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100 years of B.K.S. Iyengar

The yoga 'guru' taught his students not to disengage from the world, but engage with it in new ways, without the ego

9 min read14 Dec 2018
Companies

Instagram crackdown on fake followers benefits genuine influencers

Roughly 40% of Indian Instagrammers use third-party apps to artificially increase their follower count

2 min read22 Nov 2018
Politics

News In Numbers: Police arrest 25 in WhatsApp rumour-led lynching in Karnataka

In other news, 129,280 followers Narendra Modi's official Twitter account @PMOIndia lost, traditional PC market grows 2.7% in second quarter of 2018

2 min read16 Jul 2018
Politics

PM Narendra Modi loses 2.7 lakh Twitter followers in 2 days. Here’s why

Besides that of PM Modi, Twitter follower count of several celebrities like Amitabh Bachchan, Deepika Padukone, Aamir Khan, Hrithik Roshan, Virat Kohli and Sachin Tendulkar have fallen down

1 min read14 Jul 2018
Companies

Twitter is clamping down on fake followers

Twitter is taking a tough stand against fake or bot-controlled accounts, which are used to inflate follower count and generate more interactions around tweets

2 min read12 Jul 2018
Industry

PM Modi, Salman Khan, SRK, Deepika Padukone’s Twitter follower count may drop this week. Here’s why

Twitter heavyweights like PM Narendra Modi, actors Amitabh Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan, Deepika Padukone's will get affected as a result of Twitter's crackdown on fake profiles

2 min read12 Jul 2018
Industry

Films and cricket rule Twitter in 2017

On the list of 10 most followed Indians on Twitter in 2017 are Narendra Modi with 37.5 million followers, Amitabh Bachchan with 31.5 million followers, and two cricketers, Sachin Tendulkar and Virat Kohli

1 min read6 Dec 2017
Opinion

On Twitter in politics

Rahul Gandhi has gained more traction on Twitter recently, prompting the BJP to question who handles his account. He joked—on Twitter—that his dog does.

1 min read3 Nov 2017
Politics

Lookout notice against Gurmeet Ram Rahim’s adopted daughter Honeypreet

The Haryana police issues lookout notice against jailed Dera chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh's adopted daughter Honeypreet Insaan and key Dera functionary Aditya Insaan

1 min read1 Sep 2017
Politics

Policing lessons from Panchkula

State's response to organised violence in India often hinges on a political cost-benefit analysis

4 min read31 Aug 2017
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