Authors Atwood and Evaristo jointly win Booker Prize

Authors Atwood and Evaristo jointly win Booker Prize Wed 16 October 2019: Margaret Atwood’s “The Testaments” and Bernardine Evaristo’s “Girl, Woman, Other” jointly won the Booker Prize in London on Monday, in a surprise announcement by the judges of the major literary prize. “Neither of us expected to win this,” Atwood said in her acceptance […]

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Suicides kill more people than natural calamities, WHO report

Mon 14 October 2019: Mental health disorders affect 20% of working population, will cost global economy $16 trillion by 2030 Suicides due to mental disorders take more lives every year than terrorism or natural calamities. According to a World Health Organization (WHO) report, nearly 800,000 people commit suicide every year due to psychological reasons. On […]

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Are You Nomophobic? Danger of Nomophobia is growing, says expert

Mon 14 October 2019: ‘Turning off notifications to slightly reduce our curiosity for posts posted on social media’, says social media expert Children are spending an exorbitant amount of time glued to their electronics, increasing the danger of nomophobia. A study found that 66% of people in the Europe have nomophobia, that people cannot escape […]

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