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Baba Ramdev's Divya Pharmacy sold 'Putrajeevak Beej' — a name critics said promised sons. Ramdev called it an infertility drug; MP banned it anyway.

May 7, 2015 · 1 min read

WotNow — a social local calendar app built by Naperville residents Deepa Salem, Anand Sivaraman, and Vidhya Iyer — launched in 2015.

May 4, 2015 · 2 min read

A preschooler was denied her Oreo snack at school — and her mother pushed back against 'lunch shaming' in a debate over who decides what kids eat.

April 30, 2015 · 1 min read

Texas A&M Galveston professor Irwin Horwitz failed his entire Strategic Management class — then the university overruled him.

April 28, 2015 · 1 min read

Nurse Maria Sevilla's visa was refused because of her autistic son Tyrone's healthcare costs — and her Change.org petition gathered 123,000+ signatures.

April 27, 2015 · 1 min read

IIT Kharagpur researchers adopted 14 acres in Khentia village as a living lab — SRI rice, vermicompost, and rainwater harvesting for small farmers.

April 22, 2015 · 2 min read

Suchitra Sharma meets Kumari Shibulal, whose Sarojini Damodaran Foundation funds full scholarships for underprivileged students across India.

April 20, 2015 · 3 min read

Ayush Sharma, 17 — a mechanic's son and Kendriya Vidyalaya topper from Kanpur — won admission to MIT with a scholarship worth nearly a crore.

April 14, 2015 · 1 min read

The March 2015 gang-rape of a 71-year-old nun during a robbery at a Ranaghat convent — and the political firestorm that followed.

March 26, 2015 · 1 min read

Suchitra Sharma on the Rashomon effect — why two people can witness the same event and remember it completely differently.

March 24, 2015 · 1 min read

An Arizona foster teen who grew up with one pair of too-small shoes asked her adoptive mom for 17,000 pairs — one for every child in the state's foster care.

March 24, 2015 · 1 min read

J&K's 2015 budget offered ₹1,000 a month for every newborn girl — maturing to ₹6.5 lakh at 21 — to fight the state's falling child sex ratio.

March 23, 2015 · 1 min read

A March 2015 Naperville crash at 75th Street and Modaff Road injured a bicyclist — a reminder to share the road as riding season returns.

March 19, 2015 · 1 min read

When a bully taunted cheerleader Desiree Andrews, who has Down syndrome, three Lincoln Middle School basketball players walked off the court to stop it.

March 13, 2015 · 1 min read

A bride in Rasoolabad, Uttar Pradesh, called off her wedding when the groom answered 15 + 6 as 17 — saying his family had hidden his poor education.

March 13, 2015 · 1 min read

Prabha Arun Kumar, 41, was stabbed to death in Parramatta Park, Sydney, on March 7, 2015 — reviving fears about the safety of Indians in Australia.

March 9, 2015 · 1 min read

Convicted rapist Mukesh Singh's unrepentant interview for the BBC documentary India's Daughter — and the outrage and broadcast ban that followed.

March 2, 2015 · 1 min read

A Swedish study of 49,321 men linked lower cognitive ability to heavier drinking — while an LSE study found more educated women drink more frequently.

February 25, 2015 · 1 min read

Sometimes the allergen isn't the fruit — it's the antibiotic sprayed on it. The 2013 blueberry-pie anaphylaxis case that traced back to streptomycin.

February 24, 2015 · 1 min read

Suchitra Sharma on why lying and loving coexist — from white lies to protect a partner to Clancy Martin's 'Good Lovers Lie' argument.

February 23, 2015 · 2 min read