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“I am not Chinese”: Girl from Arunachal Pradesh responds to comment on her looks with powerful message; watch video

An inspiring young girl from Arunachal Pradesh recently garnered widespread admiration on social media for her eloquent reply to a comment that misidentified her as Chinese. She firmly asserted her Indian heritage, emphasizing the beautiful diversity of India's cultural and physical identities. Proudly sharing her ability to speak Hindi, her…

The Economic Times

NSUI flags ‘RSS links’ in NCERT political science textbook panel

The NSUI has criticized the NCERT's reconstituted textbook development team. They allege members have direct or indirect links to the RSS-affiliated ecosystem. This inclusion raises questions about academic neutrality and ideological diversity in textbooks. The NSUI demands the team's dissolution and reconstitution with independent educationists. They also seek public disclosure…

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How Diclofenac Nearly Drove India's Vultures to Extinction, and What the Recovery Programme Has Actually Achieved

The drug that emptied the skyThrough the 1990s, vulture populations across South Asia fell off a cliff so steeply that ornithologists initially suspected a new disease. The Gyps vulture, the genus that includes the white-rumped, long-billed, and slender-billed species, had been among the most numerous large raptors on earth. Surveys…

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From Cambridge to Indian campuses, a similar playbook hounds the marginalised

Early this year, we were in Manchester to attend the British Sociological Association’s 75th annual conference. Sitting among hundreds of academics, we were deeply intrigued by the title of Professor Jason Arday, the former Cambridge scholar’s plenary talk – ‘Wanted dead or alive: The playbook’. Arday, with great enthusiasm but…

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How Bats Have Evolved Wildly Different Echolocation Strategies for Acoustic Hunting

The Call Is a Weapon, Not Just a MapThe greater horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus ferrumequinum) emits calls at a precise 83 kHz and adjusts that frequency in real time as it closes in on a moth, compensating for the Doppler shift its own flight speed creates, the way a radar operator…

Times Life

What Indian Fashion Week Runways Still Get Wrong About Indian Bodies, Proportions, and Sizing

The Body the Runway Decides to ImagineWalk into any Indian fashion week showcase, Lakme, FDCI, Amazon India Fashion Week, and the silhouette on the runway is almost always the same. Tall. Long-limbed. Narrow through the hip. A torso that sits in a different proportion to the waist than most Indian…

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The Guardian view on Jason Arday: a tragedy that demands reflection

Editorial: Legitimate scrutiny became entangled with a racial argument about merit and diversity. His death raises questions about how society treats black success and failure

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Was the Ghoonghat Really Part of Ancient Hindu Culture?

Why do many Indian women cover their heads in some families and religious settings, while others never follow the practice? Is it an ancient religious rule? Or did different social customs develop at different points in Indian history? This question has recently sparked debate after a viral discussion about ghoonghat,…

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Poor genetic health threatens many species – but it’s fixable

By the early 1990s, there were only around 20 Florida Panthers left on the planet.

The Conversation

If you’re working class, you’ve got little chance of a career in classical music

Letter: Diversity schemes that ignore class will keep mistaking a handful of border-crossers for structural change, says one reader, whose son was judged too privileged

The Guardian - UK

Charlene Kaye: Diversity Shredder review – killer riffs slay toxic music industry

This is a fun and feverish journey, with well-crafted comedy and screaming guitar, through the star’s career so far

The Guardian - UK

The ground beneath 394-foot wind turbines in Poland became unexpected nesting and feeding grounds for wild bees in farmland

In Poland, the bases of wind turbines have emerged as surprising havens for pollinators. Research highlights that these zones foster a thriving community of wild bees and a variety of plant species. The bare gravel and low maintenance create perfect nesting sites for ground-nesting bees. While butterflies opt for grasslands,…

The Times of India

What India's Cheetah Reintroduction at Kuno National Park Has Taught Science About Rewilding a Predator

The biology that made this harder than anyone admitted publiclyThe African cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) is not the same animal as the Asiatic cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus venaticus) that once ranged across India. The subspecies diverged genetically tens of thousands of years ago. When the Wildlife Institute of India and the National…

Times Life

Indiana Professors Lack Standing to Challenge Indiana "Intellectual Diversity" Statute

Some excerpts from yesterday's longish McDonald v. Trustees of Indiana Univ., written by Seventh Circuit Judge Joshua Kolar and joined… The post Indiana Professors Lack Standing to Challenge Indiana "Intellectual Diversity" Statute appeared first on Reason.com.

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33 Hindu Gods or One Reality? The Vedic Mystery Explained

The phrase “33 Hindu gods” is often surrounded by confusion. Many people have heard that Hinduism speaks of 33 crore gods, but the ancient Vedic and Upanishadic texts present a much more specific picture. The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad describes thirty-three principal deities as eight Vasus, eleven Rudras, twelve Adityas, Indra and…

The Economic Times

Happy Independence Day 2026 Wishes: 100+ messages, quotes, Instagram captions and WhatsApp statuses

India will celebrate its 80th Independence Day on August 15, 2026. This occasion commemorates the end of British colonial rule and honors freedom fighters. People will observe the day with ceremonies and patriotic events nationwide. The celebration offers a chance to reflect on India's journey and future aspirations. Wishes and…

Radio France Internationale

UN urges faster action as world falls behind on nature protection

The world is falling behind on its commitments to protect nature, the UN’s biodiversity chief has warned, ahead of a major international conference in Armenia aimed at accelerating action.

The Guardian - UK

The Jason Arday affair must not spell the end for diversity. Here’s how – and why – we should defend it

The scandal has given succour to the same old rightwing attacks on D&I, but companies that do it properly raise standards rather than lowering them, says Joseph Harker, the Guardian’s senior editor, diversity and development

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Michigan's historic Ford House is replacing concrete shoreline with natural habitat; the $7 million project will restore 1 mile of shore and 17.5 acres of aquatic and wetland habitat

A groundbreaking initiative along Michigan's Lake St. Clair is reshaping the shoreline into thriving natural wetlands. By dismantling decades of concrete barriers, this project endeavors to create essential habitats for local fish populations. The transformation revolves around the historic Edsel and Eleanor Ford Estate, aiming to revitalize coastal marshes while…

Times Life

How the Pench-Kanha Wildlife Corridor Did More for Tigers Than Decades of Conservation Alone

The problem with a perfect fenceKanha Tiger Reserve has been protected since 1955. Pench since 1977. For decades, both reserves ran camera-trap surveys, anti-poaching patrols, and strict buffer-zone rules. Tiger numbers inside each park held steady, then grew modestly. But the populations were not truly recovering, they were holding. A…

The Conversation

Languages are disappearing, and the problem is political

Sophia Smith Galler’s How to Kill a Language introduces the many methods that are used to coerce people into taking up dominant languages at the expense of their own. These include massacres, dispossession, forced relocation, criminalisation and public humiliation, as well as more subtle techniques, like economic pressure and political…

The Economic Times

In 80 million BCE, an ancient reptile left behind a crucial fossil showing how limbs disappeared. 80 million years later, scientists found it suggested early snakes may have evolved across both land and water

An ancient fossil discovered in Brazil offers new insights into snake evolution. This 80-million-year-old specimen suggests early snakes inhabited varied environments. Researchers found the fossil represents a new species named Tametara mirim. Its brain structure indicates it likely lived underground, unlike other early snakes. This discovery highlights significant diversity in…

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40 Extraordinary Winning Photos From The LensCulture Street Photography Awards 2026

Each year, the LensCulture Street Photography Awards celebrate the photographers who excel at capturing these unscripted moments. The 2026 edition brings together the work of 41 remarkable photographers from 23 countries across five continents, highlighting the extraordinary diversity of contemporary street photography. Selected by an international jury of photography experts,…

Medical Daily

Coffee Drinkers Carry Different Gut Bacteria, and Two Weeks Without Coffee Started Moving Them Back

Irish researchers had 31 coffee drinkers quit for two weeks, then restart. The researchers tracked specific bacterial species linked to coffee, not caffeine.

The Times of India

These cattle were left to survive alone on an Alaskan island; generations later, their DNA was unlike most US breeds

Chirikof Island cattle showcase a remarkable blend of Yakut and Hereford genetics, having thrived in isolation on a remote Alaskan island for many generations. Over time, their unique traits have emerged through the challenges posed by the island's harsh environment. This resilient herd not only exemplifies genetic diversity but also…

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