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By building cognitive reserve and preserving functional independence, lifelong curiosity vitality to your years. | Photo Credit: Kush Dwivedi/Unsplash It is estimated that in India on an average day, about 19,500 people celebrate their 60th birthday. The size of India’s population aged 60 and above is expected to surpass the population aged 0-14 years by…
People clean a stretch of a road that is covered with mud following heavy rain in Nawalapitiya, Sri Lanka, on August 4, 2026. | Photo Credit: AP At least six persons were killed and three others injured as heavy rain, landslides and flash floods battered parts of Sri Lanka over the past two days, officials…
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This year’s Guru Purnima felt markedly different. Coming in the wake of a major student-led protest and an unusual moment of collective introspection, it highlighted a generational shift with young people demanding to be heard and asserting their agency. That impulse is also reshaping the guru-sishya parampara in Indian classical arts, where the teacher-disciple relationship…
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A brown anole. | Photo Credit: Charles J. Sharp (CC BY-SA) Picture a lizard the length of your finger clinging to a tree branch. The cause of its desperation is a 265 km/hr wind tearing through the air, threatening to peel it off like a loose sticker. Just this happened twice in two weeks to…
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YSRCP national spokesperson and former Rajamahendravaram MP Margani Bharat. File | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) national spokesperson and former Rajamahendravaram MP Margani Bharat has said the riverfront works posed a major threat to the embankment of the Godavari in Rajamahendravaram city. The riverfront development and beautification works are in progress as…
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Udhayanidhi Stalin after his arrest at his Neelangarai residence on August 4, 2026 | Photo Credit: PTI Tamil Nadu Leader of the Opposition Udhayanidhi Stalin, who was on Tuesday (August 4, 2026) arrested in connection with a complaint alleging he made misogynistic speech at Thanjavur, accused the Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) government of resorting to…
Broadcaster JioStar had moved the top court through law firm Karanjawala and Co. The Supreme Court on Tuesday (August 4, 2026) asked JioStar India Pvt Ltd to approach the Delhi High Court with its plea that it did not want to amend its pending petitions there challenging parts of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s…
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Udhayanidhi Stalin arrested in connection with complaint of making misogynist remarks Tamil Nadu Leader of the Opposition and DMK youth wing leader Udhayanidhi Stalin was on Tuesday (August 4, 2026) arrested by police following a complaint registered by a ruling TVK functionary accusing him of making misogynist remarks at a public meeting in Thanjavur a…
Naoero President David Adeang. File. | Photo Credit: AP The smallest island nation in the world has adopted a more indigenous version of its name as part of efforts to move away from its colonial past as well as preserve a language deemed endangered. The move to rename the Republic of Nauru as the Republic…
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Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s migration policies have come under withering criticism as leaders from across the European Union meet on Tuesday (August 4, 2026) following last week’s rush of migrants to the Spanish territory of Ceuta in North Africa. The sudden arrival of 50,000 to 60,000 migrants on Thursday (July 30, 2026) and Friday…