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Naseeruddin Shah’s book And Then One Day – A Memoir launched by Shyam Benegal

Literature Live! Evenings and Penguin India in association with NCPA presented an evening with author Naseeruddin Shah in conversation with Anil Dharker at...

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Sustainable Development

Industrialisation, urbanisation killing elephants in Odisha

The status of “National Heritage Animal” to elephants has done little to save them, and at least 427 jumbos have perished in the last seven years in Odisha. Tho...

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Hollywood

Mandy Moore and PSI Talk Foreign Aid and Male Circumcision

Population Services International director Marshall Stowell and global ambassador (and actor) Mandy Moore work with the NGO to bring health services to developing countries...

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Health

India’s Lethal Birth Control

There’s no secret to reducing population growth: Women who are informed about and given access to contraception choices have fewer children. Yet India persists in a c...

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Health

Accent on male sterilisation

Between 2008 and March 2012, the Centre, under its Family Planning Insurance Scheme, had to pay compensation for botched sterilisation procedures which included 438 cases o...

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Sustainable Development

Empowering women is the smart approach to sustainable development

As the Asia Pacific Conference on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment is convened in Bangkok, UN ESCAP executive secretary Shamsad Akthar shares that empo...

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Health

Why Sterilization Is The Most Popular Form Of Family Planning

For women, sterilization is usually done as tubal ligation, a minimally invasive surgery where the Fallopian tubes are cut and tied off. For men, it’s the vasectomy, ...

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VINTA NANDA TO SPEAK AT THE WORLD CANCER CONGRESS 2014 BEING HELD IN AUSTRALIA IN DECEMBER

Vinta Nanda, the Founder & Managing Director of the Asian Center for Entertainment Ed...

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Hollywood

Rita Ora added to charity single line-up

Other artists included in rerecording the Band Aid single are Chris Martin, Sinead O’Connor and Emeli Sande Pop singers and musicians, including One Direction, Bono a...

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Environment

G20 climate change protesters bury their heads in the sand

Hundreds of protesters buried their heads in the sand of Australia?s most famous beach in a climate change demonstration. They wanted to send a message to Aussie PM Tony Ab...

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