WHEN I was growing up our family phone - one of those old-fashioned landlines that barely anyone uses today - stood on the ...

It was within reaching distance of my dad’s carver chair which sat at the dining table, so if it rang during mealtimes ... allow their children to have mobile phones at the table when they ...

Mobile phones are “lethal weapons” in the hands of “addicted” children, teachers have warned. Staff are forced to deal with disruptive pupils who believe it is their “inalienable right” to use their ...

The great British family dinner – once the heart of household conversation – is now in sharp decline, according to new research.

Phones and other screens may be side-lining family conversations at dinner time, the researchers suggest, coupled with often ...

In Karwar, Ananth Kumar, a cab driver, encountered a woman who later hired him for a Bengaluru trip. She lured him to a hotel ...