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A Patachitra painting is a slow miracle. The canvas is made from old cotton saris soaked in a paste of chalk and tamarind seed, then polished smooth with a conch shell.

However, you’ll reach a point where you can’t just add the same amount of weight every couple of weeks. This is when you might try something like the “double progression” method.

Wolves disappeared from Danish forests in 1813, when they were hunted to extinction – remembered only in stories and fairy tales. Then, in 2012, a lone male wolf crossed the border from Germany into Jutland, Denmark’s peninsula bordering Germany. More followed. By 2017, Denmark celebrated its first confirmed breeding pack in more than 200 years.

From push-ups and squats to planks and chin-ups, bodyweight training has become one of the most popular ways to exercise because it can be done anywhere – and it’s free.

In a new study of a 56 million-year-old fossil bird, researchers show that the distant ancestors of ostriches and other large flightless birds once flew great distances.

This fast is an emblem of a wife’s love for her husband, and is a centuries old tradition.

A striking blend of humour, social commentary and agendas masked as entertainment, memes have become an effective way of reaching out to and convincing the masses. The diplomats and governments are increasingly tapping into this powerful tool of public diplomacy.

Women carry the burden. It is already known that men’s heavy drinking exacerbates physical violence, leads to more intimate partner violence experienced by women, and to more severe injuries. However, the new research reveals a much wider range of harms that occur to women when men drink heavily. Heavy drinking can include binge drinking and alcohol dependence.

Dozens of Athenians have embraced urban beekeeping to support local ecosystems, reconnect with nature and enjoy honey flavoured by each neighbourhood's local plants and flowers.

The study also investigates the role of inflammation, thanks to blood samples collected from participants at the beginning of the study. These samples contain a wealth of information about different inflammatory biomarkers circulating in the body. When we factored this into our analysis, we found that inflammation levels accounted for about 10 per cent of the connection between sleep and brain ageing.

As the festival of Dussehra approaches, cities across India prepare to burn giant effigies of Ravana, marking the triumph of good over evil. But beyond the fireworks and celebrations lies a quieter, deeper truth: we all carry our own Ravanas within us. These modern-day Ravanas are not just myths—they are the negative emotions and fears that hold us back.

In several cases, women are manipulated to adopt a stranger child. In the absence of any psychological and emotional preparation, it leads to complications.