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Happiness lies in earning more than peers!
Washington, March 20 (ANI): The secret to happiness lies in earning more money than your peers, according to a new study.
Christopher Boyce, from the Department of Psychology at the University of Warwick in England, suggests that it does not matter how much wealth people make as long as they are doing better financially than their [...]
Household charges on the rise
Household gas and electricity charges are set to rise again from next month.
Electricity prices will rise by seven-point-five per cent from April 1, and a further 10 per cent on July the first.
The government says the average annual cost increase for consumers will be more than 214-dollars a year from July the first.
Gas prices will [...]
Family of Indian toddler killed in Australia mourn their loss
Faridkot, Mar 5 (ANI): A pall of gloom enveloped the household of the three-year-old toddler Gurshan Singh Channa whose body was found in Melbourne, Australia on Thursday.
Back home in India, the family members mourned the loss as they remembered the toddler. The family was informed through a phone call.
“Two months ago they went to Australia [...]
Britons spend 1 month of their lives looking for TV remote!
London, Sept 18 (ANI): Britons waste one month of their lives searching for the television remote control, a new study has found.
After studying 4,000 individuals, the researchers found that the average viewer loses it an average of 3.2 times a week and spends more than [...]
Stay-at-home parents ‘most stressed workers’
London, September 12 (ANI): Parents who stay at home and look after the household are the most stressed out, a new UK study claims.
According to a research conducted by Mindlab Organisation, mothers or fathers who do household chores are more frazzled than those with traditionally high-pressure jobs, like city trading, teaching or nursing.
Stress levels were [...]
Long working hours make parents compromise on food choices
Washington, Sept 10 (ANI): Long work hours and irregular schedules are forcing people to compromise on food choices for themselves and their children, suggests a new study.
The research team from Cornell University measured food choice coping strategies in [...]
Family grieves death of soldier in an encounter in Poonch
Poonch (Jammu), Sep 9 (ANI): A pall of gloom enveloped the household of the Army major who was killed in an encounter with the militants in Mendhar sub-sector of Poonch district in Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday.
Major Akash Singh was killed while trying to foil an infiltration bid across the Line of Control (LoC) [...]
Women have sex to ‘relieve boredom, pity and to cure a migraine’
London, Sep 7 (ANI): Women indulge in sex not for love and passion, but for various other “unromantic” reasons- including relieving themselves of boredom, out of pity for a man and even to cure a migraine headache-says a new book.
‘Why Women Have Sex’ by Cindy Meston and David Buss has highlighted 200 reasons as to [...]
Priming infants with cues to affiliation ups their tendency to be helpful
Washington, September 3 (ANI): Ever wondered why people often spend their valuable time and energy to help a neighbour, with no promise of payback?
Well, Harriet Over and Malinda Carpenter of Germany’s Max Planck Institute have now found that priming infants with subtle cues to affiliation increases their tendency to be helpful.
During a study, they showed [...]
Increasing residential and employment density may reduce vehicle travel, fuel use and CO2
Washington, Sept 2 (ANI): A new report has determined that increasing population and employment density in metropolitan areas could reduce vehicle travel, energy use, and CO2 emissions from less than 1 percent up to 11 percent by 2050.
The report is a [...]
US Fritzl’s secret garden of evil where he kept kidnapped girl as sex slave
London, Aug 30 (ANI): A filthy, ramshackle secret garden, hidden inside ‘American Fritzl’ Phillip Garrido’s house in the small town of Antioch, east of San Francisco, has been revealed to be the place where he kept Jaycee Lee Dugard as sex slave for 18 years and fathered two children with her.
Jaycee – kidnapped from a [...]
Shilpa Shetty offers prayers to Lord Ganesha
Mumbai, Aug 30 (ANI): Bollywood actor Shilpa Shetty offered prayers to Lord Ganesha at a makeshift temple here.
Shetty’s beau Raj Kundra, the London-based Indian millionaire, accompanied her.
Responding to the rumours that she will be marrying Kundra later this autumn, she said in a lighter vein that every one would be invited in advance.
“The day [...]
Continuation of Remote Village Electrification Programme approved
New Delhi, Aug 27 (ANI): The Cabinet Committee on Infrastructure today approved the continuation of Remote Village Electrification Programme of the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy during the remaining period of the 11th Plan.
The Programme aims to provide renewable energy based lighting/basic electricity facilities with 90 per cent Central Financial Assistance to those unelectrified [...]
Kids as young as 10 under constant pressure to have perfect bod
Washington, Aug 27 (ANI): Kids as young as 10 are living under constant pressure to have the perfect body, say researchers.
The study, led by researchers from Harvard University and the University of Alberta, Canada, showed a linear response for girls, who were happiest when thinnest, and a U-shaped response for boys, who were unhappy when [...]
Indian Missions to have Indian Community Welfare Fund
New Delhi, Aug 20 (ANI): The Union Cabinet today approved setting up the Indian Community Welfare Fund (ICWF) in the Indian Missions in 17 countries to meet contingency expenditure incurred by the them for carrying out various onsite welfare activities for overseas Indian citizens who [...]
Assam boatmakers ‘make hay’ with rains
Salmora (Assam), July 15 (ANNI): With the onset of the monsoon in Assam, artisans involved in boat making are doing good business or ‘making hay’ with no sunshine.
The most popular boats in Majuli, the largest river island, are made in Salmora village. [...]
Sympathetic, kind men unlikely to end up as bosses
Melbourne, July 15 (ANI): Being sympathetic, kind, co-operative and warm may lower men’s likelihood of becoming bosses, according to a study.
The same may also apply to women to a certain extent, say the researchers behind the study.
According to reports, this study has provided firm evidence [...]
Higher earning women tend to do more housework
Melbourne, July 15 (ANI): Women who contribute more to the household finances, as compared to their husbands or partners, tend to do more housework, according to a study.
Led by Janeen Baxter and Belinda Hewitt, of the University of Queensland, the study showed that women contributing 70 per cent or more of the weekly income start [...]
Modern woodstoves 95 percent more efficient than their predecessors
Washington, July 15 (ANI): In a case study, a scientist has found that modern woodstoves, with the advanced secondary combustion systems, are now 95 percent more efficient than their predecessors.
The case study on the benefits of woodstoves, was done [...]
Michael Jackson-style life comes with $2.3M a month price tag
Washington, July 14 (ANI): Celebrities often end up under the scanner for their notorious big-spending, and Michael Jackson is no exception.
The King of Pop reportedly shelled out nearly 2.3 million dollars per month at the time of his divorce from his former wife Debbie Rowe.
Financial statements filed in the Los Angeles Superior Court at [...]
