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Hi, Robot: Japan's android pets ease virus isolation

Praveenar Singh was first runner-up at the Ms Universe contest in Bangkok

Thai-Sikh girl wins Bangkok award, dreams of Bollywood

Jaipur Literary Festival (Image: Twitter@GauravS36197247)

The Diggi dialogues: Conversations from JLF 2021, largest literary show on earth

The official said the third clinical trial of Covaxin BB152 had been completed as all the 25,800 volunteers involved in the exercise had been administered both the doses. (AFP file)

'Clinical trials indicate India's vaccines will be effective against COVID variants'

The worst-affected was New Delhi, the most polluted capital on Earth, where around 54,000 deaths are estimated to have occurred due to hazardous PM2.5 airborne particles. (PTI file)

New Delhi world’s most polluted capital, says Greenpeace report

Figures from the Public Security Ministry showed that the number of registered births fell to 10.04 million in 2020, a drop of more than 30 percent from the previous year. (Representational Image/Pixabay)

No baby boom in China as births fall by nearly a third in 2020

Researchers assessed fixed factors such as demographic characteristics, age, sex and occupation as well as social psychological and infection-related factors in more than 143,000 health care workers from around the world. (Representational image : PTI)

Nurses, female health care workers most at risk of distress during COVID-19: Research

A migraine is an episodic debilitating headache requiring long-term management. Experts say yoga exercises, deep breathing and meditation have been proven to reduce stress, one of the main triggers of these headaches. (Representative image)

Keeping migraine at bay!

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Scientists decode how coronavirus damages lung cells within hours

Cover image of the book titled The Presidential Years

Mukherjee: A status quoist in the culminating analysis

Combating cancer deliciously

Globally, the abundance of oceanic sharks and rays dropped more than 70% between 1970 and 2018, according to a study published in the journal Nature. (Photo: AFP/file)

Empty seas: Oceanic shark populations dropped 71% since 1970

Cover Image of the book titled Excess Baggage

‘Chick lit’ that loses plot after promising start

I do, Boyfriend Shirts!

A couple can, in normal cases, resume sex about three weeks after child birth. But they should be extra careful if the woman has had episiotomy (cutting the perineum so as to avoid uncontrolled tearing during child birth and then stitching up the torn portion) or caesarian surgery

Is sex during pregnancy, safe?

Columns

Kishwar Desai

Kishwar Desai | Britain’s spot of schadenfreude; pregnancy triggers definition row

The only problem with the hot weather is that all chances of social distancing are gone!

Syed Ata Hasnain

Syed Ata Hasnain | Special effort needed in Pak to make truce work

What it takes to keep the ceasefire in place without violations is the existence of a conducive political and diplomatic environment

Shreya Sen-Handley

Shreya Sen-Handley | Ode to sleep, and sleepless spirits

Lack of sleep not only fuels fatigue, however, and bodily dissonance, it could also introduce a psychological kink

Manish Tewari

Manish Tewari | The Pak arithmetic: Strategy over ideology

Why didn’t Pakistan take advantage of the Sino-Indian stand-off?

Health

More forest cover, less pandemic incidents: Madhya Pradesh study

The study has been conducted by the Madhya Pradesh forest department.

Atypical signs in Covid-19

Dr D. P. Bansal, consultant pulmonary and critical care medicine, discusses Covid-19 symptoms and how to prevent it from spreading

Covid-19 fear still pushing one in five into depression

55 per cent of people suffered depression post lockdown due to job loss, financial crisis

The study recommends identifying strategies to better engage Indian and Pakistani women in breast cancer studies and to improve interactions between health care providers and Indian and Pakistani women to identify sociocultural factors associated with screening decisions and health care use in this population.(Photo: Pixabay)

Indian, Pakistani women diagnosed with more aggressive breast cancer at younger age

South Asians are the fastest-growing major ethnic group in the United States with breast cancer rates increasing within the population

An Indonesian medical staff takes a blood sample from a woman during a rapid test in Surabaya on May 11, 2020 amid the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak. AFP Photo

Covid19 and the heart

Though it is mainly a disease of the respiratory system, COVID-19 affects the heart too

Fashion

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Hair regenration therapy

QR 678 therapy, Mesotherapy and Platelet-rich plasma therapy (PRP) are few options for hair-regrowth

Although new colours are exciting for brides, many are going for the traditional red, but experimenting with different shades.

Dressing the new age bride

The upcoming wedding season will see a mix of traditional silhouettes and modern designs along with interesting colour combinations.

Here’s to a quirky 2020!

Fashion goals this year will have a dash of out-of-the-box trends with a splash of awesomeness!

Ever since Ashwini Dixit, fashion, beauty and lifestyle blogger, started exploring the beauty aspect of blogging, she has been getting requests to share her favourite homemade remedies.

DIY beauty tutorials are the new craze

Given how the quarantine vibe has pushed people to stay indoors, fancy beauty treatments that mostly cost a bomb, aren’t alluring anymore

Food

Test your metal

Rujuta suggested basic kitchen rules to lose weight while maintaining nutrition and health

Washington wine has really increased in popularity. (Photo: AP)

Washington becomes force in the wine industry

From modest beginnings, Washington now a force in wine world.

It all began with British historian Edward Anderson responding to a question from food aggregator with this innocuous statement on Twitter, "Idlis are the most boring things in the world." (Pixabay)

All about an idli: British professor's tweet sparks not so 'boring' debate

The steamed rice and lentil 'cake' - a pan India favourite - is suddenly much talked about and much discussed

The trend is on the rise, of sourcing, and eating, locally available ingredients. Celebrating the simplicity of fresh, low fuss life at the table.

Amid lockdown, local recipes take the limelight

At home with all the Insta food videos by celebrated chefs and locally available ingredients, food rings in a different flavour

Vanilla beans have a delicious history, present and future! (Photo: Representational/Pexels)

How vanilla wandered across countries

A swirl of vanilla ice-cream is probably filled with centuries of wandering!

Travel

Snow igloos are normally built in a catenary curve, a shape more closely resembling a paraboloid and are necessarily not spherical. (DC)

India’s first and Asia’s largest snow igloo café comes up at Gulmarg

In order to give it a traditional touch and also ensure comfortable stay by guests, sheepskin rugs have been placed on each snow- seat

Sami representatives accuse some tourism providers of pretending to be Sami when they are not, or selling products and tourist attractions portraying Sami people as magical and primitive. (Photo: AFP)

Ethically responsible tourism initiative to preserve Sami culture

Tourism's gifts and woes for Santa and Sami homeland.

On the Delhi road State highway route, one can take a relaxing halt at the WelcomHeritage Inderpura Resort to sample the real Rajasthani hospitality.

Arty abodes of Shekhawati

The typical Rajasthani design elements like jharokhas, jhulas, backyard, stepwells, painted stable for animals, grand entry and exit doors, etc.

The tourism boom has helped offset the decline in the region's traditional fishing industry, which is in crisis because of overfishing at the end of the last century. (Photo: AFP)

Spectacle of collapsing iceberg boosts tourism in Canada

'Iceberg Corridor' sparks tourist boom on Canada's east coast.

Art

Arjun Shubadra painting recreated on a jamdani saree.

The khadi connection

This unique exhibition seeks to highlight the common factor between artist Ravi Varma and the Mahatma, and showcase a part of the country’s heritage.

The Delhi audience recently felt the same at an evening celebrating love and solidarity at the Double Bill Dance Concert organised by the India International Centre, where Bharatanatyam dancer, Sharanya Chandran celebrated love with enchanting dance performances.

Following the footsteps

Dancer Sharanya Chandran celebrates love and togetherness through her recent Bharatanatyam performance.

The artwork was the only Gauguin still in private hands and one of a series of nine paintings produced by the artist while working on a much larger project. (Photo: Representational/Pixabay)

French post-impressionist painting sells for EUR 9.5 million

Tahitian Gauguin sold for 9.5 million euros.

Amid coronavirus pandemic, Jammu and Kashmir's copperware witnesses a resurgence

The Kashmiri copperware is an ancient artwork and the objects are used as household dailyware and also for decorative purposes

The results of the study were published in the Journal 'Science.' (Photo: ANI)

Music shares universal language of mankind

Human songs share universal patterns across world cultures.

Relationship

Insecurities and self-doubt plague most people, but to counter that all you need is self-love.

Self-love trumps all

Life is about much trial and error, failure and success, all of which is part of anything you venture to do.

The modern woman is pushing so hard at the regressive boundaries that shackle her, never mind all her equal capabilities and abilities to a man. Why so?

Nisha Jamwal | No respite for women

In spite of the unending conversation about equality in India, our patriarchal society still presents challenges

No room for racism

It is an ugly truth that racism exists in the world, but you can certainly make your child aware of it

Representational image depicting a happy family

No love no more

While marriages aren’t always the happily-ever-afters, separations don’t have to be the nightmares they’re touted to be either

More Features

Kiran has also been conferred with the prestigious IMC Ladies’ Wing —Woman of the Year Award 2019–2020

Exclusive | Kiran Majumdar Shaw on how Biocon hopes to beat COVID-19

Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, Biocon’s executive chairperson, is delighted that Biocon’s COVID-19 drug Itolizumab is DCGI-approved

Tension and migraine headaches can be treated with simple analgesics which are safe during breast feeding.

Oh, my head is bursting!

Excruciating headaches are not only hard to bear, they may be dangerous too — especially in the postpartum period of a woman’s life.

The advertisement that people found demeaning

Kent Ro advt Blatantly demeaning

Home appliances company’s attempt to capitalise on insecurities to push its products has outraged sentiments

A hero among hypocrites

Actor Diljit Dosanjh’s strong support for the farmers makes him a true hero — while the other remain silent spectators

The Bright Spark

Indian-American Gitanjali Rao, Time magazine’s pick of the first-ever ‘Kid of the Year’, talks to DC about her inspirations and motivators

In Focus

As is evident from the title itself, this book follows the trail of Lord Krishna and covers cities that bore witness to his presence

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