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In a country where more than 40% get less than six hours’ sleep a night and millions nap at work, new ways to grab forty winks are big businessFor many of us, it is a daily ritual. The eyelids grow heavy as the after-effects of lunch kick in. The head …
Read MoreIt is easy to blame Bollywood and the media for unrealistic expectations of beauty – but there are deeper social factors at workWhen Indian actor Aishwarya Rai, once Miss World, walked the runway at Paris fashion week for L’Oréal this month, the online…
Read MoreWorld Happiness Report finds higher levels of benevolence in all global regions than before the pandemicIt claimed 6.7 million lives, locked down entire countries and triggered a global economic slump, but Covid-19 has not affected humankind’s happines…
Read MoreCovid accelerated a decline but a new breed of bathhouse is reimagining a Japanese traditionIt is a Japanese ritual that stretches back centuries: stripping off in the company of friends and neighbours before stretching out in the recuperative waters o…
Read MoreExperts say social support, honesty and generosity key to wellbeing, as Afghanistan and Lebanon struggle in global ranking Finland has been named the world’s happiest country for the fifth year in a row, in an annual UN-sponsored index that ranked Afgh…
Read MoreThe most vulnerable people will bear the cost of sanctions, as services and the economy collapseWatching Afghanistan’s unfolding trauma, I’ve thought a lot about Mumtaz Ahmed, a young teacher I met a few years ago. Her family fled Kabul during Taliban …
Read MoreOne of Bollywood’s most bankable actors has written a revolutionary pregnancy book that lifts the lid on libido, caesareans and more. She discusses power, pay and the reality behind the glamourDays after giving birth to her first child – an emergency c…
Read MoreIt’s been dubbed ‘tangping’ – shunning tough careers to chill out instead. But how is the Communist party taking the birth of this new counterculture?Name: Low-desire life.Age: People – young ones especially – have been rebelling, dropping out, rejecti…
Read MoreThe Forward Party’s Vijai Sardesai says he will make a one-hour power nap mandatory if he becomes chief ministerWhen Goan politician Vijai Sardesai pronounces the word susegad – soo-saay-gaad – it rolls languorously off the tongue. Susegad is the word …
Read MoreThe Forward Party’s Vijai Sardesai says he will make a one-hour power nap mandatory if he becomes chief ministerWhen Goan politician Vijai Sardesai pronounces the word susegad – soo-saay-gaad – it rolls languorously off the tongue. Susegad is the word …
Read MoreNo evidence virus passes to foetus during pregnancy, according to latest researchCoronavirus – latest updatesPregnant women do not appear to be more susceptible to severe Covid-19 symptoms and there is no evidence that the virus can pass to a baby duri…
Read MoreMillions join in a mass rajio taisō workout broadcast daily for nearly 70 years“One, two, three, four … five, six, seven, eight …” That is the cue for half a dozen people braving a humid morning at Kamezuka park in Tokyo to bend, stretch, jump, and run…
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