17 Scientifically Proven Reasons Why Indian Women Live Much Longer Than Men

According to a report by WHO in 2009, women in India live much longer than men. It is also scientifically proven that women outlive men because of their lifestyle habits and behaviors. But some scientists around the world also argued that life-expectancy in women doesn’t have to do with lifestyle, as it all lies in genes.

So, why do women actually live longer than men? When scientists keep arguing about the possibilities, the internet has easily found out the possible reasons with definitive proofs. Here they are…

1. Because women would never climb the electric post and fix wires with bare hands like this…

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2. Because being an electrician is really tough, and only a few of them can handle their job like this…

 

3. This guy who discovered a way to dry clothes faster.

imgur

 

4. Now, this is called heights of stupidity. This guy jumps into tiger enclosure, scares off the animal, and does yoga like an idiot.

Cover Asia Press via Youtube

 

5. It’s too hot out here! A simple example of how Indian jugaads fix everyday’s problems easily.

Via facebook

 

6. And this dude. Like a boss.

 

7. Just one ‘wrong step’ away from landing with broken legs.

 

8. These two dudes are not at all afraid of heights.

Via myindiapictures.com

 

9. Now, will you please stop complaining about how tough your job is?

Youtube

 

10. Young artists risking their life to paint the most awesome art ever.

 

11. That train stunt by Salman Khan in KICK is too fake. See, how this old man does…

 

12. And here is the most idiotic stunt in the history of stunts.

 

13. The guy on the right has some BALLS. 

blogspot via coolpictures.in

 

14. Because that day these guys couldn’t find any long ladder.

Via lolindian

 

15. Caution: This stunt is performed by experts. Never try it yourself.

 

16. ‘Living life dangerously’

 

17. And The Darwin Award goes to this guy, for dousing off the electrical fire with water.

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Anurag 20:17  

Smart phones are the new cigarettes

I only smoked for a short period in my life - somewhere between the ages of 15 and 23. And really, I don't think I could ever call myself a proper smoker. Even at my most nicotine infused I probably smoked no more than 5 cigarettes a day.

Back then you could smoke everywhere of course. Not just in bars, but on tops of busses, in cinemas, even in airplanes. I always thought it was faintly ridiculous to have a smoking section on planes but hey...

 

The thing is though, I don't think I was ever really addicted to Nicotine.

 

So why did I smoke? Well…some of it was a desire to fit in…some of it was a desire to rebel. But I think more importantly it was the most incredible prop.

 

Standing alone at the bar? light a cigarette. It will give you something to lean on - something to do with your hands. And you'll feel less awkward, less embarrassed about standing there with no one to talk to.

 

Waiting for the bus? Light a cigarette. Pulling on the smoke will relive the boredom and give you a focus for your wandering mind.

 

And of course "needing a light" is THE best excuse for speaking to someone you find attractive. In fact, I’m convinced that a lot of my generation wouldn't have been born at all if our parents weren't puffing away like Serge Gainsbourg in his final years.

 

I’ve been a non smoker for 20 years now, and I’ve no intention of starting again. But it occurred to me the other day just how much the smart phone has become the modern version of the cigarette.

 

You’re at a conference sitting on your own. You don’t know anyone and you’re waiting for the next speaker to come on stage. You feel a bit awkward, a bit out of place. What do you do?

 

Well if you’re anything like me you’ll reach for your phone. Sure we need to check our emails from time to time, to tweet, to text…whatever. But isn’t a part of it just having something to do?

 

Something to make us feel a little less silly and a little less naked?

 

And I know I’m not alone. The other day I was waiting at the platform in a suburban station. Every single person I counted was looking at their smartphones. Were they just looking for distraction on the way home, something to make the time go quicker? Or is it more than that? Are we so afraid of being fully present in the moment that we reach for our favourite prop, our electronic security blanket?

 

In our culture, there is pressure to interact, to engage, to do…even if we are alone.To sit and just ‘be’ feels deeply alien…and faintly embarrassing.

 

And maybe a great prop, be it a smart phone or a cigarette, helps us avoid doing just that. Being naked, facing the world as it really is in all its boredom and mundaneness.

 

“You’re never alone with a Strand”, was one of the most famous strap lines in British advertising. It referred to a brand of cigarettes popular in the 1950s, advertised by a solitary man in a trench coat and trilby hat.

 

Tim Bichara

 

Managing Partner at Nimble Mobile - Co Founder and Commercial Director at Q App

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Anurag 08:16  

11 tips to improve productivity at work

11 tips to improve productivity at work

Out of excitement, we sometimes overcommit, and this is a major reason why we are not productive, says Kritika Harjai of CareerBuilder.

"I want more from you!…"

"Just this? This is not enough, you could do more!”

And blah blah…." These are some of my manager's favourite words.

Sometimes she says this in an encouraging tone and sometimes in a more powerful way.

Being totally exhausted with this, I made a resolution for this New Year that I will make sure that my manager never says any of the above favourite words.

After much trial and errors, the following tricks have helped me sail through my shortcomings:

Define tasks

In the past years, I have tried a lot planning my day and abiding by it, but frankly, it never worked for several reasons.

So, what I did this time is I just defined the tasks that I want to accomplish by the end of the day, and also where I am at the beginning of the day.

Once this is done, I could easily define to-do-steps to achieve it.

Say goodbye to multitasking

I have accepted that multitasking isn't for me.

It takes approximately more time to finish the tasks separately than doing them simultaneously.

This might be true for you as well, so just give this a try for few days to identify that.

Step up towards deadlines

Make sure that everything you do would lead you to completion of the tasks.

Stop overcommitting

Out of excitement, we sometimes overcommit (at least I do this), and this is another reason why we are not productive.

Instead, make realistic expectations and delegate tasks accordingly.

Set timers

We use our cell phones for so many things, but how many of you have tried the timer in it?

Try using it guys, I was really amazed to see that it actually helps in accomplishing tasks on time.

Use ‘How’ instead of “I can’t”

You login to your system today morning and see piles of work.

What would be your reaction?

Will it be 'Oh No! I can't do this!' or 'How shall I do this?'

It's all about how you perceive work.

So, give it a try before accepting defeat. I tried, and it worked.

Facebook and Whatsapp can wait 

All your social sites can wait to give you updates.

If you manage to shut off all your distractions when you are doing the tasks; it won’t be difficult to complete them sooner. Trust me!

Define 'No Talking Time'

If your co-workers are also one reason for your distractions, then tell them clearly that you have assigned no talking time for this much period and they shouldn't bother you for anything.

Get enough sleep

With all this planning and everything, you need to relax your mind and take proper sleep.

Since the time I am working on these secret productivity tricks, I am actually taking approximately 8 hours sleep.

Work out

I have joined aerobics classes again.

It feels so good when your body is fit; you feel confident.

I am not asking you to join aerobics, but say yes to some sort of workout -- could be as simple as a morning walk.

Eat healthy

Food is also one factor that would increase your productivity.

Oily food can actually make you lazy and feel sleepy. So eat healthy and work fresh!

The Secret Tip

More importantly, be helpful and offer a helping hand to everyone who needs you.

Yes, I mean it!

Once you'll help others, you'll feel beautiful and motivated. And then your own tasks would look simpler to you. Try doing this!

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Anurag 16:25  

Awesome

Girna bhi Achcha hai, Aukaat ka pata chalta hai,
Badhte hain jab haath uthane ko, Apno ka pata chalta hai.

Jinhe gussa aata hai, woh log sachche hote hain, Maine jhooto ko aksar muskurate huye dekha hai

Seekh raha hoon ab main bhi insaano ko padhne ka hunar
Suna hai chehre pe kitaabo se zyaada likha hota hai...

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Anurag 20:10  

Global consequences of corruption Small, incremental bribes can create a moral climate where large-scale corruption becomes pervasive

Over many years as a professor at Harvard Business School, one of my favourite cases to teach has featured N.R. Narayana Murthy, the founder of Infosys Ltd. The case describes an incident from the company’s earliest days, when Murthy and colleagues had set up their first office and needed a telephone line. At that time, it was almost impossible to get a telephone installed in India without paying a small bribe to the installer. Murthy, who despised corruption and believed in holding himself and his company to the highest ethical standards, refused to pay. For Infosys employees, this created a giant dilemma. Without company telephones, they had to walk to nearby pay phones to place business calls, and they had limited ability to leave a phone number so contacts could call them back. From a financial standpoint, this made no sense: The bribe was a trivial amount of money; it was causing Infosys to miss sales, and it would clearly impede the growth of the business when the very survival of the business was uncertain. When I teach this case, I let the class discuss the various angles for a time. We talk about the difference between pig-headed and pragmatic morality. Then I ask them to vote: How many would pay the bribe, and how many wouldn’t? Over the years, about two-thirds of my students typically say they’d pay a bribe to get a phone line, and the other third wouldn’t. (I’ve always suspected the one-third who wouldn’t are influenced by how successful Infosys went on to become.) Murthy’s story, and the vote, always create a lively debate. Indeed, after years of teaching business ethics, I’m convinced that no subject creates more debate and disagreement than the practice of paying small bribes. While many ethical questions are black-and-white, management thinkers, business students and many practitioners tend to see small bribes in shades of grey—as technical infractions some might compare to a speeding ticket. Indeed, some observers view bribery and corruption as a natural part of economic development; both practices were prevalent in the US in the early 20th century, as they are in many of today’s emerging economies, including India’s. But one day, following a discussion of the Infosys case in class, an Indian student asked to speak to me privately. He visited my office, and he was nearly in tears. The student explained that his father was a customs official in India. Among customs officers, taking bribes was commonplace; many customs employees use these payments to supplement their low pay. My student’s father, however, believed this practice was wrong, so he declined to take part, and he was intolerant of colleagues who solicited bribes. As a result, he was ostracized by colleagues and repeatedly transferred. Due to these forced relocations, my student had attended 18 different schools during his 16 years of schooling. “The problem with small bribes is they leave no place for a good person—a person who rejects that practice—to hide,” the student explained. It can be tempting to dismiss small bribes as trivial, as a cost of doing business or a practical necessity. My student saw it differently. “Be careful, Professor Nohria, when you make a distinction between small bribes and large bribes. When any bribe is tolerated, goodness has nowhere to take root.” This conversation has stayed with me for more than 15 years, and it’s changed the way I think about corruption. I’ve come to see that even small, incremental bribes can have a corrosive effect, and create a moral climate where large-scale corruption becomes not only tolerated, but pervasive. In this way, I’ve come to see similarities between corruption and pollution. If someone throws a single empty soda bottle in a river, it may seem a trifling offence, because the river is so large and the soda bottle so small. Repeated exposure to small acts of pollution makes such behaviour commonplace and socially acceptable. In that moral climate, if you go downstream, you will likely find the entire river clogged by plastic bottles. That’s visible evidence of how the accumulation of small misdeeds can imperil the ability of a system to function—whether the system is a river or, writ large, an economy. The lesson I learnt from my student that day is just as relevant today at a moment when India is experiencing a new-found hopefulness at a time of new leadership. As much faith as people want to put in leaders, it is important to realize how much of what we experience actually depends on individual actions and collective responsibility. India, or for that matter any other country, will surely be more prosperous if it can shake its long-standing habit of corruption. But instead of looking only for leadership from the top to bring about that change, we all need to be leaders ourselves, by rejecting the small acts of daily corruption that at times feel so necessary. Nitin Nohria is dean of Harvard Business School.

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Anurag 22:46  

IIMA PGPX Program

Planning to apply to IIM A’s One Year MBA (PGPX)? Then this page should be your Bible/ Gita/ Quran. 

Below you will find a comparison between all past Classes of the PGPX on critical parameters such as applications received, applicants called for interviews, average GMAT, work experience and more. 

Key Highlights

• Economic uncertainty over the past years seems to have impacted the number of applications – they are down to 690 as compared to a high of 1352 applications in 2008-09.
• The acceptance ratio in 2014-15 was  12.3%, in the ballpark for an MBA programme at top global B-Schools – for a comparison, Harvard averages a 10-11% acceptance ratio over the years.
• The acceptance ratio in 2014-15 was lower as compared to that for 2009-10, the year that recorded a peak in applications. The ratio for 2009-10 was 6.04% perhaps making IIM A’s One Year MBA the toughest MBA programme in the world to gain entry to. But doesn’t the PGP programme at IIM A hold that record with over 2 lakh applicants every year? Not the way we see it. Read this article in Business Standard authored by Shikhar Mohan, Founder, OneYearMBA.co.in for more on why comparisons between PGP and PGPX acceptance rates can be misleading and why PGPX’s acceptance rates have a higher correlation with that of MBA programmes (one-year and two-year ) at B-Schools in Europe and USA. 
• The average GMAT score that seemed to be on the up and up till 2009-10 (728 in 2008-09 and 721 in 2009-10) and  has taken a breather and a come down to a more applicant friendly 705-711 range over the last few years. This is not necessarily a bad thing. As used to we are in India in equating high scores with high ability, the GMAT is just one indicator of a candidate’s capability in the admissions to MBA programmes globally – thankfully the same is true for PGPX.
• A possible reason for the drop in GMAT could be the rising age of the average PGPX applicant – the average applicant age has risen from 33 in 2008-09, the year in which the average GMAT score stood at 728, as compared to 34 in 2014-15.

PGPX:   All  Batch Comparative Stats
Parameter	PGPX-I (2006-07)	PGPX-II (2007-08)	PGPX-III (2008-09)	PGPX-IV (2009-10)	PGPX-V (2010-11)	PGPX-VI (2011-12)	PGPX-VII (2012-13)	PGPX-VIII (2013-14)	PGPX-IX (2014-15)
Total Applications received	773 (F 34)	849 (F 40)	1352 (F 122)	1323 (F 86)	982 (F 73)	908 (F 63)	942 (F 93)	661 (F 93)	690 (F 67)
Called for Interviews	232	328	325	366	246	244	251	247	230
Attended Interviews	208	313	299	330	228	220	243	238	216
Batch Size	60	72	78	80	86	101	85	85	85
Female	5	4	9	2	6	6	6	12	13
International Students	6	8	9	8	6	7	6	12	3
Residing Abroad (5 to 8 countries)	25	21	21	20	36	40	31	24	21
Higher Degree Holders (Master’s, Professional)	30	35	43	35	42	45	37	37	34
Engineers	49	51	58	56	55	82	65	68	71
IIT / NIT  graduates	17	23	13	17	25	28	20	20	18
GMAT	699	695	728	721	712	714	717	711	705
Age	32	33 yrs	33 yrs	33 yrs	33 yrs	34 yrs	34 yrs	34 yrs	34 yrs
International Work  Exp	3 yrs 4 m	3 yrs	4 yrs  6 m	4 yrs  9 m	4 yrs  4 m	4 yrs 7 m	3 yrs 2 m	3 yrs 3 m	3 yrs 0 m
Total Work Experience	9 yrs	9 yrs	10 yrs	10 yrs	10 yrs	10 yrs	10 yrs 5 m	10 yrs 2 m	9 yrs 8 m
Sector Profile(%)
BPO	0	0	1	3	1	2	3	1	0
Energy/Power	0	3	2	0	1	4	1	4	8
Financial Service	5	8	3	11	7	10	7	11	9
FMCG	1	3	1	1	4	0	0	0	3
Govt. Engg.	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0
Govt. Services	2	2	0	2	1	1	2	4	2
Healthcare	0	0	1	2	4	4	0	1	4
IT and IT Services	30	35	45	35	43	51	34	29	28
Management Consultancy	0	1	3	1	2	3	7	6	2
Manufacturing Engg.	6	1	4	3	4	8	9	5	13
Media	1	1	1	0	2	0	1	2	1
Projects/Design/ Construction	1	0	1	2	4	1	0	0	0
Retail	0	0	0	0	1	2	1	2	0
Shipping	2	1	2	3	2	1	0	1	0
Telecom	3	5	6	10	8	8	6	4	5
Airline/Travel	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	2	0
Hospitality Services	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0
Manufacturing Process	7	8	3	4	0	3	2	3	3
Infrastructure	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	2	1
Defence	2	3	5	1	1	1	4	4	1
Education	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1
NGOs	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	3	1
Law	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Industrial/Process Automation	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Total	60	72	78	80	86	101	85	85	85

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Anurag 16:54