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Nobel out of reach: Black scientist yet to make it to Nobel

Nobel out of reach: Black scientist yet to make it to Nobel

Change can only be achieved through strong and effective government action, but by definition marginalised groups have...

21 Oct 2018 1:37 AM IST

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Your silence will not protect you

There is already an insurgency in the making against the existing patriarchy. We will lose more battles than we can win....

8 Oct 2018 2:12 AM IST

Nuns have broken ranks with the church by openly protesting in the streets of the Kerala against bishop Franco Mulakkal for allegedly raping a nun.

It's time clericalism is banished

They would need to be held accountable for any misdeeds, both from a religious and civil perspective.

8 Oct 2018 2:08 AM IST

Women hold a protest in New York against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh accused of sex assault. World over women are coming out and exposing those who had assaulted or harassed sexually. (Photo: AP)

Needs more than the law to oust sexual harassment

A common response of most women who have accessed the formal system is how unprepared they were to deal with the...

8 Oct 2018 2:05 AM IST

Quite often, fake news resurfaces and goes viral multiple times.

Fake news, the DNA of tech firms: The big fight against fake news

Technology companies like Google, Twitter, Facebook and Microsoft are also gearing up to fight the menace of fake news.

1 Oct 2018 2:10 AM IST

Quite often, fake news resurfaces and goes viral multiple times.

Fake news, the DNA of tech firms: Gearing up for the 2019 polls

Social media companies seem quite serious about removing false news and propaganda from their platforms.

1 Oct 2018 2:08 AM IST

Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.com

Symptom of neo-liberal malaise

Jeff Bezos is a product as well as a symptom of these two worlds, albeit magnified on a global scale.

27 Sept 2018 6:58 AM IST

No Limits to Greed

The per capita income of India is likely to increase by 8.3 per cent in 2018.

27 Sept 2018 5:40 AM IST

The world should know by now that sea level rise is real.

When a sea of white horses hits the land

The ocean knows it can flood the entire planet. It is already at it since the last ice age.

17 Sept 2018 2:27 AM IST

Increasing ocean bed agriculture to feed humans and destruction of mangroves, combined with trashing oceans with plastics, sound the death knell for coastal habitations.

Climate change spikes sea levels

Chennai, Kochi and Surat are among the world's top 20 cities will be flooded dangerously.

17 Sept 2018 2:23 AM IST

The Quran prescribes all Muslims, irrespective of gender, to dress modestly.

Living with Islamophobia

Islamophobia has increasingly become a part of the political rhetoric.

10 Sept 2018 6:35 AM IST

The issue of women wearing a face-cover, a burqa, in public is different from wearing hijab or head-cover to keep private a womans attractive hair.

Burqa: The case of Muslim face cover

The teaching of Prophet Muhammad provides the wisest advice: Muslims should follow the practices of the society in which...

10 Sept 2018 6:30 AM IST