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Human Rights

Commission Wants Aadhar Cards For Disabled Children

The Uttarakhand State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (SCPCR), on Monday, directed the chief secretary to make Aadhar cards for all the mentally challenged, deaf ...

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Sustainable Development

This Device Pulls Drinking Water Straight Out Of The Air — And It Runs Entirely On The Sun’s Energy

A new kind of water-capturing device could be a game-changer for some of the world’s driest places. It can pull water vapor out of the air at humidity as low as 20 pe...

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Environment

Giraffes Must Be Listed As Endangered, Conservationists Formally Tell US

Conservationists have lodged a formal request for the US government to list giraffes as endangered in a bid to prevent what they call the “silent extinction” of...

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Festivals

Latin American Film Festival Will Send Political Message

Cultural exchange and inclusivity will illuminate Ottawa as the 21st annual Latin American Film Festival hits screens from April 26 to May 13. Canadian Film Institute execu...

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Alternative Entertainment

International Street Artists Give Mumbai, Kochi & Goa A New Look

The facades of peeling plaster walls across the globe have become the favourite backdrop for Julien de Casabianca and his mission to ‘free’ select paintings fro...

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Gender

How Queer Muslims Are Navigating Religion & Sexuality

I met Mohammed Shaik Hussain Ali in that quintessential San Francisco meeting space — an airy industrial coffee shop — busy, crowded, in fact, for a Sunday morn...

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Health

Soon, Doctors Can ‘See’ A Fever

Visual, non-invasive monitoring of body temperature of patients without using a thermometer may become a reality soon, thanks to the work carried out by a team of scientist...

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Human Rights

One Step Forward, Two Back – India’s Uneven Progress In Correcting Gender Imbalance

India’s sex ratio at birth – or the number of girl children born for every 1,000 boys born – has improved slightly over the last 10 years. But there are n...

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Environment

Receding Glacier Causes Immense Canadian River To Vanish In Four Days

An immense river that flowed from one of Canada’s largest glaciers vanished over the course of four days last year, scientists have reported, in an unsettling illustr...

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Festivals

Cannes 2017 Features 12 Films By Female Directors, Up By 9

The line-up for the highly anticipated Cannes Film Festival 2017 has been announced, unveiling a notable rise in female directors making the list. A total of twelve will ha...

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