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UN not been able to move needle on Security Council reforms: India

India stated the UN Security Council's eighty-year-old structure is ill-equipped for current global challenges. The council's inability to intervene in conflicts has eroded public perception of the UN. India advocates for reforming global institutions to reflect contemporary realities and needs. The international financial architecture must also evolve to serve developing…

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Indian Women Who Choose Divorce Are Carrying a Courage That No One Around Them Will Name

The thing nobody tells you about the decisionYou already know it's the right thing to do before you decide to do it. That's the part nobody talks about, the months, sometimes years, you spend knowing, and still not moving, because knowing and doing are separated by everything you were raised…

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The Hoysala Temples at Belur and Halebidu Are Karnataka's Most Undervisited Architecture Masterclass

The wall will not let you move quicklyYou arrive expecting a temple. What you find at Belur is a wall that refuses to be seen all at once. The Chennakeshava temple's outer surface is divided into horizontal friezes running the entire circumference, elephants at the base for stability, then horses…

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7 Ancient Temples in Tamil Nadu's Kaveri Delta That Are Older Than Most Countries

Brihadeeswarar Temple, ThanjavurWhen the Chola king Raja Raja I completed Brihadeeswarar in 1010 CE, the Normans had not yet crossed the English Channel. The vimana, the tower above the sanctum, rises 66 metres from the ground and was, for centuries, the tallest stone structure in the Indian subcontinent. The shadow…

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The Aarti Ritual Is Ancient Light Science: What the Fire in Your Hands Actually Does

What a camphor flame is actually doingCamphor burns at roughly 200 degrees Celsius and produces a flame that sits almost entirely in the visible light spectrum, the band the human eye evolved to receive most directly. When you cup a lit aarti diya and move it before a murti, you…

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Inference needs memory: how context is becoming AI infrastructure

As enterprise AI becomes more complex, AI architectures can no longer treat context as temporary.

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Turkey's ancient city of Ani reveals hidden Seljuk tombs that survived for centuries underground

For centuries, Ani has stood on a windswept plateau near Turkey's border with Armenia, its ruined churches, fortifications and abandoned streets bearing witness to a city that once sat at the crossroads of trade, faith and political power. While the site is often associated with its medieval Armenian heritage, fresh…

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Planning a Trip? 7 Best Hill Stations in India to Explore

This monsoon session is generally believed to be one of the most beautiful times to visit the Indian hill stations. There are less crowds,best prices, and the surroundings turn thick green, which is hard to spot during other seasons. Nonetheless, safety is becoming a real worry for tourists in this…

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Why These Indian Forts Are the Most Magical Places to Visit This Monsoon?

Monsoon has a way of changing everything. The same forts that stand under the blazing summer sun suddenly become cooler, greener, and almost magical after the first spell of rain. Ancient stone walls glisten, hills turn lush, clouds drift through towering gateways, and every viewpoint feels like a scene from…

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Scientists Discovered How Babies Develop Sharp Central Vision Before Birth, and Vitamin A Plays a Bigger Role Than Anyone Knew

Johns Hopkins researchers found blue cone cells transform into red and green cones via Vitamin A and thyroid hormones during fetal development, overturning how scientists understood sharp vision.

Medical Daily

Animal Memory Research Is Overturning Everything We Thought We Knew About Cognition

The assumption that crumbled firstThe standard view held that episodic memory, the ability to mentally replay a specific past event, not just respond to a learned cue, was uniquely human. Then came a 1998 study by Nicola Clayton and Anthony Dickinson at Cambridge University, published in Nature, that changed the…

Times Life

Crows Can Remember Your Face for Over Three Years and Their Memory Works Like This

The Study That Started With a Caveman MaskIn 2008, wildlife biologist John Marzluff and his team at the University of Washington walked onto the campus wearing latex caveman masks, trapped several American crows, banded them, and released them unharmed. That single interaction was enough. For years afterward, whenever anyone wore…

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How Elephants Use Memory, Recognition, and Recall to Remember Humans They Met Decades Earlier

The Reunion That Started the QuestionsIn 1999, two Asian elephants named Shirley and Jenny were placed in the same enclosure at The Elephant Sanctuary in Hohenwald, Tennessee. They had not seen each other in 22 years. Within minutes, they were touching faces through the bars, vocalizing, and refusing to be…

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Why The Most Shocking Idea About Religion Came From Vivekananda?

The Room That Heard Without Listening On 11 September 1893, Swami Vivekananda stood before the Parliament of the World's Religions in Chicago and opened with seven words: "Sisters and brothers of America." The hall erupted. Two minutes of applause for a greeting. What followed, the actual argument, received polite appreciation…

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Religious Fasting and Metabolic Health: What Navratri and Ekadashi Do to Your Insulin and Glucose

The Biology Starts Within Hours, Not DaysTwelve hours after your last meal, your liver glycogen is nearly depleted. At that point, the body shifts fuel sources: free fatty acids rise, and the liver begins producing ketone bodies. This is not a dramatic event, it happens quietly, every time a fast…

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"Not Precious, or Overly Designed" — How the Barbican's Beech Gardens Capture 'Urban Wilderness', and How to Bring Its Look to Your Own Outdoor Space

In the midst of the iconic London building's brutalist architecture, a softer, naturalistic style of planting makes a striking counterpoint

Livingetc

The New Rule of Entryway Storage? It Has to Look Like Architecture, Not Furniture — Here's How to Make Built-ins Feel Like They've Always Been There

Wave your cluttered entryway goodbye — the newest trend is all about sleek, discreet entryway storage that doesn't look like storage at all

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Why Horses and Other Animals Sleep Standing Up: The Evolutionary Threat Behind This Survival Instinct

The Body That Cannot Afford to RestA horse can fall into slow-wave sleep on its feet. Its legs do not buckle. A passive stay apparatus, a system of tendons and ligaments in each leg, locks the joints without any muscular effort, holding the animal upright while its brain cycles through…

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Why Narcissistic Abuse Victims Take So Long to Name What Happened in a Relationship

The relationship didn't feel like a crime while you were inside itThe clearest sign that something was wrong was how normal it felt. Not peaceful, not kind, but normal. You had adjusted to the unpredictability so completely that his moods became your weather forecast. You read the room before you…

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What Kabir Said About Religion That Made Both Hindus and Muslims Deeply Uncomfortable

The Man Who Picked No SideKabir was born into a Muslim weaver family in Varanasi sometime around 1440, and he spent his life in a city where the Ganga and the call to prayer existed within earshot of each other. He was not a scholar. He did not write treatises.…

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How the Narcissist in Your Relationship Uses Blame, Gaslighting, and Control to Make You the Problem

The Argument That Always Ends the Same WayYou brought up something real. A pattern you have noticed, a boundary you needed, a feeling you could no longer keep to yourself. And somehow, by the end of the conversation, you were the one explaining yourself. You were the one who had…

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The Tantric Philosophy That Makes Your Body Sacred, Not an Obstacle to the Divine

The Argument You Were Never GivenYou were probably taught, in some form or another, that the body is the problem. Not in those words, maybe. But in the instruction to sit still and not fidget during prayer. In the discomfort around menstruating women entering temples. In the fasting that frames…

The Economic Times

The waiting game: Why the UK’s stablecoin moment is now

Global stablecoin market value exceeds three hundred billion dollars, dominated by US dollar denominations. The United Kingdom faces a strategic challenge to increase its presence in this evolving financial architecture. Stablecoins offer efficiency in cross-border payments and programmability for the AI economy. Risks exist but are manageable with appropriate regulatory…

The Economic Times

Polygamy to invite welfare benefits bar, dismissal from govt service: Assam budget

Assam's budget proposes barring polygamous individuals from state welfare schemes. Government employees practicing polygamy will face dismissal from their service. The state aims to promote women's empowerment and gender justice through these measures. Welfare schemes will be delivered through a unified digital beneficiary architecture. The budget also includes tax exemptions…

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Architects Are Designing Heatwave-Proof Extensions, and for Good Reason — These 7 Features Will Keep Your New Spaces Fresh and Cool

The UK's overly glazed house extensions can cause problems with overheating when the temperature outside rises — here's how architects are tackling it, now

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