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Sustainable Development

A story of drinkers, genocide and unborn girls – Why Men on Earth Outnumber Women by 60 million –

Left to nature alone, the population on earth would be give or take 50% men and 50% women, according to what’s become known as Fisher’s Principle. The fact that wo...

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Gender

A story of drinkers, genocide and unborn girls – Why Men on Earth Outnumber Women by 60 million

Left to nature alone, the population on earth would be give or take 50% men and 50% women, according to what’s become known as Fisher’s Principle. The fact that wo...

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Health

What you need to know about HIV

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is passed from one person to another through transferring blood or sexual secretions. “The most important thing is if the exposure was...

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Environment

What Would Happen To The Climate If We Stopped Emitting Greenhouse Gases Today?

Earth?s climate is changing rapidly. We know this from billions of observations, documented in thousands of journal papers and texts and summarized every few years by the Unit...

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Sustainable Development

The Fire on the 57 Bus in Oakland

It was close to 5 o’clock on the afternoon of Nov. 4, 2013, and Sasha Fleischman was riding the 57 bus home from school. An 18-year-old senior at a small private high sc...

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Sustainable Development

UNESCO releases global action programme on ‘education in sustainable development’

As the world struggles to meet ambitious goals to slow down climate change, it has become imperative that planning and execution is not restricted to only policy but is practi...

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Health

Sanitation most relevant for India’s health: Gates

Sanitation is the most relevant aspect of improving India’s reproductive, maternal and newborn health, according to philanthropists Bill and Melinda Gates. In their annu...

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Environment

Extreme Weather Displaces Far More People Than War - And It's Getting Worse

Experts warned on Thursday that governments need to prepare themselves for a growing and often overwhelming influx of migrants. The displaced won't be fleeing the horrors of t...

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Sustainable Development

2015 Could Be Year For Sustainable Development & Investment

A new report published by the United Nations Environmental Programme, the third progress report from their Inquiry into the Design of a Sustainable Financial System, highlight...

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Health

Let’s do our bit to fight cancer: Kamal

Cancer meant death earlier, but not anymore. It can be won over by patients if every person in the society does his/ her bit, say film actors Kamal Haasan and Gautami. Creatin...

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BOLLYWOOD: WHEN THE STAR MEETS A MEMORY

This one revisits Shah Rukh Khan’s early days through Monojit Lahiri’s recol...

November 5 2025

ALTERNATIVE ENTERTAINMENT: WHEN PHANTOM INDIA WAS GHOSTED

Khalid Mohamed assesses the now accessible 1969 documentary, Phantom India, helmed by th...

November 4 2025

TV: WHEN FRAGRANCE BECAME THE TEACHER

In its first edition, Surabhi Diaries by Suhail Tatari revisits the beloved 1990s TV phe...

November 2 2025