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Transgenders’ Welfare Now In Charter Of Work By Ministry Of Social Justice

The Union Government has included welfare of transgender persons in charter of work to be handled by Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, following demands from civi...

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Sustainable Development

All European Scientific Articles Should Be Freely Accessible by 2020

The European Union member states want to ensure that all scientific articles are freely accessible by 2020 so that anyone can optimally reuse research data.
At the mee...

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Bollywood

'Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao' Is The Way Towards Women Empowerment: Amitabh Bachchan

The government's 'Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao' campaign is a way towards women empowerment, Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan on Saturday said as he stressed on the importan...

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Human Rights

Child Rights Panels Go Half Empty

Half the posts in India's state child right commissions are vacant and only a fourth of these panels are fully formed, data the government has placed in the Supreme Court s...

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Sustainable Development

Stonehenge, Easter Island, Venice: Climate Change Will Destroy Human History

Cultural heritage sites are beacons of our remarkable legacy as a species. They’re as diverse and complex as humanity itself, which is why UNESCO has designated 802 o...

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Sustainable Development

Neuroscientists Hunt The Line Where Consciousness Begins—And Ends

Consciousness should be a deeply spooky thing. Or, rather, the fact that we routinelylose consciousness should be a deeply spooky thing. Here, at some murky threshold that ...

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Hollywood

Forest Whitaker: We Need To Solve Humanitarian Crises Together

On the opening day of the World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul, the Special Envoy of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Forest ...

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Sustainable Development

This Fabrication Technique Uses Individual Electrons To Make Metal Velcro

If you’ve ever wondered if particle accelerators have a purpose outside pure research, the Surfi-Sculpt should answer that question. As you can see in this video, it ...

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Health

The Faces Of Malnutrition

Nearly half of all deaths in children under 5 can be attributed to undernutrition. This translates into the unnecessary loss of about 3 million young lives a year. Only a f...

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Human Rights

Refugee Children Are Five Times More Likely To Be Out Of School Than Others

A new policy paper, ‘No more excuses’, jointly released by the UNESCO Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report and UN High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR) ahead ...

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