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Mother's Day Special: How AI, apps are empowering women to manage finances, improve health, build careerWomen are learning to keep pace with the ubiquitous apps and AI, shrugging off dependence on their kids for financial transactions, online ...
China population down by 3 million from previous year, birth rate lowest since 1949. Is Beijing's one-child policy backfiring big time?China’s population is considered both an internal and an international issue due to several factors including the U.S. and India.
Analysis: China’s birth-rate woes revive a long struggle to manage populationChina's population is shrinking for the first time since 1949. This marks a significant shift from its historical reliance on a large popul...
Why China’s No. 1 app asks users, ‘Are You Dead?’ And why it is going viralA new app named "Are You Dead?" has topped China's paid app charts, addressing the growing fear of dying alone and unnoticed. This "safety ...
Experts say this tiny island nation is the secret to longer lives, better diets, and lower cancer ratesExperts point to Costa Rica as a global model for healthy living. The country spends far less on healthcare than the U.S., it has a higher ...
ET Soonicorns Summit 2025: How AI will reshape Indian jobsKnowledge workers face the biggest threat, while farmers and plumbers may actually win in India's AI revolution.
Manmohan Singh 1991 Budget: Full speech of a budget that changed our fortunesManmohan Singh, as Finance Minister in the early 1990s, introduced critical reforms to liberalize, privatize, and open India's economy duri...
Senior citizen app Khyaal raises $4.2 million from 62 Ventures, othersThe funds will be used to strengthen the company's foothold in its current regions, enhance market penetration and explore new markets. “We...
Sci-fi meets reality at MWC: AI clones to live forever, noseprint IDs for pets & robots to reduce lonelinessBy 2025, flying taxis could be a reality.
The digital transformation of boomers and beyond during the pandemicThe fear among senior citizens around stepping out to run errands during the pandemic has pushed many to let go of technology-related inhib...
Inside Instagram's teen training camp for positive advocacyThe photo-and-video-sharing platform from Facebook spends 3-4 crore annually to push these initiatives in India as part of its global safet...
View: Drawing buckets from well-being and its importance for policymakingOur analysis is based on the India Human Development Survey, 2015. It contains a representative all-India panel survey over 2005-12, which ...
Lockdown 2.0: Young professionals find Covid calls anxiety-inducing, look for interesting hacks to ward off lonelinessYuppies' perspectives on life are different from those of middle-aged folks living alone.
No country for the old: One in two elderly people in India are lonelyMore than infirmity, it's loneliness that is killing our elderly. Take a look at this study ...
Old is Gold: Startups for elderly hold a huge business opportunity in IndiaCan old age be made less painful and more comfortable? These startups are doing their bit.
Why more people have been committing suicide in Chennai than in any other metro for the past four yearsExperts agree that young adults, who are the most vulnerable to suicide, must be trained on handling emotional issues and anger management.
- Have the Japanese found a cure for loneliness in a stuffed toy?
Enter the "anti-loneliness" café, where the single traveller can sit down to a meal with some company. In this case, a stuffed hippo-like t...
Diwali of Hope: No big-ticket purchases, but Indians celebrate amidst uncertaintySlowdown hasn’t dampened the festive mood as Indians, from CEOs to blue-collar workers, celebrate Diwali with the hope of brighter days ahe...
Independence Day: Full text of President Pranab Mukherjee's address to the nationFollowing is the full text of President Pranab Mukherjee's address to the nation on the 65th anniversary of Independence Day.