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Environment

Global Warming Slowdown Offers Only Fleeting Relief

Scientists show that long-term temperature rise is the inevitable consequence of increasing greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels. The so-called hiatus in global warmi...

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Environment

We're a Long Way From Earthquake Predictions

For some seismologists, the deadly tremor that hit Nepal on Saturday came as little surprise. "It's been well known in the seismological world that the Himalayan system is ...

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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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Movies

April Departs

April kicked off on a good note. A really good note. The plot vagaries of Detective ByomkeshBakshy! aside, Dibakar Banerjee’s edgy adaptation at leas...

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Hollywood

Drea de Matteo Wants To End Cosmetics Testing On Animals

On World Day for Animals in Laboratories (April 24th), former Sopranos actress Drea de Matteo has teamed up with Cruelty Free International and its campaign to end cosmetic...

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Environment

We Need Our Leaders To Speak Out On Climate Change, Not Stay Silent

The less that political, community and business leaders talk about climate change, the more scope there is for scepticism to emerge Something is missing from the British ge...

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Movies

Jai Ho! Democracy

Critic’s Rating : 0.5 Star.

Cast: Om Puri, Annu Kapoor, Seema Biswas, Satish Kaushik, Adil Hussain, Aamir Bashir Read More

TV

REPORTERS: WHERE’S THE STORY?

I don?t feel at home with Reporters. The look is too glossy, too unreal. The channel head sports a muffler. The editor Kabir is usually in a jacket (wonder why the tie is m...

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Movies

Margarita With A Straw

Critic’s Rating : 3.5 Star.

Cast: Kalki Koechlin, Revathi, Sayani Gupta, Kuljeet Singh, Hussain Dalal, Malhar Khushu, Jacob Berge...

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Health

Six Decades Ago, US Celebrated First Successful Polio Vaccine

Sixty years ago, at about the time you??e reading this, church bells began to ring across the United States. Cars honked their horns. Reporters rushed to phones, and people...

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