'When he said, "Extremists have gone very extreme," it suddenly occurred to me why his speech pattern seemed so familiar. He was that uncle that you get stranded with at a family gathering when everybody else has gone to sleep but there is still some whisky left in the bottle. And uncle thinks he is about to say something very profound -- if you would only pour him one last one.'
On a dating app, you have 0.5 seconds to decide whether you like someone enough before you go to their bio and connect with them, ays Ravi Mittal, founder of the dating app QuackQuack.
Who better than India's beloved storyteller to teach you how to spin a yarn?
When do you use 'practise' and when do you use 'practice'? We continue with our English blooper series.
Do you sometimes not use a word simply because you don't know how to use it correctly?
'I didn't know how I would say all the loving, romantic bits.'
Leaders from all political parties congratulated the saffron party and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Aptech Limited is looking out for Voice and Accent Trainers.
Sona College of Technology's integrated Japanese course has helped seven engineering graduates find jobs with six-figure salaries in Japan.
CAT trainers Gautam Puri and Arun Wadhwa from Career launcher (I) Ltd resolve your CAT queries.
'It is a sad day when social activists, environmental campaigners, anti-corruption workers are singled out as anti-nationals and then criminalised.'
'The best thing about this team is that no one leaves it for someone else to finish the job,' Rahul Dravid tells Faisal Shariff.
The essay is all about demonstrating who you are, says Syam Chandra.
Gone are the days when your CAT preparation strategy meant studying for your strengths and leaving out the weaker areas!
Fevicol has played with its advertising to convert an adhesive, a product that bore none of the glamour and glitz of consumer goods, into a loved and recalled brand.
'I got a very simple one-line brief from Ekta Kapoor that this character is like the Ramayan's Ram -- ideal husband, son and maryada purushottam.'
Studying English demands you to invest time to learn and practice new words and expressions.
The TOEFL scores are accepted by more universities than any other English language test. You can take the test as many times as you wish.
'On as many as two occasions, Sita is called upon to take a test to establish her integrity and loyalty to Rama and on both the occasions she opts for a course of action on her own terms,' points out A K Bhattacharya, reviewing Bibek Debroy's translation of the Ramayana.
As the issue became a hot topic of discussion among citizens on social media platforms, Chaudhary, who claims to hold a master of business administration degree, came out with a clarification, saying he deliberately misspelt the word to test the ability of schoolchildren to detect spelling errors.
If you want to grow in your career you should be open to learning, have problem solving skills and be a team player, says Shrutidhar Paliwal.
Pavan K Varma, diplomat, writer and politician, embarks on a quest about Hinduism's great thinker's stay in Varanasi.
The apex court had questioned the poll panel's notification and said that NOTA was meant to be exercised by individual voters in direct polls.
The LaLit plans to market its Indian food restuarant Baluchi separately and take it abroad too.
Arvind Subramanian was appointed CEA in October 2014 and got a year's extension in September 2017
The five-page letter by Collector Ravi Kumar Surpur has been dispatched to the coaching institutes in the city and will be forwarded to the parents after translation into Hindi and other regional languages.
If the classical language is to live in India, its teachers and fans must separate their love for the language from that for the country or their religion, feels Arundhuti Dasgupta
More than five lakh aspirants will take the exam on January 7 and 8, 2017.
'He was capable, concise, calm, sublime, and profound, and perhaps that's also why Irrfan's passing felt 'personal' to many.'
Khan, who is believed to have the backing of the powerful military, has vowed to make a 'Naya Pakistan' which would be an Islamic welfare state.
Physiology student Maya Charuni Sarihan from Scottsdale, Arizona, was crowned the 22nd Miss India America 2014 in Los Angeles.
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Virat Kohli continued his day job of mesmerising fans with a magical willow
'Rajan epitomised the best of his generation -- veneration for knowledge, for old fashioned morality of honesty and modesty.' Economist Devaki Jain, Padma Bhushan, salutes her brother who passed into the ages last week.
And Patrick D'Souza managed to score a perfect 100 in 4 of his attempts!
Modi presented his Irish counterpart reproductions of a selection of historic manuscripts and papers pertaining to two Raj-era Irish officials.
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