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Millets aren’t just healthy, they could also hold the answer to food security challenges
Archaeologists say millets – largely used as birdseed in the West – are resilient crops and could help feed the world’s population.
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How PC Mahalanobis devised a survey that has helped India measure inequality for decades
Since Indian Independence in 1947, the National Sample Survey’s annual exercises have served as the backbone of planning.
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In a post-truth and alternative-fact world, how should we understand conspiracy theories?
In an environment of scepticism, it's difficult to draw the line between rational thinking and conspiracy thoerising.
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Trending
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When an emperor came calling on a newly independent India to learn from its early successes
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How the high demand for coaching classes reflects India’s employment and economic distress
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Bharti group’s Rs 150 crore bond donation to BJP coincided with Modi government’s telecom U-turn
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‘Crew’ review: A sexy, funny and honest airline heist movie
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Kotak firm’s Rs 60 crore donation to BJP coincided with crucial RBI decisions on Kotak Mahindra Bank
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Untangling history: What hair and hairstyles meant in 16th and 17th-century Europe
Historian Dr Stefan Hanß investigates how hair reflected the profound religious and social changes sweeping through the continent.
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How close are we to finding effective treatments for Alzheimer’s?
It has been over a hundred years since the first case of Alzheimer’s disease was diagnosed.
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Peter Pan and Wendy: JM Barrie gave us a glimpse of how the mind works, before psychologists did
Key aspects of the Theory of Mind, a cognitive science, are explored in the Peter Pan books.
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Video
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Watch: Comedian sings Ed Sheeran song in the style of artists ranging from Sonu Nigam to Kumar Sanu
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Watch: Woman holds abdominal plank position for over four and half hours
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Watch: Kuno National Park posts video to celebrate cheetah cub Mukhi’s first birthday
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Watch: Migrant workers travel in train toilet owing to unavailability of seats
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Watch: PTI posts video accusing male ANI reporter of assaulting and abusing its woman journalist
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Researchers in Colombia are trying to reimagine slums to foster equality
Poverty is either neglected or romanticised, find researchers. Instead, governments need to see slums as enabled spaces and equip them with infrastructure.
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No longer lost for words: How researchers rediscovered the mother of all mother tongues
Researchers have developed a method that uses sound waves to rediscover the long-lost Proto-Indo-European language, from which most modern languages evolved.
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How a British plan to convert an illiterate boy into a loyal maharaja failed
The British took a leading role in developing and overseeing educational programmes to produce an Indian elite politically aligned with the imperial rule.
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The Reel
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‘Patna Shuklla’ review: A competently argued legal drama
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‘Inspector Rishi’ review: A superbly crafted battle between fact and fable
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‘Alibaba Aani Chalishitle Chor’ review: A lightweight study of modern marriage
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‘Crew’ review: A sexy, funny and honest airline heist movie
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‘Amar Singh Chamkila’ trailer: Diljit Dosanjh plays the slain Punjabi singer in Imtiaz Ali’s biopic
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Water world: Can we learn to live with flooding?
Can cities be designed and adapted to live more flexibly with water – to treat it as friend rather than foe?
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'Extreme sleepover #17' – going underground in search of zombies
Lucy Wrapson reports on her fieldwork analysing the curious cave paintings found on Isla de Mona, in the Caribbean, and their equally enigmatic artists.
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Walking and cycling good for health even in cities with higher levels of air pollution
In Delhi, people would need to cycle over five hours per week before the pollution risks outweigh the health benefits.
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The Field
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Tennis, Miami Masters: Rohan Bopanna and Matthew Ebden through to the final
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Badminton, Spain Masters Super 300: Crasto-Ponnappa, Sindhu move into quarter-finals in Madrid
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IPL 2024: Riyan Parag, bowlers set up win for Rajasthan Royals against Delhi Capitals
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IPL 2024: KKR bring in Allah Ghazanfar as replacement player; RR rope in Keshav Maharaj
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Athletics: Neeraj Chopra to open his 2024 season at Doha Diamond League in May