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Smoky Eye for Indian Eye Shapes: Liner, Shadow and Pigment Techniques That Actually Work

Why Most Smoky Eye Guides Fail Indian EyesThe standard smoky eye tutorial places the darkest shadow in the outer V, blends upward toward the brow bone, and lines the waterline in black. On a deep-set Western eye with a visible lid, that formula reads as dramatic and defined. On a…

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Lesser vs Greater Flamingo: Why India's Sewage Ponds Have Become a Pink Sanctuary

Two birds, one glance, and where the differences actually areStand at the edge of Thane Creek on a winter morning and you will see tens of thousands of flamingos turning the water pink. What you almost certainly won't do, without a field guide and some patience, is correctly sort them…

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5 Caves in India That Go Deeper Underground Than Expected and Reward Every Kilometre of Spelunking

Krem Liat Prah, Meghalaya, The Longest Cave in the Indian SubcontinentAt 31 kilometres of surveyed passage, Krem Liat Prah in the East Jaintia Hills is the longest cave in South Asia. Tourists who arrive at the entrance expecting a short walk with a guide come out two hours later having…

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Meghalaya's Underground River Caves Hold a World Record Most Indians Have Never Heard Of

The Record That Sits Quietly in Meghalaya's HillsKrem Puri, located in the Siju-Rewak area of South Garo Hills, was mapped by the Meghalaya Adventurers Association and a team of international cavers in 2018 and measured at 24.583 kilometres, making it the longest sandstone cave in the world. Not the longest…

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How rose-ringed parakeets went from escaped pets to one of Britain's most recognisable birds

Bright green, loud and unmistakable, rose-ringed parakeets have become one of the most recognisable birds in London's parks and gardens, despite having no natural historical presence anywhere in Britain. The species, native to parts of Africa and South Asia, was first confirmed breeding in the wild in Britain in 1969,…

The Times of India

Belum Caves: Inside Andhra Pradesh's Underground World That Most Indian Tourists Have Never Heard Of

What Belum Actually IsBelum Caves sit near Tadipatri in Kurnool district, carved by the Chitravati river over millions of years through limestone bedrock. The total mapped length runs to 3,229 metres, with a visitor circuit of roughly 1.5 kilometres open to the public. That makes Belum the longest cave system…

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Hasina may make her first public appearance this week since ouster

Exactly two years after her ouster from office, former Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina may make her first public appearance this week. Hasina is likely to virtually address an event at the foreign correspondents’ club of South Asia in New Delhi on Aug 5.

The Times of India

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Why Crocodiles Are India's Most Ancient Survivors of Every Mass Extinction on Earth

Five Extinctions, Zero RedesignsThe asteroid that ended the dinosaurs 66 million years ago killed roughly 75 percent of all species on Earth. Crocodilians watched it happen and kept going. They had already survived the Permian extinction 252 million years ago, the worst die-off in Earth's history, which erased an estimated…

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Everyone in South Asia knows who is stymieing cooperation under SAARC: India

India stated Pakistan is responsible for hindering SAARC cooperation efforts. New Delhi favors strong regional cooperation and has worked towards it for decades. Maldivian President Mohamed Muizzu called for resolving differences through dialogue. The SAARC grouping has been ineffective since 2016 due to stalled summits. India has focused on BIMSTEC…

The Economic Times

Cats Were Domesticated Thousands of Years After Dogs, and the Difference Still Shapes Their Behavior

Two Animals, Two Completely Different BargainsDogs crossed into human company somewhere between 15,000 and 40,000 years ago, the range is wide because the genetic and archaeological evidence keeps pushing the date back. What is clear is why it happened: humans needed something. They needed an animal that could track prey,…

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India among top five growth markets, centre of global strategy for Red Hat

India is currently at the centre of the company's global strategy, both as a critical market and a hub for engineering excellence, Navtej Singh Bal, Vice President and General Manager, India and South Asia, Red Hat, noted.

The Economic Times

Jim Corbett National Park's Wildlife Goes Far Beyond Tigers: Biodiversity, Birds, and Mammals

The Forest That Existed Before the Tiger Became a SymbolJim Corbett National Park was established in 1936 as Hailey National Park, making it India's first national park. The tigers came with it, but they were never the only reason the Ramganga river valley mattered. The park sits at the foothills…

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‘Mad respect’: From Colombo to Karachi, South Asia cheers the Indian Gen Z many had written off

“Kahin pyaar na ho jaye…India ki Gen Z sey eik request hai, ab bas! itna accha karoge toh main nafrat kaisey karoongi.”

Newslaundry

The one big difference between India’s ‘cockroach’ protests and other revolutions across South Asia

From Bangladesh and Nepal to Sri Lanka, youth-led protests have toppled governments. But one crucial difference makes a similar outcome far less likely in India’s ‘cockroach’ movement, reports Namita Singh

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Fleadh in Belfast to showcase Irish, Ulster Scots and South Asian culture

Musicians and dancers from across the world will travel to Belfast in August for the All-Ireland Fleadh.

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Indian Curly Hair Types Actually Explained: Why the Western Chart Gets It Wrong

The Chart Was Not Built for Indian HairThe Andre Walker hair typing system, the 1-to-4, A-to-C grid that dominates every curl forum and shampoo label, was developed in the early 1990s in the United States, primarily to categorise the hair textures of Black and white American women. Indian hair was…

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‘Redollarization,’ not ‘dedollarization’: Standard Chartered thinks U.S. dollar fears are overstated

“We’re not really in this de-dollarization camp,” said Divya Devesh, the bank's co-head of FX research for ASEAN and South Asia.

Times Life

7 Monsoon Illnesses That Look Like a Mild Fever but Carry a Serious Infection Risk in India

DengueA 2023 report from the National Centre for Vector Borne Diseases Control recorded over 289,000 dengue cases across India in a single year, with the sharpest spikes running from July through October. The fever that arrives with it, sudden, high, accompanied by pain behind the eyes and aching joints, is…

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Childhood Obesity in India Is Climbing: What Parents Can Do About Diet, Screen Time, and Sugar

The numbers Indian parents are not seeingA 2023 analysis published in The Lancet tracked childhood obesity rates across South Asia and found that India now has over 12.5 million children with obesity, the second-highest count globally after China. The rate has more than tripled since the early 2000s. This is…

The Economic Times

ADB cuts India's FY27 GDP growth aim to 6.6% on higher energy prices

The Asian Development Bank has lowered India's FY27 GDP growth forecast to 6.6 percent. Elevated energy prices are impacting household purchasing power and squeezing real incomes. The lender also raised India's FY27 inflation forecast to 5.2 percent. South Asia's growth projection for 2026 was also reduced by 0.3 percentage points.…

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Rescuers search for five missing people after deadly landslide in India's Kerala state

Experts say human-caused climate change is intensifying South Asia’s monsoons, which traditionally run from June to September and again from October to December.

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Why Vultures Are Irreplaceable Scavengers and What Their Extinction Means for India's Ecosystem

A stomach that kills anthraxVultures have gastric acid with a pH close to 1, among the most corrosive digestive environments measured in any vertebrate. A carcass infected with anthrax, botulinum toxin, or rabies virus passes through that acid and exits neutralised. No other scavenger in India's food web does this.…

The Conversation

What will AI do for us? Young adults in lower-income countries feel more positive about its potential – new survey

Young people in low- and middle-income countries appear generally more optimistic about how AI can enhance their work prospects and social lives than their western peers, according to our new survey of people in ten countries in Africa and South Asia.

The Times of India

Archaeologists found two 2,000-year-old gold rings in a rice field in Thailand; one carries an ancient Brahmi inscription

In a quiet stretch of farmland in western Thailand, a set of excavations that began almost casually has started to reshape how archaeologists think about life in the region two millennia ago. What started with fragments of old bronze drums pulled from a rice field has turned into something more…

The Economic Times

Adani Defence to invest Rs 2,500 crore in missile manufacturing complex in Madhya Pradesh

Adani Defence & Aerospace has inaugurated South Asia's largest private missile ecosystem in Shivpuri, Madhya Pradesh. This Rs 2,500 crore facility will house the entire missile manufacturing value chain, from raw materials to finished systems, a first for India's private sector. The project aims to boost indigenous defence production and…

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