LIFESTYLE & LEISURE


Organisations which are more control-oriented and check the productivity of their employees based on inputs will find it more difficult to trust their people when working from home, according to a new study.   The pandemic has forced many organisations to change in ways that would...

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Amid the ongoing COVID-19 lockdown as multiplexes remain shut, the streaming platform Amazon Prime Video is going all out in a bid to revolutionise the way we might watch films in the future. After confirming the Amitabh Bachchan and Ayushmann Khurrana-starrer "Gulabo Sitabo" for a digital...

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Discretionary consumption will change in 2020 due to COVID-19 as food, health, clothing, and shelter will take over high-end consumption in terms of lifestyle and adornment, Morgan Stanley said in a note.   The COVID-19 outbreak, the current lockdown, and social distancing measures...

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Several eulogies and beautiful tributes have followed the sad, and premature, passing of Rishi Kapoor. As well as his redoubtable contribution to Indian cinema, one must also remember his involvement, probably involuntarily, in the first most famous case of product placement in Indian cinema,...

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Open, frank and unfiltered are some of the words used describe Rishi Kapoors life, but there are some aspects of his life which might have evaded public eye.   A day after he was hospitalised here, Rishi Kapoor is no more. He passed away on Thursday after a two-year battle with...

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Archana Sharma (IANS) 29 April 2020
Irrfan Khan, the versatile bollywood actor who passed away on Wednesday was born and brought up in Jaipur.   Since his childhood, he had a craving for acting. However, due to unavailability of right platform in the pink city in those days, he started engaging himself in street...

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The novel corona virus (COVID-19) pandemic is an extremely severe health and economic crisis that is impacting our lives to a major extent, and as we continue to tackle the crisis, we must simultaneously also absorb a crucial lesson provided by it in risk management.     Several...

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QUAID NAJMI (IANS) 20 April 2020
What blood-thirsty terrorists couldn't succeed in doing, the invisible coronavirus pandemic has achieved.   For the first time in its nearly 250 years history, Mumbai's world-renowned and iconic 'Mohammed Ali Road street food bazaar' is poised to wear a deserted look this Ramzan...

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional; loss is unavoidable; grief isn't; death is certain. And life? Well, life isn't certain. Its uncertainty, unpredictability, even its irrationality, make it what it is—particularly in these troubled times with the coronavirus pandemic sweeping the world...

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Dutch post-impressionist artist Vincent van Gogh's painting "Spring Garden" from 1884 was stolen from a museum in The Netherlands.   The painting was a loan from the Groninger Museum, for a temporary exhibition at Singer Museum, in the city of Laren, dedicated to preserving the...

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Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) on Monday announced it has set up India's first dedicated COVID-10 hospital with 100-bed capacity in a short span of just two weeks.   Sir H.N. Reliance Foundation Hospital in collaboration with the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has set up the...

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Further tightening the clampdown in the state, Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Friday ordered all private offices, shops and commercial establishments to be shut in Mumbai, Pune, Nagpur, slashing attendance in government offices to 25 per cent, while all examinations from Class...

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With the total shutdown of Bollywood in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic affecting daily wage workers of the film industry, and the Producers Guild of India has set up a relief fund for these professionals.   Siddharth Roy Kapur, president, Producers Guild of India, said in a...

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The massive surge in fake news, videos, GIFs and authentic-looking government notifications related to new coronavirus (COVID-19) in India has left millions of users, civil society members, journalists and authorities completely baffled and cornered, starting with panic buying across the...

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Amid the growing number of positive coronavirus (Covid-19) cases in the country, the government on Thursday said that no international flight will be allowed to land in India from March 22 for one week.   It also asked the state governments to issue appropriate directions to all...

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One really can't do without a beer in Goa, it seems. In times of COVID-19, it is a Goa-based beer brewing company which could help ease the panic triggered by the ongoing hand sanitiser shortage in the state.   Goa Brewing Co., a two-year-old beer manufacturer, has begun offering hand...

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In a bid to prevent the spread of coronavirus, Mumbai's famed dabbawalas have suspended their tiffin courier services from March 20-31, an official spokesperson said here on Thursday.   "Adhering to the directives of the state government to avoid spreading the coronavirus, we have...

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The total number of coronavirus cases touched 49 in Maharashtra on Thursday afternoon with two more persons testing positive, Health Minister Rajesh Tope announced.   They include a 51-year-old man in Ahmednagar with a travel history to Dubai and one woman in in Mumbai with a travel...

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Debunking a fake viral message, attributed to eminent heart surgeon Naresh Trehan claiming that national emergency will be declared soon and people must collect cash, food and medicines, the doctor on Thursday clarified it was "absolutely incorrect".   Naresh Trehan is the Chairman...

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David Armstrong, Annie Waldman  and   Daniel Golden (ProPublica) 19 March 2020
A federal crackdown on professors’ undisclosed outside activities is achieving what China has long struggled to do: spur Chinese scientists to return home. In this crisis, it’s costing the U.S. intellectual firepower.   On the fourth floor of the University of Florida cancer research...

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