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WHO Outlines Ways To Prevent And Mitigate Childhood Hearing Loss

Nearly 32 million children across the world live with disabling hearing loss. A new WHO report, "Childhood hearing loss: act now, here’s how", suggests that 60% of this ...

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Sleep Is A Fundamental Human Right, India’s Supreme Court Rules

Their reasoning is that it comes under the right to life, as to be able to live people need access to peaceful sleep.Giving their judgement on Thursday, judges said ‘sle...

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The Rise Of The Social Entrepreneur

Recently, I wrote a column suggesting that, in the field of social change, we’re getting smarter. I went so far as to say that we may even be going through a new Enlight...

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Honeybees Suffer Learning Difficulties After Ingesting Tiny Quantities Of Pesticides, Study Finds

Honeybees can suffer from “severe” learning difficulties and memory problems after ingesting tiny quantities of a type of pesticide, new research indicates. Bees s...

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Calling A Solution To Closing The Gender Gap Is Literally In The Palm Of Your Hands

Women in certain countries are less likely than men to own a key tool for fighting gender inequality: smartphones. A recent studyby the Pew Research Center identified gender d...

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Calling It What It Is... Rape

It was my freshman year. A couple of friends and I were at a party with some upperclassmen at a duplex about two blocks east of campus. The alcohol was flowing for us that nig...

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Stanford-Led Study Underscores Huge Gap Between Rich, Poor In Global Surgery

The number of surgeries performed worldwide has grown steadily, particularly in the developing world, yet there remains an enormous gap in surgical care between rich and poor ...

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Fighting Modern-Day Witch Hunts In India’s Remote Northeast

More than 2,000 people accused of being witches have been killed in Indiaover the last 15 years in poor, remote areas of the northeast.The victims, nearly all of them women, h...

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Idea's Help No One On A Shelf, Take Them To The World

Have you thought of a clever product to mitigate climate change? Did you invent an ingenious gadget to light African villages at night? Have you come up with a new kind of sch...

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Wildlife Forest Department Clears Train Through City's National Park

The Mumbai Metropolitan Region is set to lose 58 hectares of forest land, including 10 hectares of the Sanjay Gandhi National Park, to Prime Minister NarendraModi's pet Delhi-...

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BOLLYWOOD FAME, FORGOTTEN STARS, CAUTIONARY TALES

Today Mumbai’s film actors have wised up to the fact that fame and fortune don&rsq...

February 3 2026

MARDAANI 3 RETURNS WITH GRIT AND LIMITS

In his review, critic Arnab Banerjee examines how Mardaani 3 revives Shivani Shivaji Roy...

February 2 2026

BOB DYLAN’S IMMIGRANT LAMENT STILL HAUNTS US

In this searing cultural meditation, Khalid Mohamed revisits Bob Dylan’s protest s...

February 1 2026