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International law is clear on the need to protect children who are victims of conflicts, says Nobel winner Kailash Satyarthi on affected children of Gaza and Israel

Kailash Satyarthi, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 for his work in safeguarding children and childhood of a large number of children worldwide, has been deeply disturbed by the images of children being harmed in the latest Israel-Palestinian crisis. He suggests children and young people affected by conflicts…

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What India needs from the ‘Vigyan Puraskar’ awards and what it can get | Explained

India’s revamped science awards, the Rashtriya Vigyan Puraskar, is open to diverse, non-regular affiliations, includes team awards, has no age limit (except for the ‘Yuva’ award), and no cash prizes. This new system must ensure notable contributions include teaching, mentoring, and outreach efforts, adhere to timelines, and ensure gender, socioeconomic,…

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Women can make the world better

Women must be given freedom, not just to be promoted within male-dominated institutions, to shape better, family-spirited institutions for governance

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Mamata threatens protests if Tagore’s name is not included in VB plaque

CM Mamata Banerjee threatens protests if Rabindranath Tagore's name not included in Visva-Bharati University plaques by Friday. Plaques are temporary, to be replaced by ASI's, which may take a year, says university official

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Women, marriage and labour market participation

An analysis of the relationship between women’s marital status and their labour market outcome in the Indian labour market

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Inspirational east London teacher named as finalist in $1m global education prize

Shafina Vohra's innovative LEGO lessons earn praise from judges of global teaching prize

Evening Standard

Turing, Spock … Borthwick? England coach is analytical genius, says May

England wing praises ‘scientific, Spock-like approach’ of head coach who he insists can ‘crack the code to rugby’

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The story of Svetlana Mojsov, and the controversy around revolutionary diabetic drugs | Explained

Serbian chemist Svetlana Mojsov is fighting to have her work recognised for discovering a revolutionary diabetic drug. Who is she? What was her contribution to discovering GLP-1?

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Mahsa Amini, the Kurdish-Iranian woman who died in police custody, is awarded EU human rights prize

Mahsa Amini, the 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman who died in police custody in Iran last year, sparking worldwide protests against the country’s conservative Islamic theocracy, has been awarded the European Union’s top human rights prize

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Mahsa Amini and Iran's 'Woman, Life, Freedom' movement win Sakharov human rights prize

Mahsa Amini, the 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman who died in police custody in Iran last year, sparking worldwide protests against the country’s conservative Islamic theocracy, was awarded the European Union’s top human rights prize on Thursday.

France 24

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Evelyn Fox Keller obituary

American theoretical physicist, philosopher and writer who viewed the history of science and gender through a feminist lens

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Calcutta High Court wonders why Visva-Bharati Vice-Chancellor is still in office

The Calcutta High Court’s strong rebuke of Visva-Bharati Vice-Chancellor Bidyut Chakrabarty, with the judge saying that he should be removed for getting his own professor out of an international science project last year, has given fodder to his detractors who have long been baying for his blood.

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Louise Glück honed her poetic voice across a lifetime to speak to us from beyond the grave

When asked what her response was to being awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 2020, Louise Glück replied that she was “completely flabbergasted.” She said she had thought it “extremely unlikely that I would ever have this particular event to deal with in my life.”

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Undervaluing faculty fellowships is bad for scientists, and science

Govt-supported institutes, private universities, and faculty fellowships are key drivers of advanced scientific research and education in India. Fellowships provide salary, research funds, and access to facilities for a fixed period. Institutes benefit from the funds and teaching contributions of fellows. Despite benefits, fellows face challenges in obtaining office/lab space,…

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Daughter of daily wage earner secures eight gold medals in Bangalore University, dreams of becoming govt school teacher

Vinutha J., daughter of a daily wage earner, emerged topper in Bangalore University with eight gold medals and three cash prizes. With her achievement, she has fulfilled her father’s dream, who wanted her to excel in academics and become a teacher

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Closing the gender pay gap in the workforce

Even when they entered the workforce in droves, overtook men in educational attainment, did not congregate in “female jobs,” and did not drop out from the labour force to have children, women continued to earn less than men.

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“Public sector in countries like India should build more R&D capacity”

The public sector in countries like India should build more capacity in research and development as this would help to evolve effective public policies, Charles Edquist of Lund University, Sweden, said on Saturday.

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Seven from KLETU in top 2% of scientists in Stanford list

In a rare feat of its kind, seven faculty members and scientists from KLE Technological University (KLETU), Hubballi, have made it to the list of top 2% of most influential scientists in the world released by Stanford University for 2023.

The Guardian - US

Louise Glück, Nobel prize-winning poet, dies at 80

Pulitzer prize winner and former US poet laureate was known for her sharp, austere lyrical work

The Guardian - UK

Some Nobel winners are great intellects, others are lucky. There’s more to science than these prizes

The flaws of the awards, seen by the public as the only game in town, are hindering the pursuit of innovation, says astronomer royal Martin Rees

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A golden day for female economists — finally even the Nobel jury pays homage

Harvard Professor Claudia Goldin is the first woman to win the Nobel prize in economics in her own right for her work on the gender pay gap.

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Claudia Goldin’s Nobel win acknowledges what we should all know: women’s economics is mainstream economics

The recognition of Goldin’s pay gap analysis is empowering for all of us, but depressingly, her gender is still more newsworthy, says journalist Josie Cox

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A flash of light lasting an attosecond, or 0.000000000000000001 of a second, is an extremely short pulse of light

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