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What does it feel like living in India ? Are the roads of India chaotic as they seem ? Do animals live on Indian roads ? Rest assured, India is all that and more. In fact, “The Times of India” newspaper – which purportedly has the largest number of print subscribers among all English newspapers [...]

Indians are finally going to get the eagerly awaited mobile number portability which allows cell phone users to change their operators while retaining their existing numbers. This means, if you are, for example, an Airtel user, and wish to change to Idea Cellular, your cell phone number remains the same.

Bread Upma is a vegetarian dish. It is very tasty, nutritious, and can be prepared in just a few minutes. I am really fond of it. Here is how it is prepared.

Google India in partnership with a few Indian music portals has rolled out a service which allows you to search for, and listen to popular Indian music.Currently, only Hindi songs are available, though songs in other Indian languages will be gradually included. The music portals – In.com, Saavn.com and Saregama are the partners in this [...]

Script Converter is a Google Labs product that allows the user to read a web page in a script of their choice. For example, if you can understand the English language but do not know how to read in English, then Google Script Converter could be a great help for you.

A virtual credit card is a unique online payment solution that offers you complete security while shopping on the Internet. It is a one time use only card and once created is valid for only 24-48 hours from the time of its creation. What is more, you can decide the spending limit of your virtual [...]

Bhuvan is a geoportal that provides medium to high resolution satellite imagery of virtually the entire India over the internet. You can “fly” around using mouse and keyboard on a simple desktop computer with virtual globe in front draped with IRS images over Indian region. Many other features are built in, including 3D terrain and [...]

Did you know, in India, a country of over 1 billion people, there are 18 major spoken languages and over 1600 regional dialects? Even though Hindi is the official language, many people in India do not speak it at all. Hindi is spoken by about half the population, mostly in North India. Most Indian native languages [...]

This is the fascinating story of how a politician who was mired in corruption charges and, who by a twist of destiny became India’s Railway minister, turned around this loss making monopoly to a profitable enterprise.  His name is Lalu Prasad Yadav – India’s Railway Minister. Any or most Indians would know this rustic  politician [...]