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What's Keeping Indian Women From Working

India has one of the largest populations of working people in the world, but a recent report has found that fewer women are now entering the workforce. Today, just one in five...

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Evolution: Traits That Are Good For Individuals, But Bad For Species

Evolution can select traits that are good for individuals, but bad for the species as a whole ANTAGONISM is built into the nature of sexual reproduction itself. Members of eac...

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World Milk Day: Interesting Facts And Health Benefits Of Milk

India is the world's largest producer of milk, and is the leading exporter of skimmed milk powder, yet she exports very few other milk product. New Zealand, the European Union...

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The Urban Farmers Battling Bangalore's Concrete Jungle

In Ramagondanahalli village, Muniraju Hanumanthappa bends over his clay-coloured soil surrounded by bright green spinach leaves. He quickly prunes the plants, dwarfed by the a...

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Helen Mirren On Why She Resisted Calling Herself A Feminist At First

Though Helen Mirren emphatically calls herself a feminist now, she admits she's resisted the term in the past. Making the commencement speech at Tulane University in New Orlea...

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The Sex Slaves Of Al-Shabab

When Salama Ali started investigating the disappearance of two younger brothers last year she made an awful discovery - not only were radicalised young Kenyan men leaving to j...

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Why Instagram Is The Worst Social Media For Mental Health

Instagram is the worst social media network for mental health and wellbeing, according to a recent survey of almost 1,500 teens and young adults. While the photo-based platfor...

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A Fish That Can Father A Near Clone Of Itself

Scientists have discovered a fish carrying genes only from its father in the nucleus of its cells. Found in a type of fish called Squalius alburnoides, which normally inhabits...

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Plants Can See, Hear And Smell - & Respond

Plants, according to Jack C Schultz, "are just very slow animals". This is not a misunderstanding of basic biology. Schultz is a professor in the Division of Plant Sciences at...

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Children Of Queer Parents Don't Have It Easy

For Megan McKnight, the natural first step after registering for classes at DePaul University in Chicago was to align herself with the school's queer community. McKnight was r...

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HEINER GOEBBELS’ ORACLE MACHINE MUMBAI

At Great Eastern Mills in Mumbai, German composer and artist Heiner Goebbels unveiled Th...

March 16 2026

PAGE MEETS SCREEN AT WIFF (LIT) MUMBAI

Where Stories Found Their Voice: WIFF LIT Opens Conversations Between Literature and Cin...

March 15 2026

FEARLESS NADIA’S HUNTERWALI FILM PHENOMENON

Film historian and Proffessor Piyush Roy revisits Hunterwali (1935), the groundbreaking ...

March 14 2026