The study found that, on an average, employees spent 42 minutes of each work day sifting through unnecessary e-mails and waiting for responses to urgent e-mails. It also found that increasing amounts of junk e-mail has led to longer work days and bad work habits.
Cross-border advertising, among the few remaining means available to cigarette companies to advertise, without violating laws, is something the World Health Organisation has trained its sights on in its battle against tobacco.
PepsiCo India spokesperson said fake news suggesting Kurkure has plastic in it has affected the brand's reputation
'The biggest success of Andhadhun is that viewers are thinking and debating about it. I didn't expect it,' Sriram Raghavan tells Ronjita Kulkarni/Rediff.com.
The research by Naresh M Punjabi of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, has revealed that smokers are four times as likely as nonsmokers to report feeling tired after a nights sleep. The study, appearing in the February issue of CHEST, the reviewed journal of the American College of Chest Physicians, showed that smokers spend less time in deep sleep and more time in light sleep than non-smokers.
The main issue in combating smoking is quality tobacco cessation and counseling services. Without these, there is no way to effectively enforce these bans.
Young smokers, here's a heads-up on the risks of smoking! And we're not talking just serious concerns like heart attacks and cancer -- bad breath, yellow teeth and sagging skin are just a few of the other unpleasant side-effects!
The green panel said that innocent people drank and bathed in the river with reverence, without knowing that it may adversely affect their health.
Life insurers need applicants to abstain from tobacco for up to five years.
A 21-year-old Indian university student has been badly injured, after he was beaten up by a group of people, apparently in a racially motivated attack.
'If you want to be successful as an umpire, you've got to go through the umpiring mill,' says former international umpire V K Ramaswamy.
Plants like aloe vera, spider plant and neem act as the natural air filters.
The BSE Mid-Cap index was currently up 0.83%. The BSE Small-Cap index was currently up 0.8%.
True, you lose weight. But it muscle mass, and not fat, that you lose.
On the occasion of 'World No Tobacco Day', we invite readers to share their experiences and knowledge about the lethal habit. Who knows your advice may help somebody, somewhere quit smoking.
Researchers have carried out a study and found that e-mails have gone from being a useful office tool to a curse that actually takes up huge amounts of work time, The Daily Telegraph reported on Monday. According to the researchers, the average employee now spends an estimated 90 minutes to two hours a day wading through hundreds of messages, much of which is basically spam and junk mail. The study has found that worldwide e-mail traffic has hit 196 billion messages a day.
Pollution levels skyrocketed by the hour in Delhi on Sunday, turning the air quality hazardous, which agencies consider unfit for inhalation even by healthier people.
'People should know smoking is a huge killer and the cause of 10 per cent of all deaths in India. A male cigarette smoker will lose 10 years of his life compared to a non-smoker. A female beedi smoker will lose 8 years of life while a male beedi smoker will die about 6 years earlier,' says Dr Prabhat Jha, Director, Centre for Global Health Research, University of Toronto, and the principal investigator of the study on smoking and death in India.
Only luxury and 'sin' items could be left in highest slab. 12 and 18 per cent slabs could be merged in the future
Forty years on, ironically, the managerial attention to new businesses has meant almost 40 per cent of revenues now come from the non-tobacco business.
There are many good arguments that the Aam Aadmi Party's odd-even response is not the best solution. But we have to do something, because we care about our collective quality of life.
On Teacher's Day, the teaching fraternity pledged to uphold the ban across the state.
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The habit which is already a cause of 50 different diseases including lung cancer, heart disease and impotence can also turn men bald, a new research shows.
Arun Lal Das was tortured and castrated for refusing to pay rangdari tax.
Kristen Stewart, Julianne Moore and Lily Collins among others walked the runway for designer Karl Lagerfeld's autumn/winter Chanel couture show.
Two young men were beaten to death by a mob in Patna, police sources said on Sunday.
The rooms will be priced between Rs 1,000 and Rs 1,400, based on the location, and will provide a basic room and dining service, gym and a wi-fi connection.
Broader markets underperformed the benchmark indices with BSE Midcap and Smallcap indces slipping 0.8%-1.1%
'I don't touch alcohol, cigarettes and colas,' he reasons.
Chances are a terminal near you has that and other luxury goods for sale.
Dr Ramadoss also played down the controversy over AIIMS Director P Venugopal.
He also made it clear that he was not apologising to her on the orders issued by the TMC high command.
It is alleged that he and Mohammad Asif smoked cannabis during Pakistan's recent ODI series in England.
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The initiative, which is now across 12 locations, costs the company anywhere between Rs 3-5 lakh per location. The company refused to divulge expansion plans.
The government announced recently that all places of work in the country will be declared smoke free and those found flouting the law will be strictly punished. Tell us what do you think about it.
The ban was imposed at the insistence of Congress after a passenger, Richard Reed, tried to ignite a bomb in his shoe in 2001 on a flight from Paris to Miami.
Serrguey said that though this was an unpleasant incident, he did not wish to make a big issue out of it as he was fond of India and Indians.
