Life & style

Dey’s victory marked India’s first-ever Commonwealth Games gold medal in judo. When Asmita Dey stood on the Commonwealth Games podium in Glasgow, there was one person she kept thinking about. Her father, Arjun Dey, was not there to see the moment. Her father had passed away seven months earlier after suffering a brain stroke.On Friday, … Read more

The lavatory may be only a few steps away, but the seatbelt sign takes priority. When it is illuminated, passengers are being instructed to return to their seats and fasten their seatbelts. Even a short walk through the cabin becomes risky if the aircraft suddenly encounters turbulence. If you need to use the lavatory, wait … Read more

Growing up in Amritsar in the 1960s, Singh had heard whispers that the woman he believed was his mother was not his biological mother at all. His grandmother, whom he knew as the person who raised him, was in fact his paternal grandmother. The truth about his birth remained largely a family secret. At eight, … Read more

Knowing when to water a houseplant is not always as simple as checking the soil with your finger. Plants often show signs when they are running short of water. Leaves may begin to droop, new growth can look weak, or the pot itself may feel much lighter than it did after watering. These small changes … Read more

Some success stories begin with big dreams. PC Musthafa’s began with a school dropout, a poor family, and a child who had to work to help his father earn money. Growing up in Chennalode near Kalpetta in Kerala’s Wayanad district, Musthafa came from a family that struggled to make ends meet. His father worked as … Read more

5 ways to protect your peace without cutting people off There comes a point when you realise that peace is not always about having fewer people around you. Sometimes, it is about changing the way you carry those relationships.You can love your family and still not absorb every opinion they have. You can care about … Read more

In 1993, Princess Diana put something deeply disturbing in writing.Ten months after her separation from Prince Charles was announced, Diana wrote a handwritten note to her then-butler, Paul Burrell, in which she claimed that her estranged husband was planning an “accident” involving her car.The letter later became part of the evidence examined during the inquest … Read more

Vastu tips: 5 things you should never keep in your bedroom Your bedroom is probably the one place at home where you expect to switch off. After a long day, you want the lights low, the bed comfortable, and the room free of anything that makes your mind feel unnecessarily busy. But according to Vastu, … Read more

For anyone with a garden, coconut shell charcoal offers a genuinely useful, low-cost way to improve soil health. Once broken down and worked into soil, it helps improve water retention and aeration, creating better growing conditions for plants without needing any synthetic soil additives. Whole or halved shells also get repurposed directly as small planters … Read more

Breakfast is supposed to be a pretty simple affair. You order your food, have a coffee and get on with your day.But one breakfast in Gurugram took a very different turn when a diner noticed something moving inside his food.It was a live worm crawling over the meat in a partly eaten sandwich.The diner filmed … Read more