Same-gotra marriages give birth to 'hijras': Khap leader

Hijras (eunuchs) are born when couples from the same gotra get married. This shocking statement came from some angry khap leaders when a scientist tried to tell them that g...

Sustainable Development Goals: Where do Gender Equality and Women’s Rights Stand?

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Friday File: The eighth session of the Open Working Group on Sust...

Pakistani polio strain threatens global campaign

Pakistan — Just a few weeks ago, 11-month-old Shaista was pulling herself up, giggling as she took her first wobbly steps with the helping hand of her teenage mother....

3 Screens and The Missing 4th “R”

Screens surround us, and our children.

First of all there is the big screen, with its larger than life images, with its tinsel moorings, colors and the celebrities ...

Jonny Lee Miller Gives Rare Disease Patients A Voice On Capitol Hill

Jonny Lee Miller, who stars as Sherlock Holmes in the CBS hit TV show Elementary, is headed to Capitol Hill today – Thursday, February 27 – to speak at the Rare...

Neha Dhupia's Texas sojourn

Neha Dhupia was in Texas recently for the South Asian Chamber of Commerce. The Board of Directors had invited Neha Dhupia to the SACC ’20th Anniversary Gala – F...

Breastfeeding may boost IQ in babies

Children who are breastfed score higher on IQ tests and perform better in school, scientists say.

A new study by sociologists at Brigham Young University pinpoints ...

Climate change linked to Indus civilization decline 4,100 years ago

A new study has suggested that climate change may have contributed to the decline of a city-dwelling civilization in Pakistan and India 4,100 years ago.

Scientists ...

One Drop & Water For People Join Forces To Develop Sustainable Programming To End Water & Sanitation Poverty

Today ONE DROP and Water For People announced a strategic partnership to help solve one of the most pressing and urgent social and economic challenges humanity faces &ndash...