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My first feminist rebellion occurred in fifth grade. While enrolled at an all-girls’ school in a North India town, I was presented with a mandatory assignment to embroider a dining table runner with crimson cross-stitched lilies. I loathed threading the minuscule eye of the needle, and the teacher tsk-tsked at the back of my sample riddled with tangles. A quick check-in with the neighborhood boys confirmed my suspicion—there were no needlework assignments at the adjoining all-boys’ school. So I refused to embroider, becoming a 10-year-old renegade in the parochial hinterlands ...

Covishield may get UK nod in January, shortly after that in India: Poonawalla The chief executive of Serum Institute - the biggest vaccine maker in the world by volume - said all trial data for Covishield has been provided to authorities in the UK and India as "nobody wants to risk safety" BusinessToday.In | December 29, 2020 | Updated 11:02 IST The coronavirus vaccine being developed by the Oxford University and AstraZeneca might get authorisation in the United Kingdom "by the end of this December or by early January", said Serum Institute of India head Adar Poonawalla. The jab, named Covis...

India wants to counter China’s mega dam plans by building its own. It is a bad idea States of the North East have had to pay the price of the belligerence between the two countries. The Zangmu Hydropower Station across the Yarlung Zangbo/Brahmaputra river in Gyaca county in Lhoka, Tibet. | AFP While Indian and Chinese troops face each other in Ladakh, the water war between the two countries has flared up again in the eastern sector. Both nations have pulled out their favourite weapon: big dams. It began in the last week of November, when the president of Power Constructio...