Citizens’ protests had led to shelving of elevated corridor projects Experts question validity of plan that proposes 90 km of elevated corridors With just a day left to submit suggestions for the Comprehensive Mobility Plan (CMP), citizen groups are questioning the legality of the vision document given that it is prepared by Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL), which [...]
January 20, 2020
Loknath Das
Business
Facebook said Monday it’s acquiring CTRL-labs, a neurotechnology startup, as part of efforts to develop a wristband for controlling smartphones, computers and other digital devices without having to touch a screen or keyboard. The moonshot project underscores the world’s largest social network’s efforts to transform how we communicate with one another. Facebook first said in 2017 [...]
September 24, 2019
Loknath Das
Technology
Our mind and body are connected and any emotional turbulence has a direct impact on the overall well being. In order to keep the body healthy, it is important to keep the mood upbeat. Read on for deets Here’s how your mind and body are connected Everyone gets moody. Some days you feel on top [...]
August 27, 2019
Loknath Das
Health
Ionce lived a life almost ruled by anxiety, intrusive thoughts and paralysing fear. I spent years looking for the thing that would release me, and when I finally found it, it wasn’t medication or therapy (although both helped). It was running. It gave me a feeling that there was a world out there beckoning me, [...]
March 4, 2019
Loknath Das
Health
What is the goal of schooling? We send our kids to school for at least 13 years, from kindergarten through 12th grade – but how often do we stop and ask ourselves about the goal of all this schooling? Some might say that learning is the goal but learning is just part of the process [...]
January 14, 2019
Loknath Das
Education
Turns out, a peaceful mind can foster happier dreams. It has long been assumed that the content of dreams can tell us something about a person’s well-being. However, so far, dream researchers have mostly studied the dreams of people suffering from various disorders and we know very little about the positive side. Well-being researchers, on [...]
August 27, 2018
Loknath Das
Health
Positive self-esteem is something that gives us the strength to take charge of our lives and feel good about ourselves. The mind plays a disproportionate role in our lives and how it feels can drive how the body ends up feeling. Thus, from borderline personality disorders to depression, there are many disorders that could affect [...]
February 5, 2018
Loknath Das
Health
The terrible start defects because of Zika virus appear to be the end result of an immune machinereaction that triggers prenatal mind cell suicide and obstructs fetal mind development, a new lab look atreports. The virus reputedly turns on an immune receptor called TLR3, which the body uses to pick out andprotect in opposition to [...]
May 8, 2016
Saheli
Health
Mind loss of life is normally seen as crossing the ultimate frontier of life, as a minimum in a clinicalplacing. until a affected person has gone via mind demise, we believe that a few vestige of theirpersonality need to nevertheless be in there. however damage to the CNS, specifically axonal trauma, istypically irreversible. as soon [...]
May 8, 2016
Saheli
Technology