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After Retirement, Esther Ritz Became A Full-Time Painter At 55 And Never Looked Back

The art world has an alluring, if somewhat illusory, exterior. It gives off the impression of being progressive, fluid, experimental — a space for outsiders of all kinds...

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Improving Rural Health Care, One Boat Trip At A Time

More than 10 years ago, Sanjoy Hazarika heard about the death of a mother in a remote island in Assam, a state in northeast India, because she couldn’t get to the hospit...

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What Do Angry Birds And Mad Max Have In Common? A Climate Change Message.

In any given 24-hour period, the average urban commuter is subjected to hundreds of corporate advertisements. By contrast, it?s easy to make it through the day without hearing...

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Countries Pitch In For Early Warning Systems And Accurate Weather Projections

Taking into account the rising frequency of extreme weather events across the world and subsequent damages, the Subsidiary Body of Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) ...

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Books About Women Don’t Win Major Fiction Prizes. How Can We Change That?

Man, woman, cyborg — no matter what kind of writer you are, if you want to win a major literary award, there’s just one thing you have to do: Make sure your main c...

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Almost A Year After Eliminating Polio, India Declared Free Of Maternal And Neonatal Tetanus

NEW DELHI- In yet another major achievement, India has been declared free of maternal and neonatal tetanus. Calling it a “significant public health milestone”, the...

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Global Economy, ISIS, Climate Change To Be Top G-7 Agendas

WASHINGTON: Climate change, including role of India and China, global economy and counter-terrorism tactics will be some of the key topics that will dominate the upcoming G-7 ...

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Innovative Desalination Technologies To Solve One Of The World’s Biggest Problems

Water will be the defining problem of the next 50 years. After spending the past two years delving into critical technological advances that my team of scientists, researchers...

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Girls Rule In An Indian Village

Though small and remote, the village of Mawlynnong, bordering Bangladesh in India’s northeastern state of Meghalaya, attracts tourists from all over the globe. Most come...

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BMC, MDACS Join Hands To Eliminate New HIV Cases

Building on the success of the Pulse Polio programme, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has begun work on total eradication of new HIV cases and aims to achieve thi...

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HEALTHY BOUNDARIES SHAPE SECOND CHANCES

A Rebounce survey of 9,283 previously married Indians reveals how healthy boundaries wit...

September 29 2026

SHAKUNTALA NAGARKAR: DEATH IN THE SADDLE

A tribute by Prof Dr Avinash Kolhe to legendary Lavani exponent Shakuntala Nagarkar, who...

September 28 2026

OF WOMEN, BY WOMEN….TWO BOOK REVIEWS

Sohaila Kapur reviews Avni Doshi’s First House and Andaleeb Wajid’s Have You...

September 27 2026