Spicy, tangy and sour – the Indian platter would be incomplete without pickles. Sometimes the spicy stuffed red chilli or a fat, juicy piece of aam ka achaar even fills the place of sabzi in our thalis. Indeed, it would be difficult to find a true-blue Indian who does not swear by his daily dose of achaar, especially the… Read more →
NASA’s planet-hunting Kepler telescope has confirmed a record-setting bonanza of 715 newly discovered planets outside our solar system, nearly doubling the count of exoplanets discovered to around 1,700. These newly-verified worlds orbit 305 stars, revealing multiple-planet systems much like our own solar system. Nearly 95 per cent of these planets are smaller than Neptune, which is almost four times… Read more →
In a breakthrough, an Indian-American scientist at the prestigious MIT has developed a simple, cheap, paper test that could improve cancer diagnosis rates and help people get treated earlier. The diagnostic, which works much like a pregnancy test, could reveal within minutes, based on a urine sample, whether a person has cancer, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announced… Read more →
(CNN) — Love that chocolate Haagen-Dazs ice-cream? But what about the way its makers treat their farmers? How about KitKat and the way its production impacts the environment? In a campaign to push big companies towards more ethical sourcing, international development group Oxfam is asking people to think about food producers’ attitudes towards issues such as climate change and… Read more →
We’ve all been there. You decide to paint a room, and weeks later, your walls are a crazy quilt of paint swatches. You’ve flipped through rooms on Houzz and Pinterest and virtually painted your room online. You’ve asked your friends and your plumber for their opinions. You are still afraid to make the wrong choice. It’s okay. Consumers typically… Read more →
San Francisco social media consultant Sarah Slocum says she was attacked this weekend for using Google Glass in a local bar. On her Facebook profile, Slocum said she was “verbally and physically assaulted” by bar patrons who jeered at her for using Glass and, she alleges, snatched the device off of her face. Slocum also said that she was… Read more →
One of effective public health interventions and the most elementary hygiene ritual — washing hands — can help prevent diarrhoea that annually kills 8,00,000 children aged below five years. Yet, surveys show that handwashing remains at best “suboptimal” across the world, whether in India, Ghana, China — or even in parts of the developed world such as the U.K. where access… Read more →
Valerie Cox tells us of a woman who was waiting at an airport one night, with several hours before her flight. She bought a bag of cookies, found a bench, started reading and reached for a cookie to munch. To her surprise and shock, she saw the gentleman sitting next to her reach into her bag and help himself to… Read more →
Financial transactions have always been at the heart of our society, but growing smartphone and Internet penetration are inspiring new, disruptive approaches. What we are witnessing is nothing less than a complete reappraisal of the fundamental principles that underpin business — and that are set to transform the future. Here are five ways money will change in the future…. Read more →
Federal health authorities on Tuesday reported a 43 percent drop in the obesity rate among 2- to 5-year-old children over the past decade, the first broad decline in an epidemic that often leads to lifelong struggles with weight and higher risks for cancer, heart disease and stroke. The drop emerged from a major federal health survey that experts say… Read more →
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