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Exclusive: Prada to launch $930 ‘Made in India’ sandals after backlash Prada will make a limited-edition collection of sandals in India inspired by the country's traditional footwear, selling each pair at around 800 euros, Prada senior executive Lorenzo Bertelli told Reu...

#Prada to launch #MadeInIndia sandals; turning a backlash over #CulturalAppropriation into a collaboration with #IndianArtisans

#KolhapuriChappals are made in #Maharashtra — #Kolhapur #Sangli #Satara #Solapur & #Karnataka — #Belagavi #Bagalkot #Dharwad #Vijayapura
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Not sure but several movies out there with plots where the antagonist is about to or able to control the weather/conditions

Mini brains, big questions: science is racing ahead of ethics Brain organoids are revolutionising research, but their growing complexity raises unsettling ethical questions.

#OrganoidModels —miniature, LabGrownClusters of cells that imitate RealOrgans

#BrainOrganoids' growing complexity raises unsettling EthicalQuestions

If organoids can process info or change their behaviour in response to it—do they gain #MoralStatus?

#BioEthics
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The Strange and Totally Real Plan to Blot Out the Sun and Reverse Global Warming A 25-person startup is developing technology to block the sun and turn down the planet’s thermostat. The stakes are huge — and the company and its critics say regulations need to catch up.

#StardustSolutions is developing technology to #BlockTheSun & turn down the planet’s thermostat & #ReverseGlobalWarming

The stakes are huge—& the company & its critics say regulations need to catch up

#SolarGeoengineering #YanaiYedvab #StratosphericAerosolInjection
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Throats slit, Hindu freedom fighter, wife killed in Bangladesh; sons work as cops A 75-year-old freedom fighter (Muktijoddha) and his wife were found brutally murdered, their throats slit, at their home in Bangladesh's Rangpur. No case has been filed or arrests made over the murder...

Throats slit, Hindu #FreedomFighter, wife killed in #Rangpur, #Bangladesh

No case has been filed or arrests made; sons work as cops

The killings come amid rising alarm over attacks on #minorities, particularly #Hindus, under #MuhammadYunus's interim administration
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Gold, lithium found in Karnataka forests, pressure on to give clearance BENGALURU: The state Mines and Geology Department has prepared a list of 65 locations where the study and exploration for gold and other rare earth minerals is

#Gold, #lithium found in #Karnataka #forests

Forest dept officials said pressure is building on them to give clearances (at #LingsugurReserveForest patch & #AmrapurReserveForest patch in #Kushtagi )

"We cannot open protected #VirginForest areas for #mining"
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Why #India’s #doctors leave for ForeignShores while #Cuba’s serve their poorest

#IndianMedicalEducationSystem prepares workforce that learns to value PersonalProfit over their patient’s WellBeing

CubanMedicalEducation integrates SocialResponsibility, equity & PublicHealth
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This “Cinderella Sense” May Be Tied to More Than 130 Disorders This “Cinderella Sense” May Be Tied to More Than 130 Disorders: Researchers give a whiff of why smell matters to health.

Regular screening for #olfactory could lead to early detection of certain diseases

#SmellHealth is potentially linked to more than 139 conditions that manifest throughout the body—including #Alzheimer’s, #CongestiveHeartFailure, #stroke, & #Parkinson’s

#Smell #Scent #Nose
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How the ‘hypnagogic state’ of drowsiness could enhance your creativity Many artists and scientists have had breakthrough while in this drowsy state between sleep and waking.

How #HypnagogicState (TwilightZone between sleep & wakefulness, when we drowsily linger in a SemiConsciousState, experiencing vivid mental images & sounds) of drowsiness could enhance ur creativity

Many artists & scientists hv had breakthrough while in this state
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Explainer: How non-tariff barriers are choking Indian exports NTBs now cause more export loss than tariffs ever did. Indian firms are no longer losing markets on price—they are losing them on paperwork, processes and politics. Without systematic NTB action, Indi...

A #NonTariffMeasure (NTM) becomes a #NonTariffBarrier (NTB) when it stops being about protecting citizens, & becomes all about restricting #imports

NTBs now cause more #export loss than #tariffs ever did

#India must raise the issue of NTBs in #TradeTalks
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Your Brain Goes Through 5 Distinct Epochs, Massive Study Finds The human brain is not a hard-wired machine but a malleable organ that is regularly re-shaping itself.

Our #brain goes through 5 distinct epochs

Architecture of #HumanBrain takes a distinct turn at 4 ages—around 9, 32, 66, & 83 years old, and they mark 5 epochs: #childhood, #adolescence, #adulthood, #EarlyAging, & #LateAging

Age 32 is the strongest turning point
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Internet of beings: the dream of digitising human bodies for healthcare (and the nightmare) Medicine is on the brink of an era where microscopic devices inside our bodies connect us directly to the digital world.

Your organs could soon join the #internet

These gel-based #biorobots won't just monitor your health—they'll actively heal you

The idea of #DigitisingHumanBodies inspires both dreams & nightmares

Nightmare is about losing our humanity while digitising our bodies
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Banner image: A stone quarry in Mangaluru, Karnataka. Representative image by Ravimum via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0). Picture of a stone quarry followed by the text: • A new study has found that after the 2016 ban on river sand mining in Kerala, stone quarries have expanded near protected areas in the Western Ghats to extract stone for M-sand production. • The researchers found that some quarries expanded five to tenfold or more during 2011 to 2021. About 17% of this increase took place in 2016. • Besides causing loss of biodiverse habitat, quarrying activity involves loud noises, dust, ground-shaking blasts which could potentially harm the region’s wildlife. • The study recommends that ecologically sensitive zones be designated strictly off-limits for new quarry approvals.

Image of a stone quarry in Malayattoor in Ernakulam district, Kerala. The state’s construction industry reacted to a 2016 ban on river sand mining in six of Kerala’s rivers by switching to manufactured sand (M-sand), artificially made from crushing hard rocks into fine particles. Representative image by Ranjithsiji via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

A view of the Western Ghats. Based on data from Kerala’s state mining portal KOMPAS, the researchers identified 355 operational quarries of which 72 quarries fall within the 10-kilometre buffer zone around 20 protected areas in the Western Ghats. Image by Max Martin.

#Quarries devour #BufferForests of #WesternGhats after #SandMiningBan

Post ban— #miners started crushing QuarriedHardRock to produce ManufacturedSand, also known as #Msand

Quarrying activity with its loud noises, dust & #blasts is harming #biodiversity

📸Mongabay
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Land beneath India’s five largest cities is sinking due to over-extraction of groundwater: Study Five Indian megacities face an increasing threat of land subsidence, and the primary cause is excessive groundwater extraction, leading to structural risks for

#Land beneath #India’s 5 largest #cities is sinking

1 #Delhi
2 #Mumbai
3 #Kolkata
4 #Bengaluru
5 #Chennai

Besides extensive #GroundwaterExtraction, #IndianMegacities may also experience #subsidence due to the #cumulative weight of the #urban structures above
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How anatomical names can carry hidden histories of power and exclusion Why is your ankle named after a Greek hero and your uterus after a Renaissance anatomist? The answer says as much about power and memory as it does about medicine.

How #AnatomicalNames can carry hidden #histories of #power & #exclusion

Most #eponyms originated during the #EuropeanRenaissance, a time when anatomical #discovery often meant #ClaimingKnowledge that already existed elsewhere

#Women #IndigenousKnowledgeSystems
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#SmartCityMission represents another nail in t coffin of #India's #LocalDemocracy rather than its executioner. SCM has come to an end & t future of SPVs is uncertain

Implementing projects through SPV AlteredBalance between levels of govt with a CentralisingVision & control
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Survey reveals gaps in Bengaluru’s healthcare service for the elderly The survey, covering 13 public health facilities (PHCs), found poor physical accessibility, cumbersome registration processes, and illogical operating hours as major stumbling blocks for elderly perso...

Survey reveals gaps in #Bengaluru’s #HealthcareService for the #elderly

Covering 13 #PublicHealthFacilities, found poor #PhysicalAccessibility, cumbersome #RegistrationProcesses, & illogical OperatingHours as major stumbling blocks for t elderly

#GeriatricCare
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Do strong friendships slow down ageing? Science says yes A new study has found that people who build strong, supportive relationships over their lifetime don’t just feel younger, but their bodies may actually age more slowly. Published in the journal Brain,...

Do #StrongFriendships slow down #ageing?
Study finds that people who build strong, supportive relationships over their lifetime don’t just feel younger—their bodies may actually AgeMoreSlowly

#AgeingWell means staying healthy & staying connected—they’re inseparable
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How our minds trick us into thinking we are being greener than we really are Adding “green” products to your food basket doesn’t reduce its carbon footprint – even though we think it does.

How our #minds #trick us into #thinking we are being #greener than we really are

This #MentalGlitch is called the #NegativeFootprintIllusion, & it matters for how we #shop, how #businesses #market themselves & how govts #design #ClimatePolicies

#SummativePriming
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#Nepal’s #GenZrevolt is taking #SriLanka’s path of relative calm to #RestoringDemocracy

Like t #SriLankanArmy, t #NepalArmy has played a commendable role in t formation of t interim government

Unlike t #BangladeshiArmy, it is not trying to call the shots

#PoliticalUnrest
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Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low-likelihood, study finds Scientists say ‘shocking’ discovery shows rapid cuts in carbon emissions are needed to avoid catastrophic fallout

Collapse of a critical #AtlanticCurrent— the #AtlanticMeridionalOverturningCirculation (Amoc) can no longer b considered a low-likelihood event

#Amoc could eventually shut down if drastic #CarbonEmissions cuts don’t arrive over t next few decades

#Climate #Ocean
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Politicians keep using songs on social media. What if an artist doesn't like it? Having a song go viral is usually good news for an artist. But as politicians become more social media savvy and jump in on viral trends, how can musicians respond if they don't like the way a party o...

#Politicians keep using #songs on #SocialMedia

What if an #artist doesn't like it?

In many #European countries #AuthorsRights include not only #FinancialProtections, but also #MoralRights

In the #US, #CopyrightLaw operates primarily within an #EconomicFramework

#Memes
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Trump’s Bullying of India Is Straight From Xi’s Playbook By using tariffs as a foreign policy tool, the US president is legitimizing China’s own acts of economic coercion.

#Trump’s bullying of #India Is straight from Xi’s #playbook

By using #tariffs as a #ForeignPolicyTool, the US president is legitimising #China’s own acts of economic coercion

#EconomicCoercion is exactly what the #US & its #allies have long despised about #Beijing
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An image which has an artistic Indian Flag in the top background with the text below reading Happy Independence Day And then the subtext reading Freedom is a gift we must protect with unity, courage, and responsibility! Right next to it is a girl child running with the Indian tricolour flag aloft in her hand

🇮🇳 Happy Independence Day

Celebrating the 79th Independence Day of India and 78 years of Independence

#India #IndependenceDay #Freedom #IndiaAt78 #IndependenceDay2025

A pic of Patrice Lumumba waving with the text as follows below it: In the 1960s, the US, Belgium and a pliant UN helped overthrow Patrice Lumumba whose ideas of African unity and independence were seen as dangerous by the West.

Colour picture of Patrice Lumumba who had been murdered just a year after being elected Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo on June 30, 1960, when the country gained independence from Belgium.

What #India’s passionate support for an assassinated #CongoleseLeader #PatriceLumumba says about today’s WorldOrder—reflects a time when 🇮🇳 was closely involved in t LiberationStruggles in #Africa through t state, t activities of SolidarityOrganisations & individuals
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#Elections are the guts of a #democracy. And #VoterRolls, in turn, are the guts of an #election

Seven decades later, the widespread impression that the whims of #officers – and #politicians – are now deciding voter rolls is severely damaging to the idea of #IndianDemocracy
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Forget jobs, AI is taking away much more: Creativity, memory and critical thinking are at risk. New studies sound alarm Artificial intelligence tools are becoming more common. Studies show over-reliance on AI may weaken human skills. Critical thinking and emotional intelligence are important. Businesses invest in AI bu...

AIproficiency comes from #CriticalThinking, #AnalyticalReasoning, #CreativeProblemSolving, & #EmotionalIntelligence —abilities that allow humans to MakeMeaning from what #AI outputs & to question what it CannotUnderstand

OverReliance on AI may weaken #HumanSkills
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Who Really Pockets India’s Russian Oil Windfall? India’s Russian oil imports tell a striking story in numbers. Over the past two years, India has been importing crude oil at discounts ranging from 25% to 50%, amounting to US$5–USUS$30 per barrel bel...

Who really pockets #India’s #RussianOil windfall?

Despite #oil being #deregulated on paper, RetailPrices are effectively administered

Govts prefer #HighPrices to secure steady #TaxRevenues, while OMCs justify margins by citing past under-recoveries on #LPGsubsidies
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Top 10 safest cities in India 2025: Mangalore leads, Delhi ranks at the bottom Top 10 safest cities in India 2025 list: In Gujarat, three cities—Vadodara, Ahmedabad, and Surat—ranked in the top 10 safest Indian cities with safety scores of 69.2, 68.2, and 66.6, respectively.

#Mangaluru( #Kudla) has been ranked as the #SafestCity in #India, praised for its LowcrimeRates & strong civic infrastructure —GloballyRanking #49

#Vadodara, #Ahmedabad, & #Surat—rank next

#NewDelhi, #Noida & #Ghaziabad r ranked among the most #UnsafeIndianCities
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