A flavour of risk

Caffeine in soft drinks linked to high blood pressure

The next invasion of insect pests will be discovered via social media

The proliferation of smart phones means many people have an encyclopedia of knowledge, a high-resolution digital camera and GPS in their pockets

You can be sued for your social media posts

Copyright issues related to social media posts are a concern as platforms are shutting down accounts without notice

Even an hour of screen time can affect mental health of 2-year-olds: study

Children and adolescents may have less curiosity, lower self-control & emotional stability, shows a study that surveyed more than 40,000 …

Puppet power

Gyani Baba (wise saint, literarily), a seven feet-tall puppet with handle moustache, is up for a big task in Rajasthan's Ajmer district. He is …

Book review: Panchayats, democracy and development

In 1992 the Indian Parliament approved of the 73rd constitutional amendment, which made it mandatory for state governments to devolve powers to …

Report: Face financial risk - Ignore climate change

A 2003 report, Carbon Finance and the Global Equity Markets, identifies changing climate due to rising global average temperature as one of the …

Book review: Water's many nuances

The Rule of Water -- Statecraft, Ecology and Collective Action in South India By David Mosse Published by Oxford University Press New Delhi …

Simply Put: COVID-19 no-brainers

Heavy lexicon

Dictionary>> Internet • UK

Concealed trade

E-Commerce>>Wildlife • Japan

To pull down or not

Radio Tower>> Architecture • Russia

Keeping the music alive

Tradition>> Museum • Turkmenistan

The official bully

Newspaper>>Fuel Subsidies • Sudan

List of blunders

List>> Medical Negligence• The UK

Siblings’ Facebook war

Facebook>> Drug • Germany

Whales’ killer ways

Footage>> Whales • The UK

Appetite for junk

ADS>> Junk Food • The US

News Snippets

On the rocks for a century

Whiskey bottle >> History • Antarctica

Sooty energy

Documentary>> Coal • the US

Snippets

Plastic interest

Nearly half of teen respondents in Delhi-NCR addicted to internet: Study

CRY research claims internet addiction increases with age; was greater among those with private rooms, access to personal mobile devices

Famine creeps in on Africa while the world’s media looks elsewhere

The western media's focus on events at home like the US elections and the UK Brexit referendum has come at the expense of reporting on the famine …