New archaeological evidence suggests that Brazilian capuchins have been using stone tools to crack open cashew nuts for at least 700 years. It raises questions about the origin of tool-use in the...(more)
Swiss supreme court has set principles for deciding cases involving parents who live apart and want to move elsewhere, but share custody of children. ‘The decisive question is to determine wher...(more)
For artist Shaheryar Malik, books are meaningless and lifeless if they gather dust on a shelf and are never read again, so he is leaving stacks of his books in famous locations with a card contai...(more)
Scientists have painted a long stretch of asphalt on the Snaefellsnes peninsula in western Island, red, yellow and white to try to discourage the sea birds from wandering onto the road and being ...(more)
Dutch children have been found by UNICEF’s education, health and material well-being standards, to be the happiest kids in the world. It turns out it’s not just what the Dutch do that are mak...(more)
Animals by hundreds are being set free as Buenos Aires closes its 140-year-old Palermo zoo. Birds of prey like owls and chimangos are destined for a reserve along the shores of the Rio de la Plat...(more)
Mumbai’s 150-year old David Sassoon library where Dr B R Ambedkar wrote the final draft of the Indian Constitution, and where readers peer into its 70,000 odd books, is in dire need of restorat...(more)
At least 24 bomb sniffing dogs have been killed by an American security company, Eastern Securities of Kuwait, after its contract with an oil firm ended, animal rights activists have claimed. The...(more)
German author Boie wants children at least to realize that a refugee child is just like any other kid in the world. Her book, “Everything Will Be Alright,” the true story of Rahaf and her fam...(more)
Undeterred by the stigma attached to this vocation, Indian women have long been working as tourist guides. Despite long hours and the responsibility of managing tourists from diverse backgrounds,...(more)
Scientists say they have traced the world's 6,000 modern languages — from English to Mandarin — back to a single "mother tongue," an ancestral language spoken in Africa 50,000 to 70,000 ...(more)
Facebook addiction is a social disorder, say experts. You’re probably addicted to Facebook if you become overly concerned when no one replies to your message or posts, or spend more than an hou...(more)
After a medical student in Tamil Nadu died from a hair transplant procedure at an unlicensed hair transplant centre, the health department recommended using a tough law to regulate such centres d...(more)
After busting robbers digging at the Cave of Skulls site two years ago, archaeologists from Hebrew University in Jerusalem launched an emergency excavation for antiquities before looters made off...(more)
The Punjab and Haryana high court has held that a divorced woman cannot file a complaint under Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005. The judge ruled that the provisions under the ...(more)
If hearing your favorite song on the radio sends chills running down your spine like nothing else can, you are experiencing a skin orgasm or what researchers call frission. A study found that it ...(more)
Congress leader Renuka Chowdhury has become the subject of netizens’ wrath after a Twitter user uploaded a photo of her dining while a child’s nanny was kept standing. The tweet was retweeted...(more)
Indonesia's Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries, with support from the international Wildlife Crimes Unit, busted a high-level criminal ring operation that had captured two 40-foot long...(more)
As per a new regulation passed by the University Grants Commission, male students can now file cases of sexual harassment against men, women and transgenders. There is also a provision where rela...(more)
Openness and agreeableness in women results in more frequent sex among newlywed couples, but the husband’s personality traits are not linked to sexual frequency, found a study. Again, partner p...(more)
Despite a burgeoning population of children in need of care and protection and the new adoption guidelines to push domestic adoptions in India, the numbers have dropped by half hitting a five-yea...(more)
Online crimes of speech are going up in UK and the number of arrests made for obscene, anxiety-causing, and otherwise offensive messages has increased by 37 percent since 2010. Online harassment ...(more)
It has been determined the debris found off the Oman coast came from a long-missing ship, Esmeralda, one of two lost in the storm from da Gama's second voyage to India in 1503. Divers discov...(more)
Brave girls from rural Bihar have found their voice to protest against the scourge of dowry. IN various incidents during the wedding these women are rejecting grooms chosen by their families not...(more)
People from different fields of work in Bihar have started a social media campaign named #IAmBrandBihar to end prejudices about people in Bihar being unrefined and stop associating Bihar with cri...(more)
To earn the faith of public, the Delhi police should reach the crime scene earlier than the current 10-minute response time, just like a pizza boy delivering the stuff faster than the guaranteed ...(more)
Unfairly sacked for having a cup of coffee on the job, International student Raj Bista who worked as a cleaner at an inner Sydney office building, was awarded $9187.20 in damages and regained the...(more)
Having gotten married off at the age of fifteen, Geeta's life at her in-law's place was nothing short of hell. She escaped and tried to fend for herself and her children. She got to kno...(more)
The Mount Athos, a 335 sq km (130 sq mile) peninsula of monasteries in Greece, has barred women of all species within 500m of the coast since 1,000 years. Reasons could be celibacy as also a fabl...(more)
Parents, who confessed to killing their teenaged daughter Priya Reddy for not ending her relationship with a boy from a lower caste, were not permitted by the Karnataka police to attend her funer...(more)
After the State dropped charges against 14-month old Jacob’s abuser, the father posted a description of the incident to his Facebook page, asking friends to make it go viral and help find justi...(more)
Authorities found a hive filled with killer bees outside Charleston City in a domestic bee-keeping operation. The killer bees, identified as a hybrid between Africanized and European honeybees, a...(more)
Singapore engineers have invented a toilet-monitoring system that can signal when toilets need to be cleaned. The gadget tracks how heavily toilets are used and measures the odour levels of ammon...(more)
Jordyn Lexton taught high school English to convicted teens at New York. Realising how bleak the future was once they were released from prison, she left teaching and started the nonprofit food t...(more)
Family members are the main perpetrators of physical, psychological and economic violence against LGBT people, say Indonesian researchers. Violence could lead gay people to suffer from depression...(more)
Considering the Indian tea industry is the single largest employer of women and 83% households in India consume tea, NCERT tabled a proposal to include tea and its role in the economy and society...(more)
Once Daniel Geiter came out from prison in 1999, he found that it was difficult to get a job. But once he attained a college education, including a Ph.D., things changed. Now, Geiter wants to pro...(more)
It looked like any of the other mugs in the Auschwitz museum. But on the inside, a false bottom concealed a gold necklace and a gold ring inlaid with stones.The enameled mug was one of more than ...(more)
To put a halt on the native language, fearing it will hurt them socially and academically, will only hurt the child’s language growth, since second language is difficult to learn if the first l...(more)
Cloth diapers, an alternative to disposable diapers, have made a comeback in recent years, especially with environmentally-conscious parents. These are generally purchased from online retailers a...(more)
Shanghai students have topped the international school tests, and the World Bank attributes the success to the quality of teaching there. Teaching considered a prestigious job in this Chinese cit...(more)
Iran has joined the growing list of nations to ban animal acts in circuses. According to the country’s Department of the Environment, Iran will no longer issue permits allowing wildlife to perf...(more)
Lhakpa Sherpa has climbed Everest summited Everest six times, more than any other woman in the world, but back home at Connecticut, she is a domestic abuse victim. She has just obtained div...(more)
The emergence of a global debate, challenging the very notion that Muslim women choosing to cover their hair could be anything but oppression and anti-feminism, fails to recognize that we each ch...(more)
With 5 lakh road accidents in a year and 5,000 lives lost in crashes that resulted from driving over physical speed bumps, India now plans to use 3D paintings as virtual speedbreakers to deter hi...(more)
Reading a Facebook post that water can be sent by train to drought-hit Latur, Rajamahendravaram Welfare Association, Rajamundhry, sends at least 3,000 litres of water every alternate day. Villag...(more)
Accepting the challenge of coming up with an idea that will help the environment or future generations, 13-year old Ishaan Patel started Planting Pencils, an organisation that empowers children t...(more)
Resell and recycle can't resolve the devastating environmental impact of fast fashion. While up-cycling, mending, or making charitable donations continue to be viable routes to take, arguabl...(more)
From fancy party pics on Facebook, expensive brunches on Instagram, and foreign beach holidays on Snapchat, the modern urban twenty something is going broke to keep up the lifestyles and appearan...(more)
Since there is no nationwide policy on minimum wages for domestic helps, about 20 million people, mostly women, who work as cooks, cleaners, and maids in India get paid Rs.3,000 per month on an a...(more)
Refused permission to draw water from a well by the owner and insult of his wife made him so determined to be self reliant that Bapurao Tajne dug a well all by himself, a job that is normally don...(more)
A socio-economic profile of individuals with confirmed death sentences show a disproportionate section come from economically vulnerable, lower caste and religious minority families. The economic...(more)
A 17-year-old girl has exposed sex tourism in India where Muslim men from the Middle East and Africa buy 'one month wives' for sex. The visitors want to marry because they believe prost...(more)
The planet Earth is estimated to have resources that can sustain one billion people, yet we currently have more than 7bn, competing for land, food, water, heat and shelter.We blame the increase i...(more)
Ayyappa says the earth is the biggest filter. He captures the water, filters it and then stores it underground by his pit-based rainwater harvesting system, a structure made of boulders, gravel, ...(more)
Millions of hacked usernames and passwords for email accounts are being traded in Russia's criminal underworld. The accounts include credentials for Gmail, Microsoft and Yahoo, Russia's...(more)
Nigeria made history by outlawing female genital mutilation, which involves cutting female genitalia that often leads to lifelong health complications. More than 130 million women worldwide are s...(more)
The tiny village in central Jharkhand, where forced early marriage beset the girls of the community, has now been rocked by the adolescent girls’ club of the village. Armed with iron resolv...(more)
The worst drought in decades across several states in India has affected about 330 million people, about quarter of its population. Thousands of people are migrating from rural areas in search of...(more)
The largest ivory burn in history took place in Nairobi National Park. Eleven pyres of the tusks of roughly 8,000 elephants, as well as rhino horns and animal skins, were set aflame to ensure the...(more)
When Dr Mitra gave children real-world problems to study, their answers were unique. From answering why dogs chased cats with ‘when two people fight, the bigger person always wins’ to...(more)
Nestlé Waters North America, is seeking to extract millions of gallons of freshwater to bottle and sell for profit, without the approval of the local residents in another town in the U.S.. Nestl...(more)
Exposure to chemicals in laundry detergent packets is dangerous for children and can cause breathing difficulties, heart problems and even death, claims a new study by Nationwide Children’s Hos...(more)
In 1993, Simon Rowe hit hard times, and the only place he had to sleep at night was his car. Two decades later, and no longer homeless, Rowe started looking for a way to give people who are homel...(more)
Tuany Nascimento started Na Ponta dos Pés (On Our Tiptoes) in Brazil in 2013. She teaches three ballet classes twice a week to nearly 50 girls, ages 4 to 17, at an urban slum area in Rio known...(more)
81-year-old Vimla Kaul retired as a government school teacher 20 years ago but she teaches under-privileged children English, Science, Maths and Environment in Delhi, as a gesture of giving back ...(more)
Malawi's estimated 10,000 albinos face "extinction" if they continue to be murdered for their body parts for use in witchcraft, a UN expert has warned. Malawi is one of the world's poor...(more)
Theresa Kachindamoto, the senior chief in the Dedza District of Central Malawi, wields power over 900,000 people. In the past three years, she has annulled more than 850 child marriages, sent hun...(more)
Pune-based software engineer Aditya Tiwari, the youngest single man to adopt a child in India, could take home his adopted son Binney a one plus aged child only after a lot of resistance from the...(more)
Janna Jihad Ayyad, 10 years, from occupied West Bank, regularly participates in demonstrations against the Israeli occupation and makes videos showing everything from people being detained at che...(more)
A middle-aged book collector in Mali, Haidara, had amassed thousands of rare and valuable manuscripts, from the region's rich history. which he preserved, restored, and digitized for the fut...(more)
From a resident being allowed to utilise his facilities in a housing society like the lift for his pets, to prohibition of cattle smuggling across the border for Gadhimai animal sacrifice in Nepa...(more)
Since the Kargil war, Jitendra, a security guard working in Pune, has written 3000 or more letters to the grieving families of Indian Army martyrs to thank them, to pay his respects, and to tell ...(more)
A same-sex American-Spanish couple have won a high-profile custody battle over a baby born through a Thai surrogate mother who wanted to keep the child after she found out they were gay.Bangkok&#...(more)
The Sonnenschiff and Solarsiedlung cities located in Freiburg, Germany are modern, planned habitations that were worked upon with solar power in mind. It not only has made itself self-sufficient ...(more)
A sheepdog originally from a farm in Ceredigion appears to have made the 240-mile solo journey back to its birthplace from its new home in Cumbria. Pero, a four-year-old working sheepdog, escaped...(more)
The Shoe That Grows., invented by Kenton Lee, are sandals that can adjust its size to the wearer, allowing children living in impoverished nations to grow up knowing they’ll have shoes to wear ...(more)
In India, child marriages are most rampant during the Akha Teej festival in the last week of April and first week of May among the people of interior villages in Rajasthan. Standing firmly agains...(more)
Satabdi Mishra and Akshay Rautaray, the two young Indians behind ‘Walking BookFairs’ drive round a truck full of books with the aim of getting people to read.They display books at public spac...(more)
Muskaan Ahirwar, a third-grade student, runs a library called “Bal Pustakalaya” in a small slum in Bhopal. Every day, after school, she sets up the library outside her house, and children fro...(more)
The WarkaWater Tower in Ethiopia, an easy-cheap-to-construct bamboo tower envisioned by Architecture and Vision, uses no electricity and has the ability to produce up to 25 gallons of water a day...(more)
In a act of dignity and protest against misrepresentation of indigenous cultures, Native actors and actresses, and the Native cultural advisor, who were primarily from the Navajo nation, abandone...(more)
A roving leopard, itself a threatened species, killed 33 of endangered African penguins at a nature reserve outside Cape Town, prompting a debate about how best to protect South Africa’s threat...(more)
The intricate mural, the largest public work of art in Cairo, stretches across 50 buildings, in a harried quarter of Cairo where Egypt’s garbage collectors live. The mural, a circle of orange, ...(more)
Joao Pereira de Souza, Brazil, found the tiny South American Magellanic penguin, covered in oil and close to death on his local beach in 2011. He cleaned the penguin’s feathers, fed him fish to...(more)
Millionaires are leaving Chicago more than any other city in the United States on a net basis, according to a new report. About 3,000 individuals with net assets of $1 million or more, not includ...(more)
When Dr Ravindra Kolhe, and his wife Dr Smitha started practice at the poor tribal area in Melghat, Maharashtra, in 1989, charging just Rs.2 per consultation, the Infant Mortality Rate was 200 pe...(more)
Nanniyode, the neighbouring village of Puttingal, the site of the recent Temple Tragedy is a manufacturing hub for fireworks. More than half of the 500 families in the village either own or work ...(more)
In a rare find, two archeology students-Valentin Loescher and Camille Jacquey- found a 550,000-year-old tooth from an ancestor of modern humans at a dig site in France. That’s so old that v...(more)
Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto said on Tuesday at UN that he is open to the legalization of medical marijuana in Mexico and that his government would announce new measures in the coming day...(more)
Dr. Jagadeesh, a renewable energy expert grows plants in used tyre tubes with holes and filled with just enough soil as required for each plant. This is a cheaper option, saving almost two-thirds...(more)
A Yale study has found trees within Madagascar’s forest ecosystem have been “orphaned” by the extinction of the giant lemurs that once dispersed their seeds about 500 to 1,700 y...(more)
An Indian doctor is on a unique mission to help save the female child - he waives his fee if a girl is born in his hospital. Dr Ganesh Rakh,who started a small hospital in the western Indian city...(more)
Man-animal conflicts are on the rise in Assam tea gardens, because many animals displaced from the forests now take refuge in the tea gardens. With a rise in the numbers of casualties on both sid...(more)
Maharashtra,as also nine other Indian states have been on a drought-trail; the worst to hit the place in a century. But students of Pune has brought cheers to many during these tough times. Over ...(more)
Gangadhara Tilak Katnam was an engineer with the Indian Railways and after his retirement in October 2008, he has been on a mission to fix the potholes on the road; that too with his pension. Kno...(more)
The Guardian commissioned research on the 70m comments on its site since 2006 and found this. 10 regular writers who got the most abuse were eight women, four white and four non-white, and two bl...(more)
Milan-based artist Biancoshock has taken to the streets of his hometown for his most recently published project, turning abandoned manholes into claustrophobic dwellings.Biancoshock found inspira...(more)
The discovery of two more mounds at the Harappan site of Rakhigarhi in Haryana makes it the biggest excavation site of Harappan civilisation, even bigger than Mohenjo-daro (in Sindh,Pakistan). Un...(more)
Today, women are a lot more isolated in their own homes and lives and more separate from each other. The opportunities for coming together are much more limited and the time spent together in thi...(more)
After St. Benedict’s Preparatory School, in Newark closed during the racial tensions of the 1960's, one of its former students endeavoured to reopen it with a new mission. Using the Boy Sc...(more)
Laos, where 23 percent of population live below the poverty line, has been hit by severe drought this year. Farmers now are prodding the gods into sending them rain by launching homemade rockets ...(more)
A Pakistani transgender activist, shot 6 times by a gang and rushed to the hospital by her community, succumbed to her injuries after the doctors could not decide whether to admit her to the men&...(more)
Archeologists claim to have found the missing piece of the puzzle that brought the eastern Mediterranean world to its knees 3200 years ago, in an epic conflict, dubbed “world war zero”. The l...(more)
In 2006, a patent was granted to Paul Stamets, world’s leading mycologist. But his patent has received very little attention and exposure; because this patent represents “the most disruptive ...(more)
Where 220 Indian languages have been lost in the last 50 years, a retired silk-weaver and magazine editor, is attempting to save the fast-vanishing Saurashtrian language, a mostly oral Indo-Aryan...(more)
Women use language that is characteristic of compassion and politeness while men are more hostile and impersonal, revealed a computational analysis of the words used by Facebook users. Women were...(more)
A Gurugram-based NGO started a web and app based project called CLABIL with the aim of making audio books available to the visually challenged and also to people who cannot read. The online libra...(more)
While investigating deadly but rare lion attacks on humans, forest authorities in Gujarat captured and caged an entire pride of 17 lions, sending their dung to be tested for traces of human remai...(more)
A team of bird-watchers stumbled upon the red-faced liocichla bird that hasn’t been spotted in eastern Nepal for 178 years and was thought to be locally extinct. However, nearly 20 percent of N...(more)
The family of a California design student killed in November’s attacks in Paris sued Twitter, Google and Facebook, claiming the social media companies provide “material support” to the mili...(more)
While every other Indian office worker holds more than one job to supplement their income, nearly half among them reported feeling overwhelmed by their work hours, and 16 percent reported that th...(more)
The two generations are both helplessly bound to their roles – one, a strict father, and the other a misunderstood child. While this generation learned sexual openness from Friends and emotiona...(more)
Wildlife experts in Malawi will move 500 elephants to a sanctuary that could eventually serve as a reservoir to restore elephant population in other parts of Africa where the threatened species h...(more)
Mexican creative activist Pedro Reyes campaigned asking residents to hand over their guns in exchange for coupons to buy electronics or household appliances. Pedro collected 1,527 guns for the pr...(more)
Jake Austin volunteers with the homeless in St. Louis, Missouri, and realises how a shower can be a rare luxury and an overlooked hygiene need for a homeless person. Jake's answer is his mob...(more)
Portrayal of the god Maui as obese in a Disney film has angered many across the Pacific islands, and prompted debate over unhealthy stereotypes of Polynesian men on screen. In Polynesian mytholo...(more)
Better parenting is one big reason for a drop in underage drinking, according to the Institute of Alcohol Studies. Today’s parents are less likely to drink in front of their children, more like...(more)
Umoja, the documented single-sex community village in Kenya, which started out as a refuge for women who survived sexual violence, has now opened its doors for women who have gone through any for...(more)
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