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Day October 10, 2017

How Nobel winner Richard Thaler’s ‘Nudge Theory’ is at work on Indian walls

This year’s economics Nobel Prize winner Richard Thaler wrote a trivia-lover’s fantasy book called Nudge, in which he described how tiny prompts can alter human behaviour.   In the Indian context, a fine example of Thaler’s behavioural economics theory at… Continue Reading →

Have you been nudged?

By Lucy Hooker , BBC News e Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Richard Thaler has won a Nobel prize for his research into ‘nudge’ theory Think the Nobel prize for economics has nothing to do with you? In some… Continue Reading →

First Dalit Priest Of Kerala Scripts History By Performing Prayers At Shiva Temple

“This is the culture of Kerala. The nation should follow this.” MANORAMA/YOU TUBE Yedu Krishnan, the first Dalit priest of Kerala, scripted history when he performed prayersat the Manappuram Mahadeva temple at Valanjavattom in Pathanamthitta district on Monday. Challenging centuries of… Continue Reading →

Why does Indian PM Narendra Modi follow trolls on Twitter?

By Geeta PandeyBBC Image copyrightGETTY IMAGES Award-winning Indian actor Prakash Raj recently joined the long list of people asking why Prime Minister Narendra Modi follows trolls on Twitter. The actor said he was upset when he saw some people rejoicing… Continue Reading →

The science of spying: how the CIA secretly recruits academics

In order to tempt nuclear scientists from countries such as Iran or North Korea to defect, US spy agencies routinely send agents to academic conferences – or even host their own fake ones. ByDaniel Golden The CIA agent tapped softly on the… Continue Reading →

Will Move SC for my rights: Discharged Navy sailor who had a sex-change surgery

A naval sailor was discharged from service after he went through a sex-reassignment surgery a few months ago. IndiaToday.in | Edited by Ekta Handa and Shreya Biswas Manish Kumar Giri/ Sabi | Photo: Twitter/@ShivAroor HIGHLIGHTS 1 Born as Manish Kumar Giri, Sabi joined… Continue Reading →

Again- 16 children die at Gorakhpur’s BRD Medical College in last 24 hours #WTFnews

Officials said that 1,470 patients have been admitted to the BRD Medical College since January this year, adding that a total of 310 have died. An inside view of a ward of BRD Hospital in Gorakhpur.(HT File Photo) Sixteen children,… Continue Reading →

Deep inside in Bengal: What the RSS is up to in the eastern state

SOIBAL DASGUPTA Rights-free image File picture of an RSS-run Saraswati Shishu Mandir school. A novelist and playwright infiltrates into the RSS to gain insight for his upcoming ‘novel’ and provides an account of his time spent in the Sangh It… Continue Reading →

Rajasthan farmers after burying themselves waist-deep in the mud, now start an indefinite fast

Farmers’ protest against land acquisition intensifies   Rajasthan Congress president Sachin Pilot meeting farmers who have dug themselves in trenches in protest against acquisition of their land at Nindar village near Jaipur, Thirty-three of the protesters, who have dug pits… Continue Reading →

Exposed-Johnson & Johnson’s ‘irresponsible’ actions over vaginal mesh implant

Woman awarded record $57m damages over implant launched with no clinical trial and marketed despite higher failure rate Hannah Devlin Science correspondent A vaginal mesh implant made by Johnson & Johnson (J&J) was launched without a clinical trial, and then marketed… Continue Reading →

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