You step inside, pull the door closed, and stand still for a moment. The room smells clean in that artificial way. Everything looks fine at first glance. The bed is made. The lights work. But then your eye catches small things. A chip on the desk. A mark on the wall. A minibar that does…
As a Japanese saying goes, “A tidy space invites a quiet mind.” Japan is one of the cleanest nations in the world. And cleanliness begins at home. Every house you visit in Japan works on a 10-minutes reset program. It means a clean home in this country is not the result of weekend clean-ups or…
Picture this: You’re crazy about your partner, but one of you craves constant hugs and hand-holding while the other prefers one meaningful cuddle at night. Does this mismatch doom your relationship? Or can love survive different love languages? A November 2025 study in Personal Relationships finally finds and answer to this – and it’s way…
The world has never been richer. Technology is moving at an unprecedented pace, global trade uniting the most isolated corners of the world, and scientific advances offering longer, healthier lives. Yet for millions, what shapes their daily life is the grip of hunger and instability and uncertainty. Because the notion of “the poorest countries in the…
Every winter, as the cold grip of the northern Indian region starts to unravel, the lighting of Lohri candles casts a radiant glow over the villages, towns, and cities of Punjab as well as the surrounding areas. This event is observed every year on 13 January as Lohri. Despite the popularity of the event as…
Yes, you read that right! For most of us, removing stickers from glass bottles is often irritating, messy and a tedious task. And let’s just not talk about how much time the process consumes. But even after so much time and effort, there’s no guarantee of a clean bottle because most of the time, labels…
One really adorable moment was when Kriti Sanon held Nupur’s phoolon ki chaadar as her little sister walked in. Big-sister energy at its cutest. Kriti wore an ivory lehenga with zardozi work and a rani-pink border, and kept her hair half-tied – simple and pretty. In one of her posts, Nupur wrote, “Tu mere kal…
Making your idli and dosa batter ferment in winter may feel frustrating. You follow the same recipe, step-by-step, but it still doesn’t rise, and there is no improvement. There are no bubbles and no sour aroma in your fermented idli dosa batter. Fermentation naturally slows down when the temperature drops in winter. Hence, the batter…
Winters and monsoons are bad times for drying laundry. There’s no sun for days and it’s mostly dewy or rainy all the time. So people generally end up putting laundry indoors to dry. However, unknowingly, they are making a huge mistake. Who would have thought that a simple and easy task could possess such health…
The Sikkim government has officially ended the issuance of physical permits for foreign nationals travelling to protected and restricted areas of the state, making online clearance mandatory with immediate effect. The decision, communicated by the state’s Department of Tourism and Civil Aviation, follows strict directions from the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), as ANI reported….
