Traditional food festival highlights native ingredients of West Kalimantan

Kalimantan on the island of Borneo has rich culinary traditions. In West Kalimantan, in Lanjak village of Batang Lupar subdistrict, Kapuas Hulu regency, a traditional food festival will be held from Sept. 14 to 15. The festival, initiated by natural resource management NGO Riak Bumi, aims to promote the best food created by locals, Kompas.com reported, adding that sustainability … Read more

VideoWiki Challenges Wikipedia’s Traditional Text Focus

When Pratik Shetty presented at this month’s global Wikimania conference in Stockholm, he told the story of Venky, the security guard at his apartment building in Mumbai, India. Shetty had noticed some mosquitoes in standing water nearby his building and alerted Venky that the insects could cause the tropical disease dengue fever. Venky responded that he could treat … Read more

Business Transformation Part 1: The Journey From Traditional Business To Digital Business

Never in the history of mankind has the velocity of business been increasing at such a rapid pace. This is largely driven by the rise of digital business models enabled by an exponential growth in technology. There is a plethora of information describing that we are in the Fourth Industrial Revolution — and soon to be entering the fifth. … Read more

What does it mean to be a man at a time when the traditional definition of masculinity is changing?

Across the world, boys are taught from an early age that they need to be in charge- when it comes to situations, life, and most importantly their emotions. Little wonder then that many grow up thinking that their only option is to put on a brave face, and not appear ‘unmanly’. India’s very own Bollywood … Read more

Hina Khan Celebrates Independence Day in New York in Traditional Outfit, See Pics

This Year’s Independence Day celebration was extra special for Hina Khan, who celbrated the prud moment in the US, where she also participated in the annual parade organised on the occasion. Hina shared the pics from the event and shared that she could not have been more proud in representing the country at a gathering … Read more

NSTC holds meet on protecting indigenous and traditional knowledge

A section of gathering attending the coordination meet of all the tribal bodies of Kohima unit held at the conference hall of Department of Science & Technology, Kohima on August 17. (Photo Courtesy: NSTC) Kohima, August 17 (MExN): Realizing the need to create awareness on how to protect the rich traditional heritage, the Nagaland Science & … Read more

Traditional festival gets a millennial edge, as rakhis arrive in environment-friendly and upcycle forms

Bamboo Rakhi and (right) Seed Rakhi. Stores and online shopping portals across India are offering a slew of environment-friendly rakhis for the more than 60 crore Indians that celebrate Raksha Bandhan each year. Here are a few options: Seed Rakhi: The seed rakhi, made organically by farmers using cotton with natural dyes, will ensure that a … Read more

Will the rapid rise in algo trading leave traditional traders behind?

Financial trading floors are experiencing a huge transition from innovative technologiesNSE -0.18 %. It has given traders more powers to do fast execution of trades with discipline in a rapidly changing market scenario by reducing human errors, as computer-programmed software remains unaffected by human psychology. In today’s era, where more and more traditional traders follow technical charting … Read more

Adam Goldberg Pays Over Asking for Family-Sized Traditional

Location: Los Angeles, Calif. Price: $2.495 million Size: 3,707 square feet, 5 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms More than 1.5 years after he sold a not-quite 2,000 sq. ft., split-level mid-century modern hillside home in a celeb-packed neighborhood of L.A.’s Los Feliz area for a bit more than $1.725 million and settled, at least temporarily, in suburban Thousand Oaks, enigmatic … Read more

How hot is Kubernetes? Even traditional banks are transforming to embrace it

Kubernetes has become a standard infrastructure API with a gravitational pull that vendors like Red Hat, Mesosphere (now D2IQ), and Pivotal have been unable to escape. If you’re in the business of enabling enterprises to build applications, you’ve got to support Kubernetes. Period. For those application-building enterprises, Kubernetes adoption has remained somewhat aspirational, with a 2018 … Read more