Okay. You have played Badminton. You have known that Prakash Padukone was the first Indian to win All-England Badminton championship before Pullela Gopichand won it. And now what? You are expecting that Saina Nehwal would bring laurels to the game, which has thrived the tides of time and have been one of the most favorite

Cricket balls! Variety of material is used to make Cricket balls catering to the needs of children, school-goers, collegians, university players, professional players and then the domestic market, which likes to play Cricket just for sheer fun. Right from plastic, rubber, and cork, Cricket balls are made of leather and synthetic materials. I remember, during

I am sure you have heard about the game of Cricket. Why? Because there is no other sport in India that fetches around 0.1 million people in one ground (Eden Garden, Kolkata) and millions of others on their TV sets, radios, Internet and other similar technical devices, having a religious following in the dynamics of

History of telecom industry in India The history of telephone services in India found its beginning when a 50-line manual telephone exchange was commissioned in Kolkata in the year 1882 in less than five years after Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. While India became independent in the year 1947, the country had about 82,000

Ravindra Kumar sits on a simple bench besides his open stall on which variety of milk products are placed…customers throng this make-shift shop during evening and enjoy the taste of cold beverages, full of health and nutritions. Mango shake, banana shake, milk badam, rabri, lassi–you name and he has it. He starts he operation of

I was traveling from Patiala to Gurgaon in Pepsu Roadways Transport Corporation (PRTC) bus. Before reaching Karnal, the buses make a pit-stop at a dhaba to refuel the driver, ticket conductor and any of the passengers who wants to refresh, eat, or just stroll around. I felt thirsty and moved towards the counter where cold-drinks

I recently did a trick not simply to save money but to test whether it works or not. I take a metro from Noida, change it from Rajiv Chowk, Delhi for Kashmiri Gate. I travel on weekends to my home town boarding a bus from Delhi to Patiala in the night. Now, in the Metro

Have you made it to your home from office in two hours when actually it is a 20 minutes journey? Did you missed a crucial meeting in a corporate house because the traffic jam on the road was too heavy? What is the reason behind these two situations: number of vehicles on the road. Automobile

Fire fighters–a profession where people fight danger, save material and lives, and still remain away from the highlights of the media. Of course, their duty calls when a major fire breaks in some buildings or an area or even in forests. No wonders they are called players of “hero business”! Now, to avoid fires turning

Over the recent past, medical equipment industry has been one of the rapidly growing segments in the industry arena. Marking a 4.6% growth rate over the previous year, Indian medical equipment industry was valued for USD1318m in the year 2005. Owing to several factors that are found to boost up the production of medical equipments,

Till now, I have traveled through air, rail, buses, taxis, 3-wheelers, 2-wheelers, auto-rickshaw, man-pulled-rickshaw, bikes and even on domestic-animal-pulled carts: all of them serve purposes at some time or other. I was thinking about the places and states of India where I have traveled through bus as a transport. This is a type of varied