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Sustainable Development

We Can’t Count On Geoengineering To Save Us From Climate Change, Scientists Warn

In December, governments around the world got together and grandly agreed to limit global warming to below 2℃ above pre-industrial levels—with a preference for keeping...

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Environment

How Can We Make Brexit Work For The Environment?

About 70% of our environmental safeguards and legislation is European legislation – and this is now at risk. The rhetoric from some on the leave campaign indicates that,...

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Festivals

Delhi's First Ever Horror-Thriller Film Festival Is Here To Scare You To Bits

Get ready to be scared off your pants this Wednesday! Greenr Cafe and Store --a vegetarian health eatery in Shahpur Jat--is hosting the first-ever horror-thriller film festiva...

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Bollywood

Rajeev Khandelwal, Neha Sharma Support Youth Social Initiative

Actors Rajeev Khandelwal and Neha Sharma lent their support to the social initiative Young Bhartiya Foundation, which was launched on Saturday. "I don't think we ever thought ...

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Hollywood

Washington, Dunham, Gomez Are Faces Of New Leanin Campaign

Kerry Washington, Lena Dunham, Emma Watson, Selena Gomez and Serena Williams say help from other women has been critical to their success.The stars appear in a video released ...

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Trending

The Shirley Technique: A Cancer Survivor Receives A New Jaw

On Shirley Anderson’s left shoulder is a faded heart tattoo that says “Della,” his wife of fifty years. They met as high school sweethearts in Evansville, In...

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Gender

Gender Parity Initiative Alters Views On What Is Masculine: ‘A Man Is Not A Man If He Beats His Wife’

On May 9, when Yakub Kurne got his sister Tasneem married at 18, it was a transformation for the Muslims in Motyal, a sleepy village in Maharashtra. Until a few years ago, his...

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Health

Infant Mortality Rate: Target Set By Millennium Development Goals Not Met

Sample Registration System (SRS) Bulletin 2014, published by the Registrar General of India and was released earlier this month shows that none of the ten big states (for whic...

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Human Rights

The World Bank Should Champion Human Rights

Much of the evidence supporting the emerging consensus that strong human rights safeguards promote and enhance development has come out of research from the World Bank. Yet th...

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Sustainable Development

It's Safe To Eat These 4 Crops Grown In 'Martian Soil'

Since 2013, a Dutch researcher has successfully been cultivating crops and wild plant varieties in a soil that closely resembles that from the red planet and the moon. Now lab...

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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