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Big Data's Unexplored Frontier: Recorded Music

While still a vast field, a huge part of machine learning exists for what may seem to be a relatively narrow subset of problems. These are problems involving visual processing...

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Paris Mayor Unveils Plan ​To Restrict Traffic And Pedestrianise City Centre

The mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, has unveiled plans to restrict traffic in the French capital and pedestrianise the city centre in an attempt to halve the number of private c...

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How Tattoos Help Sexual Assault Survivors Reclaim Their Bodies

When Marti was 18 years old, she was raped by multiple men at a frat party. She was a virgin. "It happened in the beginning of my first semester freshman year," she recalls. "...

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Health-Care Data Is Ailing

Data pertaining to health care in India, evidence shows, is significantly compromised in terms of its quality, its periodicity and coverage. In addition, “there is a vis...

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Playschools Will Have To Play By The Rules: Panel

Panaji: The education division of the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has framed guidelines to regulate private playschools for children in the age ...

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One Of The World’s Strongest Materials Looks Like A Chunk Of Coral

 Hydraulic presses aren’t just for smashing Legos and Barbies and making fake teeth explode. They’re also for real science—although, exploding objects a...

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Beijing Creates Anti-Smog Police To Tackle Air Polluters

Beijing will create an environmental police force aimed at tackling deadly smog, after the Chinese capital spent the first week of 2017 mostly shrouded in a thick haze of poll...

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Saathi: Healthcare Startup Makes Biodegradable Pads From Banana Fibre

Saathi - - an Ahmedabad-based startup founded by three Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduates -- Amrita Saigal, Grace Kane and Kristin Kagetsu, has developed a biodeg...

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Government School Kid Get A Guide On Healthy Living

To inculcate healthy habits among school-going children, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has launched a booklet, titled 'Healthy Children, Healthy India'. Two lakh c...

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In 2016, Hindi Literature Became The Voice Of the Marginalised

Who reads Hindi literature these days? And who writes it? For a language rightly claiming to be spoken by more than 400 million people, such questions seem astonishing. But th...

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BOLLYWOOD: HAQ AND THE PRICE OF A WOMAN’S VOICE

In 1978, Shah Bano, an elderly Muslim woman from Indore, filed a petition seeking mainte...

November 9 2025

FESTIVALS: THE POWER OF CREATIVE PARTNERSHIPS

At WIFF Mumbai 2025, a dynamic masterclass in collaboration with the Indo-Canadian Busin...

November 8 2025

FESTIVALS: PRITHVI FESTIVAL 2025 IGNITES MUMBAI

From powerful new plays and musical symphonies to dance, dastangoi, workshops, and globa...

November 7 2025