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  When I turned on the television last afternoon, there was this advertisement of my favourite sportsperson, promoting an online gambling website. Although the ads didn't appeal to me, I also wanted to know more about the online gambling industry, which is easily one of the most lucrative businesses in recent years. There is a need more to gambling than just it being infamous. There are a lot of flipsides to this industry and we hear a lot of news about it time and again, but people do flock to them invariably. Why is it so addictive that it makes one want to come back every time? Read on to know how it all started and reason out its addictive nature.   How it all Started The first-ever gambling we would have probably heard of is the game of dice held between the Kauravas and the Pandavas in the Mahabharata, or probably earlier too. From then till now, gambling has always been a part of society, irrespective of the illegality and immorality in it. There are thousands of...

  In today's tech-driven world, new startups and small businesses use various strategies to create an online presence. When people look up on the web for a business that can make their job easier, they most likely visit a site that appears higher up in their search results. Such websites get the highest traffic and those which come after them have significantly less traffic. These businesses use SEO as a strategy to beat the competition. Search Engine Optimisation or SEO has now become a staple in the marketing world as the number of businesses offering similar services has risen greatly in the recent decade. Small businesses too can tap into SEO and attain a place in the first pages of the search engine results. Read on to know how SEO benefits small businesses.   Helps create Brand Awareness The more people see your brand name on the top of the first page of the search engine results pages, the more is your presence in the market. Uses mostly go to a brand that Google ...

  “AFTER TWENTY YEARS” by O.HENRY Provide your imaginative ending to the given story. Note: Word limit - 250- 350 words Jimmy Wells and ‘Silky’ Bob -were thick childhood friends. However, once Bob left to pursue his fortunes in the West, the two eventually lost touch. Nevertheless, they had promised to meet each other in 20 years, to the hour, after their last dinner together at the same spot in New York City. Jimmy Wells became a Cop wherein Bob turned out to be an outlaw. Twenty years later, Bob was waiting outside where the restaurant once stood when he and Jimmy parted ways; the latter, who’s now a policeman, comes upon him while he’s walking his beat. After hearing Bob’s story about the friends’ pledge to meet up again and watching him light up a cigar, Jimmy recognizes it’s Bob. To his shock, he also realizes that his friend is a fugitive from Chicago, whom he’d seen earlier on a police bulletin. So this was the ending I had given: …Veiling his shock like the tough cop he is,...

  "Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything," said Plato. The music industry strives to live up to this quote, and many new music creators are coming up with new content every day. Lo-fi is the newest trend and looks like it's here to stay. Read on to know why. What is lo-fi? According to its creator Eric Matthews, lo-fi is short for "low fidelity", which is a term used to define the music that contains elements that are conventionally regarded as imperfections or flawed. This type of sound recording has technical flaws that make them sound different from the live sound that gets recorded by adding distortion, hums, background noise and low-frequency response. Music producers now make these flaws as calculated aesthetic decisions and we have a player of our favourite song in this new version. And guess what? It is a hit with the youth. Why is Lo-fi trending? The world today has started to acknowledge...