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Photo: AI imageAs Climate Risks Mount, Lancet Study Urges 5 Actions to Safeguard Global Health
New Delhi: Amid predictions of the strongest-on-record El Niño later this year, researchers have put forth five actions through which people around the world could be better prepared for the event, potentially reducing its toll on human health. The actions are aimed at gaining a comprehensive risk overview, which holds the key to being able…
Photo: AI ImageThe Autumnal Soundscape: A Season of Reflection
In Western popular music, autumn is rarely treated as a mere calendar transition. While summer is celebrated with upbeat anthems of freedom and winter is marked by festive cheer, autumn commands a unique, introspective space. It is a season defined by contradiction—rich in visual beauty but anchored by decay; a time of harvest and a…
Photo: PTICeiling fan removal debate: How several foreign universities modified campuses to prevent suicides
Spring-loaded “antisuicide” fans, enclosing fans in mesh guards or replacing ceiling fans with wall-mounted units—the physical modifications by Indian educational institutions to prevent student suicides might be attracting criticism as “bandaid measures”, but the approach has been adopted previously by several foreign universities. University of Houston (UH) had in 2023 made changes in its infrastructure,…
Photo: AI ImageFrance’s Gen-Z Revolt: When a School Crisis Becomes a Crisis of Trust
What began in France as a revolt over missing teachers, overcrowded classrooms and deteriorating school buildings has become something considerably larger: a test of the relationship between a younger generation and a state increasingly struggling to reconcile public expectations with fiscal constraint. The protests, which began in the Paris region in September, have spread to…
Photo: AI imageWhat Pregnancy Complications Could Mean for Future Health: UK Study Finds Higher Risk of Heart, Kidney And Metabolic Diseases
New Delhi: Women who experienced a complication in pregnancy could be at a higher risk of developing cardiometabolic-renal conditions in subsequent years, according to UK research. Complications of gestational diabetes, high blood pressure, and postnatal depression were linked to a raised risk of four conditions — cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure or…
Photo: AI ImageIndian Bureaucracy—A Complex Institutional Architecture
An evaluation of the Indian bureaucracy—often referred to as the ‘steel frame’ of the nation—reveals a complex institutional architecture. Originally designed by the British colonial administration to maintain order and collect revenue, it was retrofitted post-independence to drive socio-economic development and democratic governance. While this structure has successfully held a highly diverse nation together, it…
Photo: AI imageFailure does not always close a door. Sometimes, it shows the way
A young woman succeeding on her own terms should not be remarkable. Yet in South Asia, where women have too often been judged first by gender and only afterwards by ability, independence still carries the weight of defiance. That is why Luna Luitel’s story deserves to be read as more than a beauty-pageant success story.…
Photo: AI ImageFrom Stroke to Oral Cancer: Lancet Study Reveals the Global Health Toll
New Delhi: India is among the top countries with 90 per cent of the world’s chewing tobacco-related health burden, and South Asia is the “epicentre” of chewing tobacco, according to new research published in The Lancet Global Health journal. Researchers estimated that chewing tobacco contributed to 251,000 deaths globally in 2023 — there were 241…
Photo: AI imageFrom Screens to Spine: Experts Raise Concern Over Children’s Neck and Back Health
New Delhi: Excessive screen use, prolonged sitting and poor posture could be contributing to back, neck and other spinal issues among children and adolescents, physiotherapy experts said, and called for regular movement breaks, ergonomic awareness and preventive physiotherapy. Experts from the Indian Association of Physiotherapists (IAP) raised the concern at the World Physiotherapy Asia Western…
Photo: AI ImageUndiagnosed OSA emerges as silent cardiovascular risk
OSA, high BP and diabetes are silent risks for heart disease Obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) is emerging as an often-overlooked risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Health experts have warned that people may mistake persistent snoring for a harmless habit while an underlying sleep disorder remains undiagnosed. Along with undiagnosed hypertension, diabetes and dyslipidaemia, untreated OSA…
