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How Often Should You Wash Your Makeup Brushes? The Hygiene Truth

What Builds Up on an Unwashed BrushMakeup brushes are warm, porous, and pressed against skin daily. Within 48 hours of first use, the bristle base, the dense area near the ferrule where product compacts, begins collecting dead skin cells, sebum, and residual pigment. By the end of the first week,…

Times Life · 13h ago

Bastar Dussehra Runs 75 Days: Which Week to Actually Travel For

Not the Dussehra You Think You KnowBastar Dussehra shares a name with the north Indian festival and almost nothing else. Ravana does not burn here. The central figure is Danteshwari, the presiding deity of the Bastar kingdom, and the festival is a state occasion of the former Bastar royal house…

Times Life · 14h ago

Chennai on red alert as northeast monsoon brings heavy rain; rescue teams deployed

Chennai has been placed under a red alert due to forecasts of extremely heavy rainfall expected soon. Surrounding districts such as Kancheepuram and Coimbatore also received an orange alert for heavy rainfall. The Greater Chennai Corporation has undertaken proactive measures to manage the situation effectively. Relief centres have been established,…

The Economic Times · Oct 18

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How the Red-Eared Slider Became India's Most Damaging Invasive Turtle

A Pet Shop Animal With a Predator's AppetiteThe red-eared slider, Trachemys scripta elegans, is native to the Mississippi River basin in the United States. It gets its name from the vivid red stripe behind each eye. In a tank, it is docile, long-lived, and cheap. In the wild, it is…

Times Life · Oct 18

Why Vijayadashami Is When Indian Families Finally Say the Thing

The announcement that was already decidedThe decision was made in June. Maybe July. You knew it, and somewhere in the architecture of shared meals and careful topic changes, they knew it too. But knowing and saying are different countries, and Indian families are practiced at living in the border zone…

Times Life · Oct 18

Tranquebar, Pulicat and Sadras: A Coastal Drive Through the Coromandel's European Past

Why the Coromandel Coast Reads Differently from the SouthMost people drive the East Coast Road south from Chennai toward Mahabalipuram and stop there. The older story runs north and south of that corridor, in towns so small they appear on maps only as dots. Tranquebar, Pulicat and Sadras each belonged…

Times Life · Oct 18

What Ravana Effigy Smoke Does to the Air You Breathe in October

The air in October is already under pressureBy mid-October, the air over most north Indian cities is caught between two seasons. The monsoon's cleaning effect is gone. Cold air has not yet arrived to flush pollutants upward. What stays near the ground is a thickening mix of vehicle exhaust, construction…

Times Life · Oct 18

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Tamil Nadu weather update: Heavy rain lashes Chennai, Karaikal; are schools and colleges closed today due to rain?

Tamil Nadu weather today: Tamil Nadu is likely to see continued rainfall on October 17 as the northeast monsoon remains active. IMD has forecast moderate rain with occasional heavy spells in Chennai and warned of heavy to very heavy rain in several districts. Here is the latest weather forecast, key…

The Economic Times · Oct 17

What Working Ports Reveal: Kochi, Mormugao and Paradip for Travellers

Why a Working Port Stops You in Your WayA container ship docking at Kochi's Willingdon Island does not wait for you to frame the shot. The crane swings, the stevedores move, and the scale of the thing, a vessel longer than three football fields nudged by two tugs the size…

Times Life · Oct 17

7 Migraine Triggers Specific to Indian Diets and Weather

Why Indian Triggers Get OverlookedMigraine research has historically been conducted in temperate climates on Western diets. The result is a standard trigger list, red wine, aged cheese, cold cuts, that describes almost nothing on an average Indian plate. Yet India carries one of the highest migraine burdens in Asia, with…

Times Life · Oct 17

Kharge flags 64-day delay in proroguing Parliament, seeks all-party meet on delimitation

Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge criticized Prime Minister Modi for delaying the prorogation of Parliament's Monsoon Session. He emphasized the necessity of holding an all-party meeting to discuss new delimitation proposals. Kharge highlighted previous attempts to push Constitutional Amendment Bills without adequate discussion, which had failed to gain majority support. He…

The Economic Times · Oct 16

India's Legless Amphibians Live Entirely Underground and Go Unnoticed

What a Caecilian Actually IsCaecilians are the third order of amphibians, sitting alongside frogs and salamanders in the class Amphibia. They have no limbs, no visible ears, and eyes so reduced that in many species they sit beneath a thin layer of skin, functional enough to detect light but useless…

Times Life · Oct 16

Sivasagar and the Ahom Monuments: Six Centuries of Assam History Near the Tea Belt

What the Ahoms Built and Why It LastedThe Ahom kingdom did not fall to the Mughals. That fact alone is worth the journey to Sivasagar. From 1228 to 1826, a dynasty that arrived from present-day Myanmar held the Brahmaputra valley through six centuries of war, flood, and internal fracture, and…

Times Life · Oct 16

Mechuka, Arunachal Pradesh: Days, Permits and Patience It Demands

The Permit Stack You Need Before You Book AnythingMechuka requires two separate documents, and neither can substitute for the other. The Inner Line Permit, or ILP, is mandatory for any non-Arunachali Indian citizen entering the state. It is issued online through the Arunachal Pradesh government portal or at designated offices…

Times Life · Oct 16

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Times Life · Oct 16

Bathukamma: The Telangana Festival Where Flowers Become a Goddess

A Goddess You Build With Your Own HandsBathukamma begins not in a temple but in a field. The flowers used, tangedu, gunugu, banti, celosia, cucumber flowers, are not cultivated for the occasion. They grow wild after the monsoon, in the margins of tanks and along bund walls, and the women…

Times Life · Oct 15

How Monsoon Timing Decides Whether Indian Frogs Breed That Year

The trigger is not warmth, it is water hitting dry groundThe Indian Bullfrog, Hoplobatrachus tigerinus, can spend months in a state of reduced activity underground, waiting. What ends that wait is not a rise in temperature, the pre-monsoon heat in May is already extreme, but the specific sensory signal of…

The Economic Times · Oct 15

Andhra Pradesh, Telangana weather today: Check IMD alerts, heavy rain warning and latest forecast

Andhra Pradesh and Telangana are forecast to receive rain over the next five days as the northeast monsoon and a surface circulation influence weather conditions. The IMD has warned of isolated heavy rain, lightning and winds reaching 60 kmph in parts of Andhra Pradesh, while Telangana has issued yellow alerts…

Times Life · Oct 15

Tinchuley and Takdah: Darjeeling's Ridge Villages Worth the Climb

Why the Ridge Villages Exist Above the Tourist TownDarjeeling's fame compressed everything onto one ridge and one road. The mall, the toy train platform, the viewpoint at Tiger Hill, all of it stacks within a few kilometres, and in peak season that compression shows. Tinchuley and Takdah were never resort…

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Times Life · Oct 15

Dooars in Cool Season: Gorumara, Jaldapara and the Tea Road Between

Why the Cool Months Change EverythingThe Dooars in October is a different country from the Dooars in July. The monsoon has just released it. The Jalpaiguri district's floodplains are still wet enough to hold animals at the edge of the grass, but the roads are passable and the leeches are…

Times Life · Oct 15

Why South Indian Temples Ran Schools and Grain Reserves

The Temple as an Economic NodeThe Brihadeeswarar temple at Thanjavur, consecrated in 1010 CE under Raja Raja Chola I, employed over four hundred people in its first decades of operation. Priests, dancers, musicians, accountants, watchmen, cooks, the payroll survives in stone inscriptions along the temple walls, written in Tamil so…

Euronews · Oct 14

Major artworks by masters on sale as Monsoon's Peter Simon clears out collection

Assembled over decades, the art owned by Peter Simon, founder of the Monsoon fashion store, is one of Britain's foremost collections of modern and contemporary art.

Times Life · Oct 14

Why Frogs Are Vanishing From the Western Ghats and What Chytrid Fungus Is Doing to Them

A Biodiversity Hotspot Built on AmphibiansThe Western Ghats run for roughly 1,600 kilometres along India's western edge and hold more frog species per square kilometre than almost any other forest system on Earth. Of the approximately 180 amphibian species recorded there, around 65 percent exist nowhere else. Frogs are not…

Times Life · Oct 14

Why Garba Is Danced in a Circle Around a Lamp

The Lamp at the Centre Is Not DecorationThe clay pot placed at the heart of the Garba circle is called the Garbha Deep, the womb lamp. A flame burns inside it, visible through small perforations in the clay. The pot is not a stage prop. It is the deity. In…

The Economic Times · Oct 14

Super El Nino: What the potential arrival of a stronger 'little boy' means for India’s water, power, health, winter and summer?

India is projected to experience a warmer and drier start to winter as a super El Niño develops. A weak monsoon has led to concerns over water availability and crop health across the country. The World Meteorological Organization anticipates significant temperature increases and shifts in rainfall patterns. This unusual weather…

MyLifeXP · Oct 13

Why Shiva Has Shivratri and Devi Has Navratri: The Truth

Why do some of Hinduism's most important spiritual observances happen at night? Shivratri honours Lord Shiva, while Navratri dedicates nine nights to the worship of Goddess Durga and her forms. Night may seem like a time for darkness and sleep, but many spiritual traditions treat it as an opportunity for…

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