Newsletter
Email:
Poll: Like Our New Look?
Do you like our new look & feel?
Home | Special Features

Special Features

image

Indian wellness in vogue in top global spas

By Suvendu Banerjee, Bangkok (IANS) Ayurveda-based treatments are getting popular in most of the top spas across the globe. Now another traditional Indian system 'vastu' - which believes positive energy emanates from how all things material are arranged - is also taking root at these health and healing resorts.
Full story

New study on protecting new drugs in India

Washington, June 16 (IANS) A major new study identifying a broad range of potential benefits of incremental pharmaceutical innovation for India will be released at the US-India Business Council's (USIBC) Synergies Summit here Wednesday....
Full story

Bengal's Sankar reaches out with English translation

By Madhusree Chatterjee, New Delhi, June 13 (IANS) One of Bengal's most popular writers, Mani Shankar Mukherjee, is waiting to see how English speaking urban India reacts to "The Middleman", the translated avatar of his most famous Bengali novel "Jana Aranya"....
Full story

Doing a good deed may help you look good

Washington, June 12 (IANS) Finding it difficult to elicit donations for charitable causes due to the financial crisis? Worry not! Research from Tel Aviv University can provide you with a potent fundraising tool....
Full story

Changing climate displaces people around the world

By Joydeep Gupta, Bonn, June 12 (IANS) Sena Alouka from Togo, Peter Triloff from Germany and Ana Romero of Mexico have one thing in common - they all have to deal with farmers who can no longer cope with climate change....
Full story

'Tibetan medicine offers hope for cancer'

New Delhi, June 12 (IANS) Tibetan medical science, a 2,000-year-old legacy of herbal and spiritual healing born in the Buddhist monasteries of high-altitude Tibet, offers cures for diseases like cancer and thalassaemia but is yet to be recognised by the Indian government, says one of its leading woman practitioners here....
Full story

Sleep helps store useful information, says study

Los Angeles, June 12 (Xinhua) A good night's sleep after a period of learning help brain preserve the most important memories, a new study has found....
Full story

Poor sleep quality linked to increased risk of death

Washington, June 11 (IANS) Do you stay awake till the wee hours of the night? Are you a poor sleeper? Then you may be at increased risk of death....
Full story

When men are scarce, don't expect a marriage proposal

Washington, June 11 (IANS) Why are young men reluctant to pop the big question? Young men feel less pressure to settle down when they are outnumbered by young women who strive for their love and affection....
Full story

Men more likely to be lonely in old age

Washington, June 11 (IANS) Men plan for their financial security in retirement but not for their happiness, according to the latest report. Unless men build social and leisure networks, they could find retirement lonely and isolating....
Full story
1 2 3 4 5 6 next total: 56 | displaying: 1 - 10