Human Interest stories

Ideas2IT, a Chennai-based IT company has gifted 100 cars to 100 of its old employees, who have been with the company for a decade. Murali Vivekanandan, the founder, said that he plans to dole out more such incentives in the future. He also praised the employees for their efforts and said that insisted that those employees have earned these cars through their own hard work.

Evie Toombes, a star show-jumper from the United Kingdom filed a case against her mother's doctor, Dr. Philip Mitchell as she was born with spina bifida. He advised her to take folic acid supplements to reduce the risk of spina bifida from affecting the baby. However, this would mean that Evie would never have been born. Furthermore, the London High Court awarded Evie the right to a huge payout. 

Tech company, Promobot is reported to launch new set of robots which will have friendly and familiar faces like human beings. A whopping amount of £1,50,000 will be paid by the company to anyone who agrees to lend their facial features. Furthermore, the applicants must be over 25 years of age. The company said, "since 2019, we have been actively manufacturing and supplying humanoid robots to the market".

In Uttar Pradesh's Malihabad, a mango orchard has become a training ground for young boxing aspirants. Mohammad Saif Khan from Josh Academy, told ANI, the children were first not interested in learning boxing. However, an incident where a woman was molested by a group of gangsters changed their mindset to take up boxing as self-defence. Reportedly, the orchard… read-more

Facebook user, Sankalan Sarkar took to Facebook about an e-rickshaw driver Suranjan Karmakar from Liluah in Bengal, who offers free rides to passengers who answer 15 General Knowledge questions correctly. As per sources, the driver is a 6th grade drop out due to financial crisis. Reportedly, the questions covered a wide range of sections. One of the questions asked by Karmakar was, "Who wrote Jana Gana Mana Adhi?"