Two sisters in the US city of Atlanta have been charged over the killing of a three-year-old boy whose only crime, police said, was taking a cupcake.


Minor killed in US over cupcake


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All three-year-olds in Australia should spend 15 hours every week in childhood education, according to a landmark report here on Thursday.


3-year-olds need 600 hours of formal education a year: Report


More than a thousand pass-outs from premium institutions including the IITs, NITs and IIITs have been roped in to teach at engineering colleges in backward areas across the country, Union Human Resources Development Minister Prakash Javadekar said on Wednesday.


IIT, NIT pass-outs to teach in backward areas


Abul Bajandar, better known as Bangladesh's "tree man" for large bark-like warts on his body, remained in hospital on Wednesday, with doctors saying he might need fresh surgeries in coming days.


Bangladesh 'tree man' trapped in hospital for two years


Four-year-old Aashirvaad Kumar has had the hole in his heart fixed by the doctors at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), the country's premier government-run research and referral hospital, but he is still trying to the fix the hole over his head to find a shelter in the national capital's chilling winter.


No roof for patients at AIIMS, scores brave cold in the open


Emphasising on the significance of the #MeToo campaign, a US tourist, who had complained of molestation during her vacation in Goa in a Facebook post, has thanked the police for swiftly arresting the suspect, hours after she uploaded her travails on social media.


US molestation victim thanks Goa Police, invokes #MeToo


Women in the age bracket 16-30 years comprise the largest chunk of those affected by the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV), which also increases the risk of cervical cancer, revealed a report on Tuesday.


'HPV affects more women between 16-30 years, leads to cervical cancer'


In its bid to protect kids from cyber bullying and harassment, Microsoft on Tuesday listed options for families and parents to ensure children are protected when they are online with Windows 10.


Microsoft lists parental controls to keep your kids safe online


Hours after a US tourist complained on social media of being molested during a bike ride, while on a holiday in Goa on Republic Day eve, Police on Tuesday arrested one Isidore Ferandes, 44, as a suspect for the alleged crime.


Police arrest alleged molester hours after US tourist complains on Facebook


The Municipal Corporation of Gurugram (MCG) on Tuesday appointed cartoonist Shekhar Gurera as its official cartoonist (Brand Ambassador for Cartoons) for Swachh Survekshan 2018, officials said.


Cartoonist Gurera to bat for Gurugram's Swachh Survekshan


Science, which focuses on facts, experimental validation and purported lack of social considerations, seems to be the last place where you could find gender disparity, but as experts say that it is a human activity after all and its practitioners, who largely happen to be men, cannot ignore their conscious or unconscious perceptions. Thus there have been no lack of erroneous assumptions about the sidelining of women in the scientific world.


The unscientific perception of women in the sciences and how it can change


President Ram Nath Kovind on Monday said that addressing farmers' problem and raising their standard of living was the highest priority of the government.


Addressing farm problems government's highest priority: President


The residents of Chennai are breathing unhealthy air most of the time, claims a real-time, first of its kind citizen-led air quality monitoring network on Monday.


Toxic air pollutants alarmingly high in Chennai: Survey


An American documentary on Indian Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi won a top honour at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival here.


Documentary on Kailash Satyarthi wins at Sundance fest


Literature is "indicative and suggestive" of social code of conduct and also teaches a lot about the human history and global surroundings, West Bengal Governor Keshari Nath Tripathi said on Saturday.


Literature documents mankind, his times: Bengal Governor


The Liangzhu relic site of Neolithic ruins in East China's Zhejiang province has been officially recommended by the National Commission of China to Unesco as a candidate for World Heritage status in 2019.


East China city seeks World Heritage status


Former Miss Universe Sushmita Sen, who was last seen in 2010 film 'No Problem', says that she has been looking at scripts for the past one and a half years.


Sushmita ready to return, looking for 'perfect script'


Mexican authorities have discovered 109 migrants showing signs of dehydration and suffocation crammed inside a truck in Tamaulipas, an official report said.


109 migrants found crammed inside Mexican truck


Is the human advancement in science and technology leading us to the point when we might not need to exert ourselves to run our world and become bystanders instead of participants? Not yet, say experts, but we need to take some remedial measures, especially on the educational front, to retain our relevance.


'Is humanity progressing towards its own obsolescence work-wise? Not yet'


A 200-metre-long Tricolour will be unfurled on the Aligarh Muslim University campus here, a student leader said on Friday.


AMU to unfurl 200-metre-long Tricolour


Veteran Bengali film actress Supriya Devi, who breathed her last early on Friday, would be accorded a guard of honour and gun salute before her last rites are performed, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announced here.

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