At the seventh meeting of the 58th Session of UN Human Rights Council, India said that Pakistan was a failed state surviving on international handouts. Kshitij Tyagi, Permanent Mission of India to ...

Alongside other targeted support measures like U-Save rebates and climate vouchers, this is a deliberate policy choice to focus on directing aid rather than providing broad-based cash handouts.

A new tourism tax is set to come into force in Thailand. Travellers will be charged 300 baht or S$11.80. Thailand is not the first country to impose this tax. Bali has imposed something similar ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Singapore’s Prime Minister Lawrence Wong has promised a package of cash handouts in his final budget ...

1 Today I’d like to add another one to the list: mindfulness. Practicing mindfulness offers numerous benefits and helps foster a deeper understanding, which can be summarized by the following ...

Since mindfulness is something you can practice at home for free, it often sounds like the perfect tonic for stress and mental health issues. Mindfulness is a type of Buddhist-based meditation in ...

Mindfulness might be defined as awareness, presence, consciousness, or mindful awareness—they all refer to the same thing. It is the knowing or witnessing self that observes our experiences.

Objective: Mindfulness-based interventions are increasingly used in health, economic and educational systems. There are numerous studies demonstrating the effectiveness of mindfulness-based ...

A 2019 systematic review of 13 studies involving 753 adults found that mindfulness-based interventions, including meditation, reduced ADHD-associated behaviors. A small 2020 study of 25 children ...