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Apple AirPods Pro review: Superior design meets great sound!
It’s been a long time coming; but Apple has delivered where it matters the most — superior noise isolation alongside a great design.
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Bose NC 700 review: Perfection, refined!
The Bose NC 700 are seriously great headphones and they have the potential to be the best noise-cancelling headphones in the world.
1MORE Quad-Driver in-ear headphones review: Simply the best!
If you’re an audiophile and want a no-nonsense pair of in-ear headphones, the 1MORE Quad-Driver is the single most obvious choice for you.
Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 review: All hail the Android tablet king!
The Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 is the tablet to buy if you prefer the Android ecosystem. This tablet is right on par with the iPad Pro in terms of performance and with the S Pen support; you can’t go wrong no matter which way you look at it.
Apple Watch Series 5 review: Closes almost all rings on perfection
The Apple Watch Series 5 is an incremental update on the surface but a deeper dive makes this an upgrade that’s worth your investment.
Apple iPhone 11 Pro review: Bugatti La Voiture Noire of smartphones
The iPhone 11 Pro can be compared to the world’s most expensive luxury car and it backs this up with performances in every single aspect.
LG NanoCell 9 Series 4K (65SM9000) review: Avant-garde performance!
LG has always been a dominant force with televisions; now, with the 2019 NanoCell SM9000, they prove that you don’t need to look further.
Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Plus review: Q: Another word for excellent? A: Samsung
With an absolutely gorgeous design and hardware to match, Samsung has once again set the bar of what a great smartphone should be.
Lagori: The streets come alive with their music
The traffic wound its way along Brigade Road, jam-packed as usual, one evening in 2013. The commuters, no doubt, resigned themselves to the smoky chaos of the evening rush, windows up, helmets pulled all the way down. The lively strains of a song pulled them out of their stupor. Pedestrians …
Something wicked this way comes: Clowning around with Macbeth
Hamlet-the Clown Prince began as an experiment and went on to become one of the most successful contemporary productions and will complete a ten-year run in 2018. “Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more.” …
Blessing chimanga and the rhythm divine
What: Blessing Chimanga & Dreams Band (Zimbabwe) - LIVE! When: Saturday, June 16, 9 pm Price: Rs 499 Where: bFlat, Indiranagar Zimbabwe in the 1970s was a land of racial divide, with people living together in close-knit communities. Blessing 'Bled' Chimanga and his family would join the other devout church-goers …
‘Tied’ down? Shadow of patriarchy over choice of sterilization
A recent survey has revealed that as many as 38.7% of married couples opt for female sterilization as opposed to male sterilization which is at a mere 0.2%. The survey covered married women in urban Bengaluru between the age of 15 and 49. BENGALURU: When it comes to family planning, …
Sing us a song, you’re the piano man
India has an extraordinary emerging audience space and a growing womb of talent, believes the globally-acclaimed pianist Karl Lutchmayer who has been spreading the magic of music as he moves fingers on keys across nations and generations. The renowned artiste and music educator was born of Indian parents in London. …
Peace Oudh: Music without boundaries
You're driving home on a silent night when suddenly, you're surrounded by three military jeeps and the unmistakable sound of gunfire. That's life as usual in certain parts of violence-torn Palestine, where children grow up amidst machine guns. Every day is reduced to a mere struggle for survival, the higher …
The big band theory
Four musicians hailing from absolutely different worlds of music or ‘planets’ as they would like to call it encountered each other in the culturally vibrant streets of France in 2001 and ‘Nojazz’ was born. Haven’t we always wondered about and wished to spot a UFO in the night sky amongst …
‘Butter’ than the rest
To take your mind off the exhausting work week and retreat into a trance zone through their musical kaleidoscope, The Buttering Trio is here in the city, all the way from Israel. Heavy beats, fat bass lines and poignant lyrics when combined with live instruments played by the three members …
At NGMA, it’s the Museum of the Moon
Luke came up with the idea of Museum of the Moon when he saw the rise of high tides and thought of the control of the moon. BENGALURU: “The beauty of the moon lies in how it engulfs various cultures and history across the globe; how there are different beliefs …
The mandragora myth
We often talk of the abounding diversity of the human race but how commonly do we reflect upon the similarities that reside beneath differently-coloured skins, how we all cry, laugh and love, regardless of region, religion or culture. Two artists have arrived in the city from Argentina to celebrate fifteen …
Despite green signal, Railways tardy over automatic signalling
While Automatic Signalling was sanctioned on Cantonment-Whitefield stretch in every Railway budget since 2013-2014 till the most recent 2017-2018 and Intermediate Block Signalling sanctioned as a part of the Suburban Rail memorandum signed in January 2017, SWR is dragging its feet over them.
New BMTC tech to curb ticket pilferage
BMTC is working with experts and has finished development and pilot of "Automated Passenger Counting System" by which, they will be able to put an end to ticket pilferage. APC will detect movement through body sensors. First of its kind to be implemented in public buses in India, BMTC consulted …
The mahati mission know cervical cancer to beat it
Swarupa Kakumanu, a seasoned IT professional, never imagined that she would start an NGO to combat the only preventable cancer among all female genital cancers. Cervical cancer does not get the limelight often, despite India topping the list globally.
It's not fare! BMTC should slash prices
The BMTC runs as a corporation surviving on profits, unlike transport divisions of other metros where public buses are funded by the state. Respective state governments waive off taxes and take care of employee salaries, irrespective of revenues generated. Though the state Transport Department reduced AC bus fares recently, activists …
Many takers for metro feeder bus passes in Bengaluru
A simple move by the BMTC at the Baiyappanahalli Metro station in May 2017, has turned out to be a big success in achieving inter-modal integration. A BMTC pass counter opened at the terminal station of the Metro's purple line for commuters using its feeder bus services is receiving a …
Railways, Bengaluru Metro to exchange land at Baiyappanahalli
South Western Railways and Bengaluru Metro are in talks to exchange parcels of land at Baiyappanahalli to amicably resolve their common requirement of land needed for respective projects.