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A Record 290 Million Women, Girls In Poor Nations Are Using Contraception: Report

A record 290.6 million women and girls in the world's poorest nations are using modern methods of contraception, averting millions of unintended pregnancies and unsafe abortio...

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China Is Tapping Tibetan Glaciers To Meet Growing Demand For Bottled Water

Driven both by convenience and concerns about the country's widespread pollution, the Chinese drank nearly 10.6 billion gallons of bottled water in 2013, the Hong Kong-based w...

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Bumblebees Are Teaching Smart Cars How To Drive

A newly-awarded research grant from the National Science Foundation is devoting $300,000 to a project to study the ways that bumblebees navigate, and to apply that i...

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There Is A Life Beyond Cancer: Manisha

Her most memorable and strong female characters in Bombay, Dil Se, and Khamoshi were nearly from two decades back, but real-life heroine Manisha Koirala, who survived cancer, ...

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Maternal Mortality On A Decline, But Challenges Remain

The number of women dying during pregnancy, childbirth or within six weeks after birth has fallen by 44 per cent since 1990, say United Nations agencies, including the Wo...

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Even Glaciers Near The North Pole Are Melting

Jeremie Mouginot and his team reconstructed the shape and movements of the glacier to track how it has changed in geometry due to melting from below caused by warm water intru...

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CRISPR Technique Could ‘Turn Off’ Muscular Dystrophy Gene, Study Says

A recent paper published in the journal Molecular Therapy found that, at least for one disease, that may be possible very soon. According to lead researche...

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CRISPR Technique Could ‘Turn Off’ Muscular Dystrophy Gene, Study Says

A recent paper published in the journal Molecular Therapy found that, at least for one disease, that may be possible very soon. According to lead researche...

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First Global Conference On Gender Equality In Kerala Asia Faces Fertility Crisis

In a bid to reduce gender inequality in India and increase female work participation rates, the Kerala government is set to host the country’s first global conference on...

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Making Health Care Accessible

Aneema Begum, 61, had the last of her three children 38 years ago. The first two didn’t survive more than a year, and it is after the birth of her last, and only survivi...

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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

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