Nothing can be worse than losing a loved one. It feels even more terrifying when you are dumped by the person you were so in love with. The good news is "yes" one day you will feel happy again, you will love again and the loss will become nothing more than a life experience. But when you are in the middle of it, caught in tho ... Read more »

 

NEW DELHI: US First Lady Michelle Obama , who has a reputation of being a fashionista, kept her sartorial choice for her India visit trendy but understated though some designers felt she should have opted for a saree at some events.
All eyes were on the wife of visiting US President Barack Obama for a peek on the choice o ... Read more »

 

It’s the last chance to catch artists Sumita Acharya and Sheela Padmanabhan’s art works The Marketplace and Glimpses of Kerala, respectively, at a duet show that ends today in the city of Mumbai.
Sumita has a marketing background. She quit her job to pursue her dream as a painter. Her exhibition, The Marketplace, is about ... Read more »

 

It is the first time she worked on a three dimensional canvass — a barrel — and it proved to be truly rewarding. "It was fun working on a barrel, and to share a story and an experience in a 3D way,” says artist Sheyna Baig.
Sheyna was the only Indian artist who made it to the finals of an art competition. "The idea was fresh ... Read more »

 

Well-known playwrights have been performed on stage with great enthusiasm and applause every now and then, but a very few short stories and its characters have been put to life in a seamless thread of extraordinaire brilliance and pleasure. This was what each single entity sitting at Sri Ram Centre in Delhi was going through ... Read more »

 

We all love to find out what is in store for us in our future. Here, astrology comes in as very handy. But astrology as many know it, is not just restricted to planetary movements; there are a number of branches to it. You have stock market and handwriting analyses, face and cup readings, etc. DNA asked few experts from the field to ... Read more »

 

Jaipur: Hot air balloons will be among other attractions in the annual Pushkar fair which will begin from November 14, officials said today.

"With an aim to attract more and more visitors with different kinds of activities, apart from traditional ones, we are offering a four-day International Hot Air Ballooning event in the Pushk ... Read more »

 

Few places bear such rich testimony to India’s cultural and natural heritage as Karnataka. A perfect blend of ancient ruins, historical cities and picturesque landscape, Karnataka is a sheer delight.
An ideal start to exploring the state would be from the capital Bangalore, that showcases the perfect blend of cutting edge technology ... Read more »

 

Haflong (Assam),The tranquillity of Jatinga, a scenic village nestling among the Borail Hills range, is shattered every night by a disturbing occurrence - the 'mass suicide' of hundreds of birds.
Locals have been witnessing the eerie phenomenon from September to November for the last couple of years. As the sun sets, hundreds of birds de ... Read more »

There are many fashion diets that assure to help you lose weight in approximately no time at all. After two or three weeks on the diet you find yourself light enough to be able to brag to your family and friends about it, and you're so sanguine that this new lifestyle will be your ticket to a smaller waistline that you start to browse the stores f ... Read more »

A 300-kg Briton, who is looking forward to getting married, became the heaviest patient to undergo weight loss surgery in Asia when he went under the knife at a clinic in Maharashtra's Pune city, a doctor said Tuesday. Doctor Shashank Shah at Ruby Hall Clinic and his team conducted the surgery upon 35-year-old Zachari Andrew Smith from London Nov 4. < ... Read more »

Women experiencing heart attack symptoms delay going to hospital for nearly three hours on an average, says a new study.

The US study confirms that women are more likely to ignore life-threatening symptoms because they think a heart attack is predominantly a 'male problem'.

A recent survey found that fewer than a third of British women ... Read more »

Painkillers taken by pregnant women could expose their unborn sons to risk of infertility, researchers say.

Prolonged use of medicines such as paracetamol, aspirin and ibuprofen may harm the development of boys' sexual organs.

Around half of women take over-the-counter painkillers during pregnancy, usually for headaches, according to t ... Read more »

Respiratory infections such as influenza and other causes of pneumonia kill 4.25 million people every year, many of them young children, according to a report released on Tuesday.
These infections account for 6% of all deaths globally, the World Lung Foundation said in releasing its Acute Respiratory Infections Atlas.
"We know that at least 4 million people die from acute respiratory infections, yet the global health community does not even recognise them as a distinct disease g ... Read more »

Children who text and e-mail late at night may become depressed, anxious or suffer learning difficulties.

The US researchers said that unlike watching TV, which is a passive activity, sending e-mails and texts involved more interaction and kept the brain busy at the time when it should be shutting down.

The pilot research team from the JFK Sleep Center in Edison, New Jersey, gave questionnaires to 40 people aged between eight and 22, asking about their sleep habits and use o ... Read more »

A newly developed crystal, sprinkled on food for added flavour, can help you lose those extra pounds by tricking your brain into believing that you have consumed more food than the actual quantity.

The result of using the crystals is that smaller portions are eaten and the pounds just roll away, their creators say.

They have already be ... Read more »

Sexually abused children are likely to develop psychotic illnesses later in life, a study says.

Researchers from Monash University, Australia, say that such children are more likely to develop schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders, which includes post-traumatic stress disorder, suicidal behaviour and substance abuse.

Margaret Cut ... Read more »

A new drug therapy could unlock paralysed arms and legs of stroke and head injury victims and radically ease their lives.

The discovery by researchers from the University of Otago, New Zealand, and University of California, US, can also restore mobility of a stroke victim by 50 percent.

If successfully tested on humans, the therapy wou ... Read more »

Pedestrians stare, motorists mock, but Rajeev Arora rides along on his bicycle unfazed. The 72-year-old saysis his "second love, first being single malt whisky".

"I swear by cycling. I encourage my children and grandchildren to cycle. I cycle rigorously every day for almost two hours. It allows me to de-stress completely," Arora told IANS . ... Read more »