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When Molly*, 35, was growing up, she remembers the message of “work hard and you’ll get rewarded” being drilled into her by parents and schoolteachers. As a result, she spent her early career putting in the hours.But when she had a child…

CHENNAI, TAMIL NADU, 14/01/2018: Film-maker and producer Karan Johar at the Hindu Lit for Life in Chennai on Sunday. Photo: R. Ravindran | Photo Credit: RAVINDRAN R Producer Karan Johar is seemingly miffed with Bollywood studios moving to…

What is good taste? And who decides it? It’s a question I discussed last weekend with the architect and designer Harry Nuriev, museum director Melissa Chiu and Net-a-Porter president Alison Loehnis: three arbiters of style. But the…

Sports call - Don't blame Tim Southee if his winning percentage as New Zealand Test captain ends up among the worst in the team's history. New Zealand batsman Michael Bracewell heads back to the dressing roo. New Zealand Black…

A study into South African pay discrimination case law, conducted by Stellenbosch Business School, has determined that “equal pay for equal work” rhetoric and anti-discrimination legislation has not had the desired effect. This is despite …

I scuttled through Moscow’s backstreets early in October 1993, skirting the soldiers…

Unionisers at Activision Blizzard‘s Albany office have claimed that the company has taken “the low road” and is choosing to fight efforts to unionise, despite unsuccessfully trying to stop a union at Raven Software from being formed earlier…

More than 99% of veterinarians surveyed said they'd encountered useless or non-beneficial veterinary care in their careers, according to a new Cornell-led study that documents the prevalence of futile care for the first time. The authors…

There are good debates, and there are bad debates. There are futile debates, and at the bottom of that pile--right below the gustatory tussle over veg biryani--is the debate about nepotism in Bollywood. The full force of the N-debate hit…

A new experimental platform developed at Rice University promises to speed up the discovery of how infectious bacteria become resistant to antibiotics. The microfluidic application by Rice bioscientist Yousif Shamoo and his team quickly…