New Delhi: Gurgaon-based restaurant Lemp BrewPub & Kitchen became the buzz word on the Internet after a blogpost lashed out at it mercilessly for poor service and false claims. In a blogpost 'How a lunch at Lemp Brewpub Gurgaon turned out to be the most horrid experience ever', a youth claimed he along with his friends had to go through the worst at the restaurant. The blogpost explained how this...
09:20:34 AM Jun 12, 2013
Los Angeles: Sophia tops the list of names for American baby girls for the second year in a row, while King and Messiah are becoming increasingly popular names for boys, the U.S. Social Security Administration said on Thursday. Jacob has become a standby for boys' names, topping that category for the 14th straight year. Liam and Elizabeth broke into the Top 10 at No. 6 and No. 10 respectively, the...
04:07:33 PM May 10, 2013
New Delhi: Mike Jeffries, the eccentric CEO of the US clothing retailer Abercrombie & Fitch has done it again. Vocally against large sized men and women, Jeffries has been quoted as saying in news reports that he doesn't want "larger people shopping in his store" triggering a social media backlash. Robin Lewis, author of The New Rules of Retail, told the Business Insider about the kind of people Jeffries wants...
04:24:25 PM May 09, 2013
New Delhi: A haunting photo clicked by Bangladeshi photographer Taslima Akhter for Time magazine's LightBox section has gone viral. The photo shows an unidentified couple in a final embrace with half of their bodies buried in rubble and a trickle of blood running down one eye of the man like a tear drop. The photograph appears in this week's TIME International alongside an essay by David Von Drehle. The magazine...
03:17:24 PM May 09, 2013
A Spanish organisation - ANAR or Aid to Children and Adolescents at Risk Foundation - has come up with a unique project - a phone helpline number that is visible only to children using the technique of lenticular photography to help them report abuse. The number 116 111 is meant to attend to children and teenagers under a risk situation. On this telephone number, only for minors, they can find...
09:31:43 AM May 07, 2013
South Korean automaker Hyundai Motor Co has been forced to apologise for an advertisement that sought to promote the zero carbon emissions of one of its cars by featuring a man failing to commit suicide using a hose attached to the exhaust. The ad debacle is the latest to hit the carmaker, the world's fifth largest by sales when combined with its Kia Motors affiliate, after it exaggerated fuel performance...
10:39:01 AM Apr 27, 2013
A news anchor began his television career with the rather unfortunate incident of swearing during a live bulletin. He dropped the F-word into his microphone in a live gaffe, leading to his suspension after viewers complained. KFYR news anchor AJ Clemente began his broadcast in Bismarck by saying "F****** s***". The footage has gone viral. "To all of you who are writing in...I want to apologise for an incident that...
10:46:55 AM Apr 23, 2013
New Delhi: An interesting new video posted by Dove on their YouTube channel has revived the debate on beauty being the benchmark for women's self esteem. The Dove campaign states that "women are their own worst beauty critics" and goes on to show a former forensic artist for the San Jose police department sketching women based on their description of themselves and others of them. The women are seated behind...
02:39:56 PM Apr 18, 2013
New Delhi: Days after a Wikipedia entry described cricketer Ravindra Jadeja as a philanthropist and a Nobel laureate, his mates from the Indian Premier League team Chennai Super Kings - Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Suresh Raina and Ravichandran Ashwin - had a field day pulling his leg with their own versions of the viral 'Sir Ravindra Jadeja' jokes that have been doing the rounds of social networking sites for some time...
12:24:20 PM Apr 10, 2013
The video of a shy four-year-old girl snubbing Britain's Prince William as he and his wife Kate greeted local residents in Glasgow has gone viral. ...
12:39:06 PM Apr 05, 2013
An Oxford University librarian has been sacked and a number of students fined after a recording of dance track - the Harlem Shake - filmed in the university premises, went viral on YouTube. ...
11:16:24 AM Mar 21, 2013
The user, who alleged that he was arrested for approaching a woman for a date, has set a debate going on the other side of the sexual harassment story that no one talks about. ...
04:25:50 PM Mar 08, 2013
A nervous and clearly a rookie reporter got to speak to the gorgeous actress about her new film, football and a certain chicken restaurant. ...
12:14:15 PM Mar 06, 2013
Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar appears to be asking the Harlem Shakers in her trademark style to 'baith jaiye' (sit down) and 'zarasa thariye' (stop for a while). ...
05:01:58 PM Mar 05, 2013
Mine owner Barminco considered the stunt a safety issue and a breach of its "core values of safety, integrity and excellence," according to a dismissal letter cited by the paper. ...
04:03:35 PM Mar 04, 2013
