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Scientists To Repeat 19th-Century Ship's Crossing Of Polar Ice Cap

In 1893 the Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen embarked on a mission of extraordinary boldness and ingenuity. He planned to become the first person to reach the north pole by ...

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Word On The Street: 2017 Oxford Film Festival

Assistant Lifestyles Editor Devna Bose visited the 2017 Oxford Film Festival and asked festival-goers about what they were most looking forward to, their favorite part of the ...

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Martin Scorsese On How 'Diversity Gaurantees Our Cultural Survival' In Film & In Everything Else

When Federico Fellini died in 1993, New York Times obituary writer Bruce Weber made a confession: “I never cared for his movies.” In a declaration of “raging...

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Sports Education Should Be Made Compulsory, Says Tiger Shroff

From showcasing his dance moves to performing stunts, Tiger Shroff left no stones unturned when he paid a visit to the capital recently. Ahead of his upcoming movie releases &...

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Russell Simmons Invites New Yorkers Of All Backgrounds To Stand In Solidarity With American Muslims

New Yorkers of all faiths and ethnic backgrounds are being asked to gather on Sunday, February 19th, from 12:00 to 4:00 pm in New York’s Times Square, (at the corner of ...

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A small City In Iowa Is Devoting 1,000 Acres Of Land To America's Vanishing Bees

You've probably heard the news that our nation's bees are in trouble. Pollinators have been disappearing for decades, and the population crash could threaten the global food s...

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On The Road With Bangladesh's Only Female Rickshaw Puller

Bangladesh’s only known woman rickshaw puller, Mosammat Jasmine, may be a feminist icon but to the passengers she cycles around the streets of Chittagong, she is known a...

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How Mobile Technology Is Transforming Lives In Rural India

Deep in a rural village in India outside the city of Jhansi, children play on dirt roads where goats and cows roam. The humble and colorful homes have mud floors, and women co...

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Whopping 1,71,083 Child Marriages Across Andhra In 2015-16

Krishna district topped the list of child marriages as 20,584 girls married below their legal age in 2015-16 out of the total 1,71,083 child marriages in the state, according ...

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TFW The Radioactive Garbage From Your Lab Turns Out To Be A Potential Cancer Treatment

There's an old adage that one person's trash is another person's treasure. Take the case of a Canadian physics lab that realized the radioactive waste it had been stockpiling ...

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KASTOORI: CINEMA, DIGNITY AND SELF-RESPECT

Binod Kamble’s film Kastoori begins with a stark scene of cleaning a dirty toilet....

August 18 2026

THE JUST: POLITICS, MORALITY, VIOLENCE

Prof Dr Avinash Kolhe reviews The Just, Albert Camus’s powerful political-moral pl...

August 17 2026

BATWARA 1947 REVIEW: SHABANA AZMI

BATWARA 1947 REVIEW: SHABANA AZMI Every nation carries within it a wound that history ...

August 16 2026