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Despite International Pressure, Paraguay Denies Abortion for 10-Year-Old Girl

Paraguay’s government has rejected the recommendation of the Inter-American Commission for Human Rights regarding a 10-year-old girl raped by her stepfather, once again ...

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Colour-Changing Condom Can Help Detect Sexually Transmitted Infection

A group of students at the Isaac Newton Academy in Essex, England, have invented a “smart” condom to detect sexually transmitted infection (STI) in the wearer. Cal...

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White House Issues Veto Threats For Two GOP Environment Bills

The White House has threatened to veto two GOP measures taking aim at Obama administration climate efforts. Lawmakers will consider Wednesday a bill from Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-...

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California Is About To Ban 'Personal Belief' Exemptions For Vaccinations

California’s anti-vaxxers will no longer be able send their unvaccinated kids to school, if a bill passed by the State Assembly gets signed into law. The just-approved b...

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Redefining Tradition

Myntra’s contemporary ethnic wear brand Anouk captures the spirit of a woman in the new ‘Bold is Beautiful’ digital campaign executed by Ogilvy and Mather. E...

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Drastic Acceleration Of HIV Fight Needed To Stop AIDS Resurgence

The global HIV epidemic could see a resurgence in just five years without a drastic acceleration in efforts to prevent and treat the AIDS virus, the United Nations and disease...

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Hague Climate Change Judgement Could Inspire A Global Civil Movement

“You have been negotiating all my life”, cried out 21-year-old Anjali Appadurai from the lectern of a UN climate change conference four years ago. The activist, sp...

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The Past 15 Years — And What Remains To Be Done.

Achievements include more children surviving past their fifth birthdays, fewer cases of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, improvements in child nutrition, higher rates of e...

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Working Moms Have More Successful Daughters And More Caring Sons, Harvard Business School Study Says

it’s looking less and less warranted. According to a working paper (pdf) published June 19 by the Harvard Business School, daughters of working mothers are more likely t...

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Citizen Media Shows Why India Is Unlikely To Reach Its Millennium Goals Target For Maternal Mortality

According to the UN Millennium Development Goals, India should bring down its maternal mortality rate (MMR) to 109 per 100,000 live births by 2015. This is a tough ask, as fro...

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FILM CRITICS SHAPE INDIAN CINEMA

Film Critics And Indian Cinema…Perfectly-Unmatched!? India, the world’s lar...

July 22 2026

WHEN CLAY BECOMES LIVING POETRY

Arnab Banerjee finds out how Poettery founders Anubir Singh and Bhavana transformed hand...

July 21 2026

EDEN CREEK BENGAL REVIEWED BRILLIANTLY

Prof Dr Avinash Kolhe reviews Eden Creek, Bengal, Kaizaad Kotwal's compelling adaptation...

July 20 2026