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Ants, crickets and cockroaches — healthy snacks that taste like potato chips

United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has counted more than 1,900 insect species that are edibleEspecially in Asia and in Africa, the tiny creatures are touted as delicacies packed with vitamins, minerals and energy

1 min read2 Oct 2019
Opinion

Opinion | No need to panic, the ants are on their way

When  a  Veromess or  pergandei  ant  gets  stuck  in  a  spider web, others rush  in to  the  rescue. They  dismantle  the  web  and  take  the  trapped  ant  back  to  the  nest

7 min read13 Jun 2019
Opinion

Opinion | In the ‘collective’ memory of 30 million ants

Human memories emerge from the way individual neurons interact, just like an ant colony's collective memory is created by behaviour of its members

7 min read4 Jan 2019
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Dalit voice gets heard with Sujatha Gidla’s Shakti Bhatt win

Sujatha Gidla's book Ants Among Elephant is an account of growing up in an 'untouchable' family in modern India

2 min read19 Oct 2018
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How to tell the Dalit story

Sujatha Gidla, author of a book on untouchability, on the pervading caste discrimination in the country

7 min read25 Nov 2017
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A caste that must not be seen

'Ants Among Elephants', New York train conductor Sujatha Gidla's searing memoir of life as a Dalit, which is creating a buzz internationally, is really the story of India through the eyes of the 'untouchables'

5 min read8 Sep 2017
Science

Newly discovered ants species named after English rock band Radiohead

US ant lab names a new species of ants found in Venezuelan Amazon after English rock band, Radiohead to honour their contributions to music, conservation efforts

1 min read26 Apr 2017
Science

Much like humans, ants march into battle to rescue their wounded comrades

Much like human soldiers in combat, African Matabele ants march in formation into battle and afterward retrieve wounded comrades and carry them back home to recover

2 min read13 Apr 2017
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When ant enslaves ant

Indian scientists have discovered an ant species that kidnaps others, behaviour seen for the first time in the tropics

6 min read9 Apr 2017
Opinion

Numbers, when you have nothing to do

Did you know that an ant, for its size, scurries along nearly four times faster than Usain Bolt at his fastest?

5 min read7 Apr 2017
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The Union Budget contains details about the estimated receipts and the expenditure of the government for a particular fiscal year. The Budget is allotted for the upcoming fiscal year, which runs from 1st April to 31st March of the next year. Here is a quick guide on how the Union Budget is prepared

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