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Human Rights

Culture Of Silence Around Disability Influences Bad Policy

Disability in India has long been misunderstood and persons with disability in India for decades now have lived on the fringes of society – excluded, marginalised and di...

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Sustainable Development

A Health App's AI Took On Human Doctors To Triage Patients

Two decades on from artificial intelligencebeating chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov, AI is proving it can do some conventionally human jobs. One UK-based health app now hopes ...

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Environment

A Desperate Attempt To Save The World's Smallest Porpoise Could End Up Killing It Off

The last hope for helping the vaquita porpoise dodge extinction could be a project to capture some of the few that remain and breed them in semi-captivity, according to a grou...

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Gender

Jodie Foster On The Advancement Of Women In Hollywood, But It's Not All Good News

Sexism is an issue that still cuts through the film industry. It's something that is slowly changing, but not in all areas of Hollywood according to actor turned director, Jod...

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Health

Know About Vaccines To Prevent Infections: Dr Hari Kishan Boorugu

Dr Hari Kishan Boorugu, Senior Consultant Physician, Apollo Hospital, Hyderguda, delivered the 248th Public Garden Walkers' Association (PGWA) monthly Health Lecture, on &lsqu...

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Human Rights

Dispatches: Five of the Worst Places for Children

In some countries already devastated by war, the situation for children is only getting worse. A new UN report makes for grim reading, with one shattering statistic after anot...

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Sustainable Development

American Scientists Want To Manufacture Synthetic Human Genomes

It’s only been 13 years since scientists at National Human Genome Research Institute finished sequencing the human genome, but now another group of American scientists a...

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Environment

Renewable Energy Smashes Global Records In 2015, Report Shows

An upsurge in new wind, solar and hydro plants and capacity saw renewable energy smash global records last year, according to a report on new supply.Some 147 Gigawatts of rene...

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Gender

This Week In Women's Sports: WSF Studies Gender Bias In College Sports, USWNT Loses In Court

This week the Women’s Sports Foundation (WSF) released the report, “Beyond X’s & O’s: Gender Bias and Coaches of Women’s College Sports,&rdqu...

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Health

Stem Cell Injections To The Brain Could Help Stroke Patients Regain Mobility

When researchers at Stanford University injected stem cells into the brains of stroke victims for a recent study, they were surprised to see that some patients regained mobili...

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ALTERNATIVE ENTERTAINMENT: GHATAK, JUNG, BRECHT & PARTITION

In this profound essay, writer and filmmaker Sharad Raj explores how Ritwik Ghatak merge...

November 12 2025

POWERFUL PEOPLE: JUST DO IT

In a conversation, Khalid Mohamed draws out the eventful life and film adventures of wri...

November 11 2025

TV: A JOURNEY THROUGH GOD’S OWN COUNTRY

Part 2 of Surabhi Diaries by filmmaker Suhail Tatari continues his vivid recollections f...

November 10 2025