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Watch: LED lights in Pakistan bride’s lehenga turn heads
A video of a newlywed couple from Pakistan went viral on social media for embedding a unique element into their wedding attire. With an aim to make his bride ‘shine brighter’, a…
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Watch: Fashion show in Nagpur’s moving Metro rail
Passengers of a metro train in Nagpur were taken by a surprise when all of a sudden a live fashion show began the moving rail coach. Children also too part in the…
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Watch: Youtubers ‘blend’ fridge, TV in giant mixer; netizens not amused
A video featuring YouTubers blending various objects, including a fridge, boat, and golf balls in a giant blender has garnered the attention of netizens. The blender was created by the popular YouTube…
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Bengaluru techie takes Rs 2.7L loan to fill potholes on public road
Vexed by ignored potholes on a busy stretch in Bangalore, a techie launched a campaign, ‘NoDevelopmentNoTax’, and attempted to improve road infrastructure himself. The campaign calls for a boycott of paying property…
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Woman receives 100 Amazon packages she never ordered, keeps them all
Cindy Smith, a resident of, Virginia, US was shocked when packages from Amazon started piling up rapidly at her doorstep. Cindy was left wondering how nearly 100 packages bearing headlamps, glue guns…
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Car made from stapler pins: Anand Mahindra ‘ready to hire’ the creative mind
Indian business tycoon, Anand Mahindra, often shares videos of creative ideas on Twitter as he believes that ‘Indians are a powerhouse of talent’. Sharing one such video — of a woman assembling…
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ChatGPT officiates wedding of US couple in absence of priest
San Francisco: In an unprecedented but heartwarming event, OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT stepped up to officiate the wedding of a US couple when faced with the unanticipated absence of a priest. Reece Wiench…
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Good grades or goodbye: Bengaluru landlord’s rental criteria
The tech boom in Bengaluru has created a surge in demand for rental properties, making life tough for the city’s working-class house hunters. Soaring rents and exorbitant security deposits are only the…
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This is how man who quit alcohol celebrated dry year
Chennai: A year after an alcohol addict decided to give up liquor consumption, a Tamil Nadu resident has celebrated an entire ‘dry year’ of his life by putting up posters. Manoharan, 52,…
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Delhi: Upset over delay, passenger falsely tweets flight hijacked; arrested
New Delhi: A man was arrested for allegedly falsely tweeting that a flight going from Dubai to Jaipur had been hijacked, police said on Thursday. The incident took place on Wednesday. Moti…
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Woman names daughter ‘Little Nugget’ after giving birth in McD
Atlanta: …And we’re “lovin’ it”. A woman named Alandria Worthy stopped at a McDonald’s, but instead of coming out with Big Macs, she came out with a newborn baby! According to a…
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West Bengal: Meet Argentina’s die-hard fan and his unique tea stall
Ichhapur: Ichhapur, a small town in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district, has long been synonymous with a British-era rifle factory. The town, on the banks of Hooghly River, however, is now being…
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New ‘Cadbury Pakodas’ will spoil your every childhood valentine
Once again welcome to the world of obnoxious food jodis. Today, on this auspicious day of Deepawali, we ruin your childhood experience, everyone’s favourite and still is, The Cadbury. Only just deep-fried.…
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‘Chutta nahi hai to toffee le lo’: Is UPI crushing the business of your favourite toffees?
Ever since UPI or Unified Payments Interface came into existence, our lives have been much easier. Now, every time we go to any general or ‘Kirana’ store, a chai ‘nukkad’, or even…
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Guinness World Records officially declares Monday as the worst day of the week
“Monday blues” is not just a phrase but a real emotion that can be mainly understood by people who have to get back to work after a fun weekend. The first day…
