies and their drivers apply for and receive licenses through the government. The rules require drivers to have [...]
August 1, 2016
Saheli
Business