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Human Rights

No Middle Ground: The Risks Of Being A Human Rights Defender In India

The middle ground for human rights work throughout India is eroding fast. Social activists, civil society leaders and “right to information” activists—who ha...

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Sustainable Development

How Worried Should We Be About The 'Nightmare Bacteria' Making Headlines?

 “It’s not that this bacteria is highly transmissible,” said Dr. Emil Lesho, director of WRAIR’s Multidrug-resistant Organism Repository and Surve...

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Environment

Plants Know When They’re Being Touched

By and large, most research seeking to attribute a mental life to plants has been discredited over the years. Yet new research coming out of the University of Western Australi...

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Gender

It’s Not Just The Toy Aisles That Teach Children About Gender Stereotypes

Children are born into a world of pink or blue. A walk down a department store toy aisle demonstrates a clear gender divide: princesses and dolls for the girls, superheroes an...

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Health

World No Tobacco Day 2016: WHO Appeals For Plain Packaging Of Tobacco Products.

The World No Tobacco Day is observed on May 31 every year, and this year, the World Health Organization (WHO) is calling for governments across the world to enact policies for...

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Human Rights

Bonded Labourers, Sex Workers, Forced Beggars: India Leads World In Slavery

India has the largest population of modern slaves in the world with more than 18 million people trapped as bonded labourers, forced beggars, sex workers and child soldiers, a ...

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Sustainable Development

Bitcoin ATMs Are Popular With The Unbanked, But The Regulatory Future Is Unclear

A trend is emerging in the Bitcoin ATM industry. Demand for the services among the underbanked and unbanked has seen steady growth in the two years since the industry’s ...

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Environment

Report Says Huge Sections Of Australia's Great Barrier Reef Are Dead

Mass coral bleaching has destroyed at least 35 percent of the northern and central Great Barrier Reef, a major blow to the World Heritage Site that attracts about $3.59 billio...

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Gender

An Artist, An Athlete And A Diplomat Fight For Gender Equality

UNITED NATIONS—What do World Cup champion Abby Wambach, Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Jewel, and Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations Lakshmi Puri have...

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Health

The Battle Against Superbugs

The sugar-loving Klebsiella pneumoniae, that resembles a squished-up earplug, can strike fear into the hearts of surgeons and scientists. The bacterium can repel even the most...

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ALTERNATIVE ENTERTAINMENT: GHATAK, JUNG, BRECHT & PARTITION

In this profound essay, writer and filmmaker Sharad Raj explores how Ritwik Ghatak merge...

November 12 2025

POWERFUL PEOPLE: JUST DO IT

In a conversation, Khalid Mohamed draws out the eventful life and film adventures of wri...

November 11 2025

TV: A JOURNEY THROUGH GOD’S OWN COUNTRY

Part 2 of Surabhi Diaries by filmmaker Suhail Tatari continues his vivid recollections f...

November 10 2025