All articles starting with S

Startup India

Startup India is an Indian government initiative launched in 2016 that provides DPIIT recognition, funding schemes like the Fund of Funds, and tax benefits for qualifying startups.

Starvation: severe lack of food that can cause death. Covers IPC famine thresholds, global hunger figures (645 million in 2025), refeeding syndrome, the Minnesota Starvation Experiment, and long-term famine effects.

Starvation (crime)

Starvation (crime): the criminalization of depriving civilians of food and water as a method of warfare, codified in Additional Protocol I Article 54, Additional Protocol II Article 14, and Rome Statute Article 8(2)(b)(xxv), extended to non-international armed conflict by the 2019 amendment; first ICC warrants issued November 2024.

Starvation response

Starvation response: the body's coordinated metabolic adaptation to absent food intake, shifting through glycogenolysis, gluconeogenesis, and ketogenesis to fuel the brain, spare protein, and extend survival.

Starvation Winter

Starvation Winter is the Blackfeet name for the winter of 1883–1884, when failed government rations and the extermination of the buffalo left roughly 600 Piegan dead.

Starve Acre

Starve Acre: 2023 British folk horror film directed by Daniel Kokotajlo, adapted from Andrew Michael Hurley's 2019 novel, starring Matt Smith and Morfydd Clark as grieving parents in 1970s Yorkshire; premiered at the BFI London Film Festival.

Starve the beast

Starve the beast is a conservative fiscal strategy, first named in a 1985 Wall Street Journal article, of cutting taxes to create deficits that force government spending cuts; most U.S. empirical studies find it does not restrain spending.

Starved Rock Lock and Dam

Starved Rock Lock and Dam is a lock and gated dam on the Illinois River near Utica, Illinois, opened in 1933 as part of the Illinois Waterway.

Starved Rock State Park

Starved Rock State Park: Illinois state park in La Salle County along the Illinois River with 18 St. Peter Sandstone canyons, 13 miles of trails, Fort St. Louis history, and 2.4 million annual visitors.

Starwest Botanicals

Starwest Botanicals is a Sacramento, California-based distributor and processor of organic botanicals, herbs, spices, teas, and essential oils. Founded in 1975, it was acquired by Incline Equity Partners in 2021.

Sep 19, 2026

Stary Olsa

Stary Olsa (Стары Ольса) is a Belarusian medieval and early music band from Minsk, founded in 1999 by Zmicier Sasnoŭski, known for its viral Metallica cover.

Oct 20, 2026

Stary Oskol

Stary Oskol (Старый Оскол), city in Belgorod Oblast, Russia; founded 1593 as the Oskol fortress. Center of Kursk Magnetic Anomaly iron ore mining and metallurgy; population 215,937 (2025).

Stary Sad

Stary Sad (Старый Сад, "Old Orchard") is a Bronze Age burial ground in the Baraba forest-steppe, Siberia, of the eastern Pakhomovskaya culture, with ancient DNA samples Sts1-Sts10 and transitional 10th-8th century BC burials.

Staryi Uhryniv

Staryi Uhryniv (Старий Угринів) is a village in Kalush Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine, first mentioned in 1447 and known as the birthplace of OUN leader Stepan Bandera, with a memorial museum and monument on the family homestead.

Starz

Starz (STARZ, NASDAQ: STRZ) is an American premium cable and streaming service launched February 1, 1994, known for originals like Outlander and Power, and separated from Lionsgate into standalone Starz Entertainment Corp. in May 2025.

Sep 19, 2026

Stas Mikhaylov

Stas Mikhaylov (Стас Михайлов), born 1969 in Sochi, is a Russian estrada and chanson-pop singer known for Kremlin Palace concerts and topping Forbes's 2012 celebrity earnings list.

Sep 27, 2026

Staša Košarac

Staša Košarac is a Bosnian politician who serves as Minister of Foreign Trade and Economic Relations and as Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers, the deputy head of government.

StashFin

StashFin is an India-focused digital lending and neobanking fintech founded in 2016 in Delhi by Tushar Aggarwal and Shruti Aggarwal, operating under an RBI NBFC license.

Stasi

The Stasi (Ministerium für Staatssicherheit, MfS) was East Germany's secret police, 1950-1990, modeled on the KGB. Under Erich Mielke it grew to 85,000 staff plus 180,000-200,000 informers, filed six million citizens, and was dissolved in 1990.

Stasiland

Stasiland is a 2003 work of literary journalism by Australian writer Anna Funder that recounts life in East Germany under the Stasi and won the 2004 Samuel Johnson Prize.

Stasis dermatitis

Stasis dermatitis, also called venous or gravitational eczema, is a chronic inflammatory skin condition of the lower legs caused by chronic venous insufficiency, usually in elderly people.

Stassi D. Cramm

Stassi D. Cramm, born Stassi Henson in 1962, is an American church leader serving as the ninth prophet-president of Community of Christ, the first woman in the role.

Stassi Schroeder

Stassi Schroeder (Nastassia Bianca Schroeder, born 1988) is an American reality TV personality, original Vanderpump Rules cast member, fired by Bravo in June 2020 over a false police report against Faith Stowers, now star of Hulu's House of Stassi.

Stasys Lozoraitis

Stasys Lozoraitis (1898–1983) was a Lithuanian statesman who served as foreign minister from 1934 to 1939 and led the Lithuanian diplomatic service in exile from 1940 until his death.

Stasys Raštikis

Stasys Raštikis (1896–1985) was a Lithuanian divisional general who commanded the army from 1935 to 1940, led its modernization, and later wrote memoirs in exile.

STAT1

STAT1 (signal transducer and activator of transcription 1), chromosome 2 gene encoding an interferon-signaling transcription factor; gain-of-function mutations cause chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis, loss-of-function mutations cause mycobacterial and viral susceptibility.

STAT2

STAT2 (signal transducer and activator of transcription 2), human gene MIM 600556 on chromosome 12, a transcription factor of the ISGF3 complex with STAT1 and IRF9, mediating type I and III interferon antiviral immunity; loss-of-function causes viral susceptibility, R148 variants cause type I interferonopathy.

STAT3

STAT3 (signal transducer and activator of transcription 3, APRF) is a chromosome 17q21.1 transcription factor activated by JAK-mediated Y705 phosphorylation; central to immunity and a validated but clinically unapproved cancer drug target.

STAT4

STAT4 (signal transducer and activator of transcription 4, gene ID 6775, 2q32.2-q32.3) is a STAT-family transcription factor activated mainly by IL-12, IL-23, and IL-35, driving Th1 differentiation via T-bet; variants link it to autoimmunity and disabling pansclerotic morphea.