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Gender

How Do We Keep Girls In School?

Following the World Development Report (2012), we discuss policies that can change the price of schooling under three categories: (i) direct costs; (ii) indirect costs; and...

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Festivals

GlobeDocs Film Fest Kicks Off, Shining A Light On The Documentary Form

Boston has been an incubator of the documentary form and home to its influencers since film’s early days. And yet as a region, “we don’t really tell this ...

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Sustainable Development

How A Pair Of Old Mines Helped Win A Nobel Prize In Physics

According to the Nobel prize committee, “the discovery has changed our understanding of the innermost workings of matter and can prove crucial to our view of the univ...

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BARC Ratings: Bangla Channels Rise; Bhojpuri Market Sees Decline In Week 38.

In week 38 (September 19 – 25, 2015) in the Telugu market Maa TV climbed to No.2 spot this week from No.3 last week, while ETV Telugu rose to take up No.3 spot. In th...

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Environment

How Hydroelectric Power May Undermine Brazil's Pledge To Slash Greenhouse Gases

Brazil's new pledge to slash its national carbon footprint by 43% by 2030 sounds like exactly the kind of aggressive commitment that environmentalists have been clamoring f...

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Movies

True Review Movie - Singh Is Bliing

Critics rating: 1.5  Stars

Cast:  Akshay Kumar, Amy Jackson, Lara Dutta, Kay Kay Menon. Read More

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Google Ropes In Anurag Kashyap, Shekhar Kapoor, Ridley Scott For Crowd Sourced Documentary.

Google has launched a special project, which aims to determine what and how much has changed in India, via a short crowd-sourced documentary film called ‘India in a D...

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Environment

India Unveils Climate Change Plan

India, the world?s third biggest greenhouse gas emitter, has pledged to source 40% of its electricity from renewable and other low-carbon sources by 2030. It is the last ma...

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Health

Creating Real Change For Women And Children In The World's Poorest Communities Requires Innovative Partnerships-

In Kenya, one of the countries where my organization, World Health Partners, works, an average of 17 women die every day from causes related to pregnancy and childbirth.Eac...

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Environment

Scientists Urge RICO Investigation Of Corporate Climate Deniers

Climate-change denial has been compared to Big Tobacco?s 50-year-campaign to deny the dangers of cigarettes.Both attempted to muddy the waters of the public discussion by c...

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