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Royalty Join Forces With Shakira, Messi To Promote U.N. Global Goals

NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The United Nations on Tuesday enlisted a high-profile roster of royalty, entertainers and business leaders to promote its global ...

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Spotlight On Queer Cinema: Nandita Das, Hansal Mehta To Lead Panel Discussion At Best Of KASHISH

Award-winning LGBT films to be screened at Godrej India Culture Lab To celebrate LGBT pride month in Mumbai, KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival in association wi...

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Nasa Astronaut Scott Kelly Posts Picture Of First Flower Grown In Space

The picture of the first flower grown in space, a sizzling orange zinnia has been doing the rounds on the internet after American Astronaut Scott Kelly tweeted its photo on Sa...

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The Year Of the Organoid- A Brave New World Of Lab Grown Body Parts

The brain-in-a-jar is one of science fiction’s creepier ideas. It is a safe prediction that 2016 will not see such literally disembodied people become reality. What it w...

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Just 62 People Now Own The Same Wealth As Half The World's Population, Research Finds

Wealth inequality has grown to the stage where 62 of the world’s richest people own as much as the poorest half of humanity combined, according to a new report. The rese...

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Why Media Titans Would Be Wise Not to Overlook Netflix

Imagine you run a global media conglomerate. Say you’re Robert A. Iger, the chief executive of Disney, or Brian L. Roberts, of Comcast, or perhaps you’re slightly ...

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This Technology Is 100 Times Faster Than Wi-Fi

A new technology, known as Li-Fi, could one day offer internet speeds one hundred times faster than the Wi-Fi we use today. Scientists have achieved speeds in the lab of up to...

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Indian Acid Attack Survivor Is New Face Of Fashion Brand

An Indian fashion retail brand has signed up prominent acid attack survivor and campaigner Laxmi Saa to be the face of its new range of designer outfits for women, in a campai...

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How India Is Shaping Facebook’s Strategy

Out of around 1.5 billion people who use Facebook every month, 138 million are from India. No wonder Chris Cox, Facebook’s chief product officer, chose New Delhi for his...

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A Single Blood Test For All Cancers? Illumina, Bill Gates And Jeff Bezos Launch Startup To Make It Happen

What if a simple blood test could detect any cancer early, when it was still easy to treat? It sounds like science fiction. But Illumina, the $24 billion (market cap) biotechn...

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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