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Joyeeta Basu

Mom with her kids. Psychologists say parents should say “no” when a child is too demanding. (Pic courtesy: burst.shopify.com, Pic used for representational purpose only. )

Are you raising brats?

Remember that a spoilt child will not ‘straighten up’ or get better when they grow up or get married.

02 Feb 2020 2:19 AM

A healthy diet, sleeping on time and getting enough exercise to maintain good mental health, is recommended.

Exercise helps improve one’s cerebral health

Physical exercise is a controlling factor that improves the immune mechanism, which helps people cope better and not relapse into disease.

16 Dec 2019 9:11 AM

Salt stories

We speak to some doctors about it.

06 Nov 2019 6:02 AM

Oils and butters are great for winter and to help delay the ageing process and the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles.

Cold Comfort

Winter is right around the corner, which means it is that time of the year again when, along with your wardrobe, you change your skincare routine.

29 Oct 2019 11:54 PM

Warts are small lumps on the skin that feel firm and rough and appear on hands, knuckles, knees and fingers.

Don’t self medicate for warts and corns

Though warts and corns are usually not serious health conditions, they are unattractive and can be painful.

21 Oct 2019 12:05 AM

Trainer Batul doing Battle Rope exercises at the Steel gym in Hyderabad.

Fit is the new rich!

Meanwhile, fitness helps combat diseases, improves insulin sensitivity and helps in weight management.

26 Sep 2019 6:27 AM

Picture of Shilpa Shetty Kundra used for representational purpose only

Diet dangers going to extremes

While vegetarianism avoids meats, veganism is even more dangerous as it cuts out all animal products.

20 Sep 2019 12:03 AM

Gillette’s ‘We Believe’ plays on its famous slogan, “The best a man can get” replacing it with “The best men can be”, before showing shots of aggressive behaviour.

Gillette shaves off controversial ad!

Subbu Padmanabhan, Chief Executive Officer at Flame Advertising also defends Gillette’s standpoint in an Indian context.

05 Sep 2019 12:00 AM

Dengue is a mosquito-borne viral infection that causes a severe flu-like illness and sometimes causes a potentially lethal complication called severe dengue.

Dengue virus is rampant

The fact is that fevers are higher, body pains are greater and the blood platelet count reductions are more serious.

26 Aug 2019 12:16 AM

The sky’s the limit

Dr Chandrakanta is responsible for the crucial radio frequency between the spacecraft and Earth station.

01 Aug 2019 6:20 AM

Author Para H — or Paramasiviah Harshavardhana — is actually a shortened form of spiritual leader Swami Paramahansa Yogananda’s names, whom he follows.

Hold on to the HOPE!

Author Para H’s Adrift makes for an interesting read due to its gripping storylines and its narrative.

17 Jul 2019 12:11 AM

The infection is especially worrying as the symptoms do not show up early and can mimic traits of other viruses.

Nipah resurfaces in India!

With no known cure or preventive vaccine, the Nipah virus has the potential to cause a widespread outbreak, caution health care professionals.

17 Jun 2019 1:05 AM

he World Health Organisation (WHO) describes antibiotics as medicines used to prevent and treat bacterial infections.

Alarm over antibiotics

The rising rates of antibiotic resistance the world over are fast turning into a major health concern for doctors and patients alike.

10 Jun 2019 6:52 AM

Cancer immunotherapy is a treatment that uses certain parts of a person's immune system to fight the disease.

Immunotherapy, The future of cancer treatment

Scientists are at present studying newer types of immune treatments which will impact how cancers are treated in the future.

04 Jun 2019 6:08 AM

After the month of fasts, the feasts

Eid and Ramadan are incomplete without its spectacular spread of mouth-watering traditional recipes.

04 Jun 2019 12:08 AM

Jeetendra (left) and Pratemesh (right) years back, on a sponsored trip to Japan that they had been on with batchmates, while studying at Welingkar Institute.

When destiny picks on merit

Prathamesh acknowledges that all the pain points were dealt with suitably to ensure sustainability of the project.

02 Jun 2019 12:00 AM

The report, which was released in London on Thursday, found India at sixth place for people getting drunk — in a list mostly dominated by English speaking countries.

In high spirits

The institution, which is more than 50 years old in the city, gets an average of four calls a day.

19 May 2019 4:36 AM

Sagar Dhara with two of his students, Karnika and Chetna, both are engineers who interned with him and later went to doing Masters in climate change in Sussex University and Yale. The little one is his daughter and the man is the guide. This picture was taken in the Western Ghat forests in Belgaum.

Clean earth crusader

Though the 67-year-old has 30 defamation cases filed against him in courts across India, he does not let them bog him down.

14 May 2019 11:27 PM

Raising the big concern

While this is not the first time that the mosque has faced a threat, heritage architects decode the situations’s gravity.

06 May 2019 2:19 AM

Of people and their stories

A tale of violence, toxic masculinity and hope, Raj Kamal Jha’s fifth novel ‘The City and The Sea’ makes for a compelling read.

28 Apr 2019 6:11 AM

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