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Beyond The Hype: This Is The Tech We Expect To Lay Hands On In 2016

CES, the huge annual consumer electronics show in Vegas, acts as something of a starter pistol for the year in tech. Somewhere beneath the relentless PR of the CES hype machin...

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Sisva In Gujarat Has An All Women Panchayat: They Are Delivering Results What Generations Have Failed

Sisva in Gujarat has an all women panchayat, led by 26 year old Hinal Patel. These girls are not only breaking stereotypes, but delivering results.  In a country, where w...

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Nigerian Woman Develops App To Reduce Mortality Rate In Africa

Miss Kesandu Nwokolo, a young Nigerian, has developed a mobile phone application to help reduce infant and maternal mortality in Africa. In a statement obtained by the News Ag...

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Air Pollution Is Causing Iran To Cancel Soccer Games And Keep Kids Home From School

Tehran's air quality index hovered around 159 on Wednesday ? which is more than three times the World Health Organization's advised maximum of between 0 and 50. Iranian media ...

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SpaceX's Vertically Landed Rocket In Shape to Fly Again

On New Year?s Eve, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk tweeted a tantalizing bit of news in the wake of the company?s historical vertical landing: not only did the company pull off the verti...

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A Kabaddi Tournament Helps Break Gender Barriers

For many of the families of Shivaji Nagar, even the idea of girls entering the playground without an accompanying male family member was alien. When Sabiya Sheikh tried to get...

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Spending On Child Healthcare Soars, But 40 Mn Children Stunted

Here are some health statistics for Indian children five years or younger: 38.7% are stunted (below normal height for the age), 19.8% are wasted (underweight and short) and 42...

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There's A Heat Wave Going On In The North Pole ? And That's Not Good News

Temperatures at the North Pole may not have topped the freezing mark ? there are mixed reports from different weather buoys ? but it was an unseasonably warm Wednesday at the ...

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Brain Implant That Could Reanimate Paralyzed Limbs Secures $16M In Funding

The National Science Foundation recently awarded the Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering at the University of Washington a $16 million grant for research that will hope...

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Changing Gender Roles Across Professions In India

In Fe-mail 2, Egyptian author Amy Mowaki adds her voice to the many who have spoken of and against gender disparity, when she writes “…if I have a daughter I will...

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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