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An Education Lost Is A Livelihood Gained?

Sandhya (15) (name changed), a class 10 student from Madivala, dropped out of school in September last owing to health issues. She took up work at a nearby supermarket, earnin...

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Why It's So Hard To Determine If Food And Drinks Cause Cancer

On Wednesday, the WHO’s cancer research arm—the International Agency for Research on Cancer—announced it had taken coffee off its list of items considered po...

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Why Climate Change Could Benefit Parts Of Canada’s Boreal Forest

Fact, he argues that Quebec’s massive boreal forest could provide a much-needed “refuge” for plants and animals, as much of the continent gets hotter and dri...

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Meet Elle's 2016 Women In Tech

Who's making waves in the world's most influential industry? Meet the powerhouses changing the way you communicate, date, get around, and even do laundry. Marcela Sapone, 30, ...

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Over 2,500 Indian Kids Suffer From Brain Tumour Every Year

With a surge in the brain related ailments in the world, every year over 2,500 of the Indian children suffer from medulloblastoma, a pediatric malignant primary brain tumour w...

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Activists Oppose Child ‘Help’ In Family Enterprises

Argue that proposed amendments to Act will only enable legalising child labour Amidst efforts by the Union Labour Ministry to bring in certain amendments to the Child Labour (...

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In The Future, We'll Leave Software Bug Hunting To The Machines

"Being able to protect the entire cyber attack surface that is present in our lives, and doing it entirely manually, is a herculean task,” says David Melski, the vice pr...

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What Would A Global Warming Increase Of 1.5c Be Like?

In Paris, delegates called on the UN’s Intergovernmental Panelon Climate Change (IPCC) to report on the implications of a 1.5C target. They want the job done by 2018, in...

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The Gender Gap Nobody’s Talking About

According to the writer Malcolm Gladwell, 10,000 hours of practice is what it takes to become world class at most things. Part of the reason the Beatles were the Beatles, he s...

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India To Vaccinate 300,000 Children After Polio Strain Found In Sewage

India plans to urgently immunize around 300,000 children against the crippling polio virus after a strain of the highly contagious disease was detected in sewage in the southe...

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STUDENT CITY PART 4

Written by Prof Dr Piyush Roy, Student City Part 4 revisits the emotional rivalries, cam...

May 14 2026

TWO POWERFUL THEATRE REFLECTIONS

Sohaila Kapur reflects on two compelling theatre experiences — the experimental st...

May 13 2026

THE STING BEHIND BOLLYWOOD PAPARAZZI

Khalid Mohamed, without being judgmental, reports on the love-hate relationship of the c...

May 12 2026