When Nestlé's Maggi noodles were banned across India in 2015 following food safety authority findings of excessive lead content and mislabeling of monosodium glutamate, the fallout extended beyond the company itself to t...

American Indians are the richest immigrant group in USA today. So much is written about Indians pushing their kids to do their best in academics. They are the tiger parents resembling of mothers ( This year’s success of...

Ekjut local theater group of the Chicago area presents Yoni ki baat/ Vaginal Monologues. These are stories of women their struggle with relationships, career, societal pressures. If you have always wanted to be part of a...

A 63-year-old woman living alone on the first floor of her parental house was rescued by an NGO, Prabh Aasra, and Chandigarh Police on Tuesday. The woman, Sukhi, was immediately taken to Government Medical College and Ho...

A local priest who ate at the restaurant - in the south-eastern province of Anambra - was alarmed at the price of meals there, let alone where the meat came from,BBC Swahili reported. He was presented with a bill of 700...

One of the popular questions on ( is – What did Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, Bill Gates and other famous people do between the ages of 10-22. Answers are interesting. When most children and teens are busy watching TV shows and...

What if you didn’t have any boss? Your employer told you that you are your own boss. What if you were accountable and answerable to nobody but just yourself? How would you feel about that? A new concept called Holacracy...

The Rossi family decides to take a vacation during the school session. When the return from the holiday, a letter is waiting. The letter is from the Principal of the Rossi kids who study in elementary school. The letter...

Another reason to be kind to your in-laws- if the reason that they are your spouse’s family isn’t enough! The NRI in this case had filed for a divorce on the grounds that his wife was ill-treating his family. In one inci...

A sexual harassment complaint has been laid against Prime Minister John Key, seeking compensation for the waitress in the ponytail pulling scandal. The complaint was filed this morning by private prosecutor Graham McCrea...

Ekjut is the performing wing; this provides a platform for like minded adults with interest in theater/drama. Ekjut staged play “Pyar ka Panchnama” on Jan 31 which was a huge success in a full house. Ekjut is getting rea...

Nasa is offering to pay $18000 to participants for a clinical trial that requires the participants to stay in bed for 70 days. The participants will have to be in the bed rest facility of NASA's Flight Analogs Research U...

Good news for all those people out there who are health conscious and also enjoy their drink from time to time. London based distiller Diageo will be soon coming out with the nutritional information on its Smirnoff vodka...

A sauna does more than build up a sweat - it can be a life saver, say researchers. Middle-aged men who take frequent saunas are around half as likely to die from heart conditions as those who do not, according to a new s...

There are Good books and then .......... there are Great books. A Good book leaves you feeling satisfied once you are done with it but a great book is the one you will still be thinking of a week later , a book you will...

The video that circulated widely showing a young child — five or six years old — who had been selling pens outside a McDonald's restaurant visiting the inside of the restaurant for the first time generated the kind of em...

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Sunday completed the demolition of a ramp illegally constructed by actor Shah Rukh Khan on a public road outside his bungalow Mannat in Bandra (West). However, this may not...

Shahrukh Khan is going to be playing the role of stalker again similar to Darr. The movie is to be released on August of this year, and Shahrukh Khan talks of this movie as one of the most challenging projects. Maneesh S...

Five Disneyland workers contracted measles at the Anaheim park, including two employees who had vaccinations, health officials said Tuesday, as the number of confirmed cases in the on-going outbreak rose to 53. A stateme...

Facebook is now cited in a third of all divorce cases, research has shown. A survey of legal firms’ caseloads revealed the social network is increasingly relied upon as proof of inappropriate behaviour. Facebook unwittin...

A woman who remained anonymous that lived in Bosnia, wanted to share her recipe to help people around the world that have suffered the ravages of the horrid disease, cancer. This recipe only includes two ingredients, gin...

Last night Golden Globe Awards saw “Boyhood,” “Transparent,” Eddie Redmayne and Julianne Moore as the big winners of the night. It was “Transparent” Amazon’s original series that had emotions ranging because of the accep...

I had a friend from school that died of a freak accident some four years ago. I was shocked and saddened. But every year even after she is dead I have wished her happy birthday on her Facebook page and sometimes, just go...

In 2011, ( and other publications noted the “mysterious debut” of ( a home-service robot then retailing for $3,000 in a small batch. Recently, her creators have brought Luna back into the spotlight with a new ( and have...

Participating in an eight-week mindfulness meditation program appears to make measurable changes in brain regions associated with memory, sense of self, empathy, and stress. In a study that will appear in the Jan. 30 iss...

It should have been a quick two-hour flight from San Francisco to Phoenix, but the crew of a Southwest Airlines flight had to make a detour to Los Angeles. 111 passengers on the flight have quite a story. The flight dive...

How you start your day sets the context and your mindset for the rest of the day. Yet, most people start the day with procrastination by hitting the snooze button, telling their subconscious that they don’t even have the...

Aamir Khan's PK opened to record-breaking numbers on December 18, 2014, shattering several box office records in its opening weekend and quickly establishing itself as one of the most discussed—and debated—Bollywood film...

The Key Has Turned' is Surjo's first full-length debut album, and it has 12 songs. It's a departure from his usual brand of electric guitar rock and moves into a more relaxed space with only his acoustic guitar to accomp...

Sony’s unreleased films being hacked One of the biggest hacks in the piracy world, which is being investigated for criminal charges. Sony’s unreleased movies “Anne” , “Fury” , “Mr. Turner,” “Still Alice” and “To Write Lo...

Two California women have already arrived at a Beaumont Best Buy to begin their annual camp-out – 22 days ahead of( sales. Vickey Torres of Cabazon and Juanita Salas of Beaumont arrived for their annual Black Friday camp...

Chotu Chaiwala of Mumbai The ( Chai right from the street peddlers to your office desk. When you can't have a chai break, the chai walas of the street deliver chai to your desk. ChotuChaiWala is an initiative by ( an eco...

It could all be because of the presence of algae virus , that our thinking and cognitive functions might slow down . The virus was discovered by a group of students from Johns Hopkins and University of Nebraska accidenta...

When the Shah Rukh Khan-starrer Don 2 hit theatres in 2011, the film’s director Farhan Akhtar told a section of the media, “I need a break from action films. As a director, it’s my right to explore different things.” Thr...

A wickedly far-ranging view of marketing success, consumer behavior and star power in India: that sums up Koral Dasgupta’s “Power of a Common Man: Connecting with Customers the SRK Way,” whose title evokes the tag-line o...

It’s lunchtime at the home of the Consul General of India in New York, Dnyaneshwar M. Mulay. A young Hindu American arrives. Her name is Suchitra Vijayan and she teaches part time in Columbia University, one of the most...

Dr. Kelly M.Flanagan writes on his ( Marital communication is getting a bad rap. It’s like the kid who fights back on the playground. The playground supervisors hear a commotion and turn their heads just in time to see h...

Every Body Dance Now!” Coz’ Tis the Festive Season to Be Jolly! When :Saturday, November 8th at 7 p.m. Where : Saffron Restaurant,6020 Cass Avenue,Westmont, IL 60559 Phone : 630-769-9662 Come Dressed Looking Your Best in...

There is something universally relatable about watching someone encounter Bollywood music for the very first time — the initial confusion at the melodrama, the involuntary head-bob when the beat kicks in, and the slow, h...

Seattle became one of the first major American cities to formally penalize residents and businesses for throwing away food scraps when compostable material was required to be separated for composting rather than sent to...

Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani has topped the Forbes magazine's list of the top 100 richest tycoons in India for the eighth consecutive year with a net worth of $23.6 billion, up $2.6 billion from last year....

Here comes Wal-Bank. After years of thwarted efforts to break into banking, ( is making its biggest foray yet into everyday financial services. Walmart, the nation’s largest retailer, is teaming up with ( known for its p...

A 20-year-old man died after falling into the white tiger enclosure at the Delhi Zoo and being mauled, in a tragedy that triggered immediate debate about safety standards at Indian zoos and the responsibility of institut...

Credit card fraud happens all the time, if you are one of the lucky few whose information hasn't been ever stolen, all we can say is yes you are lucky. Last week our credit card was being used in Tennessee, a State that...

Arnold Schwarzenegger is in Chennai for the audio launch of Vikram-starrer Tamil romantic-thriller "I" The audio launch will at Jawaharlal Nehru stadium has the megastar Rajinikanth sharing the dais with Schwarzenegger....

In the past year, ( did a research on the role of mentor in the lives of students from grade 5 to college. The study’s result was a revelation. While we all know that teacher play an important role in kids’ education, th...

Reasons why marriages fail. This is one relationship that is taken for granted, couples start off with pleasing each other to accepting each other and then just taking each other for granted. Yes, you need to be yourself...

He explains, “ the power of now”, which however trite it may seem, the practice is far-fetched. Not many people have adopted meditation the benefits of which are huge. When the mind is just focused on “now” not worried a...

Some of history's most peculiar structures were built not for shelter, beauty, or profit, but for revenge. Spite houses — homes constructed specifically to annoy, inconvenience, or harm a neighbor — represent one of arch...

The use of social media as a parenting tool — a way of reaching teenagers in the medium they actually inhabit, rather than through channels they've learned to tune out — had become a small but growing genre of parent-chi...

Eat real food and move more Another research study published in NYT states that dependence on fat and protein for general food throughout the day helps maintain lean muscle and in many cases boosts HDL (good cholesterol)...

A women’s only beach was inaugurated in Turkey today. Its in the Mediterranean province of Antalya, and likely to become one of the best tourist spots in the coming years. The idea behind women’s only beach is that women...

Another reason to lose weight Yes, you heard that right. Losing weight not only makes you look beautiful but also smarter. ( published and article how “Too much fat weighs down not just your body, but also your brain.” (...

the 21st most challenging high school in Illinois in recently released rankings from the Washington Post. Meanwhile, ( made the list at No. 36 and ( was ranked at No. 58 on the list, which includes fewer than 10 percent...

A man from Oregon is arrested for DUI and the shirt that he was wearing made the case against him stronger. Ross McMakin, the 21-year-old man is arrested for driving drunk into the sidewalk and crashing into a parked car...

A Few Good Men “You can't handle the truth!” There are actors who desperately seek your notice. And then there are the very few whom you cannot help but notice – even if they are as still as the furniture in a scene. Per...

Pardeep Malik, 59, and Hamant Mullick, 60, from Nassau county are being accused of producing, storing and selling $2 million worth of beauty and health products. The products range from shampoos to oils and everything in...

The Naperville Public Library has long served as a cultural hub for the community, and few of its programs have cultivated a more devoted following than the Retro Reel screening series curated by Sreepathy. Now in its 23...

Some good news about this cold weather. Shivering in the cold has benefits like exercise. ( and study and found that shivering and bouts of moderate exercise are equally capable of stimulating the conversion of energy-st...

Bold eye makeup is huge this year and from our perspective it has always been. Women, those of you who shun make-up, shun all the other categories but walk out of the door with some eye-makeup. It lights and lifts up the...

The all girl band from Japan is a little different from other bands Japan produces. It’s called “Chubbiness” because all the ten girls are supposed to be chubby. Unlike other bands/idols from Japan these girls are suppos...

According to Freud, every single dream represents a want, a wish fulfillment. Dreams are demonstrative of our unfulfilled wishes and a medium to visually experience them while sleeping. Most of the times we don’t remembe...

Since before I earned my first personal training certification in 1995, the stability ball has been an integral part of rehabilitating the human body and later became widely used in the training and conditioning of athle...

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see" While a tourist might look like more planned with “things to do”, “places to visit” lists a traveler just has a place in mind and the excitement t...

Pinky Roshan, Hrithik Roshan’s mother at 60 is fit as a fiddle. She works out regularly at the gym. It seems the ( for the Roshan family is gym. Hrithik got his mum on a fitness routine –she lost 25 kilos and look at her...

The debate is on for adding two additional school holidays for Muslim festivals in the upcoming mayor election in New York. ( As WCBS 880's Jim Smith reported Sunday, Councilman Robert Jackson (D-7th) is the only Muslim...

Best-selling author and award-winning journalist, Rahul Pandita will be on a US tour from October 21 to November 5, 2013. He will be in Naperville on Thursday, October 24. Rahul is the author of "Our Moon Has Blood Clots...

Introducing fiction to kids at an early age might be the easiest way to inculcate reading habit in kids. An article in ( enlists the importance of reading without any restriction. In our quest to introduce the right book...

Book of the month: Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn * Cheers! We have completed an entire year of our book-club, “Chai, Chat with Books”. We had our very first meeting in September 2012 hosted by Vasavi Chaka. This was followe...

A lighthearted story from a suburban neighborhood captured national attention when a young girl's toy Barbie Jeep received an official-looking parking violation for blocking a neighbor's driveway — apparently not all pla...

Leo Grand, a homeless man in New York City, made news in 2013 when a software developer named Patrick McConlogue approached him on the street and offered him a choice: $100 in cash, or daily coding lessons. Grand chose t...

Tylenol the most used and abused drug in every household will soon have red labels on each of its bottle. Red labels will be a warning alerts that over-consumption of the drug causes liver damage. In the case of Advil, A...

A man in Sweden was caught ( Shoppers in the store stared at him in disbelief when they saw him peeing on apples and oranges. Police was called and the man was arrested. Both the people and the police have said that they...

An Indian origin teacher in Britain has given birth to a baby boy inside a classroom. a teacher at the elementary school Manford Primary School went into labor in the school. She delivered the baby with the help of her c...

Travelling can be fun and it can be testing too. The best things in this world are free and they are most certainly in abundance in nature's bounty that a traveler can experience to his heart's content. The most intrigui...

Girls love their booties – and they are “the favorite accessory” when the weather starts preparing for the cold season. This fall season it’s not the boots but the booties, which should become your staple shoe. Booties a...

another 14-year-old alpha, (“Alpha “ is a term inspired by the ( used to describe humans with extra-ordinary intelligence) his school had put him in the Special-ED classes, had declared he could not learn that he suffere...

11-year-old Carson is the youngest student Texas Christian University has ever had. He is the new freshman on campus studying to become a quantum physicist. “I’m taking calculus, physics, history and religion. Those are...

We all know that playing video games especially the violent ones alters the brain in some way. It has been known to cause violent behavior in children and also induces seizures. An eight-year-old shot a 90-year-old woman...

broke the news superhero fans have been waiting for – Ben Affleck will be the new batman! “We knew we needed an extraordinary actor to take on one of DC Comics’ most enduringly popular Super Heroes, and Ben Affleck certa...

Alcohol abuse is one of the major reasons why people land into emergency rooms. A recent survey by Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore stated that almost third of all ER visits are alcohol related. However, some drinks a...

about how Oprah was judged not just because of her color but also because of her size. She goes into detail stating that most shop assistants look down on women over size 10. While she may have connected two totally diff...

Madonna –the woman always in controversy She is to be discussed in a Polish exorcist meeting as reported by ( A secretive 5-day meeting to held in Poland by priests who are trained in taming and defeating the demons will...

What: ( Where: ( and then read in your family room, at the park, at a beach, wherever you want! When: May 15th to October 31st -- you can join at any time between these dates Why: Because YOU have the power to change a c...

Most stores will ask for your zip code when completing a credit card transaction. Without blinking, we give our five digit numbers readily. It will be a surprise to many that zip codes are not needed for the credit card...

Understanding Introduction to Pranic Healing The topic "Introduction to Pranic Healing" addresses an important contemporary issue or experience. Rather than simple answers, thoughtful engagement requires nuance and multi...

Every minute of exercise increases your life by at least seven more minutes How much or actually how little exercise is needed to be on a steady climb towards a fit you? A recent article in ( talks about just 75 minutes...

A recent article in ( talks about a study to see the effectiveness of just 4-minute exercise. Yes, just four minutes per day-you cannot complain that you don’t have the time! While 4-minute exercise cannot help you lose...

Summer is the time when you don't want to switch on the stove or oven to cook anything -leave alone desserts . Here are some recipes which does not involve any cooking . It is as simple as mixing some things together the...

Jiah Khan’s six-paged letter /suicidal note to her ( It is yet to be seen if the aborted child was Suraj Pancholi’s who is under arrest since June 10. He will be in police custody till June 13 for further interrogation....

Jared –the man who went on a weight loss journey by eating only subway sandwiches is now worth a fortune . Almost 15 years ago he had lost more than 200 pounds eating subway sandwiches. He shared his story with the world...

makes it news when Aishwarya Rai skips meeting Al Pacino so that she could be with her daughter. Rest of the newspapers follow suit –making it their job to make Aishwarya’s decision to stay home with Aradhya the national...

Gloria C. MacKenzie the 84-year-old woman has won the Powerball lottery jackpot of $ 590 million, largest in history. All her life she has lived with modest means and amenities in a tin-roof house in Zephyrhills, Florida...

Penelope Cruz will be the next bond girl. This Oscar-winner will be playing the Bond Girl in Sam Mendez’s follow-up to Skyfall that released last year. She sets the record to be the oldest Bond Girl. Cruz will be 40 next...

Sylvester Stallone is flattered that John will be "rambo" in the remake because he thinks John is in much better shape than he ever was . The 40 year old sure is fit but to have been praised by Stallone must mean somethi...

states that soldiers-both jawans and officers should be allowed to take regular vacation and leaves. It keeps the men of the army away from extra marital affairs and other flirtatious activities. This study was conducted...

Western DuPage Special Recreation Association’s (WDSRA’s) Girl Scout Troop 200 will be the sponsors of the Naperville Municipal Band’s Ice Cream Social during the June 13th concert in Central Park in downtown Naperville....

40% of breadwinners are now mothers. Stay-at home dads are more common now. Even though it’s hard to let go of the stereotypical image of the man to bring the money home rather than taking care of the children and family...

What happened to the phrase “beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder “ Looks like its extinct –at least in South Korea. One in five girls go through some kind of surgery to improve their looks. Girls as young as twelve a...

PHD student has invented the next breakthrough in mobile technology. All cell phone makers are trying to understand what the next invention will be ? “ Gesture Recognition” which Andrea has invented is certainly a step u...

Eesha Khare from California showed the gadget of everyone’s dreams at the Intel International Science Fair held in Phoenix, AZ. She has built a tiny device that can fit inside a cellphone, which enables the cell to be fu...

Hopefully AAA 2 will have the same cast as the first one – however if the humor is as good as the first one the star cast might not matter. Or maybe it could be a ghazani look for Aamir and dabangg look for Salman -it su...

might not keep you from catching a cold, but not getting an adequate amount of the vitamin can keep you from burning fat. A study from ( found that folks with low-blood concentrations of vitamin C, who walked on treadmil...

New research indicates that a simple blood test may be able to reveal whether a child has autism. The study, which began this week and involves 660 particpants at 20 facilities around the United States, will examine wher...

Anxious Vidya calls up Sabya to work out a slam-proof look for her Red Carpet stint On Wednesday morning, Vidya Balan was chosen to be a part of the nine-member jury, headed by Steven Spielberg, at this year'sCannes Film...

Kim Fraser came from a ''good Roman Catholic household'', was a successful barrister and a single mother of two children. Now the central coast resident is Australia's first female guru. Called Shakti Durga (meaning divi...

As if adapting to health-care reform and curbing the “( weren’t challenge enough, hospitals are increasingly plagued by another problem: bedbugs. More than a third of pest-management companies treated bedbug infestations...

The former host of Australia's Biggest Loser Ajay Rochester has revealed she has gained a staggering 105lbs. The 44-year-old, who hosted the weight-loss television show for four series between 2006 and 2009, said in a ra...

Understanding Three day Veena Festival in the Chicago area The topic "Three day Veena Festival in the Chicago area" addresses an important contemporary issue or experience. Rather than simple answers, thoughtful engageme...

Different celebrities have different ways to endorse their diet plans. With a plethora of various celebrities who are endorsing their radical diet plans, it has become quite a difficult job to understand as to which plan...

Resignation by cake: the sweetest way to say goodbye As resignations go, it takes the biscuit. Chris Holmes, an immigration officer for Border Force at Stansted Airport, handed in his resignation yesterday on a cake, bea...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand: Hundreds of jubilant gay-rights advocates celebrated at New Zealand's parliament on Wednesday night as the country become the 13th in the world and the first in the Asia-Pacific region to legaliz...

Following hot on the heels of last week’s posed hadouken and Dragon Ball Z-style photos, a magical new photo fad has hit the internet in the form of ‘quidditching’, a Muggle attempt at capturing the game made famous by H...

A new study indicates that people who engage intext messaging tend to be more racist and shallow than their less technologically savvy counterparts. Researchers at the University of Winnipeg found that young people are s...

The eyes sometimes have it, beating out the tongue, nose and brain in the emotional and biochemical balloting that determines the taste and allure of food, a scientist said here today. Speaking at the 245th National Meet...

The Lamborghini Aventador, in local police colours, was shown off in the forecourt of Dubai Mall, the city’s most upmarket shopping plaza. A picture was shown off on the service’s Twitter feed, with the caption: “Latest...

In weight training, is it better to increase the number of repetitions or the amount of weight over time? If by “better,” you mean helps you gain muscle and strength without hurting yourself, then “the answer, to me, is...

Murder, she writes! Put aside Agatha Christie, Patricia Cornwell and Ruth Rendell and pick up Kalpana Swaminathan, Madhulika Liddle or Swati Kaushal instead. The Indian sorority of women crime writers talk about how they...

big heart has made an even bigger difference: The UNHCR Goodwill ambassador exclusively confirms to E! News that she has opened a school in Afghanistan. Jolie chose to fund the girls-only primary school in an area just o...

Rejects the first draft of his film put together by the author, says it is not commercial enough Chetan Bhagat is never at a loss for words. But for once, the voluble author and purveyor of all things controversial, was...

Do you have a friend who eats pizzas and pastas actually change “eats” to hogs and remains thin? You on the other hand is counting calories, tracking every single thing you put in your body on “my fitness Pal” app you go...

Every time an airplane takes off with even one unfilled seat, an airline is making less money than it could. Selling that seat to someone at some price — even not very much — would be better than leaving it empty. But an...

Not getting enough sleep doesn’t just make you tired. It also makes you fat, according to scientists. In a study, participants who slept for five hours each night gained two pounds in weight over a week because they snac...

Ashley Judd has yet to officially announce her political aspirations, but a source with intimate knowledge of the situation tells FOX411's Pop Tarts column the actress is preparing herself to challenge Senate Minority Le...

It seems Alec Baldwin is going to have to find a new name for his baby. The excited father-to-be had revealed plans to call the child Massimo - if it was a boy. But his thrilled wife Hilaria revealed on Thursday that she...

A scam targeting the elderly causes a man to give away $400,000 in six years after he says he was told he’d receive more than a million dollars in prizes. Rochelle Ritchie explains–that man is warning others not to follo...

Dieters may want to forget episodes of falling off the wagon, but researchers say an attentive memory for what is eaten could help people eat less at their next meals. So sitting at a movie with a bucket of popcorn holdi...

With a red embroidered veil draped over her dark hair, Punam Chowdhury held her breath last month as her fiancé said the words that would make them husband and wife. After she echoed them, they were married. Guests erupt...

The cost of college can range from $60,000 for a state university to four times as much at some private colleges. The total student debt in the U.S. now tops credit card debt. So a lot of people are asking: Is college re...

THE Duchess of Cambridge yesterday dropped a big hint that she is having a daughter. As a woman gave her a teddy bear, Kate, 31, said: “Thank you, I will take that for my d... for my baby.” After the slip on a visit to G...

Fred Butler was married for 65 years, raised five children, served in the Army during World War II and worked for years for the local water department, but the fact he never earned a high school diploma always bothered h...

The hottest British export might be boy band mania, from the Beatles to One Direction. And Americans are fascinated with Kate Middleton and her royal baby bump, but the next big British invasion, hitting stores in the Un...

Older people blighted by pessimism and fear for the future are more likely to live longer, according to scientists. A study, into 40,000 adults across ten years, has found those with low expectations for a “satisfying fu...

Human longevity has improved so rapidly over the past century that 72 is the new 30, scientists say. Researchers at the ( in Rostock, Germany, said progress in lowering the odds of death at all ages has been so rapid sin...

was known for telling jokes and never wasting money. So when he died suddenly while en route to his wife's funeral, the couple's daughters knew there was only one thing to do: Hold a doubleheader service. The 94-year-old...

A Texas woman wanted to make sheriff's deputies the butt of a joke, but she picked the wrong audience when she called 911 to have cigarettes delivered to her home. Hood County sheriff's Lt. Kathy Jividen says the 48-year...

When students at one suburban Philadelphia school work diligently at their desks, they aren't exactly sitting still. The fifth-graders at Westtown-Thornbury Elementary School learn while bouncing on brightly colored yoga...

Freida Pinto, one of India's most successful faces abroad, will play host to Hollywood's glitterati at one of the most sought after pre-Oscar parties. As a run up to the Oscars, Vanity Fair magazine and Freida will co-ho...

A Washington state man put a lot of planning into his cup of coffee and he may have set a record with it. Behold, "The Quadriginoctuple Frap." Beau Chevassus says it is the costliest cup of coffee available at Starbucks...

It is after 8pm on Valentine’s Day and a queue is still stretching around the block. Inside the kitchen store in a suburban Los Angeles shopping mall, Nigella Lawson radiates charm and nervous energy, despite starting he...

When the New York City ( announced that it was changing part of its admissions exam for its ( last year, in part to combat the influence of test preparation companies, one of those companies posted the news with links to...

Youth in the 12th grade age range (ages 16 to 18) who have dropped out of school prior to graduating are more likely than their counterparts to be current users of cigarettes, alcohol, marijuana and other illicit drugs,...

The 34-year-old actress credits the trendy workout with her new bikini body. 'Buti has given my arms and shoulders definition, and helped to lift my butt, too,' Jennifer Love Hewitt told Shape. She's the magazine's lates...

is playing a dad again — and this time it's not a movie! The 67 year-old "Cheaper by the Dozen" star and his wife, Anne Stringfield, 41, have welcomed their first child. A rep for the legendary comedian confirmed to the...

Most of us have experienced it. You are introduced to someone, only to forget his or her name within seconds. You rack your brain trying to remember, but can't seem to even come up with the first letter. Then you get fru...

A Southland U.S. postal worker was on unpaid leave Tuesday after allegedly assaulting an 11-year-old girl. KNX 1070's Claudia Peschiutta reports Daniel Villasenor was arrested this week on suspicion of felony cruelty to...

Priyanka Chopra's family has found the perfect match for her in the form of TV actor ( who plays ( in the popular mythological series. ( had been avoiding the question of marriage stating that she is eagerly waiting for...

As if the cramps and headaches aren't enough fun, most women experience an angry red zit or two during their period that is more stubborn to treat and difficult to coax into submission than your regular everyday pimple....

Bollywood superstar Salman Khan faced the prospect of a decade in prison as a court took up the long-running criminal cases against him — a legal saga that had dragged through the Indian judiciary for years and that high...

he trend for women to increase the size of their bottoms to look like US stars such as Jennifer Lopez and Kim Kardashian is catching on in the UK as figures show more women are injecting fat into their bodies than having...

Understanding Girl Scout Cookies Season The topic "Girl Scout Cookies Season " addresses an important contemporary issue or experience. Rather than simple answers, thoughtful engagement requires nuance and multiple persp...

People May Eat More When Headlines Bear Bad News Study suggests stressing about tough times unleashes craving for calories Tough economic times can lead people to eat much more than they normally would, a recent study fi...

Relationships and Human Connection Humans are fundamentally social creatures. Strong relationships are central to happiness, health, and meaning. Multiple Relationships A fulfilling life typically involves multiple types...

Of Punjabi bhangra-pop artist Daler Mehendi, it was famously said that he built an entire entertainment career on the strength of just five nifty dance moves. Much the same can be said of actor Shah Rukh Khan. A man of a...

Understanding Sleep: The Foundation of Health Sleep is not a luxury—it is a biological necessity as critical as food or water. Yet in modern society, many people chronically undervalue sleep, viewing it as time lost from...

Most diners would feel pretty virtuous after a meal of tuna prepared in olive oil, washed down with a glass of pomegranate juice. But all three supposedly healthy ingredients have appeared on a lists of foods that some m...

An online dating service says a Las Vegas woman has no legal basis for her lawsuit seeking $10 million after she was matched with a man who hid in her garage and brutally attacked her. Mary Kay Beckman filed suit in U.S....

Well this is one way to get thrown out of the Hollywood mothers' group. Cougar Town actress Nicole Sullivan has launched an attack on celebrity mothers who claim. The mother of two singled out Jessica Alba, saying the Bl...

90-year-old Bollywood superstar Dilip Kumar has been dragged to court following a legal complaint filed by his two brothers over their Pali Hill bungalow in Mumbai. The two brothers, 77-year-old Ehsan Khan and 75-year-ol...

The debate over how to structure health insurance in the United States returns, periodically, to an analogy that sounds intuitive on the surface: why not make health insurance work like car insurance? Individuals bear re...

Eating junk food just three times a week may lead to asthma and eczema in children, scientists have found. The high saturated fat levels in food such as burgers lower children's immune systems, it is believed. A research...

In a surprise move, the Golden Globe award for Best Drama went to "Argo," the true story of how the CIA faked a sci-fi movie as a cover to rescue hostages in Iran. Ben Affleck also won the award for Best Director, which...

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The 'surprise' birthday party of actor Hrithik Roshan, who turned 39 today, was no surprise to him, thanks to the media. A few papers said that Hrithik's wife Suzanne had organised a surprise yacht party for her hubby la...

The National Rifle Association reported a surge of approximately 100,000 new members in the weeks following the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in December 2012 — a counterintuitive response to a massacre that kill...

When you see photos of Cameron Diaz's slim silhouette or Jessica Alba's flat post-pregnancy tummy, you probably wonder just how Hollywood stars stay so lean or snap back into shape so quickly. While many swear their svel...

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A memorably absurd workplace disciplinary case emerged from a federal government agency when an employee was formally reprimanded — in writing, with documentation — for excessive flatulence in the workplace, in a case th...

Georgia supervisor, coworker and four others cashed 1,300 U.S. Treasury checks before authorities caught them. More than 171 Postal workers arrested in 2012 Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night could stop th...

A group of Christian parents in California have threatened to sue a school district for introducing yoga in classrooms. The Encinitas Union School District plans to offer yoga instruction at all of its nine schools from...

Pope Benedict XVI joined Twitter on December 12, 2012, sending his first tweet to the world's Catholics and to anyone else paying attention: "Dear friends, I am pleased to get in touch with you through Twitter. Thank you...

The entire schedule of romantic comedy "Ghanchakkar" is said to have been planned in accordance to its lead actress Vidya Balan's real life wedding plans. In fact, her work in "Ghanchakkar" is being rush-completed in tim...

Diet, fashion and now even weddings, everything is getting a vegan twist now. It's no more considered a hippy philosophy. Nor is it an alien concept that can be scoffed at for being 'a little too extreme'. At a time when...

Austerity-struck Paris has been hit by a wave of street muggings and grave robberies with thieves prepared to exhume bodies to steal gold and jewellery. Last week, police in the French capital arrested three people as pa...

Some of the world's most appealing destinations are also some of the most complicated places to visit. Here, eight places where even the most streetwise traveler would be smart to enlist guidance. The words "group travel...

New technology that will allow information, such as text messages from a mobile phone, to be projected onto a contact lens worn in the human eye has been developed by Belgian researchers. Ghent University's centre of mic...

When Charlie Bit My Finger — the 56-second home video in which a British toddler bites his older brother's finger, to the older boy's dramatically expressed indignation and the younger one's delighted amusement — surpass...

In the city of Seattle pro-cannabis campaigners celebrated in a haze at the foot of the Space Needle tower at one minute past midnight, the moment the state's new law came into effect. Vivian McPeak, director of Seattle'...

Fears that the end of the world is nigh have spread across the world with only days until the end of the Mayan calendar, with doomsday-mongers predicting a cataclysmic end to the history of Earth. Ahead of December 21, w...

Better think twice before you slam a business with a bad review on Yelp - one Virginia woman is being sued for it. Jane Perez was slapped with a $750,000 lawsuit by Dietz Development after she publicly logged complaints...

The latest James Bond movie, "Skyfall", has become the highest-grossing film in British box office history, its producers said on Wednesday. The 23rd episode of the spy series, starring Daniel Craig as Agent 007 for a th...

Marriage and Partnership in Modern Life Marriage and long-term partnership remain central to human happiness and meaning. Yet modern life creates unique challenges for sustained partnership. What Makes Partnerships Last...

Last month German retailer Aldi posted ( The UK business made a profit after tax of £57.8 million in 2011, having made a loss of £56 million in the previous year. The privately owned chain opened 29 new stores last year...

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An Indian radiographer has been sacked from his job at a cancer hospital after six years following a string of complaints that he could not speak clear English. Ramani Ramaswany was dismissed from The Christie hospital,...

Economic Policy and Development: India's Evolving Path India's economy has undergone dramatic transformation in recent decades. Understanding this transformation and ongoing debates is essential for informed citizenship....

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There was a time when the holiday shopping season began the day after Thanksgiving. Then it began on Thanksgiving itself. Then it began in early November. At some point in the recent past, Christmas decorations began app...

Understanding Firefighter Ostracized For Becoming A Vegetarian The topic "Firefighter Ostracized For Becoming A Vegetarian" addresses an important contemporary issue or experience. Rather than simple answers, thoughtful...

The article in ( talks about the study how high fat diet is bad for the brain , but , if a high fat diet is accompanied with exercise -it almost negates the impact of fat on the brain . Excerpt from the ( : "But those an...

Even as the hoopla over the grandest wedding in the town approaches its crescendo, Saif Ali Khan entered into matrimony with five year long girlfriend Kareena Kapoor today in Mumbai. The high profile couple of Bollywood...

Tim Cook's open letter apologizing for Apple Maps — published in September 2012 following the disastrous launch of iOS 6, which replaced Google Maps with Apple's own mapping application — became a minor classic of the co...

Veteran filmmaker Yash Chopra, who has given several golden hits to Indian cinema including 'Waqt', 'Deewar', 'Silsila', 'Dil Toh Pagal Hai' and 'Veer Zaara', will end his directorial innings with the upcoming Shahrukh K...

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Middle Schools in Tennessee will no longer grade homework or give extra credit . Homework is for understanding the concepts and not for grading . What this means is if a student does not do well in the homework , he will...

Diwali is an important Hindu festival, and USPS (US Postal Service) is considering issuing stamps for this occasion. USPS has stamps for other festivals like Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Eid, and Chinese New Year. To do...

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They have churned out some good cinema over the years. Now Farhan Akhtar and childhood friend and business partner Ritesh Sidhwani have taken their company Excel Entertainment where no other Indian film house has been be...

Weight loss is not magic and never instant . If it took years and months to put on that extra weight -it will probably take the same time to lose that weight. There is no miracle diet which will make the pounds disappear...

The first thing that strikes you about Master Stephen Co is his dynamic energy, his sense of humor and his saying it like it is. A mesmerizing speaker, he also found himself as part of a CBS Special investigative report,...

Among the thousands of martial arts instructors teaching across North America, Master Stephen Co holds a distinction shared by almost no one: he is one of only two people in the United States certified as a master instru...

Understanding Andy Murray Wins US Open Title The topic "Andy Murray Wins US Open Title" addresses an important contemporary issue or experience. Rather than simple answers, thoughtful engagement requires nuance and multi...

A cultural reckoning arrived in many South Asian communities when prominent voices — some religious, some political — made statements defending or minimizing domestic violence, forcing a confrontation with attitudes towa...

A retired couple's nightmare materialized when Wells Fargo Bank mistakenly foreclosed on their home — a property they owned free and clear, with no mortgage — in a case that became emblematic of the chaos and systemic fa...

Gaithersburg Elementary School has abolished homework. Instead, students are being asked to read a book for about 30 minutes a night. When Stephanie Brant came aboard as principal two years ago, she and her staff conduct...

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Forget Passwords: How Playing Games Can Make Computers More Secure A new security approach would let users input patterns instead of words to verify identity By Larry Greenemeier** It seems like something out of a Robert...

People can be fat yet fit, research suggests By Michelle Roberts People can be obese yet physically healthy and fit and at no greater risk of heart disease or cancer than normal weight people, say researchers. The key is...

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Eyebrow lift Rs 5,000 and upwards, a relatively complication-free procedure, but can lead to numbness, nerve damage Eye lift Rs 20,000-60,000, can lead to dry eyes, change in vision and difficulty in blinking Lip plumpin...

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In the crowded landscape of the American food industry, the story of Deep Foods stands out as a remarkable account of immigrant entrepreneurship, cultural preservation, and business acumen that transformed a small family...

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It was a rare moment to see the Chairman of such a big company, delve into personal memories of an era gone by, and that too on a public platform. I am talking about Suzuki Motor Corp. Chairman Osamu Suzuki's nostalgic m...

Exposed by sixth wife, Bihar conman arrested The Rohtas police arrested a 35-year-old man from Dehri after his wife lodged a complaint alleging that he had married five more women in the last 10 years, pretending to be a...

Understanding NRI Grooms No Longer In Style The topic "NRI Grooms No Longer In Style " addresses an important contemporary issue or experience. Rather than simple answers, thoughtful engagement requires nuance and multip...

The internet has given children unprecedented access to information, creativity, and connection — and unprecedented exposure to risk. For parents navigating the digital landscape alongside their children, the challenge i...

It's difficult enough to fit 16 candles on a birthday cake, but trying squeezing 116 on one. But Besse Cooper, the world's oldest person...

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The Most Dreaded Facebook Reunion The online world is easily divided into two categories: 1) people who love the idea of getting together with everyone from their past and 2) um...

The northern Chicago suburbs have cultivated an active arts community that punches well above the weight that outsiders typically expect from bedroom communities, and the periodic "One of a Kind" artisan exhibitions have...

Books that are made into films end up fascinating readers and film enthusiasts alike. For the readers, it is a matter of finding out whether the key characters live up to their own visualisation of the roles and the intr...

An Indian woman, who left her country and religion to marry a Pakistani man but was betrayed and virtually imprisoned by him for 13 years, finally has hope of returning home, with the human rights commission here taking...

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In a major breakthrough, an international team of scientists has proven that addiction to morphine and heroin can be blocked, while at the same time increasing pain relief. The team from the University of Adelaide and Un...

Understanding Home Decoration Must Haves The topic "Home Decoration Must Haves" addresses an important contemporary issue or experience. Rather than simple answers, thoughtful engagement requires nuance and multiple pers...

Barack Obama cancelled three operations to kill Osama bin Laden before finally going ahead with the mission at the insistence of Hillary Clinton, according to a new book. The explosive allegation is contained in an expos...

Exercise: The Most Powerful Medicine Available Regular physical activity is perhaps the single most impactful health intervention available—more effective than most medications at preventing and treating disease. Yet in...

This town outside Chicago -- which was ranked No. 3 on MONEY's Best Places to Live list in 2008 -- seems to have gotten the suburban lifestyle down to a science. Excellent schools and an award-winning public library draw...

The announcement that Aamir Khan and Abhishek Bachchan would be spending several months in Chicago for the filming of their upcoming Bollywood production generated the kind of local-interest attention that major film sho...

Just as you were ready to tuck into a nice three-egg omelet again, comforted by the reassuring news that eggs are not so bad for you, here comes a study warning that for those over 40, the number of egg yolks consumed pe...

So happy: Jennifer Aniston said 'yes' to Justin Theroux's proposal during his birthday dinner on Friday night in New York City Jennifer Aniston has been filming her latest movie for the past few weeks in North Carolina....

Kehar Singh Gill went to El Paso to look for a bride. A Mexican woman who worked in the cotton fields that he farmed in California's Imperial Valley had told him that she had eligible nieces there. Gill got the address w...

Food, Nutrition, and Health: What Research Really Shows Food is far more than calories and taste—it's medicine. Every meal either contributes to disease or helps prevent it. Yet in modern consumer culture, we often eat m...

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Paul Ryan's emergence as Mitt Romney's vice-presidential pick in August 2012 triggered an unusual media phenomenon: intense public fascination with the Wisconsin congressman's physique, fueled by his well-publicized dedi...

Understanding World The topic "World" addresses an important contemporary issue or experience. Rather than simple answers, thoughtful engagement requires nuance and multiple perspectives. Multiple Perspectives Few issues...

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Relationships and Human Connection Humans are fundamentally social creatures. Strong relationships are central to happiness, health, and meaning. Multiple Relationships A fulfilling life typically involves multiple types...

Bollywood actor Deepika Padukone would be honoured with the biennial Smita Patil Memorial Award instituted by Priyadarshni Academy for her contribution to the film industry. The award would be presented to her at the 28t...

Understanding Officials The topic "Officials " addresses an important contemporary issue or experience. Rather than simple answers, thoughtful engagement requires nuance and multiple perspectives. Multiple Perspectives F...

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Understanding Man Buys 17-Pound Lobster From Restaurant,Then,Releases It Into The Sea The topic "Man Buys 17-Pound Lobster From Restaurant,Then,Releases It Into The Sea" addresses an important contemporary issue or exper...

The next time you perform a calculation in Google's search box, be prepared for a surprise. New Google calculatorGoogle launched a new feature that displays a scientific calculator as well as the results of your calculat...

Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan carried the Olympic Torch in London at Southwark on the final leg of its 300-metre relay on Thursday, a day before the opening ceremony of the Games. The 32.7 mile relay of the Olympic fla...

As a recent college grad in New York, Barack Obama fell in love with a young white woman named Genevieve Cook. Passages from her diary appear in a new biography of the president. It could be anybody...

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Technology and Modern Life Technology has transformed how we communicate, work, and live. Understanding technology's role in society is essential for the modern world. The Speed of Change Technological change accelerates...

Food, Nutrition, and Health: What Research Really Shows Food is far more than calories and taste—it's medicine. Every meal either contributes to disease or helps prevent it. Yet in modern consumer culture, we often eat m...

Cucumber And Radish Raita 2 cups plain low-fat yogurt (not fat-free) 3/4 pound cucumber (1 European or 4 Persian), peeled if waxed, seeded if necessary, and finely diced or shredded 4 to 6 radishes, finely diced 1 teaspo...

That Fresh Look, Genetically Buffed A small company is trying to bring to market a genetically engineered apple that does not turn brown when sliced or bruised. But it has much of the rest of the apple industry seeing re...

Jessica Schairer has so much in common with her boss, Chris Faulkner, that a visitor to the day care center they run might get them confused. They are both friendly white women from modest Midwestern backgrounds who left...

It seems unloading on her three daughters in her time of need has resulted in the breakdown of Demi Moore's relationship with her girls - who are now 'considering a...

Can you really taste the difference between a $15 wine and a $150 wine? Wine enjoyment is such an objective experience and taste is not exactly an exact science....

Understanding Toss The Scale : Just Do The Right Things For Your Body The topic "Toss The Scale : Just Do The Right Things For Your Body" addresses an important contemporary issue or experience. Rather than simple answer...

Seeing a celebrity endorse a pair of shoes alters a woman's brain activity - even if she does not drop everything to get her feet into the latest Jimmy Choos, a study suggests. A Dutch team scanned the brains of 24 women...

Relationships and Human Connection Humans are fundamentally social creatures. Strong relationships are central to happiness, health, and meaning. Multiple Relationships A fulfilling life typically involves multiple types...

Love stories between directors and actresses is as old as Bollywood. Among the newer lot, Anurag Kashyap fell for and subsequently married his DevD actress Kalki Koechlin. Then there's Sajid Khan and...

The Summer Writing Program will end on July 26. There has been a lot of queries for providing the lessons all year along . We are still thinking about it ..... Please keep emailing and calling us -we might actually start...

Having just finished a gruelling outdoor shoot in Istanbul for Race 2, Saif Ali Khan is back in Mumbai, promoting his new film Cocktail and planning his wedding with Kareena Kapoor. Even though Cocktail releases this Fri...

She Sees Clutter, He Sees Treasures Not long after she remarried two years ago, Karen Steele realized the look of her Roseville, Calif., home had changed. The problem is her husband's office. It has become a catchall for...

The diet industry has spent decades telling people what they cannot eat. The emerging science of sustainable weight management is telling a different story — one built around the psychological reality of restriction, the...

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Understanding Indian Politics India's politics is complex—federal system, multiple languages, religions, castes, and classes create extraordinary diversity. Understanding Indian politics requires understanding this diver...

Letter published in the local newspaper. There was some confusion if Jane was really Brad Pitt's mother. The paper then published and clarified. See their Editor's note below Written by,...

Mitt Romney, during his 2012 presidential campaign, proposed bringing in McKinsey & Company — the global management consulting giant where he began his business career before co-founding Bain Capital — to conduct a compr...

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On July 4, 2012, scientists at CERN, the European particle physics laboratory near Geneva, announced the discovery of a new particle consistent with the long-sought Higgs boson — a discovery described by physicists as on...

Living in separate bedrooms the reason for divorce Katie Holmes today emerged for the first time since filing for divorce from her husband Tom Cruise last week. The 33-year-old actress, who has looked decidedly tense and...

The announcement that Psycho — Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 thriller, one of the most studied and influential films in cinema history — would be adapted into a television series generated the kind of skeptical attention that...

Personal finance writing has a reliable genre that resurfaces whenever economic conditions make people anxious about their spending: the inventory of small daily expenditures that, aggregated over time, amount to signifi...

The genre of "things you should never post on social media" listicles had become its own cottage industry by 2012, and with good reason: the consequences of poorly considered Facebook posts were by then well-documented,...

A school in India that implemented height restrictions as part of its admissions criteria — requiring that children meet a minimum height threshold to be enrolled — generated the kind of baffled coverage that such polici...

Esha Deol's mehendi ceremony drew Bollywood's social set to Mumbai for an afternoon of color, tradition, and the particular celebrity culture that surrounds star-family weddings in India. The daughter of veteran actors H...

The word "nag" — applied almost exclusively to women who repeatedly raise concerns, requests, or complaints — carries a weight of dismissal that is worth examining directly. It frames repetition as a character flaw rathe...

When Nora Ephron died of leukemia in June 2012 at the age of seventy-one, the tributes that poured in from writers, filmmakers, and readers reflected not just the scale of her achievement — When Harry Met Sally, Sleeples...

A study published in the journal Steroids in 2012 and conducted by researchers at Tel Aviv University made a somewhat counterintuitive claim that generated significant popular press coverage: eating dessert with breakfas...

The concept of "lucky skin" — the kind that seems to age gracefully, maintain its clarity through dietary indiscretions and weather changes and stress, and require minimal intervention to look healthy — tends to create t...

The research on fatherhood that accumulated through the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries overturned, gradually and then quite decisively, the model of paternal involvement that had been dominant for most o...

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the storied Paramount Pictures, the only studio to still call Hollywood (the L.A. neighborhood, not the state of mind) its home. Founded in 1912 as the Famous Players Film Company...

When Lady Gaga launched Fame in 2012, it was not simply a celebrity fragrance release — it was a performance in the medium of commerce, which is to say it was entirely consistent with everything else she had done in the...

North Dakota's 2012 ballot measure to eliminate property taxes entirely—replacing them with unspecified alternative state revenues—was the most radical property tax proposal considered by any American state in recent mem...

The case of Krystle Marie Reyes of Oregon, who in 2012 filed a fraudulent tax return claiming a refund of approximately $2.1 million and received a prepaid debit card for that amount from the IRS, became one of the more...

The reported détente between Gauri Khan and Priyanka Chopra — following years of tabloid-documented tension stemming from the actress's friendship with Shah Rukh Khan during the filming of Don and its sequel — was the ki...

In a state with Punjab's complicated history of violence — the insurgency years of the 1980s and early 1990s, the drug crisis that has swept through subsequent decades, the persistent tensions and crime that accompany po...

A growing body of research has identified a perhaps unexpected correlation: people who exercise regularly tend to earn more money. The relationship is not simply explained by health — the mechanisms are more interesting...

If grapevine is to be believed, actress Kareena Kapoor is set to tie the knot with her beau Saif Ali Khan soon, but she is mum about it as of now. She dodged questions related to her wedding at an event here Wednesday. A...

The foraging movement—which has grown from a fringe interest of back-to-the-land enthusiasts into a mainstream culinary practice embraced by Michelin-starred restaurants and urban farmers market vendors alike—rests on a...

For most of the history of public health messaging around physical activity, the operative concern was getting sedentary populations to exercise more. The risks of inactivity — cardiovascular disease, obesity, type 2 dia...

Canadian dismemberment suspect arrested in Germany The international manhunt for the porn actor accused of killing and dismembering a man in Canada ended Monday in a Berlin Internet cafe with the arrest of Luka Rocco Mag...

A survey finding that 96 percent of women reported experiencing guilt at least once a day—compared to 70 percent of men—generated considerable discussion about whether the gap reflected genuine differences in moral sensi...

It is such a pleasure to be here today. My association with Sanjayji (Sanjay Leela Bhansali) goes back to 'Devdas'. I have interacted with Belaji too. It is such an unusual story. When you think of Shirin and Farhad, you...

The research on exercise motivation has consistently identified one of the most effective predictors of sustained physical activity: social accountability. People who work out with others — whether partners, friends, or...

When Snigdha Nandipati won the Scripps National Spelling Bee in 2012, correctly spelling "guetapens" — a French-origin word meaning an ambush or trap — she became the fifth consecutive Indian-American champion of the com...

In 2011, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation launched the Reinvent the Toilet Challenge — a competition inviting researchers and engineers to design a toilet that could function safely and hygienically without connecti...

A Swiss woman died of starvation after attempting to survive on sunlight and water alone, inspired by a spiritual belief system known as "Inedia" or "Breatharianism" — the claim that human beings can live without food an...

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan's return to the Cannes Film Festival in May 2012 was her first major international appearance since giving birth to her daughter Aaradhya in November 2011, and it generated, as her Cannes appearanc...

The phenomenon known as "vanity sizing" — the practice by clothing manufacturers of labeling garments with smaller size designations than their actual measurements correspond to, in order to flatter consumers and encoura...

Chicago has a reputation as a serious meat city — the stockyards, the Italian beef, the deep-dish loaded with sausage — and while that reputation is earned, the city's dining scene had, by the early 2010s, developed a pa...

An auction for a vial allegedly containing President Reagan's blood has been called off, according to officials at his presidential foundation who had fought to halt the sale. Instead, the vial will be donated to the Ron...

When a kindergartner arrived at a school in the United States with eighty-nine grams of marijuana in a backpack, the incident prompted the predictable cycle of alarmed headlines and dark jokes — but also a more serious s...

Mensa, the high-IQ society that requires members to score in the top 2 percent on standardized intelligence tests, counts among its global membership a handful of celebrities whose intellectual credentials tend to surpri...

Street smarts — the cluster of skills that allows a person to read situations accurately, recognize danger before it materializes, communicate with a wide range of people, and navigate unfamiliar or difficult environment...

The proposal, which circulated in various forms in online discussions and was attributed in some versions to a British scientist, was straightforward and alarming in equal measure: barcode every person at birth, creating...

In a bid to root out bogus couples, immigration officials have resorted to asking husband and wives where they keep the takeaway menus. The bizarre question is part of a series of simple queries that can stump the cannie...

Florida election officials discovered approximately 53,000 deceased individuals on the state's voter rolls during a 2012 audit of registration records—a finding that fueled ongoing debate about voter roll maintenance, el...

The story of Desmond Hatchett of Knoxville, Tennessee — a man who by 2012 had fathered thirty children with eleven different women and was petitioning the court to reduce his child support obligations because his minimum...

The idea of taxing unhealthy foods as a public health measure — what economists and health advocates have called a "fat tax" — has moved from academic speculation into serious policy debate, with several countries experi...

Economic Policy and Development: India's Evolving Path India's economy has undergone dramatic transformation in recent decades. Understanding this transformation and ongoing debates is essential for informed citizenship....

Sridevi's return to Hindi cinema after a fifteen-year absence was one of the most anticipated events in Bollywood in years, and English Vinglish — directed by Gauri Shinde and released in 2012 — vindicated every bit of t...

Salman Rushdie, who has more personal experience with the consequences of censorship than almost any living writer — his 1988 novel The Satanic Verses prompted a fatwa calling for his death, forced him into hiding for ne...

Blood triglycerides may be an important factor in your risk for heart disease. Your doctor may become concerned if your cholesterol level is too high. But another type of fatty substance found in the blood, known as trig...

As 20-month-old Morgan Sherrill reached her arms out to be picked up, her mother Jackie, 26 was not expecting her to fall forward with her bottle still in her mouth. "Her foot slipped off the couch, and the bottle chippe...

For the students from Naperville who appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman to demonstrate science experiments, the appearance represented something that every science teacher in America quietly hopes for: proof...

In early 2012, actor John Travolta faced accusations from two men who alleged that he had made unwanted sexual advances during separate incidents involving massage sessions. Both filed civil lawsuits. Both were eventuall...

A London jogger's account of collapsing with a heart attack during his morning run and receiving CPR from actor Dustin Hoffman, who happened to be in the vicinity, generated the kind of story that spreads quickly through...

Relationships involving significant differences in public profile come with their own particular pressures, and the partnership between actress Vidya Balan and UTV Motion Pictures head Siddharth Roy Kapur was, from the o...

Child safety experts and law enforcement professionals have spent years identifying the patterns that characterize predatory behavior toward children — and the consensus is that awareness, not fear, is the most effective...

A pediatric obesity case that circulated widely in American medical literature illustrated both the stakes of childhood weight gain and the effectiveness of family-based behavioral interventions when implemented early an...

Your Brain on Fiction AMID the squawks and pings of our digital devices, the old-fashioned virtues of reading novels can seem faded, even futile. But new support for the value of fiction is arriving from an unexpected qu...

Rifling through my wardrobe for the perfect ensemble to wear for a romantic dinner with my husband, a low-cut dress and strappy sandals catch my eye. The outfit is sexy with a hint of old-school Hollywood glamour...

Apple's new iPhone 5 could be housed in a little-known hi-tech alloy known as 'liquid metal' - which feels like glass to the touch. The alloy, a mix of titanium, nickel, copper and zirconium among other metals, is tough,...

Economic Policy and Development: India's Evolving Path India's economy has undergone dramatic transformation in recent decades. Understanding this transformation and ongoing debates is essential for informed citizenship....

A small change in how teachers and parents read aloud to preschoolers may provide a big boost to their reading skills later on, a new study found. That small change involves making specific references to print in books w...

Extracts from turmeric spice, known for their antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties, may help ward off heart attacks in people who have had recent bypass surgery, according to a study from Thailand. During bypass...

Learning to read is not just to do with speech, but also with the ability to recognize and memorize regular patterns among the letters that make up words, according to a new study on baboons. New results show that monkey...

She debuted the ring in a subtle fashion after stepping out at a museum event. But it appears that Angelina Jolie is getting used to wearing her huge engagement diamond and was seen holding it up for all to see as she he...

Brides-to-be looking to shed that final 10, 15 or 20 pounds in order to fit into their dream wedding gown have taken a controversial approach to crash dieting that involves inserting a feeding tube into their noses for u...

Reports circulated that Salman Khan was planning to give Kareena Kapoor a BMW as a gift in gratitude for her item song appearance in Dabangg — a gesture that, if accurate, spoke to the informal and highly personal econom...

The observation by Democratic strategist Hilary Rosen that Ann Romney "has never worked a day in her life" detonated a controversy that briefly dominated the 2012 presidential campaign and forced both campaigns to naviga...

Rowdy Rathore, the Bollywood action film starring Akshay Kumar, crossed the 100-crore mark at the box office in its opening week, establishing itself as one of the summer's biggest commercial successes and cementing Prab...

A baby found alive in a coffin in an Argentine morgue nearly 12 hours after the girl had been declared dead is improving, but questions remain for the hospital responsible for the near-fatal mistake. The mother, Analia B...

Research published in the journal Consciousness and Cognition found that a moderate blood alcohol level—approximately 0.075, just below the legal driving limit in most American states—was associated with improved perform...

Karisma Kapoor's decision to file for divorce from businessman Sanjay Kapur after nearly nine years of marriage was confirmed in 2014, ending a union that had been reported as troubled for several years and marking a sig...

The arrival of 3D printing technology in the consumer food space began, appropriately, with chocolate — a substance that is solid at room temperature, melts predictably when heated, and resolidifies cleanly, making it am...

Nutrition is always a hot topic, and new fad diets and gimmicks continue to draw attention and peak interest. There is always some new wonder diet or product that is supposed to make you feel better, stronger, faster, le...

Understanding Average Looking Woman Thinks It The topic "Average Looking Woman Thinks It" addresses an important contemporary issue or experience. Rather than simple answers, thoughtful engagement requires nuance and mul...

She famously struggled with her weight during the early years of her fame. But now that Kate Winslet has achieved a figure she is content with, the actress can look back on her most well-known film, Titanic, and smile sm...

We know it has long been bad for your waistline. But fast food can also be bad for your mental health, according to a new study. Eating junk such as as hamburgers, hotdogs and pizza heightens your chance of developing de...

The confusion that arises from shared names took an unusual and somewhat charming turn for a Faridabad resident who found himself receiving a steady stream of phone calls intended for Bollywood superstar Katrina Kaif — t...

Forensic anthropologist Richard Neave's reconstruction of what Jesus might have actually looked like — based on skull characteristics from Semitic men of first-century Judea, combined with analysis of historical artistic...

Fraudulent marriage arrangements in which siblings or other relatives pair up with foreign nationals willing to participate in exchange for payment—creating immigration paperwork supporting a spousal visa application wit...

The camera industry was confronting a genuinely disruptive question by 2012: had the smartphone camera become good enough that most people no longer needed or wanted a dedicated camera? The iPhone 4S, with its 8-megapixe...

The Bin Laden family saga—as reconstructed through accounts of his wives, children, and the compound where he was killed in Abbottabad—offered a portrait of a wanted man living a more domestic and settled life than the i...

An analysis of government employee compensation data revealed that physicians and psychiatrists working in California's prison system were among the highest-paid public employees in the state — a finding that generated s...

The Biggest Losers are coming to the White House. NBC says contestants on its "The Biggest Loser" program are whisked to the White House in a two-part makeover episode set to air on April 3 and April 10. In the first epi...

The fashion and retail industry's long project of categorizing women's bodies into geometric and produce-based shapes — pear, apple, hourglass, banana — has expanded its taxonomy to include an ever-more-creative set of m...

Technology and Modern Life Technology has transformed how we communicate, work, and live. Understanding technology's role in society is essential for the modern world. The Speed of Change Technological change accelerates...

Understanding Lululemon eavesdrops on its customers in fitting rooms The topic "Lululemon eavesdrops on its customers in fitting rooms" addresses an important contemporary issue or experience. Rather than simple answers,...

It happened at a campaign event in Virginia: a young woman in the crowd began to sway, then slumped, and was caught by those standing nearby. Barack Obama paused his speech, asked the audience to give her room, and — onc...

The last time I renewed my driver's license, the clerk at the DMV asked if she should check me off as an organ donor. I said no. She looked at me and asked again. I said, "No. Just check the box that says, 'I am a heartl...

Greg Smith's resignation from Goldman Sachs became one of the most discussed moments in modern financial industry culture when the 12-year Goldman veteran published his letter of resignation in the opinion pages of the N...

A prenuptial agreement that included a clause prohibiting either spouse from gaining more than a specified amount of weight during the marriage — with financial penalties attached to violations — attracted significant at...

She was known for natural looks, void of fake tan and thick make-up.But Ashley Judd looks a far cry from her Hollywood heyday. The actress sparked plastic surgery rumours when she appeared on a Canadian talk show to prom...

Technology and Modern Life Technology has transformed how we communicate, work, and live. Understanding technology's role in society is essential for the modern world. The Speed of Change Technological change accelerates...

A notable shift occurred in Bollywood's public culture when several prominent stars began speaking openly about health challenges that had previously been kept private — not out of a desire for sympathy, but as part of a...

Molly Barker, 51, and Caitlin Boyle, 27, devote their lives to promoting the ideals of health, confidence and empowerment among young girls. But on realising that by wearing make-up and following extensive beauty regimes...

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Authorities say a convicted killer who gained notoriety for having a murder scene tattooed on his chest received unemployment benefits while he was in jail. Sheriff's Capt. Mike Parker said Saturday t...

With her silk scarves and immaculate make-up, Ding Yu looks every inch the modern television presenter. Indeed, for the past five years she has hosted a hugely successful prime-time show in China which has a devoted foll...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first quadrivalent influenza vaccine — a flu shot that protects against four strains of the influenza virus rather than the three covered by conventional trivalent vacci...

Debit cards issued to provide assistance to welfare recipients were used to withdraw cash at ATMs in strip clubs, casinos, bingo halls and amusement parks, a 9News investigation found. As a result, more than $1 million i...

Ladies, Get Ready: Its a Leap Year! Ever since the idea of an extra day every four years was implemented as a corrective measure for the calendar, it has been filled with traditions and superstitions.One of these is the...

Research published in the journal PLOS ONE suggested a genetic component to divorce risk, adding biological complexity to what is usually discussed in purely social and psychological terms. The study found that women who...

Knowing what to eat, and in what quantities, is becoming a real challenge, as nutritional scientists continue to study the healing powers of certain foods. The latest discoveries, the so-called "super foods," are believe...

Technology and Modern Life Technology has transformed how we communicate, work, and live. Understanding technology's role in society is essential for the modern world. The Speed of Change Technological change accelerates...

A 20 stone woman who was told 'get down the gym fatty' on a night out has shed a third of her weight in time for her dream wedding. Sarah Gould, 26, was so upset by the verbal abuse of the unknown male who approached her...

People who are more physically active report greater levels of excitement and enthusiasm than people who are less physically active, according to Penn State researchers. People also are more likely to report feelings of...

Few nutrition debates have been more durably contentious than the question of whether the whole egg — yolk and all — or just the egg white is the healthier choice. The answer has shifted substantially over the decades as...

Bollywood's Dhoom franchise has built itself into one of Hindi cinema's most reliable commercial properties through a consistent formula: slick production, elaborate action sequences, and the casting of a major star as t...

AS SCANDALS go, it is a corker. It involves secret recordings of lobbyists talking to tycoons about ministers, fraudulent documents, unrelated firms that share the same e-mail address, clueless foreigners piling into a v...

Manoj Bhargava, the reclusive founder and CEO of 5-hour Energy, occupies one of the more unusual positions in American business: he is almost certainly one of the wealthiest people in the United States, worth an estimate...

Few pieces of marital advice generate more immediate pushback than the injunction to respect a spouse regardless of whether they've earned it. The reaction is understandable — it sounds like an invitation to submit to ba...

Want to get the body you've always dreamed of in just five hours? One blogger and eating champion shows you how, without even having to deprive yourself of your favourite foods - in fact, you can eat potato chips and dri...

When M.I.A. — the British-Sri Lankan Tamil artist born Mathangi Arulpragasam — extended her middle finger at the camera during her appearance in the Super Bowl XLVI halftime show in February 2012, she produced one of the...

Every few years, parents find new reasons to worry about their teenagers. And while there is no question that some kids continue to experiment with sex and substance abuse, the latest data point to something perhaps more...

Social media researchers and digital anthropologists have had a field day classifying the behavioral archetypes that populate Facebook — the patterns of posting, sharing, and engagement that, once you see them, become im...

Imran Khan—the photographer, not the politician—and actress Kareena Kapoor collaborated on a photo exhibition that turned the professional distance of a film shoot into something more artistically personal, as Khan prese...

Arnold Schwarzenegger's visit to India generated the combination of celebrity excitement and political engagement that his unusual biography—action star, bodybuilder, governor, activist—tends to produce in countries wher...

Two British tourists were barred from entering America after joking on Twitter that they were going to 'destroy America' and 'dig up Marilyn Monroe'. Leigh Van Bryan, 26, was handcuffed and kept under armed guard in a ce...

The thin, over-plucked eyebrow that dominated beauty aesthetics through much of the 1990s and early 2000s began its retreat, replaced by a preference for fuller, more natural brows that better frame the face and project...

There are a lot of annoying things about being a woman, like periods, childbirth and not being able to play basketball in a way that keeps spectators awake. But near the top of the list has got to be buying clothes. I kn...

Heidi Klum will file for divorce from Seal ... TMZ has learned. Sources with direct knowledge tell TMZ ... Heidi will file divorce papers in L.A. County Superior Court as early as next week. We're told Heidi will cite "i...

A quiet but consistent form of consumer deception has been embedded in the fashion industry for decades, and most shoppers have encountered it without quite realizing what's happening: the stated size on a garment label...

Myth: Walking is much safer than running. I think walking is the most overrated exercise. In India it is as much of a phenomenon as the big fat Indian wedding. Just like at the wedding, everybody who walks is fat, hairy,...

The annual arrival of Non-Resident Indians during India's wedding season and festive calendar has generated its own subculture of ambivalent reception—warm pride in countrymen who have made it abroad, mingled with exaspe...

New mums please take note: If your baby becomes cranky frequently, don't panic as it is normalfor breastfed babies to cry more, experts say. Scientists at the Medical Research Council in the UK found that breastfed babie...

Zhang Jun, a Chinese dancer who had dedicated her life to learning and teaching classical Indian dance forms — Bharatanatyam and Kathak — passed away, leaving behind a legacy that represented one of the more unusual thre...

Understanding Papa John The topic "Papa John" addresses an important contemporary issue or experience. Rather than simple answers, thoughtful engagement requires nuance and multiple perspectives. Multiple Perspectives Fe...

Lists of parenting advice tend toward the prescriptive and the anxious, but the genre "rules for fathers of daughters" has produced some genuinely moving iterations — attempts by men to articulate, in the form of practic...

A technology project that used facial compositing software to merge features from multiple celebrities deemed conventionally beautiful produced a single "ideal" face that generated significant discussion — and not all of...

Research examining consumer behavior patterns found a measurable correlation between alcohol consumption and online purchases—specifically, that people who drink and shop online spend more, buy more impulsively, and are...

Understanding The Pronouns you use reveals your whole personality The topic "The Pronouns you use reveals your whole personality" addresses an important contemporary issue or experience. Rather than simple answers, thoug...

Reports that Maria Shriver was reconsidering her decision to file for divorce from Arnold Schwarzenegger surfaced in 2012—more than a year after she had announced the separation following his admission that he had father...

Big Tech and Society: Power, Responsibility, and the Path Forward The technology companies that shape modern life—Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon—wield unprecedented influence. Understanding this influence and its implic...

The population of the Czech Republic is more mixed, solitary, secretive about religion, and more likely to proclaim some racial or regional affiliation than ever before. Those are some of the main results from the prelim...

Economic Policy and Development: India's Evolving Path India's economy has undergone dramatic transformation in recent decades. Understanding this transformation and ongoing debates is essential for informed citizenship....

When Communications Minister Kapil Sibal called in representatives from Google, Facebook, Yahoo, and Microsoft to discuss the removal of content deemed offensive to religious and political sensibilities, he ignited a deb...

Social networking site Facebook will now have an employee from the Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi. After trying - and failing - to recruit students from the institute last year, Facebook came back to the campus thi...

The child, whom neighbours described as blond and angelic, died of head injuries on Friday night, French police said. His mother Charlene, 25, recovered him from the machine, according to Le Parisien newspaper.She then r...

Baby Diaper Rash Cream on your face? WHAT? Lollipop26 mentioned not that long ago that she used Sudocrem (which is a diaper rash cream for babies) and it worked wonders on her face. I don't know if they sell that brand i...

In the autumn of 2011, the European sovereign debt crisis reached a pitch of intensity that had serious economists and policymakers openly contemplating what had previously been unthinkable: the possible dissolution of t...

जानता नहीं मेरा बाप कौन है ... My mornings are sort of incomplete if I don’t devour ‘ The Times Of India ‘ along with my tea . Yesterday’s headlines of Manu Sharma getting a life sentence made me add an extra spoon of su...

Every Indian parent has either said it or heard it: "Sharma ji ka beta scored 98 percent." The comparison to other children — neighbors' kids, cousins, classmates — is so embedded in the social fabric of Indian parenting...

The question of how hard to push children toward academic achievement sits at the intersection of love, anxiety, and competing theories about what actually produces successful, happy adults. There are no easy answers, bu...

Demi Moore is ending her marriage to fellow actor Ashton Kutcher, she told The Associated Press on Thursday. Moore, 49, and Kutcher, 33, were wed in September 2005. The couple's relationship became tabloid fodder in rece...

At the quayside in the centre of Dubai, mountains of goods are left unguarded for days as they wait to be loaded onto boats bound for Iran. The goods - including boxes of Panasonic flat-screen televisions and Whirlpool r...

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Abhishek Bachchan welcomed their first child, a baby girl, bringing one of Bollywood's most celebrated families cause for widespread celebration. The birth was greeted with enormous public inte...

A candid — and deeply troubling — survey of attitudes toward Pakistan's civil services revealed what many Pakistanis have long said privately: that a significant portion of the population views government employment not...

Reports of boardroom tension at PepsiCo surrounding CEO Indra Nooyi's strategic direction sparked speculation about whether the long-serving chief executive's position was at risk. Nooyi, who had led the company since 20...

Research consistently finds that physical appearance influences hiring decisions in ways that most employers would be reluctant to admit. Among the appearance factors that have been studied, facial features — including s...

In the era of social media, even the most private moments can become public spectacles — a reality one couple at a Burger King discovered when a bystander live-tweeted their breakup to thousands of followers. The scene u...

Just who is your lover losing the weight for? People dieting while in a relationship are preparing to break up with their other half Don't feel too flattered if your partner starts losing weight - it might be for somebod...

In what became a symbol of aggressive municipal code enforcement, a Detroit-area homeowner found herself facing fines of $600 to $1,200 per day after city officials cited her for allowing weeds in her yard to exceed the...

Indian cuisine has a reputation for richness and indulgence, but tucked within the same tradition that gave the world butter chicken and gulab jamun is an arsenal of foods with genuinely fat-fighting properties. The same...

The new American home is taking shape. Tough recent years are leaving their mark on home design, just as the housing-boom years sent square footage soaring and stamped a distinctive "McMansion" style on neighborhoods acr...

An Indian-origin man has been given a suspended jail term in Britain for secretly feeding his wife steroids so that she becomes overweight and stays at home to cook and look after their children. In the bizarre case, Lei...

The world's most expensive home is lying unused and abandoned because its billionaire owners believe moving in will bring them bad luck. The 27-storey, billion-dollar tower in Mumbai, called Antilia, is said to have fall...

The connection between sweet foods and sweet personalities may be more than metaphor. A series of studies published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology found that people who prefer sweet-tasting foods als...

A Little Imperfection For That Smile? AMERICANS are expected to spend nearly $110 billion on dental care in 2012, according to the United States Department of Health and Human Services, with much of it to straighten, whi...

Mr Picky Aamir Khan, will for the first time now appear on television on a show about India and its stories. It's a show which will showcase real stories, real lives and real emotions. Commenting on this concept,...

Low-income moms who move from very poor neighborhoods to less disadvantaged ones lower their risk of becoming extremely obese and developing type 2 diabetes, a study reveals. "This research shows how important the enviro...

Former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi died of wounds suffered on Thursday as fighters battling to complete an eight-month-old uprising against his rule overran his hometown Sirte, Libya's interim rulers said. His killing,...

By the time Occupy Wall Street's encampment at Zuccotti Park was cleared by New York City police in November 2011, the media narrative about the movement had calcified into a set of impressions that were, at best, incomp...

Diwali is on October 26th. Diwali for me just meant sweets and crackers. I have collected some easy to make recipes for you. Happy Diwali! Sandesh Serves 6-8 1 lb. Ricotta cheese 1 cup sugar 1 tsp. cardamom powder* 1. Kn...

People who commute to work on foot or by bicycle have roughly half the obesity risk of those who drive or take public transit, according to research that has accumulated consistently across multiple countries and study d...

Across four of the world's most consequential societies — China, India, the United States, and Europe — the first years of the second decade of the 21st century brought wave after wave of social unrest. The forms varied:...

Relationships and Human Connection Humans are fundamentally social creatures. Strong relationships are central to happiness, health, and meaning. Multiple Relationships A fulfilling life typically involves multiple types...

Every parent wants to believe their toddler is brilliant, and most will find evidence to support the belief if they look hard enough. But what does the research actually say about early intellectual development — and wha...

Understanding Super People The topic "Super People" addresses an important contemporary issue or experience. Rather than simple answers, thoughtful engagement requires nuance and multiple perspectives. Multiple Perspecti...

The deaths of a young married couple — both employed in India's information technology sector — shocked friends, colleagues, and the broader public, raising uncomfortable questions about the hidden pressures beneath the...

They don't regard Ravana as a negative figure. On the contrary, some people in four Madhya Pradesh districts worship Hindu god Rama's arch rival on Dussehra when all across his effigies are burnt to mark the victory of g...

Technology and Modern Life Technology has transformed how we communicate, work, and live. Understanding technology's role in society is essential for the modern world. The Speed of Change Technological change accelerates...

Divorcees can retain surnames Divorced women have a reason to cheer. No authority can prevent them from continuing to use, for legally valid purposes, their former married surnames. "The wife has a fundamental right unde...

After months of tabloid speculation and a very public unraveling, Demi Moore confirmed what many had suspected: her six-year marriage to Ashton Kutcher was over. Moore filed for divorce, citing irreconcilable differences...

Thousands of people stripped to their underwear and ran through downtown Salt Lake City in a demonstration organized to protest what participants described as an overreaching Utah legislative agenda on social issues — a...

A simple, low-cost screening method is showing remarkable promise in the fight against cervical cancer in developing countries — a discovery that has implications for millions of women in places where conventional Pap sm...

Working mothers regularly send children to school sick - because they don't feel able to take time off looking after them, it emerged yesterday. Researchers found four out of ten employed mums have sent their child to sc...

The initial public offering process is often portrayed as a celebration — the moment a private company graduates to the public markets, raises capital, and lets early investors finally cash out. But for many companies, t...

The death of a young woman at IIM Bangalore, whose suicide note referenced a romantic breakup communicated through Facebook, prompted difficult conversation in 2012 about the psychological health of India's high-pressure...

Indonesian women staged what is believed to be the first SlutWalk demonstration in Southeast Asia, taking to the streets of Jakarta in short skirts and leggings to protest the persistent cultural and legal tendency to ho...

Several American cities have enacted or are considering ordinances restricting mobile food vendors from operating within set distances of schools during school hours—a policy response to research on the relationship betw...

Buying a ( is a decision that most ( can take after weighing the pros and cons of various ( implications. But getting a property as inheritance is often not a choice, especially for first generation ( whose parents beque...

Shoshana Hebshi will never forget where she was on the 10th anniversary of Sept. 11. She and two other airline passengers were handcuffed and strip-searched after flying into Detroit on Sunday. No charges were filed agai...

When Mary Coleman died in May 2009, two days after she fell to the floor at her sister's house, her sister and nephew decided there was nothing they could do about it and went out for pizza. Then, according to a criminal...

Kareena Kapoor has reaffirmed her place as the numero uno female superstar in the business. Her Bodyguard has taken a historic opening all over and while it is a given that Kareena would be enjoying a Rs. 100 crore super...

Old Navy occupies a specific retail niche — affordable basics, frequent sales, accessible style — and within that niche it is genuinely useful. The mistake that many shoppers make is treating it as a store where everythi...

Friendship: Essential Connection in Modern Life Friendships are among the most important determinants of happiness and wellbeing, yet modern life creates challenges for sustaining them. Why Friendship Matters Research co...

Ralph Richard Banks, a Stanford law professor, published a book with this provocative title examining a phenomenon that is genuinely significant and genuinely underexamined: the dramatic decline in marriage rates among A...

Democratic congressional candidates in vulnerable districts faced an uncomfortable calculation in 2014 and 2010: how far to distance themselves from a president whose approval ratings had declined among the independent v...

Like something from a film childhood sweethearts from Southampton are finally tying the knot after 63 years apart. After decades of being separated by disapproving parents Bill Labram and Peggy Fryer, both 80 will be get...

Bodyguard has crossed Rs 200 crore at the box office, making Salman Khan's third consecutive blockbuster and cementing what Bollywood commentators are now simply calling the Salman Phenomenon — a run of commercial succes...

The evolution of generosity is one of evolutionary biology's most interesting problems, and also one of its most satisfying answers. The question is why organisms that apparently compete for resources would ever behave i...

35-year-old Reese Witherspoon has been spotted house hunting in California, and it seems that only the best will do for the Legally Blonde star. She has her eye on a $14million Malibu home that is currently inhabited by...

An overweight primary school teacher has lost almost eight stone after she was hypnotised into believing doctors had fitted her with a gastric band. Kim Robinshaw, 31, whose weight had spiralled to 21 stone was sent into...

A Miami-Dade middle school teacher was dismissed from his position after it emerged that he had a previous career in adult entertainment — a case that raises questions about how school districts handle the intersection o...

Concern about Angelina Jolie's weight has been a recurring feature of the entertainment press for years, but recent photographs taken at public appearances have intensified the conversation, with multiple observers notin...

The fitness and weight loss industry survives on a simple and endlessly exploitable gap between what people want to be true and what the evidence actually shows. What people want to be true is that there is a product — a...

The assumption that vegetarian cooking is inherently less satisfying, less flavorful, or less interesting than meat-based cooking has been dismantled so thoroughly in recent years — by chefs, food writers, and millions o...

Fast-food deliverymen 'often offered sex instead of cash' A new study has found that pizza and other fast food deliverymen often get offers of sex sessions as one of the alternatives to cash payments. A poll for online r...

Housing prices - done dirt cheap: The three-bedroom homes that can be yours for as little as $5,000 For a prospective homebuyer, $5,000 may not buy much, but in one U.S. city, a dream home can be yours for just that amou...

Asian suppliers to Apple Inc have begun manufacturing a lower-priced version of its hot-selling iPhone 4 with a smaller 8 gigabyte flash drive, according to two people with knowledge of the matter. The flash drive for th...

It will give couch potatoes more reason to put their feet up and disappoint those who hit the gym to try to shed the extra pounds. Apparently, exercising is not the best way to lose weight. Research shows that, contrary...

The party was in full swing , everybody seemed to be enjoying the music , some swayed with their cocktails and others enjoyed delicious looking appetizers . Amidst all this I was busy , as usual , doing what I do best –...

The cultural prescription for career success has long included passion as a near-obligatory ingredient. Find what you love, do what you love, bring your whole self to work. It is advice given freely, received eagerly, an...

Arnold Schwarzenegger, the actor and former California governor, began the slow and difficult process of rebuilding his public image and family relationships following his acknowledgment in 2011 that he had fathered a ch...

Polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs has been sentenced to life in prison for sexually assaulting two underage followers he took as brides. ( Polygamist leader walks out of sentencing hearing A polygamist sect leader conv...

Colon cleansing has been practiced in various forms for thousands of years and marketed aggressively in recent decades, but a systematic analysis of the available medical literature has concluded that for healthy adults,...

Happiness is based on wife being slimmer than husband, according to study Researchers claim both partners are more content if the woman has a lower Body Mass Index (BMI) than the man. A four-year study found that relatio...

Why have you been so successful in reaching some of your goals, but not others? If you aren't sure, you are far from alone in your confusion. It turns out that even brilliant, highly accomplished people are pretty lousy...

Yukari Mihamae, a 61-year-old woman from Colorado, was arrested at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport after she allegedly grabbed and twisted the breast of a female Transportation Security Administration agent duri...

An 11-year-old boy in Brazil has been dubbed "Magnet Boy" because metal objects apparently stick to his skin. Paulo David Amorim, from Rio Grande do Norte state, can carry spoons, scissors and even casserole pots on his...

Pandit Bhagwat Guruji's stubbornness might cost Riteish Deshmukh and Genelia D'Souza their marriage plans. The Hindu priest insists the lovebirds cannot take saat pheras anytime soon. Apparently, the priest got Genelia m...

Research analyzing emotional expression on social media found that anger peaks on Thursdays—an unexpected result that prompted analysis of the workplace psychology behind end-of-week frustration and the relationship betw...

Technology and Modern Life Technology has transformed how we communicate, work, and live. Understanding technology's role in society is essential for the modern world. The Speed of Change Technological change accelerates...

A Danish telecommunications company has become a model for inclusive employment after hiring a significant number of workers with autism spectrum disorder for roles in software testing and quality assurance — positions t...

The Kannur district of Kerala has become the site of an uncomfortable conversation about gender, caste, and the persistence of deeply patriarchal norms in a state that regularly tops national rankings on education, healt...

Boy dumps girl who tied rakhi to husband to reunite with him MEERUT: The ajab prem ki ghazab kahani that rocked this western Uttar Pradesh town last fortnight has taken a sad twist. Remember the young husband who had ask...

The expanded use of Botox beyond its original cosmetic purpose has generated research findings that challenge a fundamental assumption about how the face works—specifically, whether the facial expressions we make influen...

John Abraham confirmed what had been rumored for months when he acknowledged publicly that his long relationship with actress Bipasha Basu had come to an end. The confirmation came without drama or acrimony, framed inste...

Better check your Facebook settings before posting a party invitation online. A teenage girl in Germany who forgot to mark her birthday invitation as private on Facebook fled her own party when more than 1,500 guests sho...

Research exploring the relationship between dietary fat, cholesterol levels, and muscle development has complicated the simple narrative that equated low-density lipoprotein cholesterol with cardiovascular risk and left...

Chandra Bahadur Dangi, a Nepali man measured at 54.6 centimeters (21.5 inches) by Guinness World Records in 2012, was confirmed as the shortest adult human ever recorded—a designation that brought him global attention at...

The tabloid fascination with the Brad Pitt-Jennifer Aniston-Angelina Jolie triangle shows no signs of abating, even years after the events that created it. The latest entry in this apparently inexhaustible narrative: rep...

New York City has always had its outdoor fitness culture — the runners in Central Park at 6am, the weekend cyclists on the Hudson River Greenway, the basketball courts in Riverside Park that operate year-round regardless...

A teenager in Huaishan, Anhui Province has sold one of his kidneys to buy an iPad2 tablet computer, as reported by SZTV on June 1. The 17-year-old man surnamed Zheng, a freshman in high school, got connected with a kidne...

A new Bronx co-op apartment building is designed to help combat obesity. The building, called the Melody, has a backyard with brightly colored exercise equipment for adults, and climbing equipment for children. It also h...

Indian cuisine has a particular genius for fruit desserts — a repertoire that draws on the subcontinent's extraordinary diversity of tropical and subtropical produce and transforms it through techniques ranging from the...

Reese Witherspoon better make some room on her trophy shelf. MTV says Witherspoon will receive its Generation Award at Sunday's MTV Movie Awards. The 35-year-old Oscar winner is being recognized for her range as an actre...

Be really honest! It doesn't matter whether that makes you look good or bad but be sure that you are honest towards the participants of the show. That's what makes an entertaining show," says Catherine 'Cat' Elizabeth De...

Jenny Craig has topped the rankings of popular commercial diet programs in a Consumer Reports Health evaluation that assessed effectiveness, safety, and long-term sustainability across major weight loss brands. The evalu...

Consortium of Illinois Language Schools in corporation with Midwest Chinese Language Schools is one of the participating institutes to offer less commonly taught languages to Grade 4 - Grade 12 students since summer of 2...

Aatif Aslam and Sunidhi Chauhan Live in Concert in CHICAGO Jul 8 2011 8:30PM Where: Odeum Center , 1033 N. Villa Ave , Villa Park , Illinois , 60181 ( When: Jul 8 2011 8:30PM to Jul 8 2011 Contact Details: Bhavesh Phone...

The demographics of cosmetic surgery are changing. For decades, the field was dominated by female patients — women seeking facelifts, breast augmentation, rhinoplasty, liposuction. That profile is shifting, and shifting...

This story bearing all the cliched hallmarks of PR led journalism will have you in splits. It has all the ingredients of a big star - Akshay Kumar - who is very much in touch with his roots. Story touches upon all the ke...

The mobile phone industry is in the middle of a transformation that its own executives are struggling to manage gracefully. The shift is not subtle: voice calls, the service that wireless carriers built their entire busi...

Sleeping problems are thought to affect brain development and lead to other problems later in life. The study, published in the journal Child Development, looked at 357 adopted children and their families in the US. A UK...

There is an old observation, variously attributed, that you never get a second chance to make a first impression. What is less often discussed is how quickly those first impressions form — research suggests within second...

Before spending money on commercial acne treatments, it is worth considering what may already be sitting in your kitchen. Lemon juice has been used as a home remedy for acne and skin blemishes for generations, and while...

After years of merely dabbling in disposal of my accumulated stuff, I think I might now be a candidate for "extreme downsizing." If I can be ruthless enough. The idea has taken hold in recent months. I have been disposin...

Harvard Business School is expanding its executive education offerings in China to meet growing demand for management instruction there, says David Yoffie, senior associate dean of executive education at Harvard. The sch...

1. The most vivacious: Tanuja and Kajol With a sunshine smile, easy charm and some impressive screen roles, Tanuja won many hearts and the daughter followed suit. In fact, she went even higher. The most vivacious mother-...

Mosques in four cities observed the Namaz-e-Janaza or funeral prayers for the liquidated al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden on Friday, but not all Muslims agreed with the idea behind such invocations. Tagged with jumma, the...

It seemed an innocuous, catch-up phone call. Last year Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti, the pseudonym for a Pakistani known to U.S. intelligence as the main courier for Osama bin Laden, took a call from an old friend. Where have yo...

China's Test Prep Juggernaut Test preparation company New Oriental Education is helping a rising generation of Chinese students to ace U.S. college entrance exams On a Sunday afternoon in March, Morgan Meng, a broad-shou...

Arnold Schwarzenegger's return to leading roles after leaving the California governorship in 2011 was shaped by an apparent desire to demonstrate range rather than simply replicate the action-hero formula that had made h...

Ram Gopal Varma's public praise for Raveena Tandon—describing her as stunning and suggesting she remained one of Hindi cinema's most underrated presences—revived discussion of an actress whose career had followed an unus...

The romantic ideal of the lasting marriage — two people growing old together, maintaining connection across decades of changed circumstances and changed selves — has always involved something that courtship and early rel...

Ellen DeGeneres's public statement that being skinny was not important — made in the context of her own relationship with body image and the specific pressures of being a woman on television — landed differently than mos...

Along with shopping for sippy cups and strollers, expectant parents may want to consider another task for their to-do list: honing their marriage skills. Numerous studies have shown that a couples' satisfaction with thei...

After months of speculation about the cast of director Kabir Khan's next film, sources close to the production have confirmed what Bollywood watchers have long suspected: Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif are reuniting on scr...

Hey Baby, Want to Go to the Strip Club? Every organization has a set of unwritten rules. Which executives to butter up, how late to stay at night, or whether it's okay hit on your co-workers. While such quandaries apply...

Which Sleeping Position is the Best for You? You spend about 1/3 of your life sleeping- are you sleeping the right way that facilitates the best sleep possible? Are you waking up stiff with neck and shoulder pain every m...

A striking new study from a trio of European economists has found that mothers whose first-born child is a girl tend to work significantly more hours than mothers whose first child is a boy — a result that holds across m...

Coming out as being gay is easier than admitting to a mental health condition, study shows People are more reluctant to reveal they have a mental illness than to come out as gay, according to a new study that reaffirms w...

Understanding Sleep: The Foundation of Health Sleep is not a luxury—it is a biological necessity as critical as food or water. Yet in modern society, many people chronically undervalue sleep, viewing it as time lost from...

Suzanne Roshan — wife of Bollywood star Hrithik Roshan — had by 2011 built a design firm, The Charcoal Project, that was establishing itself as a serious player in Mumbai's luxury interior design market rather than a cel...

Evidence that prenatal maternal exercise influences fetal development and sets the stage for the child's long-term health outcomes has shifted the conversation about exercise during pregnancy from "is it safe?" to "how m...

Reverse brain drain to rule global trends in coming years One of the top mega trends that will influence and shape the world in the coming years would be reverse brain drain , with a steady flow of foreign nationals and...

Fernando Dominguez cut the figure of a young revolutionary leader during a recent lunch period at his elementary school. "Who thinks the lunch is not good enough?" the seventh-grader shouted to his lunch mates in Spanish...

Born in Canada, Anglo-Indian stand-up comic Russell Peters says he can't relate to B-Town, feels the acting is bad and the stories almost identical! Indians can be cheap, the Jews will pay up if they think it's worth it,...

A.R. Rahman's authorized biography arrived in 2011 at the height of his international profile — two years after his twin Academy Awards for Slumdog Millionaire, at the moment when the global music establishment had fully...

LinkedIn's announcement in 2011 that it was extending its social infrastructure across the broader web — adding a suite of plugins that allowed websites to display LinkedIn profile information, recommend connections, and...

Bollywood actress Bipasha Basu's romantic life became a subject of sustained media speculation in 2012 following her separation from actor John Abraham, her partner of nearly a decade, and a period of apparent solitude t...

Kisan Bapat Baburao Hazare, (Marathi: ????? ???? ??????? ?????) (born 15 January 1940), popularly known as Anna Hazare, is an Indian social activist who is especially recognized for his contribution to the development of...

Call-center company 24/7 Customer Pvt. Ltd. is desperate to find new recruits who can answer questions by phone and email. It wants to hire 3,000 people this year. Yet in this country of 1.2 billion people, that is begin...

Census 2011: Survey in Delhi, Noida reveals male child preferred by 44% The skewed sex ratio, as revealed in Census 2011, shows that campaigns by the government have not been very effective in curbing female foeticide. T...

Tata Sons chairman Ratan Tata and Niira Radia were on Monday quizzed in connection with 2G spectrum scam by Parliament's PAC whose head MM Joshi said the panel found the industrialist candid and the corporate lobbyist "e...

Meet the Meaty Veggies A host of chefs are creating vegetable dishes that are anything but dainty. Cauliflower steak with quinoa It's been a decade of intense meat worship, but now chefs are procuring, preparing and serv...

The intersection of adolescent impulsivity, digital permanence, and social cruelty has produced two related phenomena that are devastating young lives and overwhelming school administrators, parents, and law enforcement:...

A 13-year-old Russian boy found a message in a bottle on a beach and was reunited with its German author, who wrote the note 24 years ago, tabloid Komsomolskaya Pravda has reported. Daniil Korotkikh found the beer bottle...

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules, the second film adaptation of Jeff Kinney's enormously popular middle-grade book series, arrived in 2011 with the comfortable confidence of a franchise that understood its audience pr...

The question asked about women who remain in relationships that are demonstrably harmful — relationships marked by emotional abuse, manipulation, infidelity, or worse — is usually framed as a puzzle to be solved. Why doe...

Britain's tightening of student visa requirements in 2011 — part of a broader effort by the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government to reduce net migration — landed with particular force on the community of In...

A Boston woman who thought her beloved dachshund was gone forever after a fire destroyed her apartment a month ago found the pet Monday living in the wreckage of her burned-out home. Terisa Acevedo moved in with relative...

A BTech final year girl student at MMM Engineering College, Gorakhpur, was rusticated by the college administration on Tuesday for keeping her boyfriend in her hostel room during night. The boy is a student of IIT-Delhi....

Amazon.com's (AMZN) squat Seattle headquarters looks nothing like the country club affairs found in Silicon Valley. There are no free soft drinks or volleyball courts. The light fixtures hanging from the ceiling in the r...

When Rich People Do Stupid Things Enough. That's the title of Vanguard founder John Bogle's fantastic book about measuring what counts in life. The title, as Bogle explains, comes from a conversation between Kurt Vonnegu...

Tried everything, from long walks to Atkins diet, but still not able to squeeze into your college pants? Well, take heart, for it has been claimed that eating two bowls of cereal a day could help obese people lose weight...

Not so long ago, the average American man in his 20s had achieved most of the milestones of adulthood: a high-school diploma, financial independence, marriage and children. Today, most men in their 20s hang out in a nove...

Children living on farms have a lower risk of asthma than children who don't because they are surrounded by a greater variety of germs, according to two large-scale studies published Wednesday. The prevalence of asthma i...

The workplace norm against visible emotional expression—particularly crying—is both real and gendered in ways that research has now documented with some precision: crying at work carries different reputational consequenc...

IN 2008, three young guys in Manhattan started Ignighter.com, a dating Web site focused on twentysomethings. They sought to set themselves apart by enabling members to set up group dates: One member, serving as a point p...

Jittery Chinese authorities wary of any domestic dissent staged a concerted show of force Sunday to squelch a mysterious online call for a "Jasmine Revolution" apparently modeled after pro-democracy demonstrations sweepi...

A day of protest in Tehran, the the Iranian capital, have been marked by clashes between demonstrators and security forces. Thousands protesters marched on Monday on Enghelab and Azadi streets , with a heavy presence in...

JCPenney's search engine ranking collapsed in February 2011 after a New York Times investigation revealed that the retailer had been benefiting from a massive link-buying scheme—a violation of Google's webmaster guidelin...

Technology and Modern Life Technology has transformed how we communicate, work, and live. Understanding technology's role in society is essential for the modern world. The Speed of Change Technological change accelerates...

Mark Zuckerberg claims he's being stalked by a man who's been sending him creepy messages through Facebook and threatening his safety Zuckerberg has obtained a restraining order against 31-year-old Pradeep Manukonda -- a...

Here is a very interesting interview of Steve Jobs after he was just kicked out of Apple in 1985. He doesn't beat around the bush on getting fired and his disappointment. However what's even more remarkable is how he has...

Apple's approach to the digital piracy problem — one of the defining challenges of the early internet era — was, in retrospect, one of the company's most strategically elegant moves. Rather than pursuing aggressive legal...

Income tax officials are conducting raids at residences of Bollywood actresses Priyanka Chopra and Katrina Kaif, TV channels reported on Monday. The income tax sleuths reached the residences of Katrina and Priyanka at 7:...

The midday meal presents a genuine challenge for people trying to eat well without either spending a fortune or accepting the dull monotony that "eating healthy" has wrongly come to imply. The salad, done properly, is on...

The story of Indian diplomat in UK, Anil Verma- IAS, and his wife Paromita Verma is getting more ugly by each passing day. The daily mail reports that Anil used to boast to his wife about his diplomatic status and how no...

An Indian school teacher has brought his country's culture into the classrooms of American students by introducing kabaddi. Ajay Kumar Nair, who teaches English language and literature, has come to Johnsburg , a town wit...

Dr. Rakesh Sinha from Warwick, UK has been awarded the prestigious National Oration and medal by the Indian Radiological Association (IRA) for the year 2011. He is the first radiologist from Bihar to be given this honor....

WikiLeaks has demanded that Google and Facebook reveal the contents of any US subpoenas they may have received after it emerged that a court in Virginia had ordered Twitter to secretly hand over details of accounts on th...

Hot topic on Twitter that nobody is willing to pay for Dada. Shaking off months of controversy, litigation and uncertainty, cricket's biggest, richest and most brassy domestic event, the Indian Premier League, sprang to...

A darkly comic piece of internet culture in 2010 juxtaposed three things that seemed, at first glance, to have nothing in common: Goldman Sachs, the Nigerian advance-fee scam, and the endless parade of Facebook quizzes a...

The holiday season brings many joys and, unfortunately, many countervailing dietary pitfalls. Even the fittest and most disciplined of us can succumb, indulging in more fat and calories than at any other time of the year...