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Friday, April 3, 2026
TopicScreen time

Topic: Screen time

Indian parents should worry about children’s screen time during board exams, new data shows

The study by the recently launched Child Online Protection app is based on responses collected from 5,000 families in Tier-1 and Tier-2 cities of India.

What are Indians watching? More screens, less equality, says study

Indians are watching more frequently but in shorter, more distracted bursts.

Doughnuts, alcohol, falling in love—how dopamine drives us to pursue pleasure

Dopamine is most known for its role in short-term pleasure. But it also assists with learning, maintaining focus and attention, and helps us store memories.

Blue light from phones is bad for your skin. Limit screen time, add antioxidants to skincare

Many of my patients with skin-related issues spend up to 12 hours in front of various screens. It can lead to skin irritation and inflammation and other issues.

Is your phone affecting your productivity? Here are 7 ways to carve a healthy relationship

We often retreat into the digital world to escape stresses of the physical world, but can end up collecting other kinds of stress.

YouTube’s ChuChu TV is the new playschool for Indian kids. Parents are relieved

ChuChu TV’s generalised content doesn’t cater solely to Indians. It has a network of 12 channels, with languages ranging from English to Tamil to French.

‘Screen time’ for kids is outdated. It’s time to focus on quality instead

Measuring quantity, not the quality, of what children watch is outdated. We need to look at what kids are watching and how they are watching it.

The eyes have it — worst. Work from home and increased screen time is ruining our vision

WFH has been bad news for necks and backs as well as our eyes. It now seems to be only a matter of time before most of our body parts give up and go on a strike.

Screen size is the new generational divide

Younger people today are comfortable with a small screen, older people are not. But as technology enables great gains, a sense of magnificence is being lost.

Children spending more time staring at TV, phone, iPad screens could be at risk

More screen time means a higher likelihood of your child developing obesity, low physical fitness, anxiety and depression.

On Camera

I was an Indian student in Melbourne and this is the daily racism I faced

I spent a year as an international student in Melbourne and experienced racism first-hand, which made me second-guess and shrink parts of myself just to go about everyday life.

Tanker with 600,000 barrels of Iranian crude shifts course from India to China midway

The shipment earlier bound for Gujarat’s Vadinar has changed course amid payment concerns; could still reach India if issues are resolved, according to Kpler.

India commissions its third nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine—INS Aridhaman

INS Arihant was first vessel under SSBN project and was quietly commissioned in 2016. The second indigenous SSBN, INS Arighat, was commissioned in August 2024.

Gulf war exposed India’s fragilities. It’s time for navel-gazing, in the national interest

It’s easy to understand why the government can’t speak the hard truth. When this war ends, as all wars do, India’s interests will lie with both the winner and the loser.