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'Earbuds can be dangerous': Man claims noise-cancelling earbuds caused hole in his eardrumA social media user shared a concerning experience of developing a perforated eardrum after using noise-cancelling earbuds for two years. T...
Apple CarPlay just got smarter in iOS 26 – see the new features in your iPhone that will transform road tripsApple's iOS 18 update has introduced significant enhancements to CarPlay, transforming it into a more intuitive, accessible, and user-frien...
Delhi has a growing road rage epidemic: Here's how excessive honking might be fueling the violenceDelhi’s roads are becoming increasingly tense, with honking now sparking violent confrontations. In several recent cases, minor traffic arg...
A 'sound' decision: New law being mulled for car horns on Indian roads, announces GadkariUnion Minister Nitin Gadkari is proposing a new law to replace current vehicle horns with sounds from Indian musical instruments like the f...
Bengaluru isn’t really Bengaluru without its pink Tabebuia trees: Here’s why "India's slowest city" needs them more than everBengaluru is experiencing a breathtaking transformation as Tabebuia rosea trees burst into bloom, painting the urban landscape in dreamy sh...
Need to add new highways, widen existing ones: Nitin GadkariThe Indian government plans to convert 25,000 km of high-traffic two-lane national highways to four lanes, investing ₹10 lakh crore over th...
US teenager accused of derailing train, recording crash, posting footage onlineA teenager in Nebraska has been accused of intentionally derailing a train
Ghaziabad cab driver thrashed by youth with hockey sticks for disrupting Sunroof reels in IndirapuramIn Indirapuram, Ghaziabad, a cab driver was assaulted with hockey sticks by youths upset over his inadvertent disruption of their video sho...
When mach is what remains of machoNow, the gentle hum of electric vehicles, especially running at low speeds, can be dangerous as pedestrians may not notice them. So, accord...
Making sense of Nitin Gadkari’s plan to replace ‘horn’ sound with pleasanter optionsGadkari’s maan ki baat is to replace the standard vehicular electric horn developed by Oliver Lucas in Birmingham in 1910 with gentler soun...
Cartograph of cacophony: Finding a quiet neighbourhood in India is not child’s playMapping neighbourhoods according to their noise quotient is a sound idea.
Fireworks, flags and face masks: President-elect Joe Biden celebrates at drive-in rallyThey sounded car horns and danced in the backs of jeeps as Biden told the drive-in rally at his election headquarters in Wilmington, Delawa...
Mercedes Benz to hike vehicle prices from August, Audi too contemplating hike from SeptemberMD of Mercedes-Benz India said an increase in customs duty on automotive parts together with an increase in excise duty and cess on fuel ha...
Punjab government bans multi-tone horns for vehiclesThe direction was issued by the Punjab Pollution Control Board under section 31-A of the Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 198...
ET Recommendations: Game, earphones and appEach earpiece has a 60mAh rechargeable battery and though it sounds small, it's good for about 7 hours of battery life.
Noise norms fail to take offThe ministry of civil aviation's move to boost regional connectivity by allowing airlines to import aircraft as old as 18 years may not be ...
Nitin Gadkari-led Road Ministry announces Rs 11,000 crore corpus to curb fatalitiesThe ministry will launch a mobile application through which citizens will be able to upload photographs and details of black spots in their...
Complex car software becomes the weak spot under the hoodShwetak N Patel looked over the 2013 Mercedes C300 and saw not a sporty all-wheel-drive sedan but a bundle of technology.
Abdel Fattah al-Sisi headed for big wins in Egypt's presidential electionSisi deposed Morsi last July after mass protests against Egypt's first democratically elected president's rule that deeply polarised the co...
- Jairam Ramesh's attempt to check traffic noise
Honking is second nature to Indians; trying to silence that would be like attempting to curb free speech.