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Elnaz Rekabi, Who Competed Without Hijab, Is Back In Iran

(Source: AP) Iranian climber Elnaz Rekabi returned to Tehran early Wednesday after competing in South Korea without wearing a headscarf,…

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Children Starve As Yemen Teeters On A Return To Fighting

(Source: AP) An emaciated little girl lies motionless on a hospital bed and struggles to breathe. Her body is covered…

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Analysis: Where Is India Spending More, Fossil Fuels Or Renewables?

Is India embracing renewables or fossil fuels? On the one hand, there are the commitments India has made to decarbonise…

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‘Animism’: How Animals, Places & Plants Have Power Over Humans

A movement known as “new animism,” which seeks to secure personhood rights for nonhuman beings through legal means, is gaining…

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Talk Of Respect For Women, But Support For Rapists: Rahul Slams PM

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the remission to the convicts in the Bilkis…

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Suu Kyi’s Last Corruption Trial To Go On: Court

A court in military-ruled Myanmar ruled Tuesday that the last trial for corruption of the country's ousted leader Aung San…

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Bilkis Bano Case: Convicts’ Release Approved By Union Govt

The Gujarat government has told the Supreme Court that the 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano case were released since…

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The Simple Technology That Is Helping Women Escape Poverty

More women than men are poor, more women live with food insecurity, and in the majority of countries in the…

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Did You Know That Writer’s Block Has A 5,000-Year History?

Ann Patchett, who has written eight novels and five books of non-fiction, says that when faced with writer’s block, sometimes…

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Indian Teen D Gukesh Beats Magnus Carlsen

(Source: PTI) Indian teenager Grandmaster D Gukesh upset Magnus Carlsen in the ninth round of the preliminary phase of the…

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A Look At Deforestation And Clothes Sourced From Plants

Scientists and companies are looking to a small section of the textile market to address the clothing industry’s threats to…

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Centre’s Attempts To ‘Impose Hindi’ Divisive: TN CM Stalin

(Source: PTI) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin on Sunday staunchly opposed what he called a Parliamentary panel's "recommendation"…

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India Ranks 107 On GHI ’22, Records Highest Child Wasting Rate

(Source: PTI) India ranked 107 out of 121 countries in the Global Hunger Index 2022 with its child wasting rate…

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Wild Cats At Risk From ‘Underrecognized’ Risk Of Spillover Disease

Starting in 2020, the global coronavirus pandemic brought the threat posed by zoonotic diseases into sharp focus in the public…

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90% Of Media Leadership Positions With Upper Caste Groups: Report

(Source: PTI) About 90 per cent of leadership positions in Indian media are occupied by upper caste groups with not…

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School Dropouts At ‘All-Time High’ In Climate Change-Hit Ganga Delta

Banani Deb looks wistfully at her old notebooks from 10th grade and reminisces about her school days. This year, the…

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Stubble Burning Is Back, Smothering The North

Even as authorities claim that they are all set to deal with what is now an annual public health crisis,…

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Court’s No To Carbon Dating Of ‘Shivling’

(Source: PTI) A Varanasi court on Friday rejected a petition seeking carbon dating of the purported 'Shivling' found in the…

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Ben There, Done That: A Nobel Conundrum

Earlier this week, an announcement in the news sphere took me completely by surprise. It was that Ben Bernanke, former…

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Hijab Ban: How Two SC Judges Differed In Final Verdict & What It Means

(Source: PTI) Two judges on a Supreme Court bench on Thursday delivered opposing verdicts in the hijab controversy, and asked…

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‘Deep Journalism’, Better Govt And How They Are Linked

Deep learning, big data and other new technologies are set to transform the way governments determine what is in the…

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Climate Risk Index Study Shows Threats To 90% Of World’s Marine Species

Climate change impacts marine life through a bewildering web of complex pathways. Warming oceans and climate extremes are driving species…

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NZ Proposes Taxing Cow Burps, Farmers Miffed

(Source: AP) New Zealand’s government on Tuesday proposed taxing the greenhouse gasses that farm animals make from burping and peeing…

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What Does DNA Say About The Future Of The Rhino In India?

A majestic and charismatic mega-herbivore, the one-horned rhino (Rhinoceros unicornis) now numbers around 4,034 individuals found only in the grasslands…

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To Limit Clay Mining, Pune Recycles Clay From Ganesha Idols

Dinesh Gole is an artisan working from Pen, a small town, around 110 kilometres away from Pune in Maharashtra, where…

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