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How Female Artistes Are Turbocharging Their Live Shows

Record an album. Take it on tour, faithfully performing singles and favourites interspersed with old hits. Sell records. Repeat. That’s the basic formula.
But, i...

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Bollywood

Sonakshi Sinha Wants Equal Pay For Women In All Professions

"Women are quite vocal about their rights nowadays. And I want the change not only in film industry... Be it sports or business or in any other profession, women should be ...

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Human Rights

Harnessing The Data Revolution And Improving Land Management Through Geospatial Technology

Advances in earth observation, computing power, and connectivity have tremendous potential to help governments, and us at the World Bank, support better land management, an...

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Health

Minimizing Out-Of-Pocket Health Expenditure For India's Poor

The recent adoption of Sustainable Development Goals by the United Nations endorsed an earlier agreement on a resolution passed on Dec. 12, 2012, which emphasizes all membe...

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Environment

What Some 'Radical Conservationists' Think

Humans started drawing animals the moment they started killing them. The earliest recorded artworks—paintings on the cave walls of Lascaux in southern France—ar...

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Sustainable Development

UP’s Mini-Grid Policy Tries To Boost Rural Electrification

Following its move to allow a special status to mini-solar-grids, the Uttar Pradesh government released details on the mini-grid policy last week. Under the scheme, the sta...

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Financial Jharkhand: Women Hockey Players Learn English To Break Language Barrier

Sonal Minz may hail from Simdega, a remote region in Jharkhand, but that’s not where she wants to remain all her life. A goalkeeper with the Indian women’s hock...

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Sustainable Development

Storage Level In Major Reservoirs Sees A Further Dip

The volume of water in 91 major reservoirs of the country for the week ending March 10, 2016 stands at 45.801 BCM (billion cubic metre). This is just 29 per cent of the tot...

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Health

Empty Promises And Dead Children

Buried among the 169 targets contained in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – adopted by the United Nations last September amid a blaze of glitzy events, celeb...

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Hollywood

Reese Witherspoon’s Oscar-Worthy Truth For Young Women

Don’t ask Reese Witherspoon who she’s wearing this Sunday on the Oscar’s Red Carpet. Witherspoon, who is a producer as well as an award-winning actress, w...

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