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International Day of Light 2024: 5 ways home lighting impacts your everyday life
Lifestyle | May 16, 2024, 07:32 AM ISTOn International Day of Light, we recognize light's essential role in our world. Beyond brightening our streets, light profoundly impacts our lives at home, influencing our mood, energy, productivity, and sleep.
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What is light therapy? 5 ways it benefits us
Health | Apr 05, 2024, 09:30 AM ISTLight therapy, also known as phototherapy, uses artificial light sources to mimic natural sunlight. These devices, typically light boxes or lamps, emit specific wavelengths of light that penetrate the skin and influence various bodily functions.
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Chilled Cucumber Soup to Grilled Fish Tacos: 5 summer-special recipes that are light on stomach
Food | Apr 01, 2024, 10:28 AM ISTDiscover five delightful summer recipes designed to refresh and satisfy, offering a light and gentle culinary experience for your palate. From vibrant salads to chilled soups, these dishes are perfect for keeping cool while enjoying delicious flavours.
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Sleeping with light on? Research says this habit is a health hazard
Health | Apr 03, 2022, 08:57 PM ISTMany of us who have the habit of sleeping with the lights turned on need to get rid of it. Research has found out that even dim light can harm cardiovascular function during sleep and increase insulin resistance the following morning.
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On 'Kashi Vishwanath corridor' launch day, UP to decked up like Diwali
India | Dec 05, 2021, 02:05 PM ISTThe planners will celebrate the festival of 'Deepotsav' on the lines of 'Grand Kashi, Divya Kashi' in whole of Uttar Pradesh.
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Scientists find a way to levitate objects with light
Mar 20, 2019, 10:58 AM ISTIn theory, this spacecraft could be patterned with nanoscale structures and accelerated by an Earth-based laser light. Without needing to carry fuel, the spacecraft could reach very high, even relativistic speeds and possibly travel to other stars.
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Spending half an hour in this light helps in faster decision making, claims study
Lifestyle | Jun 14, 2016, 10:21 AM ISTWashington: If you wish to make any critical decisions faster than spending about 30 minutes in blue light will be of great help, a new study has claimed. You can make also make difficult decisions
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New technology may improve light-based cancer treatment
May 16, 2014, 11:43 PM ISTNew York: Researchers have developed a new technology that could bring photodynamic therapy (PDT), which uses lasers to activate special drugs to treat easily accessible tumours such as oral and skin cancer, into areas of
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Wireless speaker with light sensors, microphone
Apr 22, 2014, 11:50 PM ISTLondon: Move over run-of-the-mill speakers. A Germany-based company has created a clever wireless speaker that has an accelerometer, light sensors and microphones that is going to change the way people look at sound.Named Boom Boom,
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Light and sound show on Guru Teg Bahadur inaugurated
India | Sep 30, 2013, 06:57 AM ISTNew Delhi: A sound and light show that gives an insight into the life of the ninth Guru of the Sikhs Guru Teg Bahadur Saheb was yesterday launched here. The show is based on “Panchatatva”
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Narrow escape for passengers as flight hits runway lights in Bangalore
India | Sep 12, 2013, 11:45 PM ISTBangalore: Over 100 people on board an Indigo flight from Delhi had a miraculous escape when the aircraft landed here at Bengaluru International Airport amidst heavy rain and hit the runway lights, deflating its tyres.
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Argentina-Brazil friendly cancelled as lights fail
Football | Oct 04, 2012, 11:12 AM ISTResistencia, Argentina, Oct 4: An Argentina-Brazil friendly was called off on Wednesday after some of the floodlights at the stadium failed to work.Organizers waited more than an hour before calling off the match, frustrating thousands
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London's Olympic Orbit Towers Gets Decked In Light
Other Sports | Apr 18, 2012, 07:18 PM ISTLondon, Apr 18: Watch out, Eiffel Tower. Lights are coming to London's Orbit.London's Legacy Development Corporation says the AcelorMittal Orbit tower, which looks like a squashed roller coaster next to Olympic Stadium -- will be
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Tibetan Sets Himself On Fire In Delhi, Hospitalized With Severe Burns
India | Mar 26, 2012, 05:02 PM ISTNew Delhi, Mar 26: A Tibetan exile lit himself on fire at a demonstration Monday in the Indian capital ahead of a visit by China's president, the latest in a dramatic string of often deadly
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Keeping Light On While Sleeping Can Induce Obesity
India | Oct 18, 2010, 03:32 PM ISTThe blame for rising obesity rates has been pinned on many things, including a more calorific diet, the spread of processed food, a lack of exercise and modern man's generally more stressful lot. Something else