Priorities

Child Rights Panels Go Half Empty

Half the posts in India's state child right commissions are vacant and only a fourth of these panels are fully formed, data the government has placed in the Supreme Court show...

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Stonehenge, Easter Island, Venice: Climate Change Will Destroy Human History

Cultural heritage sites are beacons of our remarkable legacy as a species. They’re as diverse and complex as humanity itself, which is why UNESCO has designated 802 of t...

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Australia Scrubbed From UN Climate Change Report After Government Intervention

Every reference to Australia was scrubbed from the final version of a major UN report on climate change after the Australian government intervened, objecting that the informat...

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Victorian Women Lawyers Talk Gender Equality At Networking Event In Bendigo

Guest speaker Marika McMahon said at a Victorian Women Lawyers networking event in Bendigo on Friday there were two key challenges for women practicing law in regional areas: ...

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Now, An App To Find The Closest Blood Bank

Moved by the plight of people who frantically search for blood donors and blood banks during medical emergencies, a Bengaluru-based software engineer has developed a mobile ap...

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In The Family Tree, Women Become Land Owners In India

65 year-old Basi behen* lives in a small village in the Narmada district of west Indian state of Gujarat. Married at 15, for close to five decades, she tilled a small plot of ...

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Neuroscientists Hunt The Line Where Consciousness Begins—And Ends

Consciousness should be a deeply spooky thing. Or, rather, the fact that we routinelylose consciousness should be a deeply spooky thing. Here, at some murky threshold that we ...

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Attack By 'Avengers' Militant Group Forces Chevron To Close Oil Facility In Nigeria

Chevron has been forced shut down oil production at its Escravos terminal in Nigeria following an attack by militants, the second time in recent weeks that violence has impact...

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How Bad Is The Gender Breakdown, Really?

Women artists are hugely underrepresented on the summer music festival circuit. To find out why, and to see if the gaps were as large as we thought, HuffPost collected the lin...

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Dehydration: Risks And Myths

Despite the vital importance of water, there are relatively few good studies of how much is needed, by whom and under what circumstances.Truth to tell, sometimes I don’t...

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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