Employees with excessive job demands can be as distressed as someone who is jobless, says a new comparative study.

People suffering from major depression or chronic stress suffer loss of brain volume, a condition that contributes to both emotional and cognitive impairment. Now a team of researchers led by Yale scientists has discovered the cause behind this condition— a single genetic switch that triggers loss of brain connections in humans and depression in animal models.

Don’t be so surprised if you see a 40 years old guy in a diaper and having feeder in his mouth on foreign streets as adult babies are becoming a rage amongst overseas’ adults to find a new way of relaxing themselves.  Adult babies are happy to be pampered; they love to live like adults.

As many as 440 shiksha karmis (contract teachers) who are striking work for redressal of their demands, were terminated from service by Chhattisgarh government on Tuesday.

Job generation during 2012 saw a 21 percent decline across various sectors of the economy between January and mid-December, according to an ASSOCHAM analysis.

The global economy may be in a better shape after its worst-ever crisis but it is no time to relax, and governments as well as business leaders must persist with job creation, income and gender diversification as also to meet aspirations of the youth to keep up the growth momentum.

Florists and gardeners are the happiest workers, while bankers stand out as the least content, a new study has found. According to the UK survey, greater job satisfaction is down to workers having more flexibility and control over their daily routine.

President Barack Obama will go ahead with his nomination of General John Allen to command NATO after he was cleared in a saga related to the sex scandal that felled CIA director David Petraeus, officials said.

Centeredbeing, a technique that has been adapted from yoga and Pilates, is a mindful movement system designed to fight sedentary behaviour and stress, it has been revealed.

Stress is increasing in everyday life due to multiple social and economic factors but an expert assures a remedy through ZeNLP - the science of creating structured change in behaviour using simple "tribal meditation" techniques like clapping or chanting. Internationally acclaimed ZeNLP trainer Murli Menon, a stress management guru, believes economic stress is increasing due to price rise while people also suffer from physical, mental and spiritual stress.