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In a welcome initiative to improve the underrepresentation of women in scientific studies, the Centre for Brain Research (CBR) at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, has introduced the “Amba Subba Rao Fellowship for Women Researchers.” It targets early-career women scientists with expertise in brain ageing, an area that has been on the rise…
Photo Credit: carribean.un.org Clear Cut Gender DeskNew Delhi, UPDATED: Sep 24, 2025 12:15 ISTWritten By: Janmojaya Barik The oceans are in crisis, and the evidence is now impossible to ignore. Scientists have verified that the world is witnessing its most widespread and intense coral bleaching episode ever recorded. From the Great Barrier Reef to the…
Photo Credit: Antara Mrinal Clear Cut Gender DeskNew Delhi, UPDATED: Sep 22, 2025 02:25 ISTWritten By: Antara Mrinal People have studied Marketing for a long time, especially with its incorporation of subconscious tactics. Adverts focus on a person’s self-doubt, amplify it, and then conveniently offer a solution; and no other demographic has been scrutinized and…
Photo Credit: ClearCut Team Clear Cut Gender DeskNew Delhi, UPDATED: Sep 21, 2025 10:20 ISTWritten By: Dr Sonali Mohapatra, PhD She was seventeen, living in a small Indian town, when she first heard the word choice. Not from a teacher or a textbook, but whispered by a friend after school. The friend had to drop…
Photo Credit: Janmojaya Barik Clear Cut Gender DeskNew Delhi, UPDATED: Sep 08, 2025 04:40 ISTWritten By: Janmojaya Barik Lucknow, September 8, 2025 – Imagine walking into a classroom where students aren’t just trying to mug up theories from a textbook that hasn’t been updated in years but are preparing to change lives. That vision may…
Clear Cut Gender And Skills & Livelihood DeskNew Delhi, UPDATED: Sep 04, 2025 01:56 ISTWritten By: Antara Mrinal The UN will be turning 80 on 24th October 2025, as one of the few defences against the plague of conflicts at an international level and injustice of any type, which has plagued the global community as…
Photo Credit: Parinita Mathur Clear Cut Gender DeskNew Delhi, UPDATED: Aug 29, 2025 10:09 ISTWritten By: Paresh Kumar How Dowry Deaths Forewarn a Nation’s Collapse The recent news of a young married woman’s death in Greater Noida has shocked many. While counter-theories suggest that it may have been a suicide rather than a dowry killing,…
Photo Credit: Paresh Kumar Clear Cut Gender DeskNew Delhi, UPDATED: Aug 14, 2025 10:11 ISTWritten By: Paresh Kumar This morning, when I received a WhatsApp from an old friend, who’s now serving as Wing Commander Ranjan in the Indian Air Force, I got curious about a name he mentioned: Lt. Bharati ‘Asha-san’ Sahay Choudhry. I began…
