5 tips to improve your communication skills

When people get nervous, they tend to talk faster, rush their sentences, or apologize for having an opinion. If you want to come across as calm and steady, just slow the pace down a notch. Speak at a measured tempo, finish your thoughts cleanly without trailing off, and own what you’re saying. If speaking up…

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‘Be good. Be kind. Help others’: Group captain Shubhanshu Shukla’s answer to a class 8 student is the life lesson every child needs

During a special segment on CNN-News18, Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, India’s trailblazing astronaut who flew to the International Space Station on the Axiom-4 mission, sat down to answer questions from young students across the country. Most questions were about rockets, science, and the mechanics of space travel. And then a Class 8 student named Vedansh…

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Clean Blocked Showerheads: Forget vinegar and baking soda! A simple and practical trick to clean blocked showerheads in the bathroom

Representative Image (Photo via Canva) If your shower has started spraying water in odd directions, or the pressure just isn’t what it used to be, the culprit is almost always sitting inside the nozzle itself.Over months and years, minerals, impurities, and dust particles accumulate and form a buildup inside the tiny holes of the showerhead,…

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Senna Spectabilis: In 1986, bright yellow-flowering Senna plants were brought to Wayanad as shade trees; today, it is among the worst invasive trees of tropical

Back in the 80s, Kerala’s forest department planted a few Senna spectabilis trees around a forest office and along roadsides in Wayanad, simply looking for something that would grow quickly and provide shade. The tree is native to tropical America and known for its bright, beautiful yellow blooms, and it seemed harmless enough at the…

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“My 3-year-old son had blood in his urine…”: When Emraan Hashmi recalled the most difficult phase of his life and how his son beat cancer after a 5 year battle

Emraan described it as a phase he still finds difficult to put into words. Emraan Hashmi may be enjoying the box-office success of his film Awarapan 2 today, but there was a time when nothing about his professional success mattered. In 2014, when his son Ayaan was just three years old, one outing changed the…

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