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DO YOU NEED A BEAUTY FRIDGE FOR SKINCARE PRODUCTS?

SHAHNAZ HUSAIN Do your beauty products keep going bad? Use your fridge to help them last longer. Most of us keep our skincare products close to hand in our bathrooms. While room-temp skin-care products are still doing your complexion plenty of good, there are some item...

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INVEST IN YOUR WELL-BEING
Once something that is a little more than what you consider as yourself has touched you, please dedicate some amount of your life in that direction. You have made investments for everything: for your living, for your comfort, for your emotions. It is very important tha...

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FUNDAMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY
Your fundamental responsibility is to be blissful. The greatest thing that you can do for yourself and the world around you is to become blissful. Now, you will be capable of making everybody blissful. In your blissfulness you can perform any activity. But you are conc...

HUAWEI'S FOUNDER-REN ZHENGFEI'S DAUGHTER IS FREED FROM CANADA

T K NANDANAN An intriguing political swapping took place on Saturday between Canada and China, the second and third largest countries in the world. The apparent swap also brings to an end a damaging diplomatic row between Beijing and the West. One of the persons includ...

REDISTRIBUTION, BUT NOT AT THE COST OF GROWTH

AMITABH KANT Chief Executive Offi cer, NITI Aayog In the years since Independence, redistribution of wealth took priority over economic growth in India. However, the redistribution policies failed to make a serious dent in poverty levels, and kept economic growth subdu...

ROLE OF COOPERATIVES IN INDIAN ECONOMY

SAURABHBANDYOPADHYAY | ANUPMA MEHTA The cooperative movement in India has regained focus after the Union Government recently created a Ministry of Cooperation to provide a separate administrative legal and policy framework for streamlining the cooperatives. The move is...

QUAD SUMMIT and Modi-Biden TALKS

KUMARDEEP BANERJEE The United States is hosting the first in-person summit of QUAD leaders in Washington and perhaps beginning of a new era of cooperation on what the White House termed as “demonstration of the priority of engaging in the Indo- Pacific, including throu...

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You’ve A Limitless Supply, Get Intoxicated
Someone asked me recently why I was against the legalization of intoxicants. As a yogi, i have never been against intoxication; in fact, i actively endorse it! I am only against carrying small doses in your pocket. Why rest content with small stashes, when you can acce...

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PUT AWAY YOUR SHOES
Right now, for some reason, nature has thrown a deadly virus at us. Let us make the best out of it. It will go. Whether the summer will kill it, it will die by itself, or go some other way, we do not know. But it will not last forever. In the meantime, because it is an...

PEOPLE OF TAIWAN DO NOT LIKE TO BE RULED BY CHINA

T K NANDANAN China has become overly meddlesome with Taiwan these days and Beijing said on Thursday that it opposed Taiwan joining a major trans-Pacific trade deal just days after Beijing said it wanted to become a member of the same agreement. It may be noted that in ...

ROLE OF COMMUNITY RADIOS IN INDIA

BRIJENDER SINGH PANWAR The role of Community Radio Stations (CRS) in disseminating critical information during the period of the Covid-19 pandemicis hardly known. Over 322 Community Radios in India, managed by educational institutions called Campus Radios, NGOs-managed...

Norway’s DILEMMA OF Oil EXPLORATION

GWYNNE DYER You can see why Saudi Arabia wants to go on pumping as much oil as it can. Oil exports account for 87 per cent of the Saudi Government budget and 42 per cent of GDP. The Saudi population, now 35 million, is growing by twothirds of a million a year, and the ...

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DIALOGUE WITH THE UNIVERSE
A tree is half your lung, says SADHGURU JAGGI VASUDEV. You may wonder why a mystic should be interested in planting trees.Why is a yogi playing environmentalist? In this tradition,haven’t people always attained enlightenment under a tree? I am trying to impart the nece...

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Become Responsible For Your Own Destiny
A centipede developed gout. When one hundred knees start hurting, you can imagine what a terrible problem it is. He went to an owl for advice. The owl examined him and said, “It is best if you become a mouse. You’ll still have gout, but you’ll only have four problems. ...

THE CENTRAL GOVERNMNT MUST INCREASE EX-GRATIA TO COVID VICTIMS

T K NANDANAN It is very sad to learn that the Centre has been following an antipeople policy in the case of disbursing ex-gratia to Covid victims. It is equally sad to learn that the Centre dilly-dallied on the order of the Justice Ashok Bhushan-headed bench to impleme...

DEFORESTATION IN INDIA DURING BRITISH RULE

BKP SINHA Although there is an abundance of writing on the history of deforestation in India, the absence of an objectively written history is painfully felt by one who intends to gain an impartial perspective of Indian forestry and its causes of degradation and defore...

BREASTFEEDING IS THE BEST FEEDING

ARUN GUPTA India ranks at 79 out of 98 countries that have policies and programmes for protection, promotion and support of breastfeeding and infant and young child feeding. An international study estimates that India could prevent 100,000 child deaths and more than 37...

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A SHORTCUT TO JOY
Why are you seeking Joy? Hmm, I don't know why you are seeking Joy. Neither I nor anybody else asked you to seek Joy. It is not because of me or someone else that you're seeking Joy, the life within you is constantly seeking Joy, and it is not an idea or a philosophy. ...

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CONVERT PAIN INTO WISDOM
For many people nowadays, whatever has happened in the past has become an excuse for what they are right now, ‘I am like this because somebody abused me.’ I am not saying this without any concern or lack of compassion for such things, but this problem has taken on majo...

SEIZURE OF HUGE HEROIN FROM MUNDRA PORT IN GUJARAT

T K NANDANAN The covert business of drug trafficking has been very active and on the rise for a long time across the world especially across Afghanistan and Pakistan regions and the seizureof nearly 3,000 kg of heroin valued at Rs.15,000 crorelast week from Mundra port...

AUKUS: A NEW ALLIANCE IS BORN!

GWYNNE DYER When the 9/11 happened in 2001 and the US armed forces went on full alert, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice got on the direct line to Moscow and told Vladimir Putin not to worry: the United States was not going to attack Russia. Putin replied that...

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HEAVEN, HELL YOUR CHOICE
When a person dies, he loses his body, and his intellect or discerning mind. The memory part of the mind, however, continues to function but only as tendencies within him. He cannot choose anymore because he does not have a discerning mind. Because of this lack of choi...

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AWARENESS CAN END YOUR SUFFERING
Why didn’t the universe create everyone equal? Why are some handicapped, and others able-bodied? Why are some poor, and others rich? What is the point of all this terrible inequality? Pause and examine this with absolute clarity. You will see that the primary cause of ...

MASSIVE VOLCANIC ERUPTION IN THE CANARY ISLANDS

T K NANDANAN A severe and massive volcano eruption on La Palma, which is home to around 85,000 people, in the Spanish Canary Islands has destroyed houses and forced about 5,500 residents to evacuate. What is a volcano? A volcano is an opening in the earth’s crust throu...

ASSET MONETISATION: WILL IT TAKE OFF?

UTTAM GUPTA In her maiden budget presented to Parliament on in 2019, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman laid a roadmap for catapulting the Indian economy to $5 trillion by 2024-25, its most crucial component being investment in infrastructure to the tune of a mammoth ...
 

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