Your office desk is more than a place where you keep your laptop.For many professionals and entrepreneurs, it is where they spend 8 to 10 hours every day, make important decisions, speak to clients, handle money and build their careers. Yet, the desk often becomes the most ignored space in the office.Here are five common…
A 21-year-old man has been jailed after blackmailing a teacher into sending an explicit video and then sharing it with students, leading to the victim losing his job and attempting to take his own life.Muaawiya Ameen, from Allenton in Derbyshire, posed as a woman on Instagram and engaged the teacher in a conversation that turned…
Parakeets fluttering in and out of people’s houses, gardens and urban parks are becoming a regular occurrence in many places. However, experts suggest that the bright green parakeets might actually provide information on climate change, biodiversity, urban ecology, habitat shifts and the state of the environment. In fact, according to the research done on ring-necked…
Salman Khan backs students’ protest against paper leaks, says they deserve full credit for peaceful movement: ‘It should not be hijacked politically’ Bollywood star Salman Khan has voiced his support for students protesting against paper leaks, calling the issue “very serious” and urging that the movement remain focused on education rather than politics.Taking to Instagram,…
This week begins on a winning note, and the feeling of forward movement stays with you for most of the days ahead. Monday carries success from several directions at once. You feel stronger, more hopeful, and more ready to handle life as it comes. There is a nice sense of flow here. Children do fairly…
India’s Tejaswin Shankar competes in the men’s decathlon 110m hurdles at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland, Friday, July 31, 2026. (AP Photo) Tejaswin Shankar became the first Indian to win a Commonwealth Games medal in the men’s decathlon after battling a long-standing knee injury to claim bronze in Glasgow on Friday.The national record holder…
Deep in the Florida Everglades, a vast and difficult landscape, scientists are trying a new way to find invasive Burmese pythons; they are looking from above. Researchers are testing small drones fitted with radio tracking equipment or cameras to locate snakes more efficiently, follow their movements across difficult terrain, and cut the cost of searching…
Harshita Tomar and Shital Verma (Reuters Photo) India’s Harshita Tomar and Shital Verma initially finished fourth in the women’s skiff sailing event at the Asian Games on Thursday. But they still ended up with a bronze medal after the Chinese pair that finished third was disqualified.The Indian pair won the bronze at the Kaiyoh Yacht…
Gitanjali Angmo is leading a protest march to Parliament today. Her husband, Sonam Wangchuk, remains hospitalized after police intervention at Jantar Mantar. Angmo, a social entrepreneur and educationist, co-founded the Himalayan Institute of Alternatives, Ladakh. She is now spearheading Wangchuk’s legal and political fight for educational reforms. Angmo also holds a black belt in karate…
‘We suffer more often in imagination than in reality’ An executive sits in a quiet office, looking at an unread email from the board of directors. Within seconds, her heart rate speeds up, her hands grow cold, and her mind jumps to worst-case scenarios: being fired, losing her career, or facing a public scandal. By…
Egyptian proverb of the day (Image generated via Google Gemini) Some proverbs sound mysterious until you stop and think about them for a moment.“Entering a bathroom is not like leaving it.”At first glance, the saying appears almost too obvious to qualify as wisdom. Of course entering a bathroom is different from leaving it. Nobody goes…
You probably touched your phone before reading this. Then there was the door handle, the lift button, your keyboard, perhaps the tap in the bathroom. None of these things necessarily looks dirty, which is exactly why they are so easy to forget about. We tend to associate germs with obviously unhygienic places. But some of…
