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Topic: Addiction

Have you tried keeping your phone in your bag instead of your pocket?

‘Digital detox’ has picked up in the healthcare business in a big way. But you don’t really need it.

Discussing mental health during Covid isn’t just for woke Instagrammers, it’s for everyone

Research shows nearly 61 per cent Indians are experiencing mental-health related issues due to the lockdown and Covid crisis.

Netflix, gaming and porn addicts falling back into old habits, NIMHANS doctors are worried

Dr Manoj Sharma, chief clinical psychologist at NIMHANS' tech de-addiction centre, says addiction levels have gone up by 30%.

PUBG players arrested: Overreaction by police or is addiction a public concern?

The Gujarat police arrested several PUBG lovers, many of them students, for playing the banned video game.

Deep breaths and counselling: How doctors are treating India’s ‘first Netflix addict’

A 23-year-old was recently admitted at NIMHANS, Bengaluru, after he let his Netflix viewing take precedence over everything else in his life.

Does watching porn make us better lovers or shrink our brain?

Pornography viewership has sky-rocketed and is slowly distorting our experiences of intimacy without us even knowing it.

On Camera

Russian-style socialism dominated Nehru’s imagination. It was disastrous

It is necessary to break the spell of socialist dogma on the imagination of those attracted by its Utopia as the only scientific way of progress, wrote MA Venkatarao in 1963.

What’s behind bond yields’ logic-defying spike? The market’s concern over the future

While bond yields tend to fall amid low inflation & interest rate cuts, market experts say they’ve been rising due to concerns over tax collections, fiscal deficit & potential impact of US tariffs.

Navy gets first Tata-made Spanish 3D surveillance radar for its warships, 19 more to come

It is one of the most advanced long-range air defence and anti-missile radars. It has been acquired under an about USD 145-million deal signed in 2020.

Gen Zs have taken down the Nepal regime. Here’s why this will never happen in India

To be truly functional and durable, even eternal, a state doesn’t just need a leader, a party or an ideology. It needs functional and robust institutions.