This is the stuff of workplace nightmares. Rajesh Ghadge, an official working at the Agricultural Department in Mumbai got a panicked call from his son, asking him to come home. His son was suffering from depression, and said that he might end his life.
Every year, the 30 odd male employees of PrimaDonna, a lingerie company specialising in large sizes, get to experience having large breasts, especially size D and E cup sizes. This is made possible by a special contraption made for this purpose that weighs as much as a size E cup (Upto 1.5 kgs) and strapped on to the participating employees. That whole day the employees keep the harness on, feeling what it’s like to be large-breasted woman, along with all its problems and issues.
Ending months of speculation, the Reserve Bank of India has finally announced its new governor. Urijit Patel will be RBI’s 24th governor after Raghuram Rajan’s term ends later next month.
PV Sindhu, India’s only badminton player to bring home a Silver medal from the Olympics created history yesterday. And while the whole nation poured praise and wishes on her, it’s the Indian brands that have found an ideal marketing peg in her.
While some companies have put out well-timed and strategised creatives to wish her for the stellar show on their social media, some brands are going out of their way to salute Sindhu’s performance with a couple of offers thrown in for their (the brand’s fans.)
When PV Sindhu, India’s only badminton player to bring home a Silver medal from the Olympics created history yesterday, she also ensured herself some handsome monetary rewards for herself. And while the whole nation poured praise and wishes on her, it’s the Indian governments and brands that are putting their monies where their mouths are.
Medal winning Olympians aren’t all that different from you and me. They might be the absolute bests in their sports, but when they are starting out, they can have some dreams that might appear cute in light of their newfound success.
Founded as a classifieds and local search platform in 2010, AskMe shot off into an ecommerce marketplace AskMeBazaar by 2012. And to set itself apart from the Flipkarts and Snapdeals, it decided to cater to the small and medium term merchants on the platform. 4 years later however, as is the case with most other heavily-funded startups in India, investors are beginning to second- guess themselves and funding ran dry. Left in the lurch by its prominent investor, AskMe has needed to take a tough call and shut down operations altogether.
It was a case of so near, yet so far. PV Sindhu lost to Spain’s Carolina Marin in the finals of the individual badminton event at Rio 2016, securing herself a silver medal.
If you’re a pot smoker, you might have rolled several joints in your life, or at least had a friend around do it for you. But this guy from Oregon, Portland, USA, actually does that for a living.