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The Globalisation Of Bad Food And Poor Health: Sustainable Development Or Sustainable Profits?

The proportion of deaths due to cancer around the world increased from 12 percent in 1990 to 15 percent in 2013. Globally, cancer is already the second-leading cause of death ...

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Attention Must Be Paid (Not To Climate Change)

A bombshell dropped the other day. But if nobody heard it explode, did that make it a dud?This is from a news story on Thursday: “We are not saying this is definitely go...

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What's On At The Spanish Film Festival 2016 In Canberra

It wasn't that long ago, well maybe it was 20 years, when for many of us moviegoers Spanish cinema was synonymous with the work of Pedro Almodovar. And vice versa. His films w...

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Why Kangana Ranaut Is The New Poster Girl For Indian Women

She may be hated for her honest, blunt opinions on matters. She may be envied for the kind of films that are offered to her, but there is no denying that KanganaRanaut is the ...

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Sean Astin Pays Tribute To Mother By Launching Patty Duke Mental Health Project

Actor Sean Astin has paid tribute to his mother, Patty Duke, by starting a Crowdrise campaign. Duke – a passionate supporter of mental health issues – passed away ...

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Idea Extends Easy Share To Support Child Education

With its Easy Share campaign, Idea Cellular created a platform to enable mobile internet users to share data for the benefit of children. On the completion of this campaign, I...

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Decoding Gender For Teens

It is not everyday that engineering and pharmacy students in Telangana sit down in class to watch a movie followed by a discussion, and be evaluated based on their thoughts. B...

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Labeling The Danger In Soda

How many teaspoons of sugar do you think are in a 16-ounce bottle of Coke?a) 3b) 6c) 9d) 12The answer is 12. A 16-ounce Snapple Kiwi Strawberry — “Made from the Be...

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On Paper Electrified Villages; In Reality, Darkness

Haldu Khata, a village in Bijnor district of Uttar Pradesh, is one of the 7,008 villages that the government claims to have “electrified” in the last year, under t...

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Study Raises New Concern About Global Warming

A study published in Nature says global warming could disintegrate the vast ice Antarctic ice sheet sooner than originally thought. That would mean a 3-foot sea level rise by ...

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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

BOLLYWOOD: HAQ AND THE PRICE OF A WOMAN’S VOICE

In 1978, Shah Bano, an elderly Muslim woman from Indore, filed a petition seeking mainte...

November 9 2025