Learn to let your baby be

It's called "ferberizing". The Ferber method is a technique invented by Dr Richard Ferber to solve infant sleep problems. It involves "baby training" children by allowing a child to cry for sometime before offering comfort.

Know More: There is no fixed "ferberizing" time suggested; but in the Indian context, if you can ensure that your baby is otherwise safe, at least 15 minutes should be good to begin with - starting at 3 to 4 months. Remember, your watch starts ticking from the time he actually begins to cry, not from when you laid him down to sleep. And start early; don't delay beyond the 5th month!

What our columnist Dr Shelja Sen says: The practice needs to be thought through carefully by parents before it can be implemented for their children. It also calls for tremendous discipline and self control on the parents' part.

Mahindra Monsoon Challenge, Chasing the rain

Monsoon in India is a symphony — trees blossom, birds in their breeding plumage sing mating songs, life-giving rain cascade down the mountains as streams and waterfalls, filling many rivers and lakes. As the monsoon season begins, Mahindra is in a mood to tame it. After many Mahindra Monsoon Challenge rallies across India, stage is set for the biggest Monsoon Challenge that starts from Bangalore and heads to the party capital Goa.

We embark on the three-day TSD rally; watch this space for all the action along 1000 kilometres spread across highways, B-roads, scenic country side and the magnificent Western Ghats.

Following is a quick breakdown of Time-Speed-Distance rallies from Bijoy Kumar, veteran automobile journalist and Chief of Adventure Initiatives, Mahindra.

Travel Picks, Top 10 cities for street food

Eating on the street is a delicious celebration of culinary heritage, the world over

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Summer holidays are definitely on by now and wherever you go there will be street food. In many countries that doesn't mean a hot dog on a bun, but a delicious celebration of culinary heritage. In honour of those mouth-watering meals abroad, the members and editors of travel website VirtualTourist.com (www.virtualtourist.com) have compiled a list of the "Top Ten Best Street Food Cities." Reuters has not endorsed this list:

Airtel asks Google, Facebook to share revenues

Bharti Airtel wants leading internet companies like Google, Yahoo and Facebook to share revenues with telecom operators. India's largest telecom service provider believes that the telecom regulators should levy interconnection charges for data services; this charge is already levied for voice calls. 

Traffic from sites like Facebook, Twitter andGoogle is responsible for approximately 40% of the total data traffic for Airtel. 

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos in recruiting drive on website front page

Amazon.com Inc Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezoslaunched a recruiting drive on the front page of the company's website on Monday as the largest Internet retailer seeks staff for its vast and expanding network of warehouses. 

Bezos unveiled the Amazon Career Choice Program, which pays up to $8,000 over four years for employees to take technical and vocational courses in high-demand areas including engineering, information technology, transportation and accounting. Amazon's "full-time hourly associates" in the United States who have worked at the company for three years qualify for the program.