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Mumbai, the City of Dreams, houses the prime centre of Hindi Film Industry, better known as Bollywood. Acclaimed as one of the biggest film industries of the world, Bollywood produces over 1000 films every year. Since 1913, Indian Cinema has made a long journey from simple silent movies to sound films, then colored films to technically advanced movies of the present day. Bollywood imbibed its name from the merger of the term Bombay (now Mumbai) and Hollywood, the American Film Industry. Another point worth-mentioning is that Bollywood is just the part of Indian Film Industry, which also encompasses other language film industries. The movies churned out here are the major source of entertainment, with an audience of 3.6 billion people, which is more than half of the world's population. Bypassing the reality, Hindi films are usually 'masala' (spicy) movies that comprise all the ingredients like music, dance, violence and melodrama of a good entertainer. The languages of Hind...

     Bank of America ,  in full Bank of America Corporation, one of the largest banking and financial services corporations in the  United States . It was formed throughNationsBank’s acquisition of BankAmerica in 1998. Bank of America is headquartered in Charlotte ,  North Carolina .                                                              The  bank’s  history dates to 1904 when  Amadeo Peter Giannini opened the  Bank of Italy  in San Francisco. It eventually developed into the Bank of America and was for a time owned by Giannini’s holding company ,  Transamerica Corporation . It issued the fir...

Easy Access to information : It has become very easy to get access to relevant information at any time anywhere. This has been possible because of modern technologies like broadband internet.  Lots of data is being published and indexed online, sites like Wikipedia and Youtube have great original content which can be used in research or entertainment.   Information   is power and those who find information and use it well always succeed.  With smart gadgets like the iPad, iPhone, galaxy tablet, users can easily have access to information through these smart gadgets because they use the internet. So a user on a train can easily read breaking news while traveling, they can also buy and sell stocks while in the bedroom using the internet. These smart gadgets make it easy to access the internet and this simplifies the way we get information.   Encourages innovation and creativity  – Since technology is challenging, it sparks the brain to  work ...

Increased loneliness  – Social Isolation is on the increase, people are spending more time playing video games, learning how to use new modern technologies, using social networks and they neglect their real life. Technology has replaced our old way of interacting. If a user can easily interact with 100 friends online, they will feel no need to going out to make real friends which at a later stage leads to  loneliness . Job Loss : Modern technology has replaced many humans; robots are doing the jobs which used to be done by humans. Many packing firms have employed robots on production lines to increase production and efficiency, this is good news for businesses because it helps them make more money and serve customers in time, but it is bad news to employees because they get replaced by a robot. Competency  – Increased dependency on modern tools like calculators has reduced on our creativity. You can find a student when they can solve a very simple mathematica...

तीन सौ साल शासन करने के बाद जब अंग्रेजों ने अगस्त, 1947 में  भारत  छोड़ स्वदेश वापस जाने का फैसला लिया, तब भारत मुल्क को दो स्वतंत्र राष्ट्र राज्यों में विभाजित कर दिया गया: हिंद...

Back in 1962 India lost war to China over the same issue , the non demarcated boundary has then since been a matter of conflict. The Chinese army has since been intervening regularly but this has now gone far beyond the limit. Now that China signals for a possible war, let us analyze what does this have to mean and what do the number and stats say about comparison between the military strengths of the two countries. Let’s start off with a few lesser known facts : India is the world’s largest importer of military goods.India has joined the Nuclear Power’s elite club which previously included USA, China, France and Russia with the development of ICBM (Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile) AGNI-V.India is one of the few countries operating an Aircraft carrier. Countries that Operate Aircraft Carriers Blue (Currently Operating) Light Blue (Once Operated) Land Military Power – India vs China Comparison (2013) INDIA  CHINA  Tanks3,5557,950Armored...