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Ravan Dahan 2026: Check Dussehra and Vijayadashami puja timings, auspicious muhurat, and city-wise Ravan Dahan schedules across India.

Dussehra 2026 will be celebrated on October 20. Check Vijay Muhurat, puja timings, history, significance, Ravan Dahan details and 50+ Vijayadashami wishes.

When is Maha Ashtami 2026? Check the correct date, October 18 or 19, along with Durga Ashtami puja timings and important Navratri rituals.

Why does a 1960 research paper predict Doomsday on November 13, 2026? Know the science behind the prediction, its population theory and what it really means.

For most healthy people, toxo remains a silent passenger for life, causing no illness at all. But understanding how this remarkably successful parasite hides from our immune system could lead to something we’ve never had before: treatments that completely clear dormant infection.

A new federal rule change in the Endangered Species Act protects against the direct killing of the species but removes habitat destruction.

Heat can quietly damage medicines, making them less effective or even unsafe.

Recursive self-improvement is when AI builds its own successor without human input. Learn what it means, why Anthropic's co-founder says it is coming by 2028.

The 1986 reform decriminalised consensual anal intercourse – subject, naturally, to the age of consent being respected and with protection for those without capacity to consent. Other forms of male homosexual activity could now occur without the risk of arrest. Female homosexual activity wasn’t mentioned because it had never been criminal.

After over a decade of favouring keyboarding, the schools are finally putting pen to paper when it comes to the practice of cursive handwriting, with the state of Pennsylvania becoming the latest to join the cursive bandwagon. A decision backed as much by experience, as experiment and research.

Several global indices have placed Indian passports in the league of African nations like Gambia, Rwanda and Burkina Faso. What holds Indian passports back from being in the first quarter of nations?

Human studies show that GLP-1 agonists reduce alcohol consumption. Preclinical animal studies suggest these drugs also reduce the use of cocaine, amphetamines, opiates and nicotine.