Babies as trophies

TV>> Talk Show • Pakistan

Value of a tweet

Twitter>> Reporting • Virtual world

Wire to prime minister

Telegrams>> Medicines • India

Haunting past

Report>> Indigenous Communities • Brazil

Just no end to destruction

Large-scale herbivore outbreaks follow every El Nio drought

Fish and rice

Pseudo science

- S K HANDA Former head, division of agricultural chemistry, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, writes in Agriculture Today (…

Cross Hairs - December 16-31, 2014

Click the sick

Visual documentation of illnesses is integral to healthcare in the West but a rarity in India. Sayantan Bera charts the hows and whys of medical …

Clearing the clouds

Scientists are learning that the Indian monsoon is an integral part of the global ecosystem. The knowledge of these 'global teleconnections'…

Founded on piracy

The story of early US industrialisation

A thousand flavours

The Burmese people are a great exponent of slow food

Celebration of life

In a first, a Bollywood commercial flick delves into a differently abled person's sexuality

"The world needs a new work culture, not just jobs"

Austrian-born Frithjof Bergmann, a professor of philosophy at the University of Michigan, USA, founded the Center for New Work in 1984 to help …

Check that selfie

Photographs>> Wildlife>>Global

Unaware and unprepared

More than 26 asteroids entered Earth's atmosphere between 2000 and 2013. None of them was detected in advance

Mural protest

Street Art>> Economic Crisis • Greece

Gut instinct

Grasshopper gut contains DNA of plants it eats. Data on the pest’s food habits can help devise control strategies

Rhino under hammer

Auction>> Rhino Hunt • US/Namibia

Lasting impact

Art>> MINGEI • Japan

News Snippets

A social media nation

FACEBOOK>>NATIONALITY ÔÇó Kosovo

Google’s new catch

Internet>> Satellite Imagery ÔÇó Persian Gulf

The errant speech writer

Plagiarism>> ELECTION • Tajikistan

Amazon check

Online Retail>> LAW ÔÇó France