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Soap Star Don Diamont To Attend Lung Cancer Foundation's Day At The Races.

Iconic TV actor Don Diamont, named “Sexiest Veteran Soap Actor” by People Magazine in 2009, along with other special guests will join lung cancer advocates and ...

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Festivals

Filipino Auteur Brillante Mendoza To Receive Tribute At Sarajevo Film Festival

The Sarajevo Film Festival is set to pay tribute to Filipino auteur Brillante Mendoza, who won the director prize at Cannes with his ultra-violent “The Execution of P...

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Health

Immunisation Coverage Crosses 70 Per Cent Mark

Improvement represents significant gain in child survival
The child immunisation coverage in the country has reportedly gone up from 65 per cent to 70 per cent this ye...

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Environment

Healthy Oceans, Healthy Planet

Since 2009, people around the world have celebrated World Oceans Day. The United Nations General Assembly took the concept, first proposed in 1992 and made it official on 5...

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Environment

Part Of Antarctica Suddenly Started Melting At A Rate Of 14 Trillion Gal. A Year

Sometime in 2009, a long-stable, glacier-filled region in Antarctica suddenly began to melt. Fast. A team of scientists with the University of Bristol made the alarming obs...

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Environment

Joint Statement on Climate Change between India and China during Prime Minister’s visit to China

The Government of the Republic of India and the Government of the People's Republic of China (hereinafter referred to as 'the Two Sides') recognize that climate change and ...

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Sustainable Development

A Green Revolution, This Time for Africa

Last month was the 100th anniversary of the birth of Norman Borlaug, the father of the Green Revolution. In 1944, Borlaug moved to Mexico to work on breeding high-yield, di...

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Top 5

Top 5 Films with Human Rights Commentary

Human rights are inviolable. The Indian Constitution has held sacred the rights of the people when it comes to Right to Equality, Protection and so on. International bodies...

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Bollywood

‘Mere Paas Maths Hai’

As per the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) in January, only 25.3 per cent Class III student can attempt a two-digit subtraction while the percentage of Class II st...

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Environment

Why The Paris Climate Talks Won’t Be Another Copenhagen

The much-hyped 2009 Copenhagen climate summit yielded only a flimsy accord. But, Sydney University professor Nick Rowley writes that the 2015 Paris climate talks are not li...

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