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This Indian Village Is Making Jeans Out Of Banana Fibre

Things getting a little stuffy in those jeans? Slide into a pair of banana fibre jeans and liberate those sweaty legs!
Anakaputhur, a weavers’ village located on...

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Bollywood

Amitabh, Anushka To Launch Narendra Modi Govt's 'Darwaza Band' Campaign To Make India Open Defecation Free

Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan and actress Anushka Sharma will on Tuesday launch the Narendra Modi government's `Darwaza Band` campaign aimed at making India open def...

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14 Titans From 7 Countries Join The Gates-Buffett Giving Pledge

The Giving Pledge, an elite network of big philanthropic givers, has gained 14 new members from 7 countries, including the founder of discount airline easyJet, a Norwegian ...

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Gender

Behind The Suicide Of An IIT Scholar In Delhi, A Struggle Between New Ambitions And Old Restraints

Her Facebook photos reveal a young woman who liked to travel, dress up, pose and smile. You see her patting her hair and sticking a hip out like the Marilyn Monroe wax stat...

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Sustainable Development

We Need More Truth In Our Talk About Sanitation

Sopan Joshi’s “Jal Thal Mal” is a book in Hindi about the invisible connections that sustain us in our life on the planet. It shows how sanitation is not ...

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Sustainable Development

What The COP21 Climate Agreement Means For Fashion

On Saturday in Paris, the gavel came down on two weeks of fraught talks, resulting in a landmark agreement between representatives of 195 countries to cut emissions of gree...

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Bollywood

Hrithik Roshan Lends Support To Social Cause For World Environment Day

Hrithik has lent his support to Asif Bhamla Foundation and MCGM for a noble cause on World Environment Day. Hrithik Roshan had decided to donate his eyes after playing the ...

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Sustainable Development

Sustainable Development Goal On Energy (SDG7) & The World Bank Group

Access to clean, modern, sustainable energy is critical for improving the health and livelihoods of billions of people around the world. There is growing evidence linking s...

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Sustainable Development

The Urban Farmers Battling Bangalore's Concrete Jungle

In Ramagondanahalli village, Muniraju Hanumanthappa bends over his clay-coloured soil surrounded by bright green spinach leaves. He quickly prunes the plants, dwarfed by th...

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Sustainable Development

A Fish That Can Father A Near Clone Of Itself

Scientists have discovered a fish carrying genes only from its father in the nucleus of its cells. Found in a type of fish called Squalius alburnoides, which normally inhab...

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