These are unprecedented times. While we all battle our inner conflicts and the invisible beast that is claiming precious lives around the world, we are left with no choice to stay home and stay apart to beat the coronavirus pandemic. While it is not an easy choice to stay away […]
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Practice mindfulness to prevent anxiety, burnout during coronavirus
As novel coronavirus cases continue to increase, health professionals on the front lines face frightening realities, rising anxiety and the very real potential for burnout, and to deal with such situations, mindfulness app can be helpful, say researchers. Mindfulness is when people are centred and living in the moment, rather than […]
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5 ways to avoid get bored in your relationship during lockdown
During the current lockdown scenario amidst the coronavirus crisis, it’s easy to get into a rut and forget about having fun once you’ve been in a relationship for some time. You end up doing the same thing day after day with your partner. Of course, to maintain the same spark you felt […]
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Designers explore other passions as they self-isolate
One positive way to look at the lockdown in the wake of the pandemic is to see it as the perfect opportunity to sit back, rediscover ourselves and explore our innate, latent passions, something which we never got to do before. A section of designers have put their sketch […]
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Corona crisis: Restaurants turn saviours for daily wagers
If you thought that your favourite restaurant is shut right now, you stand corrected. The National Restaurant Association of India (NRAI) has pledged to provide 10 million meals, during the lockdown period, to the daily wage earners, part time workers, and house helps. To help them do this, the task […]
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Goats in a ghost town – animals take over deserted Welsh resort
A herd of Kashmir goats have invaded a Welsh seaside resort after the coronavirus lockdown left the streets deserted. The animals, who normally roam free on a nearby headland jutting out into the Irish Sea, have instead wandered into Llandudno where they have spent the past three days feasting on […]
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Here’s where your peers and team members may be looking during video calls
As more and more people use video conferencing tools to stay connected in social distancing times, neuroscientists from Florida Atlantic University have found that a person’s gaze is altered during tele-communication if they think that the person on the other end of the conversation can see them. The phenomenon known as “gaze cueing,” a […]
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Diet Sabya asks what Urvashi Rautela and Nykaa Beauty have in common
As long as Urvashi Rautela and Nykaa are around self-appointed fashion and industry watchdog Diet Sabya will always have plenty of content to post, pandemic or not. Diet Sabya, the Instagram-based anonymous watchdog most recently posted, “What do @urvashirautela and @nykaabeauty have in common?”, alongside a video with two separate […]
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Cats, ferrets susceptible to contracting SARS-CoV-2: Study
A new study has found that ferrets and cats are susceptible to contracting SARS-CoV-2 but not dogs, ducks, chickens and pigs. The yet to be peer-reviewed study published in bioRxiv suggests that these findings can be important for vaccine and antiviral drug development. But there is no cause for panic […]
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Urban dogs more fearful than their rural counterparts
In a recent survey taken on the behaviourism of dogs, it came to notice that dogs that live in urban environments were observed to be more fearful than those living in rural environments. Social fearfulness in dogs is particularly associated with fearfulness related to unfamiliar human beings and dogs. The study was […]
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Sonu Sood, Sunny Leone and other celebs share their immunity boosting mantras to fight Covid-19 scare
Since the Covid-19 outbreak and subsequent crisis, health experts have been stressing on the importance of good immune system. While celebs are following a strict regime, they’re also spreading the word through social media talking about importance of being high on vitamins, vegetables and juices to boost immunity. Since a […]
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Spiritual guidance to tackle self isolation and panic
Last month, Coronavirus was just a virus that was just beginning to ping on our radar as we read the news. And now it’s staring at our face and here we are, knee-deep in a necessary but painful precautionary process to protect ourselves and our community from this virus. We […]
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Philip Anderson, Nobel laureate in physics, dies at 96
Philip Anderson, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist who expanded the world’s understanding of magnetism and superconductivity, has died. He was 96. Anderson died Sunday at the Princeton Windrows retirement community in Princeton, New Jersey, his daughter said. No cause was reported. He researched the electronic behavior of solid materials such as […]
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April Fools’ Day 2020: History and significance
The origins of April Fools’ Day remain a mystery for many of us. According to some historians, it is believed that April Fools’ Day dates back to 1582 when France switched to the Gregorian calendar. Those who did not know about this change faced jokes, as they did not realise […]
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Apple’s Dad shoes that inspired Versace sold for over Rs 7 Lakh
American multinational technology company, Apple is known for its high-end luxury gizmos, be it the iPhones that have people lining up outside the Apple store overnight, the laptops, desktops, hand-held devices, watches, etc. And Apple is not only a leader when it comes to such products, but it also has […]