Hottest Youngest Entrepreneurs
Tilak Mehta, 13, CEO, Papers N Parcels, Mumbai
Helps deliver papers and small parcels within Mumbai in a day. Has roped in dabbawalas
Harshwardhan Zala, 15. CEO, Aerobotics7, Ahmedabad
Designed a drone system that can detect and defuse landmines in war fields. Partners with the army
Advait Thakur, 15, CEO, Apex Infosys India, Mumbai
Provides digital solutions. Also involved primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning & the IoT sector
Another First for the Agniputri
No glass ceilings for Tessy Thomas, India's top woman missile scientist. She has become the first woman to head the Defence Research and Development Organisation's (DRDO) aeronautical projects.
133 million Indians born in 2000 will vote for the first time in a general election in 2019
The transitive verb (googled, googling) for Google search engine appeared first in 2000, says Merriam Webster Dictionary
19 years ago, Priyanka Chopra was crowned Miss World. Was considered too dark to win Miss India
Happy 19th birthday Chhattisgarh, Uttaranchal and Jharkhand in 2019
Kyuki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi on prime-time television catapulted Ekta Kapoor and Smriti Irani to fame
Three stars are born: Hrithik Roshan, Kareena Kapoor, Abhishek Bachchan made their debut 19 years ago
Conversation You'll Be Having
What's common to Shakira, Sundar Pichai, Sheryl Sandberg, Sabyasachi and Angelina Jolie?
They all belong to a micro generation sociologists call Xennials, or people born between 1977 and 1983. Coined in 2014, Merriam Webster labelled it as a "word we're watching." This group, aged 30-45, is increasingly influential in culture, consumption and politics.
100 Years of the Nehru-Gandhis at the Congress Helm
Motilal Nehru 1919: Becomes 36th Congress President at age 58; re-elected in 1928
Jawaharlal Nehru 1929: His only son Jawaharlal becomes 48th Congress president at age 40; re-elected seven times
Indira Gandhi 1959: Only child Indira becomes 69th president at age 42; again in 1978, when she starts policy of Congress president as the PM
Rajiv Gandhi 1984: After Indira's assassination, eldest and only living son Rajiv succeeds as the 84th president at age 40; assassinated in 1991
Sanjay Gandhi
Sonia Gandhi 1998: Sonia Gandhi is elected 87th president at age 54; bucks the trend of becoming a PM, too; re-elected until 2016
Priyanka Gandhi
Rahul Gandhi 2017: Takes over as the 88th president at age 47
Year of the Space Barons
The deep space is the next entrepreneurial frontier in 2019. Get ready for a piece of the cosmos soon
Wannabe space tourists have started booking seats in SpaceX's Big Falcon Rocket, Tesla boss ELON MUSK's commercial rocket to space, in partnership with NASA. Targeted date for manned test flight is in June 2019
Blue Origin, manufacturer and spaceflight services company, founded by Amazon billionaire JEFF BEZOS, is nearly ready with its next-gen BE-4 rocket
Virgin Galactic's billionaire founder RICHARD BRANSON says commercial human flight to space will happen "in months". His SpaceShipTwo rocket plane was test-launched to the edge of space this month
DENNIS A. MUILENBURG, CEO, Boeing, is talking about the Starliner spacecraft being developed in collaboration with NASA for commercial flight to deep space. Targeted date for manned test flight is in August 2019
In the name of the Prime Minister
A legacy of flowers PM Modi leaves behind
A species of orchid in Sikkim has been named Cymbidium namo
A new fast-growing chrysanthumun has been named "Modi" at Danziger Flower Farm in Israel
The rose named "Saffron-Vermillion Red with Yellow River", carefully developed after five years of R&D at the KSG Roses, Bangalore, has been named the "Modi Rose"
Dendrobrium Narendra Modi, an orchid the at National Orchid Garden in Singapore has been named after the PM