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Sustainable Development

I’m Too Sexist For This Tweet

Old people can be hugely entertaining, as anyone who has ever heard their grandfather casually emit a jackhammer-style burp in public will agree. If they’re extra old...

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TV

NO BLING, PLEASE

A television channel scan threw up an emerging change of dress code for women. The women characters ? mothers, mothers-in-law, bahus, etc. -- are wearing trendy outfits. Lo...

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Sustainable Development

The 169 target sustainable development goals likely here to stay, says U.N.

The long list of proposed goals that will replace the Millennium Development Goals are not going to be trimmed down. Doing so would put the progress made toward reaching co...

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Sustainable Development

Women’s empowerment in UP bleak

Gender equity and the status of women remain the hand-maiden of callous politics in India’s largest state by population and 2014 has been deplorably stark. The &lsquo...

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Thought Factory

An Alternative Exploration of Geopolitics

Hindsight is always 20/20. Subjective to the present, we often tend to overlook patterns and correlation until the objectivity parts the seas to a broader picture. It was o...

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Movies

True Review : Lingaa

Critics rating: 1.5 stars

Cast: Rajnikanth, Jagapati Babu, Sonakshi Sinha, Anushka Shetty

Direction: KS Ravikumar<...

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Environment

China's largest coal power plant violating air pollution levels every week

China?s largest coal-fired power plant has been violating national emission standards for chemicals that cause dangerous fine particulate matter pollution, official figures...

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Environment

India says carbon emissions will grow as it drives to beat poverty

The world must accept that India's per capita carbon emissions will need to rise rapidly if it is to eliminate poverty, the environment minister said on Friday, as delegate...

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Obama’s All-Women Press Conference Deals Glancing Blow to Patriarchy

It was a rough day for men who spend their days asking President Barack Obama questions. At the president’s year-end press conference, Obama called only on women, fie...

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Health

$500M immunization fund pledged by Canada for developing nations

Canada will provide $500 million to help immunize children in developing countries, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said today in Senegal. The money is part of the $3.5 billi...

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