The helmet on your head should save your life, not risk it

This article is authored by Rajeev Kapur, President, 2WHMA (Two-Wheeler Helmet Manufacturer Association India).In our country, most families have a simple habit. Before someone leaves home on a two-wheeler, there is always one reminder: “Helmet pehen lena.” That sentence comes from care. From fear. From hope that the person returns home safely. But what happens…

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India’s silent epidemic deserves more than a trend

My mother lived with diabetes for twenty-four years. She was very conscious and action oriented about it  – the way she was action oriented about everything. Medicines. Diet. Walks. A kitchen reorganised around what her sugar could tolerate. Medications managed with a discipline that put the rest of us to shame. Daily blood sugar measurement…

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CCPA issues notices to Amazon, Flipkart, Meesho and JioMart over ‘cyclosinone herbicide’ sale

Four major e-commerce platforms– Amazon, Flipkart, Meesho and JioMart– have removed listings of the allegedly unregistered “Cyclosinone Herbicide” following notices issued by the Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA), which has now ordered a detailed investigation into the matter.In a statement issued on Saturday, the regulator said the platforms informed it that listings of the product…

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Anti-aging influencer Bryan Johnson shares 41 things he learned after spending millions on chasing longevity

Anti-aging influencer and tech entrepreneur Bryan Johnson has now distilled years of experimentation and millions of dollars spend on anti-aging into a list of 41 simple health hacks. In a post shared on social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter) Johnson wrote, “This is it. Everything learned spending millions on longevity.” Despite his $2…

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Nirmal Narvekar, Harvard’s $57 billion Indian-American money manager, bows out

Photo credit: Harvard Alumni TOI correspondent from Washington: Nirmal Narvekar, the Indian-American financier who spent nearly a decade reshaping the investment machinery behind Harvard University’s colossal $57 billion endowment, is preparing to retire, closing one of the most consequential – and controversial – chapters in modern university finance.Known on Wall Street and in Ivy League…

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In 1896, Henri Becquerel left uranium salts in a drawer wrapped with photographic plates, which opened the door to nuclear science

Henri Becquerel accidentally uncovered radioactivity by keeping photographic plates in the dark. Image credit – Wikimedia Some of the greatest scientific discoveries started out unexpectedly. One such case was a finding made in 1896 by the French scientist Henri Becquerel during experiments with phosphorescent substances. Photographic plates, which had been wrapped together with uranium salts,…

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