Life & Fitness

Quote of the day by Adi Shankaracharya (Photo via Canva) The digital world today has made us habitual of instant gratification, be it ordering food with one click on an app or asking for a house help; all these things take just minutes to fulfill.Although these facilities may provide instant fulfillment, many of us have…

Anamta came into contact with an 11,000-volt high-tension power line while playing. Every Raksha Bandhan, 17-year-old Anamta Ahmad makes the journey from Mumbai to Valsad for a brother she found in the most unexpected way. On Thursday, she travelled to Gujarat to tie a rakhi to 16-year-old Shivam Mistry, whose nine-year-old sister Riya donated the…

There’s a particular kind of frustration that comes with dicing an onion, getting into a good rhythm, and suddenly feeling the whole cutting board slide a few inches across the counter mid-chop. It’s more than just annoying, a board that shifts unexpectedly while a sharp knife is coming down is a genuine, if often overlooked,…

why experts are warning against feeding wild birds during the H5N1 outbreak Feeding birds in your backyard may seem like a harmless way to connect with nature. But amid Australia’s growing H5 bird flu outbreak, experts are raising concerns that bird feeders could unintentionally create places where the virus spreads more easily among wildlife. According…

Experts say that a hen’s reproductive system is designed to release yolks at regular intervals. And when the yolk starts as an immature egg cell in the ovary, it grows and layers of nutrients build up around it, forming the familiar yellow yolk. When the yolk is mature, it is released from the ovary in…

Sidhu’s compensation at Google was around €100,000, including bonuses and shares, equivalent to roughly ₹83 lakh at the time. For Mantaj Sidhu, leaving a well-paid Google job in Dublin was not a decision he made overnight. After nearly five years with the company, he began questioning what he was working towards and eventually decided that…

Couple recalls their near-death experience in Nepal floods (Image Credit: Instagram/ @cbsnews) Anjana Raja and Pattabiraman Venkatesan, a couple from the San Francisco Bay Area who were travelling on a pilgrimage to Tibet, described a terrifying escape after a huge mass of mud and debris suddenly rushed toward their tour bus near the Nepal-China border….

Devotees noticed what they described as ‘sweat’ on the idol during evening prayers on August 22. (Photo: Niranjan Shrestha/AP) An unusual incident at a temple in Nepal has caught attention after devotees claimed that the idol of Goddess Bhagwati began “sweating” (was reportedly seen with moisture) days before devastating flash floods hit the country. The…

Anima Anandkumar has spent much of her career trying to bring two worlds closer together: artificial intelligence and science.Now, that work has earned her a spot on TIME’s list of the 100 most influential people in AI. The Indian-born scientist has worked on using AI to tackle some seriously complex problems, from predicting the weather…

For many Indian employees, seeing an office almost empty before 5 pm on a Monday might seem unusual. For Mohit, an Indian man living in Germany, it’s simply part of the work culture.Mohit recently shared a short video on Instagram showing his workplace at 4:58 pm on a Monday. And there wasn’t much happening around…