A deadly mix of speeding, reckless driving, and poor enforcement has turned Hyderabad’s streets into death traps after dusk.

The official data is chilling — 960 lives were lost in overnight crashes last year, making up nearly half of all road accident deaths in 2024. This alarming trend underscores the urgent need for stronger night-time safety measures.

Tips To drive safely at night –
Check your vehicle
Adjust your speed
Maintain a safe distance
Use high beams wisely
Stay alert
Reduce distractions
Take breaks
Drive defensively
Use fog lights

Signal is one of a number of relatively simple tools that can be used to help keep conversations secure.Signal is designed to never collect or store any sensitive information. Signal messages and calls cannot be accessed by Signal or other third parties because they are always end-to-end encrypted, private, and secure.

There are a number of tech platforms that advertise encryption services for privacy — including iMessage and WhatsApp — but data security experts largely agree that Signal is the gold standard.

Signal looks like a regular messaging app for texting and making phone calls. But it’s owned by a non-profit, not a private company, and the app is end-to-end encrypted by default. That means that the content of a conversation is scrambled when it’s traveling between the sender and receiver, so no one except the parties to the conversation can see it.

“If you show up with a warrant or a subpoena (to Signal), they have almost nothing about you that they can hand over,” said Eva Galperin, director of cybersecurity at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. On non-encrypted messaging apps, an employer or law enforcement could potentially force a platform to hand over a user’s conversations via subpoena.

End-to-end encryption itself isn’t unique among messaging apps, but certain apps that offer encryption, like WhatsApp, may still have access to non-encrypted contacts and other accounts you’ve messaged, whereas Signal’s builders can’t see that information, according to Gillmor.

And whether you use Signal or WhatsApp, experts advise turning on the “disappearing messages” feature that allows users to auto-delete conversations after a set period of time — hours, or days, depending on what a user selects — so that the conversations might not be accessible even if someone else got their hands on a user’s phone.

Working harder is not enough to get a raise or promotion. That tactic might have worked years ago, but in today’s workplace, working hard, having a degree, or even graduating from a certain pedigree of school, doesn’t make much of a difference anymore. It’s the professionals who master in-demand skills and position themselves strategically who become irreplaceable in their industries.

However, there are professionals who win in their careers and are consistently moving up the ladder regardless of the employer they work for, because they learn high-income skills that make them stand out and attract the attention of other employers and even potential clients at a freelance level.

These skills enable you to multiply your salaries, and these are the same skills that you can easily learn and apply to your role/career too:

1. AI Skills
Understanding generative AI, AI agents, and AI basics within the context of your role is one of the most important skills you can master in 2025. AI is so crucial to business success that employers are willing to pay a nearly 50% premium for workers who have AI skills.

2. Social Influence
Another important skill for you to learn so you can multiply your salary is social influence.

If you were to quickly browse your name on Google, what does your digital footprint say about you? How does your personal brand portray you as a leader or industry expert on your social media platforms?

Building authority within your industry through your LinkedIn profile, content creation, public speaking engagements, guest blogging, and your website or blog can attract high paying opportunities because people will start to view you as the go-to industry expert.

3. Analytical Thinking Skills

Analytical thinking enables you to make data-driven decisions in your role at work, and in your business if you’re a freelancer or entrepreneur, which ensures you’re formulating strategies based on actual facts instead of guesswork because you’re able to read the room. This increases your chances of financial success through increased revenue.

Critical thinking helps you uncover gaps in productivity, silos that might be limiting business growth, and any inefficient practices, reasoning from cause to effect.