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Quick to blame others? Study hints at checking your screentime
In a habit of shifting blame? Study says this habit likely originates from excessive phone usage. Keep track of your screentime.
Updated on Feb 20, 2025 01:52 PM IST
HT Lifestyle Desk | Edited by Adrija Dey
How a popular strand of economics lost its shine
If 2008 marked the rise of behavioural economics, 2023 marks a year of reckoning. The Gino-Colada affair has blown the lid off a simmering crisis in the field
Published on Dec 11, 2023 10:00 PM IST
Types of emotionally immature people and how to deal with them
From the personaliser to the provoker, here are a few types of emotionally immature people that we should deal with effectively.
Published on Dec 08, 2023 09:40 AM IST
Tapatrisha Das, Delhi
With cameras in place, Srinagar braces for smart traffic management
Once the new smart traffic management system set up in Srinagar detects violations, the operators in control rooms will verify and generate e-challans against the violations
Updated on Apr 13, 2023 11:53 AM IST
Ashiq Hussain, Srinagar
Rashmi& Amitabh Shah – Making a difference through a love story
Both of them gave up their well-paying careers, probably much to the shock of friends and family, to work in for this endeavour and make the most of their education, experience and intent.
Updated on Sep 18, 2020 03:21 PM IST
HUL and UNDP successfully implement robust plastic waste management model in Mumbai
They have leveraged technology for holistic plastic material recovery framework across more than 33,000 households in Mumbai.
Updated on Sep 14, 2020 06:30 PM IST
Lockdown blues: Waiting for your salon appointment, aren’t you?
A joke’s going around - once the lockdown ends, we’ll know everyone’s real hair colour! Even as several men and women have made do the au naturel look, they’re also pining to avail salon services to take care of bushy eyebrows, fuzzy facial hair, brittle nails and unruly hair.
Updated on Apr 20, 2020 01:59 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Radhika Bhirani
Tracking food helps losing extra kilos, says study
Overweight people who tracked daily food consumption using a free smartphone app lost a significant amount of weight in a new study.
Updated on Mar 02, 2019 07:00 PM IST
Asian News International | Asian News International, Washington D.c. [usa]
Quit smoking to offset rheumatoid arthritis risk: Study
Long-term smoking cessation in women was associated with a lower risk of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) compared to those who had recently quit, a new study has shown.
Updated on Feb 23, 2019 04:36 PM IST
Indo Asian News Service | Indo Asian News Service, New York
Opinion | How the Swachh Bharat Mission is nudging people to use toilets
Understanding from early experiences, the SBM practised “nudging” at a scale unprecedented in the world: 550 million people practising open defecation in rural India were to be nudged into changing their behaviour to using the toilets provided under the programme.
Updated on Jan 25, 2019 08:49 AM IST
Parameswaran Iyer
Behaviour change among people can help fight under-nutrition, says Bhadel
The Prime Minister launched the National Nutrition Mission (NNM) from Jhunjhunu on March 8, emphasising the role of community participating in tackling undernutrition challenges.
Updated on Apr 12, 2018 10:01 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Jaipur | HT Correspondent
The NDA government’s Ujjwala scheme is not a failure
Focusing on a refill-centric analysis to declare the access-centric Ujjwala scheme a failure only two years into its birth is unfair to the initiative of delivering clean fuel to the poor in the country.
Published on Apr 03, 2018 11:43 AM IST
Shreerupa and Abhishek Kar
Today’s children are changing India’s tomorrow
Children have a right to grow up and fulfil their potential. We must focus on convincing adults and children to change a lifetime of habits in order to promote healthier practices being passed down for generations to come.
Updated on Mar 30, 2018 11:34 PM IST
Dr Yasmin Ali Haque
Spotlight on health — Changing India’s sanitation practices
Through interventions like the Swachh Aadat curriculum, HUL is reaching out to millions of people with its focus on three clean habits—washing hands, drinking purified water, and using clean toilets.
Updated on Mar 30, 2018 11:07 AM IST
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