Priorities

Indian women show indomitable power

I visit India about once a year. The reason I come so regularly is that the foundation I started with my husband, Bill, works with Indian partners to help advance the country&...

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DiCaprio and 3,00,000 others take part in climate change demonstration in NY

New York City on Sunday was the scene of a huge and colourful demonstration against climate change with more than 3, 00,000 people turning out as part of an international init...

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Nargis Fakhri to raise funds for Jammu and Kashmir flood victims

While a majority of the young crop of talent in Bollywood is too busy focusing on their career, their looks and making loads of moolah, there are also some, who take efforts t...

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HIV on rise as gay men abandon condoms

Doctors are concerned that gay men with HIV are abandoning safe sex practices, and may unwittingly be spreading previously rare sexually transmitted infections such as syphili...

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Record CO2 emissions committing world to dangerous climate change

Global greenhouse gas emissions on course to reach record high of over 40bn tonnes in 2014, study in Nature Geoscience says Children born today will see the world committed to...

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Can the world meet its hunger reduction target?

One in every nine persons in the world goes hungry: UN State of Food Insecurity Report Asia houses 526 million of the 805 million chronically undernourished people in the worl...

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Vandrevala Foundation to improve mental health in India, world’s suicide capital

Following the report published by the World Health Organisation (WHO), revealing that India is the suicide leader of the world, the Vandrevala Foundation, whose charitable act...

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Melbourne rally for climate change action attracts 30,000 people

Organisers of an international climate rally say the Melbourne leg of the global demonstration has seen 30,000 protesters converge on Melbourne's Treasury Gardens on Sunday af...

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India gets its first transgender TV news presenter

Coimbatore, Sep 21 (ANI): A television news station recruited the country’s first transgender news anchor, five months after the court ruled that transgender people be r...

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Why the Health of Mothers and Newborns Is Inseparable

I visited Maryam when her baby was 2 weeks old. I had been meaning to go sooner, but the steep, icy roads up to her ‘house’ in Kabul prohibited an earlier visit. I...

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THOUGHT FACTORY: CELEBRITIES AND RIGHT TO PRIVACY

From Mystique to Masses: How Modern Media Transformed Stardom into Spectacle. Monojit La...

November 26 2024

POLITICS: A NATION AT CROSSROADS AND APATHY

India stands at a crossroads, grappling with economic disparity, political polarization,...

November 24 2024

GENDER: HOW PATRIARCHY SILENCES RESISTANCE

Patriarchy persists by co-opting privileged voices, masking systemic exploitation in ind...

November 23 2024