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Environment

Never Home Alone – more than 5000 other species share your home

Rob Dunn, a 43-year-old American biologist visits a house in Copenhagen to hunt microbial life. He takes a look of Lars Eriksen’s house and makes him realise that he has...

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“Dance is an emotion, an expression of happiness,” Shiamak Davar

As the 9th edition of the much anticipated 5th Veda session unfolded at Whistling Woods International (WWI), a wave of joyous fervour and excitement filled the campus on ...

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Human Rights

Aid workers harassed, threatened and arrested in Iraq

A Human Rights Watch report revealed that aid workers in Iraq are being harassed and detained by members of the local authority in Nineveh province. It is also said that local...

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Nike’s ‘Dream Crazier’ ad celebrates women in sports

Serena Williams featuring in “Dream Crazier”, an ad celebrating women in sports got some high recognition and praise on social media. “When we stand for some...

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Festivals

Celebrations and festivities in February

February in India is all about enjoying and enriching its various cultural traditions at festivals in some of the best destinations across the country including the Taj M...

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Kaleidoscope

Blank Slate

Filmmaker and actress Gopi Desai steps on the stage after a long time, in a play that combines the fondness of Gujarati audiences for family dramas, with a story that talks of...

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Alternative Entertainment

Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew gets a gender-flip

Jo Clifford was asked to adapt The Taming of the Shrew, the play which she hated the most once. “I wasn’t ready to do it then,” she says at the beginnin...

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Health

Supermarkets ‘confuse’ consumers on healthy food choices

BBC Radio 5 Live Investigates has discovered that food products high in salt and saturated fats are being marketed as healthy by leading supermarkets. The Royal Society for Pu...

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Sustainable Development

Largest global groundwater depletion happening in northern India

New research has shown that Delhi is at the epicentre of ground water crisis. The Economic Times reports that largest groundwater depletion in the world is happening in northe...

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Hollywood

Set in rural India, ‘Period. End of Sentence’ wins Oscar 2019

The 91st Academy Awards ceremony that honoured the best films of 2018 was held on February 24, 2019, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, C...

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BIRDS IN THE DARK REVIEW

A luminous tale of souls in search of light. Saibal Chatterjee’s review explores S...

October 16 2026

FESTIVE LOVE TRAP: THE SECOND-CHANCE DILEMMA

Across India, a survey of previously married singles reveals how festive gatherings inte...

October 15 2026

DURGA PUJA: FAITH MEETS COMMERCIALISM

Monojit Lahiri examines how Durga Puja has evolved from an intimate religious celebratio...

October 14 2026