In 1954, psychologist Leon Festinger introduced the theory of cognitive dissonance, which occurs when your actions conflict with your beliefs or you have two thoughts that don’t agree with each other. For example, you may believe eating candy every day is...
Stressing that a labourer's minimum monthly wage in Delhi which is Rs 13,500 today was Rs 9,500 earlier, he said the committee which studied the wage hike decided that labourers needed 2,700 calories a day.
The court said it will hear the matter along with a similar pending plea of billionaire Nirav Modi's firm Firestar Diamond on April 11.
The students have claimed that this is nothing but ‘witch-hunting’ by the EFLU administration. Some of these students were active participants in the protests following Hyderabad University student Rohith Vemula’s death in 2015.
Bhansali's counsel, however, requested that adequate security measures should be put in place during screening of the film in the court. Acting on the plea, Justice Sandeep Mehta directed the government to ensure adequate security measures for the screen...
"A Vistadome (glass-top) coach will be attached to the Jan Shatabdi Express running between Dadar and Madgaon from September 18," CR's chief public relations officer Sunil Udasi said on Sunday.
Indian-origin owners of a former coffee club have been fined more than 180,000 dollars in Australia for exploiting an Indian employee by forcing him to hand back his wages and threatening to have his visa cancelled if he refused.
The benchmark Sensex and the Nifty on Monday hit record closing high on the first trading day of 2017-18 to end at 29,910.22 and 9,237.85, respectively, driven by a rally in index heavy-weights RIL and L&T.
Three families who helped shelter former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden in Hong Kong in 2013 after his mass leak of information about surveillance programs have asked Canada for asylum, their lawyer said on Friday.
People who experienced a back-and-forth interaction with an online health risk assessment website were more likely to follow the health behaviours suggested by the tool.
The Centre has accepted Tamil Nadu's request to release a special postage stamp on the occasion of former chief minister and AIADMK founder M G Ramachandran's birth centenary on January 17, the state government said on Saturday.
A 45-year-old farmer tried to commit suicide by consuming pesticide at a bank in Narayanpur near here on Saturday after failing to withdraw money, as a cheque deposited by him had not been credited to his account.
The Rosetta spacecraft captured the final image of the comet 67P/Churyumov Gerasimenko shortly before crash-landing into the comet's surface, bringing an end to the probe's twelve year long journey.
Rupee was trading lower by 10 paise at 66.86 against the US dollar in early trade at the Interbank Foreign Exchange on Thursday.
These celebrations come at a time when the state is witnessing one of the toughest summers with soaring temperatures and a drought that has seen around 100 deaths.