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Thursday, November 6, 2025
TopicWorld Economic Forum

Topic: World Economic Forum

The route to a longer life? 30 minutes a week of muscle-strengthening exercises

Researchers in Japan have found that doing just 30 to 60 minutes a week of such activities is linked to a 10-20% fall in our mortality risk.

‘Code red for humanity’ — 3.3 billion people are vulnerable, UN’s climate change report says

The IPCC report urges the world to cut its total emissions by 45% by 2030 to avoid climate catastrophe.

India to the US — here’s why the world urgently needs a global treaty on plastic pollution

Calls for a "bold, ambitious, broad and urgent" legally binding international treaty have been mounting. UN's Environment Assembly will be telling.

Why are doctors issuing ‘green’ prescriptions? Because mental health needs more than medicine

Covid-19 has fuelled a parallel mental health pandemic. Doctors in Canada, New Zealand and Japan have a new treatment for anxiety and depression.

Covid-19 cost 10 million people their jobs in creative industries. Here’s how to protect them

A new report from UNESCO highlights that about $750 billion was wiped off the value of the global cultural and creative industries during the pandemic.

11 million girls might not return to school due to Covid-19. Education system needs a reset

We are turning back decades of progress toward gender equality & putting girls at risk for adolescent pregnancy, early and forced marriage and violence.

Global maternal mortality was falling before Covid-19 disruption. Race and location are key

From 2000 to 2017, global maternal mortality dropped by 38%. But a closer look at the data reveals that the progress has not been shared by all.

The world’s rising tide of data can be used for good. But first we need to share it

Trading data, like in a stock exchange, would allow it to be transferred in an open, efficient and accountable way.

Fracture of interstate relations, debt crises top threats for India in WEF survey on global risks

World Economic Forum’s annual Executive Opinion Survey identifies 3 other major risks for India — youth disillusionment, failure of technology governance & digital inequality.

Bangladesh’s success story is a lesson in poverty reduction. Here’s why

Since its founding in 1971, Bangladesh has emerged from overwhelming poverty to achieve the highest cumulative GDP growth globally from 2010 to 2020.

On Camera

Why Indian and American Hindus must adapt in a proselytising world

Indian sampradayas have to institutionalise their knowledge and boil it down to essentials for transmission and proselytisation if they are to compete with the major Abrahamic sects.

What does NCLAT order mean for data-sharing ban, penalty imposed by CCI on Meta & WhatsApp

On 4 November 2025, NCLAT bench, comprising Chairperson Justice Ashok Bhushan and Member Arun Baroka, noted that WhatsApp and Meta are distinct legal entities.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.