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(L-R) Fondation Louis Vuitton, Smritivan Earthquake Memorial Museum, and the Guggenheim Did you know that the city of Basel, Switzerland with a population of around 1,75,000 people has 37 museums? A similar city division in India, such as Bandra East, Mumbai has that many people. Upmarket Bandra however has no museums and the city, barely … Read more
Selim Khandakar, 71, has always dreamt of making a museum in his village for the 12,000-plus objects he has collected over 50 years. A small portion of that collection has now reached one of the best museums in the world — the Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A) in London — thanks to his artist niece, … Read more
According tothe World Organisation for Animal Health, as of February 20, 2025, H5N1 has been found in 99 cats and has killed 18 cats. File (Image used for representation purpose only) | Photo Credit: Reuters A two-year-old girl from Narasaraopeta in Palnadu district, Andhra Pradesh, who was infected with H5N1 died on March 16, 2025; … Read more
Image used for representatin purpose only. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStock Photo Two independent clinical trials demonstrate the safety of stem cell therapies for Parkinson’s disease. The papers, published in Nature, investigate the use of cells derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells and human embryonic stem cells, respectively. Parkinson’s disease is a neurodegenerative disease characterised by the progressive loss of neurons that … Read more
Try to spend some time with Nature; even if you are in a concrete jungle, you can always gaze at the sky! | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Writers from time immemorial had been categorising old age under ‘second childhood’. What exactly leads to senior citizens getting tagged this way? Yes, our bodies have lost their … Read more
Pitching for the marsh: The Corporation shelved a project to develop an eco-park on 93 acres of the Pallikaranai marsh after bio-mining of the dump. The decision followed protests by residents, who demand that the dump be removed and the marsh restored. | Photo Credit: B. JOTHI RAMALINGAM On April 13 this year, a group … Read more
Microplastics were first reported in 2004, and the harmful effects on living organisms have echoed in conversations. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Annie Leonard, former executive director of Greenpeace of the U.S., once said, “There is no such thing as ‘away’. When we throw anything away, it must go somewhere.” Large piles of plastic trash … Read more
Image for representational purposes only. The story so far: Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna recently came down heavily on the Uttar Pradesh government over the growing trend of ordinary civil disputes being converted into criminal cases. His remarks came during the hearing of an appeal filed by two individuals, facing a cheque bounce case, … Read more
An artist’s concept shows what exoplanet K2-18 b could look like based on science data. | Photo Credit: REUTERS The story so far: On April 16, an international research team uploaded a paper in which it reported that the distant exoplanet K2-18b may be habitable. The claim was met with cautious excitement by astronomers. While … Read more
The story so far: U.S. President Donald Trump’s ‘liberation day’ tariffs and China’s retaliatory tariffs have induced fears in India about impacted countries re-routing their exports to the large consumer market. Reports say the Ministry of Commerce and Industry is wary of any potential surge in imports of farm produce from the U.S. and manufactured … Read more