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The Crazy New Camera Tech That Made Planet Earth 2 Possible

PLENTY OF PEOPLE know that leopards wander the streets of Mumbai, but few people ever see them. The elusive cats hunt at night, shrouded by darkness and the din of the city. T...

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Climbers Prepare For Clean-Up Mission On Mount Everest

The government of Nepal and Everest expedition organisers have launched a clean-up operation at 21,000ft to remove rubbish left on the world’s highest peak after a serie...

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Superpower Dreams: On How India Must Respond To A Low HDI Rank

India’s rank of 131 among 188 countries on the UNDP’s Human Development Index for 2015 and its ‘medium’ performance pose the uncomfortable question: wo...

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Yuwa is hope

To be born a girl in Jharkhand, an Indian state about 700 miles southeast of New Delhi, often is to be sentenced to a life of poverty, illiteracy and violence. So when Franz G...

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New AI Algorithm Beats Even The World's Worst Traffic

The height of individual vs. collective irrationality has to be automobile traffic. We build roadways around the assumption that we as individual human actors will behave in w...

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'Sightings' Of Extinct Tasmanian Tiger Prompt Search In Queensland

“Plausible” possible sightings of a Tasmanian tiger in north Queensland have prompted scientists to undertake a search for the species thought to have died out mor...

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Cycling Cross-Country For Gender Neutrality

For 27-year-old Shruthi Shivashankaramurthy, there was more to life than being known as the daughter of a former vice-chancellor of Mangalore University, or earning a handsome...

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Five Reasons Why ‘National Health Policy 2017’ Is A Step In The Right Direction

As we analyse the Indian policy discourse, we find that healthcare financing and service delivery continues to stand out as an exception. Not only does it remain to be one of ...

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Women In India Need Better Access To Contraception: UN Study

Due to a lack of access to information or services, or a lack of support from partners or communities, an estimated 225 million women globally are not using safe and effective...

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The Journey Of NASA’s Smartest Satellite Finally Comes To An End

NASA’S HIGHLY EXPERIMENTAL Earth Observing-1 satellite mission was supposed to last just a year. It did that, and then survived 16 more—all the while testing NASA&...

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TOXIC REVIEW: AMBITION WITHOUT ARRIVAL

Dr Piyush Roy examines Toxic: A Fairy Tale for Grown-Ups, exploring Geetu Mohandas and Y...

September 12 2026

STUDENT CITY PART 2 EPISODE 4: HEARTS GAMES HOMECOMING

In Episode 4 of Part 2, Student City, Dr Piyush Roy explores desire, ambition, friendshi...

September 11 2026

BOLLYWOOD AWARDS REWARDS BOX OFFICE

Why do acclaimed performances rarely translate into commercial opportunity in Hindi cine...

September 10 2026