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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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Prannoy Roy Trashes ‘Tsunami’ Of Tabloid Journalism

Blasting the trend of ‘tabloidisation’ of Indian news channels, NDTV co-founder Dr Prannoy Roy has said that the credibility of TV news channels is at stake and...

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President Urges Film Industry To Look Beyond Markets & Nurture Human Values

President Pranab Mukherjee has urged the film industry to look beyond markets and work together to help “nurture universal human values, which draw on our rich civili...

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Hollywood

It's Time For Hollywood Ageism To Die, And Change Needs To Come From The Top

Marta Kauffman was at lunch with the head of Skydance Productions when she found out that Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin were interested in working in television. She thought t...

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Bollywood

Education Is A Cause I Care Deeply About: Irrfan

Actor Irrfan joined hands with a consumer products company to visit one of their schools in the national capital, where he shared some of his childhood memories with childr...

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Journalist Moved To Back Row At Jain Event Because ‘Women Don’t Occupy Front Seats In Presence Of Monks’

A woman journalist being asked to shift from the front row reserved for media to make way for monks at a function to felicitate Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has trigger...

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Health

Accounting For 1 In 3 Maternal Deaths, Health Disparities Persist In South Asia

The state of maternal health in South Asia is difficult to assess. Although rates of maternal mortality are declining between 2 and 2.5 percent a year overall, the region&r...

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Environment

UN Climate Chief Says The Science Is Clear: There Is No Space For New Coal

Christiana Figueres says Australia needs a national consensus to achieve maximum effort in fight to avoid dangerous climate change The UN climate chief, Christiana Figueres...

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Sustainable Development

In India, Profitable Farming With Fewer Chemicals

The earth beneath Lakshmi Karre’s sparse cotton crop is hard and dry. Dressed in a flowery orange sari, she squats in the large gap between two plants and tugs at som...

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Sustainable Development

In Tanzania, Farmers Reap the Benefits of Radio

How do you share ideas – including potentially transformative ones – with people who do not have Internet access, are largely illiterate, and live far from pave...

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