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Research keeps finding the same thing: kids of emotionally engaged dads do better on nearly every measure. Being present isn't enough — being there is.

From McKinsey chief to convicted insider trader: how Rajat Gupta's tips to Raj Rajaratnam ended an exemplary career — and a two-year prison sentence.

Cottage cheese packs ~28g protein per cup at ~163 calories. Here are sweet and savory ways to eat it — from breakfast bowls to lasagna swaps.

When nominated to the Rajya Sabha in 2012, Sachin Tendulkar declined his entitled government bungalow — a quiet statement on public privilege.

IIT Delhi's plan for a new Sonipat campus reopened a national question: can the IITs scale up access without diluting the excellence that made them elite?

Dawn Loggins was homeless and working as her high school's janitor when Harvard admitted her to the class of 2016 — with a full ride.

Once a lovers' paradise, Bengaluru's Cubbon Park lost its quiet corners to traffic and Metro works — now a plan for 92 acres of fragrant gardens may win

How CDC investigators traced a 2012 E. coli outbreak across six states — from patient interviews to supply-chain sampling — and why leafy greens keep recurring.

NYC subway workers bent the rules and delayed a train to retrieve a little girl's dropped stuffed animal — a small kindness that went viral.

Sania Mirza and Mahesh Bhupathi won the 2012 French Open mixed doubles title 7-6, 6-1 over Santiago Gonzalez and Klaudia Jans-Ignacik — their second Grand

In May 2012 Kaspersky exposed Flame — a massive cyberespionage toolkit aimed at Iran, with 86 fake-identity domains and all the hallmarks of a state operation.

While America fought over Obamacare in 2012, Indian hospitals were delivering world-class surgery at a fraction of US prices.

In June 2012 Sachin Tendulkar took oath as a Rajya Sabha member — the first active cricketer nominated to India's Upper House, and a political lightning rod.

The '1%' was really a 0.1% problem: the elite whose wealth buys the rules themselves. On inequality, Occupy, and why the policy answers differ.

The feeling of certainty is one of the brain's favorite traps. From Kahneman's System 1 to the .10 bat-and-ball problem — why confident answers deserve a

The Bombay High Court upheld the conviction of Ramkishan Harijan for assaulting a 10-month-old but cut his sentence from ten years to seven, sparking outrage.

After the Andhra Pradesh High Court struck down the 4.5% minority sub-quota within OBC reservation in May 2012, the IITs decided to ignore it for JEE

Thomas Langenbach had a $2 million home and a prestigious SAP job — and, police said, a second career stealing Lego sets to resell on eBay.

India's Supreme Court ruled that sex obtained through a false promise of marriage constitutes rape under the IPC — a major statement on consent in Indian law.

The 1,360-km India-Myanmar-Thailand Trilateral Highway — agreed in 2002, perpetually delayed and re-announced. India's road to Southeast Asia.