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Kabul restaurants owned, staffed by women continue to remain closed under new 'moderate' Taliban

Women are the breadwinners for some families and these families have been facing economic and financial problems

A Tamil lyricist is reinventing one of Chennai’s last surviving libraries and bringing readers back

Stories Library Café in Chennai’s KK Nagar is reinventing itself and bringing readers back from the woodworks.

Robots at a Budapest cafe serve up food and drink, tell jokes, dance with kids

Pepper, a “receptionist” robot can hold a conversation and also dance with customers.

Robot-waiters remotely controlled by differently abled people serve at a cafe in Japan

The humans operating the robots may have conditions such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis .

Navi Mumbai's Third Eye Cafe has employed transgender people, to help them live with dignity

By giving them gainful employment, Third Eye Cafe is helping transgender people to integrate into the mainstream

Truffle Watching: What makes this 'black diamond of the earth' the most expensive fungus in the world?

In 2012, a two pound truffle (nearly a kilogram) sold for almost $300,000, which is nearly Rs 2 crore! But what are truffles, and why are people willing to spend so much money on it?​

Quirky cafés in India: If you're looking for more than just coffee, food these are the places

In India, these are the cafés that are offering reasons to keep returning

Gaurav Gill: Theory of evolution

India’s twice APRC champion on the philosophy that helps him survive in the sport of rallying

Watch: At the Cat Café Studio in Mumbai, cuddle up with a feline while sipping on chai

Apart from brownies and chai, the Cat Café Studio also has cat food for the 50-odd in-house felines, that you can cuddle with when you visit the premises

Bangladesh police kills 11 members of Islamist group blamed for 1 July café attack

Bangladeshi security forces killed 11 members of an Islamist militant group on Saturday, most of them dying in a three-hour gun battle on the outskirts of the capital.