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New Ultra-Sensitive Test For Cancer, HIV Developed

A new ultra-sensitive test has been designed to detect diseases including HIV and cancer, it may prove 10,000 times more effective than current diagnostic tools, say Stanford ...

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Dam The Drought

A village in Jharkhand has been hiding a secret for more than 30 years. The state government has declared all its 24 districts drought-affected. But Sato in Gumla district is ...

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Earth Hour: What Is It And Why Is It So Important?

On Saturday night, cities across the world will go dark as the globe comes together in the fight against climate change.The voluntary power cut marks Earth Hour, a grassroots ...

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2016 Dallas International Film Festival Drops Full Lineup

The 10th edition of the festival, which kicks off on April 14, will include 113 films, eight world premieres, and a handful of awards for filmmakers. The Dallas Star Award wil...

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Priyanka Chopra On Her Charity: No Child Should Be 'Denied A Dream'

You may recognize Priyanka Chopra as the leather-tough FBI recruit from ABC’sQuantico. But, to the girls of The Priyanka Chopra Foundation for Health and Education, she ...

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Estelle To Perform At Human Rights Campaign Los Angeles Gala

Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization, announced that Grammy Award-winning...

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Katie Holmes Playing A Bipolar Poet

The solution to Katie Holmes’s present predicament would appear straightforward.Can she deliver a performance that will re-ignite her career and go some way to offsettin...

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Activists Call On World Leaders To Make Gender Equality Pledge A Reality

World leaders must back up their pledge to end gender inequality with concrete commitments on how they plan to empower women, said activists preparing for the UN Commission on...

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Contraception And Family Planning Around The World – Interactive.

A record number of women now use contraception. The latest figures from the UN’s Department of Economic and Social Affairs show 64% of married and cohabiting women used ...

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Tomatoes Could Be Turned Into Major Source Of Green Energy

Tomatoes considered so ugly that they are not fit for shop shelves could be turned into a major source of green energy, according to scientists.Researchers working on a ground...

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POLITICS: REFUGE, REVERENCE, AND REFLECTION

From Sufis seeking solace in Kashmir to the tragic genius of Guru Dutt, and the controve...

July 7 2024

KALEIDOSCOPE: CELLULOID TO DIGITAL BY V.K. CHERIAN, BOOK REVIEW

Despite the cynical and sceptical times we live in, there are indeed many people who hon...

July 6 2024

THOUGHT FACTORY: THE PERILS OF BLIND FAITH

Cults led by godmen erode rational discourse and exploit vulnerable populations. In time...

July 5 2024