LIFESTYLE & LEISURE


In the first ever 'State Ranking Index' under the National Food Security Act (NFSA) released on Tuesday, Odisha has topped the list of general category states while Tripura topped the list of special category states.   Odisha is followed by Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat in...

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Asma Sayed 02 July 2022
Artisanal cheese has been increasing in popularity amongst Indian consumers, who, for decades, have only had access to processed cheese. It turns out that Indians were making cheese 4,500 years ago and the art was lost over the centuries. Today, thanks to the initiative of a non-government...

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The Centre on Wednesday published the final notification for the Food Safety and Standards (Vegan Foods) Regulations, 2022 thereby specifying what constitutes vegan food, what kind of labelling/packaging will be required for it and the compliances for food business operators (FBOs)...

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Google has rolled out a new feature in Maps for users in India, the US, Japan and Indonesia that will give estimate of toll charges on a given route.   According to the company, the feature is available for "nearly 2000" toll roads in the US, India, Japan and Indonesia for its iOS and...

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I have just returned from a short trip to Dubai - in part to see the World Expo 2020, which is now being held in 2021 (because of COVID). In this piece, I would like to stay with my impressions of Dubai, a country I visited for the first time 45 years ago.    It was a time when there...

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Statistics are out on an epic battle that was close to the longest final in a grand slam event ever. The victor had 16 more unforced errors and seven less outright winners than the vanquished, a statistic that would be baffling the computers should they be predicting the outcome of a match...

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There were pressing reasons why I travelled on what my batch-mates, who received a continuous flow of videos and photographs from me, called Bharat Darshan by rail.    Almost a year-and-a-half at home without travel and a near-death experience in April 2021 with the dreaded COVID,...

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It was the first day of work for me as a medical representative (MR) and I began with the first doctor on the list given to me. For me, it was a tense interview—my first. When I was going to my second, I met another MR on the road.    He said hello. He introduced himself as Joe and...

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Moneylife Digital Team 04 August 2021
While dismissing a special leave petition (SLP), the Supreme Court has upheld that the online fantasy sports format offered by Dream11 is game of skill. The SLP has alleged that the online fantasy sports (OFS) format offered by Dream11 amounted to gambling, wagering and betting and is not a...

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N. Lothungbeni Humtsoe (IANS) 28 May 2021
Almost a year ago, one of the busiest airports in the world- Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi had a deserted look brought about by the coronavirus. A year later, the airport has terminated operations on terminal 2 as a result of the reduced number of flights due to the second...

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This is a big question – and a very important one, and becoming more important with every passing year. The question applies to individuals, to companies, and even to nations. It was mentioned in an article earlier, that a 2015 survey had found that China, Indonesia and India were rated as...

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SIddhi Jain (IANS) 23 April 2021
Starting a fitness routine is a tough and overwhelming choice. Especially if you are a beginner and can barely differentiate between a bench press and a cross trainer, let alone know what goals you can achieve with either. Staying motivated to work out may very well be hard, but not...

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SS Kaimal 20 April 2021
Readers may perhaps find the following rather difficult to believe. But I swear by all that I hold sacred that it is the truth and nothing but the truth.   As I had mentioned in some earlier articles that the Central Public Works Department (CPWD) in which I worked is responsible for...

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Even after a year of Covid-19 pandemic and remote working, are you still struggling to strike an efficient balance between your home office and life?   Run a white-noise machine to mask household clatter, make your noisy neighbours aware of your work schedule, and resist the...

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International property consultant Knight Frank has observed in its recent Attitudes Survey 2021 that 14 per cent of India's ultra-high net worth individuals (UHNWIs, $30 million plus) are from the salaried employee segment.   This makes India the fourth highest contributor in the Asia...

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Indians spent 188 billion minutes on various OTT platforms -- the highest 69 billion minutes on daily soaps followed by movies with 31 billion minutes -- in the month of February as free telecom bundling helped increase the number of OTT subscriptions via smartphone users, a report showed on...

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When I worked for Glaxo 60 years ago, it was accepted that a weekend was ‘leisure time’. It was a break – and one came back on Monday, fresh from whatever you had been doing on the weekend. It was only when I joined a company with a young Indian heading the company as chief executive (CEO),...

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SS Kaimal 24 March 2021
On the 15 August 1947, when India awoke to light and freedom, I, a college boy then, was not a citizen of India. I was a subject of the Maharaja of Travancore, a princely state, which had declared independence. The Maharaja of Travancore was a devout Hindu whose family deity was Sri...

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The Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed the proceedings in pleas connected with the regulation of content on over-the-top (OTT) platforms in various High Courts.   Solicitor General Tushar Mehta submitted before a bench headed by Justice D.Y. Chandrachud though the top court had issued...

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TruthInAdvertising.org 18 March 2021
Instagram stories used filters that ASA said misleadingly exaggerated results tanning products could achieve.   Last month, the Advertising Standards Authority banned three influencer ads that applied skin-darkening beauty filters to Instagram stories promoting tanning products that...

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